Applications / Safety
Fire Detection
Detects visible flame and fire signatures across indoor and outdoor camera views, and flags each event with camera, zone and timestamp for operator triage.
See it in action
Visual fire detection across indoor and outdoor views
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.
Open flame in process areas
Flags visible flame in process units, modules, plant rooms and workshops.
Battery and EV storage fires
Covers battery storage, charging and quarantine areas, including the thermal-runaway signature the Q3 automotive paper names.
Flare and stack anomalies
Detects abnormal flare behaviour and stack conditions in refining and processing environments.
Outdoor yards, tank farms and forecourts
Extends detection to compounds, fuel forecourts and tank areas covered by cameras but not by fixed detection.
Unauthorised hot work and ignition sources
Flags hot work and ignition sources in flammable and explosive-atmosphere zones where a permit should be active.
Blocked escape routes during an event
Surfaces obstructed exits, fire doors left open and blocked emergency routes alongside the fire event itself.
Blocked extinguishers, hydrants and panels
Detects fire-fighting equipment that has been obstructed or moved, which the Q3 chemical paper lists as a monitored condition.
Thermal hotspot correlation
Lines visual detections up with thermal camera hotspots where thermal imaging is deployed.
Where it applies
The sub-sectors below are the ones the Q3 industry papers name for this detection. Each links to the industry hub.
In Oil & Gas
Module fires on offshore rigs and platforms. Refinery process fires and flare anomalies. Gas-station forecourt fires and tank-area incidents.
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.
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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
Fire-safety regulation, DSEAR and ATEX-style explosive-atmosphere controls, and ISO 22301 business continuity all converge on the same operational question: how fast does a developing event reach someone who can act, and what is on the record afterwards. Detection latency and location accuracy are the two variables an operator can actually move.
There is a second control objective that the Q3 papers make explicit and that is easy to overlook — the readiness of the response itself. Blocked exits, fire doors propped open, obstructed extinguishers and hydrants are conditions a camera can flag on any ordinary day, long before they matter. That is a leading indicator available continuously rather than at the next walk-round.
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