What plants ask for most
In manufacturing, the questions come from three directions at once: health and safety wants fewer accidents, plant security wants a protected site at night, and management wants both without more staff.
Use cases in manufacturing
- Safety gear and danger zones: missing helmets, high-visibility vests and safety shoes, entry into hazardous zones, too many people in a restricted area.
- Fire and smoke early warning: an extra pair of eyes on halls, outdoor storage and waste areas, on top of your fire alarm system.
- Site protection after hours: intrusion into areas you draw, active at night and at weekends.
- Factory gate: vehicles in and out with times, number plates where agreed.
- Occupancy: occupancy limits per hall or room, crowding at shift changes.
- Danger zones around machines: people in zones around presses, robot cells and crane areas, pedestrians in forklift lanes.
Agreed with the works council before go-live
In a plant, cameras see employees, so the works council has a say (§ 87 BetrVG in Germany). ProDataAI Lens reports events and does not identify people: no facial recognition, no tracking of individuals, no productivity scores. We document the configuration for your works agreement and provide a template for it in our data protection and security pack.
Our team has put computer vision into production on a steel finishing line. What decides success on the shop floor is rarely the model: it is camera positions, lighting, agreed purposes and the people who act on the alerts.
IT review and the production network
A small agent on site reads your existing IP cameras and recorders and sends video over one outbound, encrypted connection: no open ports, no VPN, no firewall changes, nothing changes on cameras or recorders. Where nothing may leave the plant network, ProDataAI Lens runs fully on premises.
Frequently asked questions
Can ProDataAI Lens do quality inspection on the line?
ProDataAI Lens is built for security, safety and operations on site cameras. Visual quality inspection on the production line is a different task with its own cameras and models; we build that as a project, see our visual inspection case study.
Which cameras are needed?
Standard IP cameras and network video recorders already installed. ProDataAI Lens reads the lower-resolution substream, which keeps the load on recorder and network low.
How long does it take to start?
The first cameras usually go live within two to four weeks; a full rollout across sites typically takes up to a quarter.