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Digital Guard Tour System for Patrols, Mobile Patrolling, and Plant Security
With EVALARM’s digital guard tour system, security services, plant security, facility management, and organizations with security-critical areas document their guard tours digitally, traceably, and across multiple sites.
Patrols can be started manually or triggered automatically according to a schedule. When scanning checkpoints, photos, videos, and notes can be captured directly on-site. This creates complete proof of times, locations, events, and measures.
In the event of critical incidents, a report, alert, or escalation can be initiated directly from within the patrol.
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Start patrols manually or automatically according to a schedule
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Scan NFC checkpoints or barcodes
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Capture photos, videos, and notes directly on-site
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Document proof of time, location, and checkpoints
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Cross-site access for authorized stakeholders
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Usable offline in case of poor connectivity
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Record events and trigger alerts
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Automated reports and complete documentation
Digitally plan, execute, and verify guard tours
Paper lists, manual logbooks, and retrospective documentation are error-prone, time-consuming, and often difficult to trace. With EVALARM’s digital guard tour system, patrols are planned in a structured manner, executed, and automatically documented.
Employees scan defined checkpoints via smartphone, record the local status, and can supplement special incidents directly with photos, videos, or notes. This provides managers with a transparent overview of planned, ongoing, and completed patrols at all times.
EVALARM turns individual rounds into a traceable security process – cross-site, digital, and evaluable.
Your benefits with EVALARM’s digital guard tour system
Make patrols plannable
Patrols can be started manually or planned in advance. Scheduled rounds start automatically at the defined time, supporting regular inspection processes, mobile patrolling, and recurring security checks.
Digitally record checkpoints
Checkpoints are scanned via NFC or barcode. This documents exactly when each checkpoint was inspected and whether the patrol was fully completed.
Add photos, videos, and notes
When scanning a checkpoint, employees can capture images, videos, and notes directly. Damages, open doors, technical malfunctions, or special incidents are thus traceably documented.
Cross-site access
Authorized stakeholders can access patrols at any time – regardless of their location. This allows managers, clients, security control centers, or internal departments to maintain an overview of status, events, and proof of performance.
Usable offline
Checkpoints can be recorded even in areas with poor connectivity, such as underground parking garages, technical rooms, basements, or remote building sections. The data is synchronized as soon as a connection is re-established.
Report events directly
Anomalies can be documented directly during the patrol and, if required, forwarded as a report or alert to defined individuals or groups.
Automated reports
Patrols, checkpoints, times, feedback, media, and events can be evaluated in a structured manner and used as proof of compliance.
Connection with alerting and emergency communication
EVALARM is more than just a patrol app. The guard tour system can be combined with alerting, escalation, emergency communication, lone worker protection, emergency buttons, or a digital guard log.
More than just patrol tracking: Report incidents and trigger alerts directly
A patrol is more than just proof that a checkpoint has been scanned. In practice, situations frequently arise during a round that need to be evaluated, documented, or forwarded immediately.
With EVALARM, security-relevant events can be recorded directly during the patrol. If required, this instantly triggers a report, alert, or escalation.
Typical events include, for example:
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Open doors or windows
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Technical malfunctions
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Odor of burning or smoke development
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Unauthorized persons
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Defective lighting
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Water damage
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Medical emergencies
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Threat situations
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Damage or vandalism
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Unreachable or missing checkpoints
The advantage: The patrol does not end with documentation. If action is required, the appropriate process starts immediately.
How the digital guard tour with EVALARM works
1. Plan patrols or start them manually
Patrols can be started manually with flexibility or planned in advance. Scheduled rounds start automatically at the defined time and are particularly suitable for regular patrols, mobile patrolling, or recurring inspection processes.
2. Define checkpoints
Relevant inspection points are created in the system and equipped with NFC tags or barcodes. These checkpoints can be assigned to buildings, areas, sites, or specific rounds.
