Industrial & manufacturing

AI CCTV safety monitoring for industrial sites

Woodcock AI turns the CCTV already covering your factory floor, yard and stores into safety monitoring: it watches for smoke or flame at a line or an intruder at the fence, and can add safety modules such as PPE detection, where supported, confirmed in your site assessment. It alerts the right people with the clip in seconds.

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Real Woodcock AI detections recorded on CCTV cameras. Clips are muted.
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What each camera watches for across an industrial site

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Plan of an industrial site with a loading bay, production line, chemical and fuel store, warehouse aisles and perimeter

    PPE detection

    PPE detection CCTV for UK sites

    Woodcock AI offers safety modules such as PPE detection, where supported, confirmed in your site assessment. They run in the zones you define on the CCTV you already have, and alert you with the clip. See PPE detection on existing CCTV.

    • In the zones and at the times you choose
    • An alert with the clip, so a supervisor can act straight away
    • Runs alongside smoke, fire and intrusion detection on the same camera
    Illustrative night-time 3D view of a site with CCTV cameras linked to Woodcock AI watching the yard and buildings
    Illustrative 3D render: safety modules run on the cameras a site already has, where supported.
    More than one site

    Edge or cloud at each site

    With the Woodcock AI Cloud, cameras can be managed remotely and alerts arrive in the Woodcock AI app. Each site can run on its own edge server or in the cloud. If you run several sites, we will talk through how to set them up on the free site assessment.

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    Illustrative 3D render: each site can run detection on its own edge server or in the Woodcock AI Cloud, with alerts in one app.
    Where the risk sits

    Fire and safety risks on an industrial site

    Most industrial sites already have cameras over the places where things go wrong: production lines, extraction units, battery charging areas, stores of fuel or chemicals, loading bays and the yard. Those cameras usually record but nobody watches them in real time, especially at night and at weekends.

    A fire that starts in dust, packaging or stock can grow quickly when nobody is on the floor. A person in a restricted store or on the fence line after hours is easy to miss on a wall of camera feeds, and the same is true of construction sites that stand empty overnight. Woodcock AI watches every connected camera continuously and raises an alert when it sees something that matches the modules you have switched on for that view.

    You decide which modules run on each camera, which zones within the view they cover, and at what times. A camera over the loading bay might look for smoke all day and for people only after the site has closed. A camera over a store might look for smoke and flame around the clock.

    Getting started

    How a rollout usually runs

    It starts with a free site assessment. We look at your cameras, what they can see and the risks in each area, and suggest the modules and zones that fit.

    Your cameras connect by entering their logins, either on an edge server on your network or in the Woodcock AI Cloud. Woodcock AI works with ONVIF or RTSP cameras and recorders, so most sites can use the CCTV they already have. Then we set up zones, schedules and who gets which alert, and you review real alerts from your own cameras before deciding.

    The AI is not one general model left to fend for itself. A self-learning AI is fitted to each site and learns its cameras' views. Every detection in the app has a feedback button, and your answers feed into retraining, so it keeps getting better at telling a real event from something that only looks like one.

    Alerts reach your team in the Woodcock AI app with the clip and a plain-English description. Alerts to a monitoring centre (ARC) and phone-call alerts are available as optional add-ons.

    Good to know

    What it needs to work well

    Camera-based detection is only as good as what the camera can see. These are the things that matter most, and the free site assessment checks each one.

    Real footage
    Real footage from a camera running Woodcock AI at night: the smoke is visible to the camera, so it can be detected. The same applies to any camera with a clear view.
    • A clear viewCameras need a clear view of the area, with enough light or infrared. Distant or very small targets may be missed.
    • Alongside your systemsIt complements, and does not replace, certified fire detection and alarm systems or your health and safety procedures.
    • Sensible zonesZones and schedules keep alerts relevant. Drawing them around the areas that matter, rather than the whole view, cuts out alerts you do not need.
    • A network connectionAn edge server keeps detecting on site if the internet drops. The cloud option needs a reliable connection from each camera or recorder.
    Illustrative render of a phone showing a Woodcock AI alert with a video clip
    Illustrative render of the app, not a real customer alert.
    Alerts

    The right person sees it first

    Each alert goes to the people you choose, such as a shift supervisor for safety alerts or a site manager for smoke, with the clip and a plain-English description. Learn more in how Woodcock AI works, AI intrusion detection and our guide to video smoke detection on existing CCTV.

    FAQ

    Industrial site questions

    Detection, multiple sites and getting started.

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    Which detections are available for industrial sites?
    Smoke and fire, intrusion and human detection, vehicle detection and safety modules such as PPE detection, where supported, confirmed in your site assessment, plus AI natural descriptions of what each camera saw. Several modules can run on one camera. If you need something else, ask on the free site assessment and we will tell you what is possible for your site.
    Can it cover multiple sites?
    Each site can run Woodcock AI on its own edge server or in the Woodcock AI Cloud, with remote management and alerts in the Woodcock AI app. Tell us about your sites on the free site assessment and we will explain how they would be set up.
    How quickly can it go live?
    It depends on the number of cameras and sites. We review your cameras and risks on a free site assessment, connect the cameras by entering their logins, set up zones and alerts, and then you review real alerts during a trial period.
    Does PPE detection work on our existing cameras?
    Safety modules such as PPE detection run on the CCTV you already have, where supported, confirmed in your site assessment. Alerts arrive with the clip. Detection needs a camera with a clear enough view of people in the area; the free site assessment checks this.
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    Next step

    Turn your site CCTV into safety monitoring

    A free site assessment looks at your cameras and the risks on your floor, yard and stores, and suggests the modules that fit.

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