Industrial

Industrial CCTV for factory and warehouse workflows

An industrial site can have extensive CCTV coverage and still leave important events unseen until someone reviews the recording. AI Alerto by PGAK starts with a specific event at a boundary, gate or dispatch bay, then checks whether the camera view can support detection. Agree who receives an alert, how they respond and what a site trial must demonstrate before extending the setup. Camera count alone does not establish monitoring effectiveness.

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Treat this page as evaluation guidance. Product availability and site suitability require an approved configuration and technical test. Published scenarios are illustrative, not verified customer results.

Sound familiar?

Many camera views, with limited time available for live review.
Boundary areas with gaps between patrols and camera views.
Dispatch questions that require both video evidence and operational records.
Environmental and connection faults that need a defined inspection and maintenance plan.

Four industrial areas to assess

Start with the areas relevant to your operation. Define the event, camera view, permitted activity and response for each selected area.

The perimeter, after hours

Select the boundary sections and hours that need attention. A crossing rule needs a usable view of the event; obstructions, darkness and gaps between cameras can leave uncovered areas. Evaluate detection and the agreed alert route on your own cameras, alongside the existing patrol and response plan.

The gate

Decide whether the gate needs vehicle records, readable number plates, employee attendance or separate workflows. Each needs suitable camera placement and a defined review process. Attendance throughput, missed entries and any effect on queues must be measured during representative shift changes; a camera does not establish payroll-ready attendance on its own.

Dispatch and loading

Start with a defined loading zone and operating schedule. Test whether activity outside those hours is detected and reaches the responsible person. Comparing a vehicle with an actual dispatch booking needs access to the relevant records and an agreed integration; video alone does not establish whether a dispatch is authorised.

The yard in between

For scrap storage, finished-goods staging or parked trailers, define a zone and a dwell-time threshold worth reviewing. A prolonged-presence alert does not establish intent. Test ordinary work, obstructions and changing lighting so the response team can judge whether the alerts are useful.

What industrial conditions do to cameras

Heat, dust, weather and movement affect equipment and usable views. Specify the actual operating conditions and maintenance responsibilities before choosing hardware.

Dust and airborne particulates

Dust can obscure a lens or housing and reduce useful detail. Select equipment for the actual environment and agree inspection and cleaning responsibilities. Check whether camera-health monitoring covers image obstruction as well as loss of connection; these are different failures.

Monsoon and cable runs

Inspect exposed connectors, junction boxes, cable entries and routes for the site's weather conditions. Follow the equipment manufacturer's installation requirements and include accessible inspection points in the handover. A weather-rated camera does not establish that every connection is protected.

Distance and lighting at the boundary

Perimeter cameras are asked to cover long, dark stretches. What matters is enough pixels on a human figure at the far end of the run to classify it as a person — which is a placement and lens question, settled by survey rather than by brochure.

Vibration and knocks

Forklifts, shutters and trolleys move cameras out of alignment. A camera pointed at the sky is a blind spot that looks exactly like a working camera on the recorder.

Running it across shifts, and across plants

Define permitted activity and alert schedules for each shift, including overtime, maintenance and late collections. Confirm who updates those schedules; automatic roster synchronisation is a separate integration requirement. For multiple plants, scope supported feeds, network access, user permissions and site-specific alert ownership, then verify the agreed workflow in testing.

Plan installation around site operations

Assess the cameras, recorder, stream access, processing, network and power before agreeing an installation plan. Suitable equipment may be reused; camera moves, additional hardware or cabling may be required for a particular event. Agree access, safe working arrangements and any interruption with the site team. A general yard view does not establish readable plates or faces, so document the required changes before quotation.

What to check before deployment

Camera and recorder streams: Confirm RTSP access or ONVIF discovery, stream stability and the views that matter. Do not send camera passwords in the enquiry form.
On-site processing: Ask which processing device is needed, how it is sized, what runs locally and what information leaves the site.
Alert acceptance: Test agreed zones in daytime and at night. Record useful alerts, nuisance alerts, missed events and end-to-end alert delay.
Complete commercial quote: Confirm enabled cameras, sites, subscription, setup, hardware, taxes and support. Use the assessed scope to compare proposals.

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industrial CCTV — common questions

What is industrial CCTV and how is it different?

Industrial CCTV is specified for the operating conditions and workflows of a factory, warehouse or plant. The design may need environmental protection, suitable boundary and gate views, recording retention and configured analytics. Recording, analytics and human response are separate parts of the plan; confirm what each existing device and proposed service supports.

How many cameras does a factory or warehouse need?

Camera count follows the required views and tasks. Review boundaries, entrances, loading areas, obstructions, lighting and the detail needed for each event. A site survey determines whether existing views are usable and where cameras should be moved or added; there is no fixed number or guaranteed reduction for every site.

