Applications / Safety
Contact With Electricity
Detects people and equipment approaching energised assets, and flags work starting in an electrical zone before isolation is recorded as complete.
See it in action
Electrical zone access and isolation-state 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.
High-voltage and battery-room access
Flags entry to HV zones, battery rooms, switch rooms and electrical rooms outside an authorised window.
Work starting before isolation
Detects activity beginning in an electrical zone before isolation is confirmed — named directly in the Q3 power-generation paper.
Incorrect PPE near energised equipment
Surfaces missing arc-rated clothing, insulated gloves or face shields where the zone requires them.
Personnel present during isolation
Flags people inside the isolation zone while the isolation step is being carried out.
Open panels and exposed conductors
Detects maintenance panels left open or unattended, listed in the Q3 automotive contractor-safety rows.
Equipment inside approach distance
Flags ladders, lifting gear and vehicles entering a minimum approach distance to live plant.
Cable tunnels, trays and transformer bays
Covers the access points the Q3 power-generation paper lists alongside floor openings and roof access.
LOTO visual workflow evidence
Captures the lockout/tagout step sequence as timestamped visual evidence from permit issue through to closeout.
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
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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.
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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
Electrical work is governed by procedure rather than by guarding: NFPA 70 and NEC in the US, PUWER and the electricity-at-work regime in the UK, and the isolation and permit-to-work systems every operator runs on top of them. The failure mode is almost always sequence — a step taken before the step that should have preceded it.
That makes the control objective procedural assurance rather than hazard detection. The Q3 chemical paper describes the target directly: an automated visual evidence pack per permit, from issue through closeout, with isolation-zone monitoring and LOTO verification support alongside it. What the operator gets is the ability to show that the sequence held, per permit, without asking anyone to reconstruct it afterwards.
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See Contact With Electricity 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.