Field Reports May 17 · 2026 · 3 min read · Photo essay · Compton, CA

Straight Outta Compton. Now with cameras.

Site CA-02 is live. Edge box mounted, mast in the air, cameras tuned on a laptop balanced on a ladder rung. Iron Hornet is now watching a working truck yard on the 710 corridor — twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

Site
CA-02 · Compton, CA
Status
● Live · 24/7
Install time
One shift
Coverage
Gate · Yard · Approach
FRAME 01 · INSTALL CA-02 · COMPTON
Three-panel field install collage: edge-box wiring on a rooftop near a truck yard, a laptop showing the camera feed mid-tuning, and a technician on a ladder mounting the pole-top camera.
Edge box wiring · Live feed verify · Pole mount Three frames · One install
FRAME 02 · LIVE TEAM · CA-02
Three-panel collage: Iron Hornet field engineer and customer pointing up at a newly-mounted Iron Eyes camera on a metal mast above a working truck yard, plus two close-up portraits of the installed camera + edge box from below.
"It's on." · Team point-at-camera · Hardware portrait Pole-up moment
FRAME 03 · GROUND TRUTH YARD · 710 CORRIDOR
Two-panel collage: Iron Hornet engineer prepping the edge enclosure at the back of the service truck, then standing at height adjusting the camera head above a parked tractor in the customer's yard near the 710.
Truck-bed prep · Final tune · 710 corridor Yard live · Day 0

Site CA-02 went live this week — a working truck yard on the 710 corridor.

Compton wasn't a friendly site for someone else's surveillance kit. The yard is busy, the masts are tall, and the operator had been burned by a previous system that promised cloud AI and delivered a wall of disconnected video.

So we did it the Iron Hornet way: a service truck full of edge boxes and antennas, two engineers, a ladder, and the operator standing next to us through the whole install.

The first feed came up while the second camera was still being torqued into the mast. The operator stood next to us, watched their own yard render in near-real time on the screen, and said the words we never get tired of hearing.

"Wait — it's already showing me my yard?"

Yes. That's the difference. Edge inference, not a cloud pipe. You see the yard the moment the camera is pointed at it. You ask plain-English questions the next morning when something feels off, and the system has the answers — because it's been watching since the second the mast was up.

What we're watching now.

Compton's first 72 hours of pattern-of-life data are flowing back to our team. Dwell times around the gate. Throughput by hour. The shape of "normal" for a yard we'd never seen before this Tuesday.

From the mast at CA-02.
— The Iron Hornet Team
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