Construction Site Speed Control: How AI Revolutionizes Construction Vehicle Safety
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.
Excessive Speed on Construction Sites: An Underestimated Risk
When Workers' Voices Meet Drivers' Perspectives
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.
Construction Site Safety Issues Related to Speed
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.
The Need Expressed by Construction Site Safety Managers
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.
AI + Radar Technology: The Solution for Measuring Construction Equipment Speed
Why Not a Simple Radar?
Using a classic radar proved inadequate for several reasons:
- At 10 km/h, a human, bird, or cat would trigger unwanted alerts
- Construction site monitoring should focus only on construction vehicles
- A vehicle accelerating between 10 km/h and 20 km/h on a section would generate dozens of entries making the analysis wrong
Artificial Intelligence as the Solution
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.
The Innovative AI and Radar Coupling
Our system operates according to a two-step process:
- Computer vision detection: An computer vision algorithm identifies and classifies construction site vehicles
- Precise radar measurement: Once the vehicle is detected, the radar measures its speed with optimal precision
This technological approach allowed us to develop a reliable system for analyzing exclusively construction vehicles, eliminating false alerts and guaranteeing exploitable data.
Concrete Results: Construction Site Safety Improvement
Objective and Anonymous Data
Images and statistics captured by our cameras respect workers confidentiality:
- No license plates captured
- Blurred images and modified colors
- Complete respect for driver anonymity
Impact on Construction Accident Prevention
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.
Measured Benefices
- Behavior objectification: End of subjective debate between workers and drivers
- Precise targeting: Identification of companies requiring awareness
- Continuous improvement: Progress monitoring after implementing corrective actions
- Regulatory compliance: Respect for construction site speed limits
Conclusion: The Future of Construction Site Monitoring
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.
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