Video data is everywhere—but operational insight is still rare.
Industrial sectors generate thousands of hours of surveillance footage daily. From manufacturing plants and oil rigs to logistics yards and aerospace hangars, video is meant to enhance safety and efficiency. Yet, much of it goes unwatched—tucked away in servers until something goes wrong. And by then, it’s often too late.
At Avathon, we’re changing that.
By integrating the NVIDIA’s Video Search and Summarization (VSS) blueprint—part of the NVIDIA Metropolis platform—into our AI-powered video intelligence solution, we’re making it faster and easier for frontline teams to find what matters most. Whether it’s spotting equipment failures, monitoring worker safety, or conducting incident investigations, video becomes a real-time decision engine—not just a record of what already happened.
The Problem: Underutilized Video Footage and Delayed Incident Response
In safety-critical environments—like oil & gas facilities, power plants, aerospace assembly lines, or logistics hubs—video surveillance is a fundamental part of day-to-day operations. Yet most video data is passively stored and rarely analyzed until after an incident occurs.
Teams are often left reviewing hours of footage manually, slowing investigations, increasing compliance risk, and limiting their ability to prevent repeat events. Valuable operational insights are buried in video archives that rarely surface when needed.
Why Now: The Industrial Urgency for Intelligent Video
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there were over 350 fatal occupational injuries within the oil and gas extraction industry in the U.S. over past five years. The International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP) responded by introducing simplified Life-Saving Rules, encouraging member companies to increase monitoring and proactive intervention.
Avathon’s AI-powered video platform, integrated with NVIDIA’s VSS capabilities, delivers on this mandate—empowering organizations to monitor worker behavior, detect violations, and act before accidents occur. Beyond oil & gas, industries across manufacturing, logistics, and energy are adopting intelligent video as a proactive tool for safety, security, and productivity—unlocking use cases that go far beyond what traditional camera analytics could support.
The Avathon Solution: Turning Video into a Real-Time Decision-Making Asset
Avathon’s AI-powered video intelligence platform changes the equation—making video an active, data-rich source of insight. Core platform capabilities include:
- Real-time detection of unsafe behavior, anomalies, and equipment failures
- Data ingestion and analysis from thousands of video feeds across distributed sites
- Natural language video search, e.g., “show all forklift collisions in the past 30 days”
- Summarization of events, surfacing key incidents and accelerating investigations
With the Metropolis VSS blueprint integrated, Avathon unlocks deeper reasoning and semantic understanding. This goes beyond search to understand behavior and context over a time frame — enabling detection of nuanced or evolving risk patterns, like a worker bringing a box and then throwing it on to a pile instead of placing it gently or a person down situation where the person may not be complete flat on the ground. Traditional CNN methods don’t reason or maintain state/context across tasks or time.
NVIDIA VSS: Enhancing Intelligence and Scalability
The integration marks a major leap in video intelligence performance and usability. With the VSS blueprint embedded into the Avathon platform, customers now benefit from:
- Natural-language video search across live and archived footage
- AI-generated video summaries that reduce manual review times
- Smart indexing and metadata tagging, improving searchability and reducing storage costs
Before VSS, customers could perform simple object- and motion-based searches. Now, with VSS-powered video language models (VLMs), teams can ask high-context queries like, “show me workers entering hazardous zones without helmets after shift change,” and get precise, actionable results in seconds.
This enables organizations to scale intelligent monitoring across distributed assets while improving responsiveness to evolving field conditions.
The Impact: Measurable Results Across Industrial Operations
RBML (Reliance British Petroleum Mobility Limited), a leader in India’s fuel and mobility sector, used the Avathon Video Intelligence product during the construction of its gas stations to achieve higher standards of safety compliance, a reduction in safety non-compliance incidents, and higher productivity by saving thousands of man hours.
A global oilfield services company turned to Avathon to transform how field teams monitor critical infrastructure in real time—reducing delays, eliminating manual video review, and improving safety compliance across remote drilling operations.
This deployment delivered:
- Cost savings of $5M+ annually from reduced unplanned downtime
- A reduction of 3–4 hours per day per site, in manual video review, enabled by intelligent video summaries
A leading global food and beverage company leveraged Avathon to enhance safety and operational visibility across high-throughput production sites. The company faced persistent challenges with identifying and mitigating risky behaviors—particularly near misses involving forklifts and other mobile equipment. In addition, they sought to improve throughput by detecting bottlenecks at loading docks and sorting areas.
Avathon was deployed to provide real-time anomaly detection, behavior monitoring, and automated video analysis across critical zones. This enabled safety teams to proactively intervene before incidents occurred and gave operations managers data-driven insights to optimize flow and resource allocation.
Results included:
- Over a 50%+ reduction in safety incidents, driven by real-time anomaly detection and alerts
- Fire-related equipment failures—previously capable of sidelining million-dollar assets and entire facilities for 2–3 months—now met with double the response speed
- Elimination of high-critical safety events such as operational machinery and forklift near misses
By embedding industrial AI into safety-critical workflows, both organizations moved from reactive monitoring to proactive insight—unlocking greater operational resilience and safety at scale.
What’s Next: Building the Future of Autonomous Video Intelligence
With NVIDIA Metropolis capabilities in place, Avathon is accelerating the roadmap for intelligent video across industrial environments. New enhancements on the horizon include:
- Real-time tripwire alerts for perimeter breaches, equipment overheating, and hazardous spills
- Behavioral safety analytics to uncover trends and drive operator training programs
- Predictive maintenance workflows using video-linked asset anomaly detection
- Multimodal analysis, integrating video, audio, and IoT data for comprehensive event insight
Together, these innovations signal a shift toward intelligent video as the operational nerve center—bridging compliance, safety, and performance in one unified platform.
Stay Tuned
Using NVIDIA technology, Avathon is setting a new standard for industrial video intelligence. As more customers adopt the platform across sectors like energy, aerospace, logistics, advanced manufacturing, and retail & consumer products, we’re excited to continue delivering next-generation solutions that bring clarity, safety, and performance to the forefront.
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