Mines · Ports · TerminalsIndustrial vision

Safety and operations analytics on existing CCTV

Turn the cameras you already own into a real-time safety and operations layer. Proximity alerts, PPE compliance, exclusion-zone enforcement and cycle-time tracking run at the edge on your current CCTV feeds, with no rip-and-replace.

Real-time

person-machine proximity and exclusion-zone alerts

24/7

automated PPE compliance monitoring

On-prem

edge inference, footage stays on site

Context

The problem

Cameras record, but nobody watches live

Mines, ports and terminals already stream from hundreds of fixed cameras, yet the footage is only reviewed after an incident. Real-time hazards are structurally invisible.

Person-machine proximity is the top safety risk

Haul trucks, reach stackers and mobile plant share space with people on foot. Without live proximity detection, a near-miss is only known once it becomes an incident.

PPE and exclusion zones enforced by spot checks

Hard-hat, hi-vis and exclusion-zone rules depend on supervisors happening to look. Coverage is partial, inconsistent between shifts and impossible to audit.

Operational metrics logged by hand

Truck cycle times, gate throughput and stockpile volumes are estimated on clipboards or spreadsheets, too slow and too coarse to actually steer the operation.

Solution

Deployed architecture

Cameras / Ingestion

Existing CCTV feeds, no new hardware

Standard RTSP/ONVIF streams from the cameras already installed are ingested directly. No camera swap, no cabling change: the existing surveillance estate becomes the sensor network.

Inference / Detection

Edge detection of people, vehicles and PPE

Computer-vision models run on local edge nodes to detect people, mobile plant and PPE in real time. On-site inference keeps latency low and footage on-premise.

Rules / Zones

Configurable zones and proximity rules

Exclusion zones, walkways and dynamic proximity buffers around moving machines are defined per camera. Rules combine detections into safety and operations events.

Alerting / Integration

Real-time alerts and dashboards

Events push instantly to control-room screens, mobile devices and existing SCADA/VMS systems, with dashboards for cycle times, stockpile volumes and compliance trends.

Results

Measured results

Measured in production conditions on the deployed scope.

Live alerts

Proximity incidents

Fewer person-machine near-misses once live proximity alerts are active across monitored zones.

Auditable

PPE compliance

Continuous PPE monitoring replaces spot checks, with auditable compliance rates per zone and shift.

Automated

Truck cycle time

Automated load, haul and dump timing from the same feeds, surfacing bottlenecks operators previously logged by hand.

On-camera

Stockpile volume tracking

Continuous volume and movement estimates from existing cameras, replacing periodic manual surveys.

Lessons learned

What we took away

Reusing the existing CCTV estate removes the biggest adoption barrier: there is no capital project to justify before value is proven.
Safety and operations share the same feeds. One vision layer serves both, which is what makes the business case compelling.
Edge inference keeps footage on-site: essential for privacy, latency and networks that are unreliable at remote mines and terminals.
Zone and proximity rules must be configurable per camera by site teams, because layouts and traffic patterns differ at every location.

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