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Manufacturing / STAY SAFE

Bring work-zone safety candidates to the right person.

How existing floor cameras could surface PPE and restricted-zone candidates for supervisor verification.

Illustrative factory with workers in protective equipment and marked work zones
AI-generated illustration of this use case · Not a customer site
Scenario, not customer proof.

Illustrative scenario — not a customer deployment. The workflow is proposed; no measured results are claimed. Site compatibility, detectors and workflows would be validated during scoping.

01 / THE OPERATING CHALLENGE

What needs a clearer view?

Consider a manufacturing floor with existing views of access aisles and defined machine areas. Supervisors have established safety procedures and want additional context between routine floor checks.

A restricted-zone entry or visible PPE concern may only be found during later footage review. A supervisor needs the location and context to decide whether the event warrants attention.

Changing work areas, camera occlusion and permitted maintenance can make a simplistic alert misleading. The deployment must fit the actual procedures on the floor.

02 / HOW iOn WOULD HELP

Connect the view to the workflow.

01

Start with the site’s procedures

Review the selected zones, authorized maintenance activity and existing camera coverage with the operations and safety team. Identify which visual candidates are appropriate to test.

02

Configure supported candidates

Enable deployment-specific PPE and zone detection where the view permits it. Define schedules and alert routing, and keep uncertainty and source footage visible to reviewers.

03

Close the loop through a supervisor

Present the event to an authorized person who can check the scene, consult the work team and record any follow-up under the site’s established process.

03 / AN ILLUSTRATIVE EVENT

From a signal to a human decision.

Camera signal

A person appears to cross the boundary of a configured restricted work zone.

iOn context

A zone-entry candidate is linked to the source footage and location, with the detection’s confidence for review.

Human action

A supervisor checks whether the entry is authorized maintenance, a boundary error or a genuine concern, then follows the site’s safety procedure.

Example sequence only. No live feed, customer incident or recorded outcome is shown.

04 / MEASURE BEFORE YOU EXPAND

What would make the pilot useful?

Agree definitions and a baseline before starting. Review uncertainty and other operational changes alongside any observations.

Time to verified review

Measure elapsed time from a relevant candidate to a supervisor reviewing its evidence.

THE QUESTION TO ANSWER

Does the alert reach someone able to act?

Candidate quality

Compare sampled candidate events with human review and log false alerts and uncertainty.

THE QUESTION TO ANSWER

Are camera position and zone settings suitable?

Known-event coverage

Use an agreed, safe validation method and authorized historical review to assess visible events that were and were not surfaced.

THE QUESTION TO ANSWER

What does the configured system miss within the agreed scope?

Follow-up completion

Track whether verified concerns enter the site’s existing corrective-action process.

THE QUESTION TO ANSWER

Is there a clear path from review to appropriate follow-up?

Proposed evaluation measures. No numerical target or achieved improvement is asserted.

05 / READINESS & LIMITATIONS

Be clear about what the camera can tell you.

What the site would need

  • Defined safety procedures, zone ownership and escalation contacts.
  • Camera views suitable for the selected PPE or zone use cases.
  • A validation plan that does not create unsafe situations for testing.

What this scenario does not claim

  • iOn is not a machine interlock, emergency-stop system or replacement for required safety controls.
  • Occlusion, distance and work conditions can limit visual detection.
  • No prevented-incident count, certification or injury reduction is claimed.

06 / THE PILOT PLAN

Start with a defined question.

Scope a 7-day pilot around selected zones, approved review procedures and safe validation. Evaluate alert quality and the human response process before extending coverage.

THE EXPANSION DECISION

Expand only if the selected views and candidate quality support the agreed review workflow alongside existing safety measures.

Scope this for your site

Custom quote. Scope and commercial terms are agreed before commitment.