Will this work with the cameras and DVR we already have?

Compatibility is assessed camera by camera. Share the camera and recorder models, available stream access, representative views and the event you want to detect. Firmware, stream settings, placement, lighting, processing capacity and network conditions can affect suitability. The assessment identifies what can be reused and any changes required before quotation.

Does it work if the site has poor or no internet?

It depends on the agreed deployment. A configured local processing device may continue detection while its cameras, local network and power remain available. Internet-dependent notifications, remote viewing and cloud services can be interrupted. Specify the local response, any backup connection and recovery behaviour, then test an outage before acceptance; do not assume every alert or recording is replayed automatically.

Can one team see several plants at once?

Multi-site viewing can be evaluated for a supported deployment. Confirm feed access, bandwidth, permissions, platform capacity and the response owner at each site. Test viewing and alert delivery under the agreed network conditions; see multi-site CCTV monitoring for the planning questions.

Start with a free audit of your own cameras.

Share your phone number, city and camera count. We will discuss your priority use case and agree the assessment scope, timing and next step with you.

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From our own test setup

Hot work flagged beside flammable storage

Eleven seconds of PGAK's own demonstration footage — a test setup, not a customer site. Two things are detected in the same frame: the grinding work, and what it is happening next to.

Two detections in one frame11s · no soundA man in a hard hat runs an angle grinder along a pipe and the sparks carry several metres across the floor. One box marks the hot work. A second marks three drums on a pallet, two of them carrying flammable hazard diamonds. Neither detection is interesting on its own — a plant runs grinders all day, and drums sit on pallets all day. What a safety officer would want to be told is that the two are in the same frame at the same moment, which is the condition a hot work permit exists to control.Conditions: The clip carries its own burned-in overlay: 18 February 2025, 15:24:40, Camera 01, from a fixed elevated view in daylight. The camera model, its distance from the work and the detection confidence figures are not published here yet — they are being confirmed, and this caption will be updated with them rather than estimated.The vessel identifier T-201A is legible in the background and has been left in, as this is PGAK's own test footage and not a customer's plant. No audio track.

This detects an activity and a material class appearing together. It does not know whether a hot work permit was issued, does not measure the distance between the sparks and the drums, and is not a fire detection or suppression system. What it produces is a prompt for a person to go and look, which is worth only as much as the response behind it.

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Who you are dealing with

A registered Ludhiana company that builds the software it sells.

PGAK Innovations Pvt. Ltd. is incorporated in Punjab, engineers its own AI layer, and runs the free camera audit itself — the people who answer the phone are the people who built the product. About the company →

Founded: 2023, Ludhiana
Registered office: BK Towers, 2480/2, Gill Rd, Ludhiana 141003
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What a project here involves

Compatible cameras and recorders you already own are reused wherever they are suitable. Detection runs on an on-site processing unit, and camera suitability, stream access, processing hardware and network are all confirmed at the assessment — with anything extra itemised in the quote before you commit.

What the quote is made of

Component	What decides it	Price
Cameras reused	Which existing cameras give a usable view for each use case — confirmed on a still image of each view.	Quoted per site
Cameras moved or added	Only where a use case needs a view no camera has (plates and faces usually do). Each one named in the quote.	Quoted per site
On-site processing unit	Detection runs here, next to the recorder. Model, quantity and warranty depend on camera count and analytics.	Quoted per site
Software / licences	Which analytics on which cameras, the term, and the basis for renewal.	Quoted per site
Installation and configuration	Stream setup, zones, schedules, alert routing and commissioning.	Quoted per site
Pilot	Agreed scenes, acceptance criteria and duration before rollout.	Quoted per site
Support	Hours, response versus fix time, and who replaces failed hardware.	Quoted per site
Taxes	Stated separately on the quote.	Quoted per site

How it is evaluated

1. Self-check — Two minutes, nothing sent — find likely blockers.
2. Scope on paper — Cameras, use cases and acceptance tests, written down.
3. Site assessment — PGAK checks streams, views and network on your cameras.
4. Pilot against criteria — Precision, recall, false alerts and delay, agreed in advance.
5. Written proposal — Itemised as above; you decide whether to roll out.

Evidence for this page

Hot work flagged beside flammable storage. PGAK's own test setup, not a customer site. Burned-in overlay 18 February 2025 15:24:40, Camera 01, fixed elevated view, daylight. Camera model, working distance and detection confidence are not yet recorded and are stated as pending on the page rather than estimated. Not proved: Detects an activity and a material class together. Does not know whether a hot-work permit was issued, does not measure distance, and is not a fire detection or suppression system. See it →

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