How Many Minutes Was Your Fire Escape Blocked Last Month?
Nobody in the industry can answer that question. With cameras you already own, you can. Here is what we found when we started timing exits.
An alert is not a measurement
Someone walking past an exit with a pallet is not the same incident as the pallet staying there for forty minutes. Most CCTV analytics treat both as one ping. We count the minutes.
How an exit gets timed
- Arrives: material that was not there in the reference view appears in the exit zone.
- Holds: after a short threshold, about ten seconds for an exit, a critical event is raised for the zone owner.
- Clears: a few seconds after the camera sees the exit clear again, the event closes itself and the minutes are counted.
What the minutes usually show
- Store Emergency Exit29min
- Stairwell A9min
- Dock 3 Exit2min
- Office Exit1min
One exit, one delivery window, most of the minutes.
The pattern is rarely spread evenly. It is usually one exit near where deliveries land, during the same hour every day. That turns a vague housekeeping problem into a specific conversation with one owner.
Frequently Asked Questions
Obstruction is detected as material that arrives and stays against a reference view. Clutter that was there before monitoring started is set during the zone workshop.
No. A block is material that stays in the zone longer than its threshold.
Emergency exits, escape routes, assembly points, extinguishers, electrical panels and housekeeping zones such as walkways.
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The people who run pilots on site with HSE managers, draw the first zones and review the numbers.
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