Applications / Safety
Line of Fire
Detects people positioned in the path of stored, moving or suspended energy — under loads, inside swing radii, at pinch points and within machine envelopes.
See it in action
Line-of-fire exposure between people and energy
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.
Under suspended loads and swing radius
Flags personnel beneath a suspended load or inside a crane swing radius or exclusion zone.
Machine envelope and robot-cell entry
Detects entry into machine envelopes and robot cells, listed across the Q3 manufacturing and automotive papers.
Pinch and crush points
Surfaces hands or body reaching into pinch points, crushing zones and moving equipment.
Unsafe conveyor interaction
Detects reaching into or interacting with a running conveyor, named in the Q3 food and beverage paper.
Missing or removed machine guards
Flags open guards and guard removal as a condition, before it becomes an interaction.
Dropped objects in red zones
Covers dropped tools, collars and components in drill-floor and struck-by hazard zones.
Forklift mast hazards and swept paths
Detects mast hazards and personnel in the swept path of a moving vehicle.
Red-zone occupancy during operations
Applies drill-floor and process red-zone rules while the operation is actually running.
Near-miss counts by machine and zone
Ranks the machines, cells and zones producing the most exposures so guarding can be targeted.
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
Drill floor crane loads and suspended drill collars on rigs and SOVs. Refinery suspended loads above walkways, swing radius and pinch areas. Construction lifts, hooks and swing radius around heavy equipment.
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
Line of fire is the category that covers struck-by, caught-between and crushing exposures, and the Q3 manufacturing paper is direct about what it delivers: near-miss data before incidents. These are exposures that resolve without harm the overwhelming majority of the time, which is exactly why they are never reported and never counted.
The control objective is a measured exposure rate per machine, per cell and per zone. Machinery safety regulation requires guarding and safe access; what it cannot tell an operator is which specific guard, cell or crane is being worked around most often. Continuous detection produces that ranking, and it produces it from the interactions that did not hurt anyone.
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