Applications / Safety
Climbing Detection
Detects people climbing structures, racking, fences, barriers and equipment instead of using designated access, and flags the location and time.
See it in action
Unsafe climbing and barrier-bypass detection
What it detects
Harvested from the computer-vision use-case columns of the Q3 industry papers. Every item below is a rule you can switch on, tune per zone and report on.
Climbing structures and racking
Flags people climbing racking, pipework, tanks and structural steel instead of using ladders or platforms.
Fence-line climbing
Detects perimeter climbing and intrusion, which the Q3 logistics and oil and gas papers list with loitering and after-hours activity.
Barrier bypass and unsafe shortcuts
Surfaces people crossing barriers and separation rails, named in the Q3 chemical behavioural-safety rows.
Riding on equipment
Detects riding on forklifts, pallets and moving equipment as a distinct behavioural signal.
Improvised platforms
Flags standing on rails, drums and stacked material used as a substitute for proper access.
Machine and cell barrier crossing
Covers unauthorised cell access and crossing through machine guarding, listed in the Q3 manufacturing paper.
After-hours climbing
Applies a separate rule outside working hours, when the same behaviour carries a different meaning.
Repeat locations ranked
Groups events by location so recurring climbing points reveal where access or guarding is genuinely inadequate.
Where it applies
The sub-sectors below are the ones the Q3 industry papers name for this detection. Each links to the industry hub.
How it works
01
Runs on the cameras you already have
Inference happens at the edge on your existing CCTV and IP streams. No new camera estate, no video leaving site, no cloud round-trip in the detection loop.
02
Thresholds and zones you configure
Draw the zone, set the rule, set the dwell, count and confidence thresholds. Rules differ by area, shift and task, because sites do.
03
Evidence, not just alerts
Every event is logged with camera, zone, timestamp and a clip, so the record is reviewable afterwards and usable in a corrective action.
04
Integrates with what you already run
Events push into your VMS, alerting and reporting stack through Fogsphere Manager, with dashboards broken down by area, shift and crew.
Risk & control objective
Climbing is almost never recklessness. It is what happens when the designated access is further away, slower, or missing — which is why the Q3 chemical paper files it under unsafe shortcuts and barrier bypass rather than under individual behaviour. The event is a signal about the site, not just about the person.
The control objective therefore has two layers. In the moment it is a behavioural flag with a location. Over weeks it is a ranked list of the places where people repeatedly choose to climb, which is a direct read on where access design, guarding or route planning is failing. The second layer is the one that changes anything.
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See Climbing running on your own cameras
Bring a camera stream and a zone. We will show you what the model surfaces on your site, not on a demo reel.