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Foreman trains its own models for one job: understanding what happens on a real factory floor, fire, intrusion, PPE, machines, people, better than any general-purpose system. We measure them against the published state of the art on real factory footage.
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General models fail on the factory floor
Most vision systems are built on detectors trained on clean web images. A real factory floor is the opposite of clean: dust and glare, night-mode infrared, motion blur, oblique camera angles, crowded frames, and the one event that matters hidden in a corner at 2 a.m.
We train for those conditions specifically, and for the events that actually matter on a floor, not for a web leaderboard.
- Real camera conditions: low light and IR night mode, dust, blur, oblique angles
- Factory-specific understanding: fire and smoke, PPE, machines, forklifts, people
- Tuned for the rare event that matters, not the average web image
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Our own models, our own data
Foreman runs on its own models, built and trained in-house. We build our own training datasets, curated for factory environments, because that is the only way to be the most accurate at this one thing.
And we never train on our customers' footage. Your video stays yours; the data that improves our models is data we own and curate, not the cameras we are trusted to watch.
- Models built and trained in-house, for factory floors
- Datasets curated for real factory conditions, not generic imagery
- We never train on customer footage, your data stays yours
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How we measure
We evaluate our models against the published state of the art on factory-relevant tasks, on both accuracy and the on-device latency that decides whether an alert arrives while it still matters.
- Evaluated on accuracy and real-time on-device latency together
- Measured against published baselines
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Two checks before you are alerted
Detection runs on-site, every camera, every second. Each possible event then gets a second, more thorough confirmation before it ever becomes an alert. That is what keeps alerts rare and real, and gives you clear photo proof when one fires.
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Where this is headed
Today Foreman watches for what matters most on a floor: fire, intrusion, PPE, idle machines. That is the beginning.
The models and datasets we are building now are the foundation for something larger, a video search engine for the physical world, where you ask your cameras a question in plain language and get an answer. Best-in-class detection is how we earn the right to build it.
Questions
Questions, answered.
Do you train your models on my factory's footage?
No. We build and curate our own training datasets, and we never train on our customers' footage. Your video stays yours.
What makes your models more accurate than off-the-shelf detectors?
They are trained specifically for factory-floor conditions, low light and IR night mode, dust, motion blur, oblique camera angles, and for the events that matter on a floor, rather than for clean web images.
Will you publish your benchmark and results?
We will publish our results with the benchmark.
Do the models run on-site or in the cloud?
Detection runs on your site, on your own hardware. When it spots a possible event, photos and a short clip go to the cloud for a second check before you are alerted. Our security page lists everything we send.
Next step
Talk models, datasets, or a free trial
To go deeper on the research, or to run Foreman on your own cameras, reach us at hello@foremanintelligence.com.