Field Photo Analysis
Automatically analyze field photos to detect risky situations, deviations, or items requiring verification.
A site supervisor takes fifteen to twenty photos a day on their phone; they land in a shared folder and only resurface after an incident.
We set up processing that flags, among these photos, the configurations matching a set of rules agreed with field teams, without ever closing a non-compliance in their place.
Hundreds of photos, a folder rarely opened
A site supervisor takes fifteen to twenty photos a day on their phone: progress shots, a forgotten hard hat, scaffolding erected the day before. They land in a shared folder, sorted by date with no further indexing, and only resurface after an incident, when someone needs evidence after the fact and scrolls through hundreds of thumbnails.
Detection disappoints outside the demo case
A model trained on sharp, well-framed, well-lit photos spots a missing hard hat without trouble. On a real site, lighting shifts, the angle cuts off half the scene, dust blurs the image, and a hard hat resting on the ground next to a worker can read as worn. Teams who have tested this type of tool often report alerts on non-events alongside real situations that go unnoticed, which erodes trust faster than it builds it.
Naming exactly what to look for
The project works when the list of configurations to detect is short and stable: presence of specific equipment, access to a cordoned area, rather than a general ambition to spot any risk. It also means accepting that some borderline cases will stay uncertain, and deciding in advance who settles them: the site team lead, or the HSE officer in a weekly review.
The alert arrives, verification stays manual
We set up processing that analyses photos as they come in and flags configurations matching defined rules, together with the photo and the rule that triggered it. Nobody closes a non-compliance on the strength of an alert alone; a site manager confirms before any corrective action. Photos the model wrongly discards stay available in the full feed, so a spot check remains possible.