Applications / Safety
Stairs & Bannister Usage
Detects whether people use the handrail on stairways, and flags stair behaviours such as running, descending at speed or carrying loads with both hands.
See it in action
Handrail use and stairway behaviour 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.
Handrail contact on stairways
Flags descent or ascent without a hand on the rail, the behaviour the Q3 automotive paper lists as stair banister use.
Running and descending at speed
Detects running on stairs, which the Q3 chemical paper groups with other behavioural-safety signals.
Both hands occupied
Surfaces people carrying loads with both hands on a stairway, where handrail use is not physically possible.
Stairwell congestion and counter-flow
Detects build-up and opposing flow on stairs, escape routes and boat landings.
Blocked stairs and access panels
Flags obstructed stairways, walkways and access panels, listed in the Q3 construction paper.
Damaged treads, rails and guardrails
Identifies visible damage to stairs, guardrails, ramps and barriers as a site-condition signal.
Muster and evacuation stair use
Covers stair behaviour during drills and evacuations, when congestion risk is highest.
Compliance rate by stairway and shift
Breaks handrail compliance down per stairway rather than reporting a single site figure.
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.
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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
Stairway falls are high-frequency and low-attention: they happen on ordinary ground, during ordinary movement, and they rarely generate a report unless someone is hurt. Handrail use is the single behavioural control that correlates with the outcome, and it is visible in every stairwell camera a site already has.
The Q3 papers treat this as a behavioural-safety leading indicator rather than an incident category, and pair it with the physical condition of the stairway itself — blocked routes, damaged treads, missing guardrails. Both halves are observable continuously, which makes the rate the thing you manage rather than the injury count.
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See Stairs & Bannister Usage running on your own cameras
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