Company’s Visual AI Advisor (VAIA), deployed across 1000s of HPCL retail
stations delivers real time integrated process safety management
AUSTIN, Texas — SparkCognition, a global leader in B2B artificial intelligence (AI) software solutions, today announced that its computer vision solution deployment with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) has been awarded Verdantix’s EHS Innovation Excellence Award. Verdantix is recognizing organizations that are instrumental in implementing innovative strategies, technologies, and projects that improve EHS processes, management, reporting, and outcomes. This was awarded in the “Integrated Process Safety Management” category.
“With businesses facing increased volatility and the requirement to do more with less, EHS leaders are redefining how they operate and increasingly adopting technology to ensure business resilience,” said David Metcalfe, Verdantix CEO. “The Verdantix EHS Innovation Excellence Awards recognize and demonstrate the instrumental role that EHS leaders and technology play in delivering positive social, environmental, and safety outcomes, as well as contributing to commercial success.”
Seeking to enhance operations across its extensive 20,000 nationwide retail filling stations, HPCL deployed SparkCognition Visual AI Advisor to analyze more than 40 situations simultaneously, all aligned to safety, security, and productivity standards. As a result of VAIA, HPCL was able to realize significant results, including a 40 percent improvement in tanker truck decantation issues, experiencing zero safety incidents across customer retail outlets, and delivering an 80 percent improvement in Customer Service Standard Operation Procedures.
“Our groundbreaking Visual AI Advisor helps businesses, like HPCL, generate real-time actionable insights to enhance operational efficiency, lower EHS costs, and increase worker safety,” said Kunal Kinsley, General Manager. “We’re honored that our computer vision solution is being recognized by Verdnatix as a cutting-edge technology that solves critical EHS challenges.”
SparkCognition Visual AI Advisor is a secure and proactive computer vision solution that leverages existing cameras to analyze situations in real-time and provide actionable alerts. It scales to thousands of cameras using a low-code/no-code integration framework and deploys at the edge, ensuring privacy and enterprise security. Visual AI Advisor has been contracted on over 130,000 cameras across 16 countries, and features 125+ pre-built use cases for safety, security, quality control, and situational awareness.
About SparkCognition
SparkCognition’s award-winning AI solutions allow organizations to predict future outcomes, prescribe the next best actions, and help ensure worker safety. We partner with the world’s industry leaders to analyze, optimize, and learn from all types of data, augment human intelligence, drive profitable growth, and achieve operational excellence. Our patented AI technologies, including machine learning, deep neural networks, natural language processing, and computer vision, lead the industry in innovation and accelerate digital transformation. Our solutions allow organizations to solve critical problems—prevent unexpected downtime, maximize asset performance, deliver net-zero initiatives, and eliminate accidents, all while avoiding zero-day “cyberattacks. To learn more about how SparkCognition’s AI solutions can unlock the power of your data, visit www.sparkcognition.com.
