The Rise of Remote Site Monitoring: Latest Technologies Enhancing Jobsite Safety
- Barnali Sharma
- May 10, 2023
- 5 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
Workplace safety is a crucial notion, especially in critical jobsites like construction, oil & gas, manufacturing and mining. Employers are responsible for ensuring that their employees get a safe working environment. The traditional approach to ensuring workplace safety included safety inspections, safety protocols, and safety training. However, the emergence of remote site monitoring and various other smart safety technologies in current times have revolutionized the entire safety landscape.
Today, modern safety tools – including smart site safety system – play an important role in enabling remote workplace monitoring, and offering centralized visibility for both on-site and off-site stakeholders.
How Modern Safety Technologies and Remote Site Monitoring Improve Workplace Safety?
Safety technologies leverage advanced technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), smart cameras, IoT wearables, mobile apps, and drones to detect hazards, monitor workers, and deliver real-time safety alerts. While smart site safety systems remain valuable, they now work alongside other modern safety tools to support remote site monitoring and give supervisors clearer visibility into workers, equipment, and jobsite risks.
These advanced technologies help improve workplace safety by offering a comprehensive view of the jobsite, identifying the potential hazards, and alerting workers about dangers in real-time. As for example, the wearable technology improves situational awareness, reduces risks, and provides workers with valuable safety insights. AI CCTVs also support automated remote inspections, giving remote supervisors continuous visibility.
Further, digital platforms and mobile apps enhance communication and collaboration among workers and site managers. Using centralized management platforms, workers can report hazards, access various safety protocols, and communicate with each other in real-time. Thus, modern safety technologies act as an “extra-eye” – both on-site and remotely – helping minimize risks, enhance efficiency, and protect worker well-being.
Latest Technology Options Powering Remote Site Monitoring & Jobsite Safety
Critical jobsites like construction, oil & gas, manufacturing and mining sites are inherently risky, involving a range of potential hazards that can cause injury or even death to workers. Ensuring workers’ safety is thus, a top priority for companies engaged in these critical industries. In this regard, advances in technology are helping create smarter, safer, and more remotely supervised worksites. Before exploring the tools, it is important to note that the smart site safety system (like viAct) support both on-site and remote supervisions, making them a core enabler of remote site monitoring.
The following are some of the latest technology options powering remote site monitoring and jobsite safety:
Artificial Intelligence (AI): The AI-powered smart technologies analyse data collected from various sources, like cameras, edge devices and IoT wearables to identify the potential risks and provide safety recommendations. These systems also enable AI-powered remote site visibility, allowing supervisors to monitor multiple projects off-site.
Smart Cameras: Cameras powered by AI, also called smart cameras detect even the minutest of safety non-compliance like workers not wearing safety gear, near misses, slips, trips & falls, loose scaffolding and the like and trigger real-time and instant alerts to the managers and workers on-site as well as remote.
Wearable Technology: In the recent years, the popularity of wearable technology is witnessing a hike. IoT wearables and sensors, such as smart helmet, glasses, smart watch, etc., are equipped with sensors that monitor and track workers’ movements, heart rate, and other vital signs to ensure their safety. Further, they can detect hazards as well as alert workers about the safety risks in real-time. As for an instance, smart helmets can view and monitor jobsites in real-time, identify and detect potential hazards, as well as alert workers of the danger. Thus, these devices enhance on-site protection, while feeding data into remote workplace monitoring dashboards.
Drones: Another technology that has been increasingly used to augment workplace safety is Drone AI. Drones equipped with cameras conduct safety inspections, identify and detect potential safety risks in real-time, as well as monitor workers from a safe distance. Further, they can also track materials and equipment, offering aerial visibility for remote supervisors and enabling automated remote inspections.
Mobile Apps: Mobile apps have been playing a crucial role these days in enhancing communication and improving safety in workplaces. These app allow workers to easily report any hazard taking place in the jobsite, access safety protocols, as well as communicate with different levels of the stakeholders in real-time. The apps also allow the site managers to monitor safety and communicate with the workers, at any time and from anywhere, ensuring that all levels of the workflow including the workers are on the same page when it comes to safety protocols.
Collectively, these technologies are reshaping workplace safety by enabling continuous visibility and more efficient remote oversight. With AI, wearables, drones, smart cameras, and mobile apps working together, organizations can significantly enhance remote site monitoring, lower the likelihood of accidents, and ensure stronger protection for their workers.
How viAct Uses Latest Technologies like Smart Site Safety System (4S) to Enable Advanced Remote Site Monitoring & Safety
viAct leverages the power of AI video analytics to enhance safety performance across diverse critical jobsites. As part of this, its smart site safety system, integrate with other modern tools to strengthen remote site monitoring and support remote safety supervision.
The workplace safety software by viAct uses AI-powered video analytics to detect safety non-compliances, dangerous situations, and unsafe acts across jobsites, many of which can lead to serious or even fatal incidents if left unnoticed. viAct offers a wide range of safety solutions, including PPE Detection, which identifies the type and colour of PPE and verifies whether workers are wearing the correct gear based on zone-specific requirements. Its hazardous area access control system automatically detects and alerts when workers enter restricted or high-risk zones. The confined space safety solution helps protect workers operating in enclosed environments, while the work-at-height safety module monitors activities carried out at elevated locations. Together, these solutions help strengthen proactive safety monitoring across diverse jobsite conditions.
On the top of it, the real-time alert mechanism of viAct safety management system sends remote safety alerts via SMS, e-mail, or instant messaging apps, keeping them aware of their jobsite happenings even without being physically present in there.
Additionally, viAct centralized management platform – viHUB acts as a single, integrated platform for data, insights and automation. This single integrated platform records all the insights captured by the AI-powered cameras that can be viewed anytime later and from anywhere, enabling the project teams to undergo remote inspection of their jobsites. This further strengthens viAct’s position as a leading AI remote monitoring platform.
Thus, in this manner, viAct integrates smart site safety systems with remote site monitoring capabilities to enhance safety performance across industries.
Quick Case Study:
A leading construction conglomerate in Singapore – managing several high-rise and infrastructure projects – needed to elevate its safety performance as traditional checks and manual audits were failing to prevent PPE violations, machinery near misses, and risks in confined spaces and open edges.
To overcome these challenges, the company deployed multiple viAct AI-powered safety modules across its projects. Within just one year, the organization achieved a 10X improvement in overall safety score, with the help of automated hazard detection, real-time safety alerts, and centralized remote monitoring for enhanced visibility.
👉Read full case study here: https://www.viact.ai/case-studies/singapore-construction-giant |
Remote Site Monitoring: The Future of Smart and Safe Worksite
Remote site monitoring is rapidly shaping the future of workplace safety. By combining AI, automation, and data-driven insights, companies gain 24/7 visibility over jobsite conditions – whether on-site or remote. This remote visibility reduces risks, enhances emergency response, and ensures safety compliance across multiple project locations.
As smart automation and real-time monitoring continue to evolve, the worksites of the future will be safer, more efficient, and more proactive in preventing accidents.
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