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Computer Vision — 24/7 Plant Safety Monitoring

Computer Vision — 24/7 Plant Safety Monitoring

YOLOv8-based safety monitoring running on edge devices (NVIDIA Jetson) inside the steel plant — 24/7 detection of helmet and high-visibility vest compliance with real-time alerts to the safety team.

01. Challenge

Manual safety patrols cannot cover the whole plant 24/7. Off-the-shelf PPE-detection products struggled in heavy industry conditions: poor lighting, dust, partial occlusions and glare from molten steel.

Streaming raw camera feeds to a central server was not an option due to bandwidth and data-residency requirements.

02. Solution

A fine-tuned YOLOv8 detector trained on plant-specific footage, deployed to NVIDIA Jetson devices co-located with each camera.

The model runs locally, emits structured detection events (timestamp, camera ID, violation type, confidence), and only metadata leaves the edge device. A central dashboard aggregates events and routes alerts to the safety team.

03. Results

  • 24/7Monitoring
    Continuous coverage across multiple production areas
  • Real-timeDetection
    Per-frame inference on edge hardware
  • On-premData residency
    No raw video leaves the plant network

04. Constraints

  • Harsh industrial environment — dust, heat, variable lighting, occlusions
  • Cannot send raw video off-site — privacy and bandwidth constraints
  • Must run on edge hardware near each camera (no central GPU cluster)
  • False positives flood the safety team — precision matters more than recall

05. Architecture

Per-camera inference on Jetson Orin runs the fine-tuned YOLOv8 model at real-time frame rates.

Detection events are pushed to a central event bus (MQTT), filtered through a debouncing rule engine to suppress flicker, then surfaced in a Grafana-style operations dashboard.

No raw video leaves the plant network; only event metadata and small verification snapshots are retained.

06. Tech Stack

YOLOv8PyTorchTensorRTNVIDIA Jetson OrinMQTTPythonFastAPIPostgreSQLGrafanaDocker

Project Info

  • Client:EMSTEEL
  • Service:Computer Vision
  • Timeline:10 weeks
  • Industry:other