3. Scan checkpoints
Employees scan the checkpoints using their smartphones. This documents exactly when each checkpoint was reached and inspected.
4. Capture photos, videos, and notes
During the scan, anomalies can be documented directly with a photo, video, or note. This allows damages, malfunctions, or special observations to be recorded traceably.
5. Track status across multiple sites
Authorized stakeholders can access patrols at any time and see which rounds are planned, active, completed, or flagged with anomalies.
6. Report events and initiate measures
Critical events can be forwarded as a report or alert. Responsible individuals or groups are informed specifically and can initiate immediate measures.
7. Evaluate reports and proof of performance
All patrols, checkpoints, times, feedback, media, and events are available for evaluations, reports, and documentation obligations.
Typical fields of application
Security services and mobile patrolling
Security companies can digitally document patrols for clients, provide traceable proof of mobile patrolling, and record events directly.
Plant security and industry
Industrial enterprises and plant security organizations benefit from structured inspection processes, traceable proof of performance, and a direct connection to alerting processes.
Facility management
Technical inspections, visual checks, defect reporting, and building walkthroughs can be carried out and documented digitally.
Public authorities and municipalities
Public buildings, administrative sites, schools, sports facilities, or municipal institutions can organize regular patrols centrally and evaluate them across multiple sites.
Shopping centers and retail
Center management, security services, and operators can transparently document rounds, events, and measures, and monitor multiple areas or locations centrally.
Critical infrastructure and sensitive areas
EVALARM offers a flexible solution for organizations with high demands on traceability, response speed, and documented security processes.
Guard tours, digital guard logs, and alerting in a single system
Many guard tour systems focus purely on recording checkpoints.
EVALARM goes further: guard tours, digital guard logs, alerting, escalation, and emergency communication can be connected in a single system.
This creates a seamless security process:
Plan patrol → Scan checkpoint → Document event → Inform stakeholders → Initiate measures → Trace timeline
This is particularly relevant for organizations where patrols must not only be documented, but where security-relevant events must also be processed quickly.
Traditional patrol vs. digital guard control system
Klassischer Kontrollgang | Digitales Wächterkontrollsystem EVALARM |
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Media breaks between control and alerting | Inspection, reporting and alarm in one process |
Reports must be created manually. | Structured analysis and automatic reports |
Little transparency during the tour | Cross-site access for stakeholders |
Photos and additional information are often missing. | Photos, videos, and notes taken directly at the checkpoint |
Events will be reported later. | Incidents can be documented and reported directly. |
Patrols must be organized manually. | Manually or automatically planned tours |
Evidence often incomplete | Automatic time and checkpoint verification |
Paper lists and manual entries | Digital recording via smartphone |
Who is the EVALARM guard tour system suitable for?
EVALARM is suitable for organizations that want to organize guard tours digitally, transparently, and traceably.
The solution is particularly suitable for companies and institutions that:
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conduct regular patrols
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need to document mobile patrolling or security rounds
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monitor multiple sites, buildings, or areas
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want to make patrols plannable and start them automatically
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need to involve stakeholders across multiple locations
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want to capture photos, videos, and notes directly on-site
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need to alert or escalate quickly in the event of incidents
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require proof of performance for clients, customers, or internal departments
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want to connect guard tours with emergency processes
Why choose EVALARM for digital guard tours?
EVALARM is not just a patrol app, but part of a modular platform for alerting, emergency communication, and security processes.
This allows digital guard tours to be directly connected with other security-relevant functions – for example, with alerting, escalation, emergency buttons, lone worker protection, intervention, or crisis communication.
Advantages of EVALARM:
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SaaS solution in a German private cloud
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Hosting in Germany
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ISO 27001-certified GroupKom GmbH
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Role-based user management
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Cross-site usage
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Web client, PC client, Android, and iOS
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Multilingual solution
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Highly available and redundant infrastructure
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Combination with other EVALARM modules
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Suitable for organizations with security-critical processes