Construction site video cameras can capture every aspect of what happens on a jobsite, creating a perfect memory and record of your project. Time-lapses make it easy to review a day’s, month’s or week’s worth of work in seconds.
These bite-sized videos allow you to streamline project management and passively monitor the jobsite from anywhere. You can manage by exception so that you instantly know when something on the site deviates from your expectations.
But what if your camera could take a more active role instead? What if it could “talk” to you? Advanced camera providers offer custom notifications so your jobsite autonomously reports back to you about everything that’s going on — in real-time.
Establishing custom notifications helps you keep track of what’s happening with projects (and when) so you can respond right away.
Through camera image analysis powered by AI, you can choose to receive real-time notifications that create an intelligent jobsite by:
- Tracking equipment arrivals and usage. Find out when a certain piece of equipment arrives on the jobsite to ensure it arrives on time. You can also better understand where and how equipment is being used.
- Catching the absence of safety protocols. Receive an alert when the absence of hard hats, high-visibility apparel, and/or other personal protective equipment and safety gear is noticed on a jobsite. This helps you reduce liability, pinpoint training opportunities, understand which teams excel at safety, flag potential violations for review, and ensure that workers are being careful and compliant.
- Monitoring jobsite activity, or lack of. Within predefined work zones and work hours, you’ll know when people and equipment stop moving. Understanding the lack of activity can better inform reports on job site progress, verify work hours, and support future decisions about labor and equipment investments.
- Checking weather conditions. Discover when rain, snow, wind, and/or temperatures extend beyond your predefined parameters so you know when, where, and how progress and productivity may be impacted by bad weather.
You’re in complete control of the alerts you receive: when, how, and frequency, as well as the types of notifications (weather, equipment, etc.). For example, you can set an alert so that if concrete is poured in cold weather, you’ll be able to act fast to correct the issue. Additional notifications let you monitor safety compliance, flag tardiness and more.
As a result, you can make critical decisions faster with information that acts as a single source of truth.
Creating custom alerts turns your jobsite into a self-reporting project that connects you to what’s happening in terms of activity, weather, safety, and equipment. Now, you can cut through the noise of emails and find balance between the needs of your jobsite and your additional priorities.
