The fire that ends a season starts small, on an empty floor

Why factories burn when nobody is there

Walk any factory floor and count the ways a fire starts: a heating bearing, a loose connection, a spark landing in packing waste, a cigarette where there should not be one. Each of these is trivial for the first few minutes — a bucket of sand, a tug on a breaker — and catastrophic after that.

The problem is who is there for those first few minutes. Serious fires disproportionately take hold at night, on weekends, and during shutdowns, precisely because the floor is empty. In a big shed, ceiling-mounted detection works only once smoke has climbed and thickened enough to reach it, and in a tall godown that can take painfully long. By then you are not preventing a loss. You are counting one: stock, machines, the building, and the season's orders that were sitting in it.

• Fires grow fastest in the hours when the floor is empty
• Ceiling detectors in tall sheds trigger late, after smoke has filled the roof space
• The loss is never just the stock — it is the machines and the season behind them

A fire watch on every camera you own

Foreman watches your existing cameras for the visual signs of smoke and flame — at the machine, at floor level, at the moment they appear, not minutes later at the ceiling. Every camera becomes a fire watcher: the floor, the godown, the yard, the loading bay, through the night shift and the Sunday nobody is in.

Detection runs on-site, using our own AI models, trained in-house for Indian factory floors — dust, low light, crowded frames. Every suspected event is double-checked before an alert fires, so a welding flash or a glint of sunlight does not send you running.

• Visual smoke and flame detection on every connected camera
• Covers nights, weekends, and shutdowns — the hours of greatest risk
• Every alert double-checked before it reaches you

Say it plainly: this sits on top of your fire alarms, not in place of them

Foreman complements, and never replaces, certified fire-alarm and life-safety systems. Keep your alarms, sprinklers, extinguishers, and drills exactly as they are — they are required, and they work. What Foreman adds is an earlier pair of eyes: a camera can see a flame at floor level seconds after it appears, often well before smoke reaches a ceiling detector in a large shed. Earlier knowledge is the whole game in a fire. Everything else stays yours.

The alert, and the minutes it buys you

When Foreman confirms smoke or flame, a WhatsApp or Telegram message lands on your phone within seconds, with a photo of exactly what the camera saw. You can judge it in one glance and get someone moving — the guard, the neighbour with a key, the fire brigade — while the fire is still a bucket-of-sand problem.

You can also shape the watch in your own words, in plain Hindi or English: "agar raat ko godown mein dhuan dikhe, mujhe aur supervisor dono ko turant batao." And because a blind camera is a blind fire watch, Foreman alerts you the moment any feed is covered, knocked out of focus, or goes dark, so you always know your watch is actually watching. Every morning a daily digest summarises the night, and every week a PDF report gives you a record you can show an insurer or auditor.

• WhatsApp or Telegram alert with photo proof, within seconds
• Camera-tampering alerts, so a dead feed never goes unnoticed
• Daily digest every morning, weekly PDF report for your records

₹29,990 a year, against one godown fire

Sentry covers 6 cameras at ₹2,999 a month — ₹29,990 a year on annual prepay, with two months free. Set that against a single hypothetical fire: if a fire caught one corner of your godown on a Sunday night and burned for twenty minutes before anyone knew, what would the stock alone be worth? Add the machines beside it and the orders behind it. You know your number; we will not invent one for you.

During the free pilot, the dashboard shows a rupee-impact estimate for your own site — labelled clearly as an estimate — so you can weigh the cost against your own exposure. One prevented loss pays for years of Foreman.

• Sentry: ₹2,999/mo for 6 cameras, or ₹29,990/yr with two months free
• Rupee-impact estimate on the dashboard, labelled as an estimate

A fire watch by this weekend

Foreman is software only. It connects to the Hikvision, CP Plus, or Dahua DVR you already run — no new hardware, no new cameras, no rewiring. Setup takes about 30 minutes, done remotely with your own CCTV installer or computer guy, on normal broadband. Continuous footage stays on your premises; only short clips around a detected event leave for a second check, stored in India and auto-deleted after 30 days.

Start with a free 14-day pilot on 4 cameras, no card. The first real alert typically lands within 48 hours of connecting.