We often talk about the transformative power of SparkCognition Visual AI Advisor to amplify the value and utility of your existing camera infrastructure with intelligent computer vision software. Visual AI Advisor’s award-winning technology can autonomously detect and analyze objects in your video feed and alert you when real-time situations or problems need immediate attention—so you can reduce accidents, strengthen security, and better understand your operation to implement efficiency gains. But let’s get even more basic: What can visual AI do? What are some of the day-to-day, essential questions you can answer with Visual AI?
With 125+ pre-built enterprise computer vision use cases targeting high-value challenges across multiple business categories such as Health and Safety, Retail, and Education, Visual AI Advisor allows you to hit the ground running to holistically and proactively improve safety, security, and situational awareness.
The following are some select examples of questions Visual AI Advisor will answer for your organization, depending on the configuration you deploy.
Has someone breached the perimeter?
SparkCognition Visual AI Advisor can analyze the video feed of cameras stationed along your perimeter and recognize suspicious activity within a designated area. It will autonomously alert if humans are:
- Found in restricted areas during specified time windows
- Using entrances or exits outside of specified time windows
- Found to be too close or within a pre-configured region of interest during specified time windows.
Is there an active shooter threat on my premises?
Visual AI Advisor can detect when a human is holding a rifle or handgun inside your premises or within the perimeter of your facility. It will immediately send alerts to security officers based on the customer’s configuration settings and will continue to identify the weapon holder even if they move to another camera location.
Are workers following proper protocols?
From vehicle compliance to employee compliance to vehicles-in-proximity-to-employees compliance, there are many ways that Visual AI Advisor can help you measure and ensure compliance with your organization’s standard operating procedures. These are often related to health and safety (HSE) best practices. Among the most prevalent use cases for HSE involve ensuring workers are equipped with the right gear to stay safe in busy industrial environments. Visual AI Advisor will track, measure, and/or alert if a person is not wearing the proper personal protective equipment (PPE) such as appropriate boots, gloves, hair net, hard hat, helmet, lab coat, safety glasses, safety vest, harness belt, etc.
Are employees engaging in unsafe behavior?
Ergonomic injuries constitute a significant problem year after year in the workplace. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, musculoskeletal injuries accounted for the majority of non-fatal injuries that resulted in missed work days—over 266,000 injuries in 2019, with 47,000+ requiring an emergency room visit. To combat this, Visual AI Advisor can analyze how bodies move in the workplace, including detecting if a person is bending incorrectly to pick up a box or object, which can contribute to either a repetitive stress injury or a sudden muscle strain that sidelines workers.
Visual AI Advisor models can also pick up particular unsafe behaviors in your work environment, like flagging if a person is sitting on top of stacked boxes, jumping off a platform, or not holding onto a railing. These types of impulsive or perhaps just inattentive behaviors can and do lead to debilitating injuries, but Visual AI Advisor can track them proactively so that supervisors can know precisely how and when they happen and act on this knowledge by reminding workers to practice “safety first” at all times.
And then, there are hazardous activities that can never be tolerated, like smoking in an area that contains highly flammable material or wandering into an area where heavy equipment can hurt them or run them over. Visual AI Advisor can be configured to treat these violations with the greatest urgency and push alerts and trigger alarms in real time so supervisors can take immediate action.
Are vehicles operating safely and efficiently?
Whether in a loading area or a school, wherever cameras can see, Visual AI Advisor interprets the action, including how and which cars and trucks are moving through the area. Managers can not only use this information at the moment to correct an issue, but they can also study traffic patterns, unsafe or suspect vehicular behavior, and inefficiencies that should be streamlined.
These use cases include:
- Alerting if vehicles are moving outside of designated work hours
- Alerting if vehicles are found idle/standing for too long in a specific area or compared to other vehicles in the area
- Alerting if vehicles are traveling too fast in a given area
- Alerting if vehicles are traveling along a prohibited route or in the wrong direction
- Alerting if vehicles are not parked in their assigned location
The Proactive Power of Visual AI to Provide Answers 24/7
In all of the above questions, you might assume that finding answers to these challenges would typically require significant infrastructure investment and upkeep. With Visual AI Advisor, this is not the case. Time to value is commonly measured in weeks rather than months, and the equipment you will need to start realizing results is minimal and straightforward.
Far from an exhaustive list, the point of this article is to illustrate the breadth and depth of capability that our product offers—one tool with many opportunities to make a meaningful difference. Whether your goal is to safeguard schools, prevent workplace injuries, or increase operational efficiency and situational awareness, SparkCognition Visual AI Advisor can help, shipping with prebuilt use cases like we have described here to rapidly transform your legacy camera infrastructure into a proactive, always-on, intelligent insight generator. To learn more about our use cases and bundles, contact us to schedule a demo today.
