Dahua Uses Digital Intelligence for Safety in the Production Workplace
, by Armia Ghali, 5 min reading time
In general, workers in traditional energy industries (e.g., coal mining, iron and steel production) face occupational risks and hazards daily. Equipment and machinery are prone to failure if not properly monitored. Therefore, it is paramount that companies ensure their employees are safe in their facilities and that all equipment is properly maintained. By leveraging digital intelligence, Dahua has developed a robust solution that can actively protect personnel and continuously monitor factory equipment to ensure a safe and orderly production environment.
Smart Detection of Safety Clothing & Equipment
The system detects the correct wearing of safety equipment (e.g., helmet, mask) and work uniforms in production areas. If someone violates the rules, an alarm is triggered and a notification is sent to security personnel.
· Steel Mill : The solution detects the wearing of fire masks and fire suits in critical high-temperature areas. It also provides safety detection of special tools and gas detectors in confined spaces.
· Power Plant: The solution provides intelligent closed-loop management that includes real-time monitoring, violation detection, logging, reporting, and event handling. It enhances early warning of safety risks to ensure the safety of all personnel.
· Optical Cable Workshop: The system provides real-time warning of improper uniform wearing, dangerous cable reel handling, and unsafe operating distance, protecting production line operators and preventing accidents.
Production Equipment Supervision
In traditional heavy industry, equipment safety is absolutely essential to ensure efficient and safe production in the factory. Digital transformation allows intelligent equipment and solutions to simultaneously monitor the safety of production equipment, ensuring safe and orderly operation.
· Coal mine: The solution enables visual monitoring of the entire process within the main logistics system. Simultaneously, it intelligently analyzes the status of the conveyor belt operation and the coal flow within the plant. It sends an early warning in the event of a conveyor belt malfunction, such as deviation, sudden stop, coal overload, abnormal objects, etc., allowing security personnel to quickly identify the risk and intervene in a timely manner.
· Powerhouse: Various HD cameras, patrol robots, sonar, and other intelligent devices are used to collect audio and video data on the ground. Intelligent recognition and early warning of equipment status are generated through AI-based visual, auditory, and thermal imaging technologies for temperature monitoring. The integration and linking of primary and secondary systems enables unmanned three-dimensional patrols and remote control of equipment and facilities. This provides a basis for decision-making, enables easy operation and maintenance of equipment, accelerates emergency response, and ensures the safety of all equipment.
Factory Management & Production Environment Safety
The solution uses digital technologies to collect information about production scenarios, personnel, vehicles and objects to achieve overall control in terms of real-time monitoring, intelligent early warning, automatic system control and more.
· Warehouse: An intelligent device detects the ambient temperature in real time and sends an alarm when smoke or an abnormal temperature is detected. The system displays the alarm location on the platform to help emergency responders, enabling early fire prevention.
· Chemical Enterprise : The solution provides an AR panoramic view for hazardous chemical plants using video splicing technology. It also offers complete global monitoring of equipment zones at high points, creates a dynamic online "electronic map," and prevents people and vehicles from entering restricted areas through intelligent tripwire technology. Using AR tags and IoT technology, videos and IoT data tags of the scene can be overlaid and displayed on the screen, providing detailed image-by-image visualization, improving management efficiency, and protecting workplace safety in chemical plants.
Safety is the eternal theme of production; production must be safe, and safety promotes production. Using digital intelligence, Dahua has explored various scenarios in the energy, manufacturing, and other industries to create a more efficient workforce management system, a more intelligent equipment operation and maintenance system, and a more sustainable and safe production workplace for everyone.
