Excessive vehicle speed on construction sites represents one of the main causes of serious accidents in the construction industry. Faced with this alarming reality, how can we balance productivity and construction site safety? Artificial intelligence now provides an innovative and concrete solution. Discover how an intelligent camera solution resolved a conflict between field perception and measured reality.
This construction site safety issue was identified following a particularly revealing field testimony: “We think that vehicles moving on the construction site do not respect traffic speeds. The drivers tell us that the regulatory speed of 10 km/h is respected.”
To objectify this co-activity situation on construction sites, only one solution was needed: precise and automated measurement of construction vehicle speeds.
Speed on construction sites constitutes a high-potential accident factor. Several elements aggravate this problem:
Workers’ hearing protection: Personal protective equipment significantly reduces the ability to hear approaching vehicles.
Braking physics: Speed multiplied by 2 increases braking distance by 4. On a construction site where co-activity is omnipresent, this increase can have dramatic consequences.
Safety managers had a specific need: to obtain reliable statistics on vehicles to know their maximum recorded speeds and identify the types of equipment exceeding speed limits.
Using a classic radar proved inadequate for several reasons:
This is where AI intervenes decisively. By programming intelligent cameras to specifically detect vehicles and measure only their maximum speed on a traffic section, we created a construction site monitoring system that is both precise and relevant.
Our system operates according to a two-step process:
This technological approach allowed us to develop a reliable system for analyzing exclusively construction vehicles, eliminating false alerts and guaranteeing exploitable data.
Images and statistics captured by our cameras respect workers confidentiality:
This solution enabled safety managers to identify subcontractors not respecting regulatory speeds without ever incriminating a particular individual. The goal is to deliver the right messages to the right people with the support of quantitative and qualitative data.
This innovation demonstrates how artificial intelligence can transform construction site safety. By combining automatic detection and precise measurement, we offer safety managers a concrete tool to reduce construction site accidents.
Technology does not replace awareness; it reinforces it with objective and exploitable data.
