Portable cameras
Handheld, body-worn, drone and vehicle cameras come into the same system: what they recorded in the field, and what they're seeing right now.
Four kinds of device
Handheld, body-worn, drone and vehicle. There is no separate path per brand.
Five ways in
USB, dock, SD card, the manufacturer's cloud and live. Whatever is already in use goes in as it is.
The same detector as live video
A deferred finding is not judged by a different yardstick than one from a fixed camera.
The finding hooks onto the asset
And from there into a detect-and-repair programme or emissions quantification, not into a folder.
Why it matters
Inspection work ends on a memory card. Somebody carries it to a laptop, looks at the files in the vendor's viewer, writes a report and emails it. Six months later nobody can find the image that justified the repair, and the equipment that was inspected doesn't have that finding in its record.
How it works
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Four device categories — handheld, body-worn, drone and vehicle — with five ways in: USB, dock, SD card, the vendor's cloud, or live over SRT and WebRTC.
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Eight file types, including the ones that actually matter: thermal image with its degrees, radiometric sequence and telemetry. We don't import a coloured JPEG: we import the measurement.
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A sync agent with a per-platform installer watches the dock or the folder and uploads what's new by itself. The inspection doesn't depend on somebody remembering.
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Field video is stabilised and goes through the SAME detector as live video. A deferred finding isn't worth less than a live one: it's worth the same, and it can be reprocessed when the detector improves.
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Every finding attaches to the asset, and from there goes to a leak detection and repair programme or to quantification, with its PDF report.
In practice
The leak survey that ends in the equipment record
A technician walks the plant with an optical gas camera. On the way back, they drop it in the dock. The system uploads the session, analyses it, marks the leaks and leaves them hanging off the equipment that has them — with a date, video, and the repair clock running.
Capabilities
- Handheld, body-worn, drone and vehicle
- USB, dock, SD card, vendor cloud and live
- Thermal image and video, radiometric sequence and telemetry
- Sync agent with a per-platform installer
- Same detector as live video
- Re-analysis when the detector improves
- Finding → asset → repair or quantification
- Phone or tablet as a live camera
What it does not do yet
- Ingest from the vendor's cloud depends on that cloud having an interface. Where there isn't one, the route is the dock, the card or USB — and that's said at commissioning, not afterwards.