Introducing: Zone Safety & Security Supervision

Introducing: Zone Safety & Security Supervision

Workplace safety and security have always been at the core of any business planning activities and objectives. Moreover, the need to ensure that these objectives are met has been rising in the past years. However, along with an ever-increasing demand for safety and security preserving work environment comes the complexity that companies need to deal with on a daily basis.

Why now?

Nowadays, the safety and security of industrial workplace environments are becoming increasingly important. More and more companies are investing their resources heavily to ensure such a working environment not just for their employees but also for the general physical and cybersecurity of the premises. The status quo process of ensuring a safe and secure environment used to rely extensively on human support and surveillance. This is becoming increasingly problematic as such surveillance mode normally results in unwelcome incidents caused due to the negligence in manual workplace safety and security monitoring that, in turn, results in direct costs of billions of euros per year. Such manual supervision by personnel is insufficient for many reasons:

1. It is expensive — manual safety and security supervision requires a large number of on-duty monitoring staff to ensure that all safety and security protocols are being complied with.
2. It is highly prone to human errors — relying solely on manual monitoring, whether it is by supervising physically or looking at some video footage, brings out several risks: not only can the critical events and various breaches be overlooked, but also human judgment may not always be correct.
3. It is not scalable — because of the large amount of safety and security personnel required to supervise an area, scaling and growth are limited by the extensive human resource burden.
4. It is extremely risky — physical attacks on critical infrastructure lead to not just material loss but also potential shutdown of operations which is costly. Moreover, poorly supervised access to industrial facilities can lead to cyber-attacks on virtually any in-house machinery and IT system which is not only expensive to fight but also potentially damaging all business operations.

So how can NATIX overtake the current solutions and solve the limitations of manual safety and security supervision?

Zone Safety & Security Supervision

To improve the current industrial workplace infrastructure, NATIX has developed an AI-based automated real-time monitoring of industrial zones to detect safety and security protocol violations. In short, the software enables companies to improve worker safety and premise security through proactive intervention and incident prevention. Key offerings:

1. Define and monitor zones. NATIX Zone Safety & Security Supervision software detects safety and security hazards in the industrial zones. By geofencing multiple zones within an industrial campus, NATIX monitors human presence in and out of the defined virtual zone and based on that detects safety and/or security protocol violations, for example, entry into hazardous areas (e.g. a worker entering a dangerous machinery area), trespassing (e.g. unauthorized entities entering a zone) or cyberattack (e.g. someone manipulating sensitive equipment within the zone).
2. Intervene proactively. NATIX enables proactive intervention through a programmable notification system directed at supervisors or other safety and security infrastructures (e.g. alarm). All this is done in real-time to allow for the fastest response possible.
3. Access an integrated dashboard. NATIX provides a consolidated view of relevant events from multiple cameras and locations and a comprehensive user analytics tool and coaching modules — all aimed at improving worker safety and premise security.
4. Improve GDPR compliance (privacy compliance). NATIX ensures privacy-preserving processing of personal data. Everything happens on-device, meaning that all sensitive data is anonymized locally through proprietary AI, thus no personally identifiable data is being collected, stored, or shared to third parties guaranteeing maximum data security. Moreover, the software is fully compliant with GDPR and CCPA requirements and has been approved by various workers councils under GDPR regulations.

Exemplary integration

To illustrate, here is an example use-case of how our current clients are implementing the perks that NATIX Zone Safety & Security Supervision software can offer:

Zone Safety and Security Dashboard and SMS notification

Use-case: Intelligent security monitoring of industrial and critical infrastructure

Problem: the client has a critical infrastructure facility that requires extreme supervision and current physical monitoring is not sufficient enough to ensure maximum security which can lead to costs from hundreds of thousands to a few million euros. The client, thus, is willing to invest in a digital solution that is aligned with and helpful to the future digitalization strategy of the company’s workplace.

Solution: detect trespassing (e.g. surveilling the fence for human break-ins) and unauthorized entities’ access to sensitive equipment:

1. Enable an instant notification to the security systems in case of a security breach
2. Provide a consolidated event dashboard for a fast and appropriate response

Validated perks:

1. More targeted surveillance
2. Cheaper than classical systems
3. Privacy-preserving — proved to be an extremely important aspect for the client as the implementation of this solution was highly dependent on the worker council approval
4. Extendable solution — the client showed big enthusiasm about the fact that this solution enables other use-cases — an option to place other event detection AI on the same camera (e.g. drone or helmet detection)

Curious to see how we can support your business? Drop us an email at hello@natix.io.

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