improving safety with computer vision

Factory and warehouse environments present significant risks to those who work in them, given the frequent interactions between people, machinery, and fixtures such as elevated shelving. To regulate these risks, best practices, including segregated walkways, speed limits, blind spot removals, and prohibiting unsafe loading and unloading, are imposed. However, even with the best training and intentions, human error and unexpected events can compound, eroding safety margins and leading to accidents.

To ensure safe and efficient operations across their factories and warehouses, the client wanted to apply the lessons learned from past incidents within an open technology platform by deploying a series of safety applications while respecting data privacy and security concerns.

To deliver, the client required a partner with deep Azure ML/Computer Vision expertise that could design and build a scalable implementation in a high-security environment. Nexer Insight was recommended as a partner by Microsoft based on its proven capability to implement large-scale Azure Computer Vision solutions for global leaders within the mining, shipping, and manufacturing industries, plus world-leading IoT and Edge Computing skills.

Nexer Insight deployed a team to work closely with the client’s health and safety, IT, and security teams to deliver the solution to the client’s Azure tenant and edge computing appliances, avoiding any movement of highly confidential data outside corporate data security.
The solution was piloted in one of the client’s factories and deployed globally across other sites.