Integrating the Axelera Metis AI Accelerator into our Fogsphere AI platform has significantly bolstered our ability to deliver high-performance safety, security and operational intelligence solutions. It enables us to achieve exceptional price performance across a diverse range of industrial and retail use cases.

~Pasquale Giampa, CEO at Fogsphere

Development partner

Fogsphere, supplier of workplace safety monitoring platform based on AI & IoT.

Fogsphere
Application

Workplace Safety, Security and Operational Intelligence

Challenge solved

Process multiple camera streams and run intelligent video analytics on edge servers in real time

Hardware used

Metis Evaluation Kit

The context:
AI for workplace safety

Lack of preventive safety measures results in millions of injuries, deaths and losses every year.

In light of restrictions in resources - such as budget, manpower – and human abilities, companies in all kinds of industries need to more heavily rely on technology to monitor worker safety, react to workplace risks and ensure operational safety compliance.

Thankfully, AI-driven workplace monitoring platforms enable companies to maintain higher safety standards, while reducing manpower, costs and errors related to manual safety monitoring.

The Fogsphere platform includes smart area controls, automated emergency management, behavior monitoring, vehicle monitoring and AI PPE monitoring. All examples of AI for workplace safety to help ensure safe operations and regulatory compliance.

  • Every 3,000 unsafe worker behaviors cause 29 injuries and 1 death.
  • In the USA,
    • preventable work-related deaths have increased over the last 10 years to 4,695 in 2022
    • in 2022, work-related injuries have cost 75 million days of work and $167B in f.i. productivity losses, medical costs or administrative expenses.
    • fines for failure to correct safety problems are $12.7K/day. Willful or repeated patterns have fines of up to $127K/violation.

The challenge:
Simultaneously process multiple streams from the camera

Fogsphere wants to upgrade its existing edge computing system, so it can augment live camera footage with real-time data visualization and risk detection. Thus, their computer vision programs need to be able to simultaneously process multiple streams from the camera in real-time - even under challenging lighting conditions. For this, they need fast, energy-efficient and affordable vision processing units.

To showcase the added value of our hardware, we optimized AI PPE monitoring - as AI PPE monitoring has the potential to prevent many workplace incidents. According to scientific research, not making use of available PPE or improper use of PPE accounts for 34% and 13% of occupational accidents.

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The solution:
Include the Metis AIPU

Fogsphere's computer vision software needs to monitor the use of safety gear in the workplace and generate automated responses in real time. Their AI platform for workplace safety identifying unauthorized absence or improper use of protective personal equipment, like helmets or vests.

Fogsphere used the Metis PCIe accelerator card to enhance AI capabilities of their edge server based on Intel Core i5 processor. This setup leverages the 200 TOPS available on the Metis AIPU to run the model in the multiple streams in real-time, even under challenging lighting conditions.

This video illustrates a typical use case of real-time video analytics: AI PPE monitoring on a construction site.

The result:
Workplace safety monitoring that excels in performance and price

Fogsphere recognizes the outstanding performance and competitive pricing of Axelera AI’s neural processing unit, optimized for accelerating Computer Vision applications. Fogsphere’s platform for Workplace Safety, Security, and Operational Intelligence enhances camera footage through real-time video analysis, risk detection, and compliance monitoring powered by GenAI.

Leveraging the Metis platform, Fogsphere achieves unprecedented acceleration and efficiency across diverse use cases, including Area Control, Emergency Management, Housekeeping, Behavioral Safety, and Vehicle and PPE monitoring. Additionally, with LoRaWAN-enabled AIoT capabilities, the platform combines sensor data and video analysis for comprehensive AIoT applications.

This use case shows the power of AI the Axelera AI team so believes in; that AI can make the world a safer place.

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