How Does Ardent Eye Use AI?

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is at its best when processing large quantities of data that would take human analysts vast amounts of time to deal with and detect patterns. This is how AI is advancing vital medical research and testing, and it’s also how AI is helping Ardent customers across the country to create safer workspaces through Ardent Eye.

So how does Ardent Eye use AI and how can this award-winning system enhance safety, save time and potentially save lives on your site?

What is Ardent Eye and How Does it Work?

Ardent Eye is an AI powered safety system designed to detect proximity incidents around equipment such as rotating telehandlers. It uses human form recognition cameras, combined with AI algorithms, to detect incursions, alert drivers and site managers, and protect your workforce on site.

Fully integrated with Ardent Site Manager, Ardent Eye detects, filters and reports proximity incidents by:

• Scanning – monitoring the area around the machine using 270° human form recognition cameras

• Categorising – creating inner and outer safety zones to prioritise genuine near-misses

• Filtering – removing false positives, such as workers on protected walkways or workers moving away from the machine, to significantly eliminate noise

• Recording – sending film of the most serious incidents direct to site managers for immediate action, such as operator training or hazard removal 

Like the boy who cried ‘wolf!’ we all know that any safety system which produces excessive alerts eventually ceases to be effective and gets ignored. By filtering out the chatter, leaving only the most serious incidents, Ardent Eye keeps alerts relevant. This saves time, avoids unnecessary stoppages and creates smoother, safer traffic flows.

What Makes Ardent Eye Different?

Unlike most motion detector camera safety systems, Ardent Eye has an added layer of AI to reduce false positives and deliver meaningful safety data in real time. It not only detects movement, but identifies the source, tracks the movement and learns what is and is not, a risk. Without this filtering, site managers and machine operators get swamped with minor incidents and false positives triggered by each and every movement around their forklifts and rotating telehandlers.

By filtering out the clutter, Ardent Eye delivers only the data that really matters, improving site safety and productivity in a number of ways, including:

• Reducing ‘alert fatigue’ – in operators and site managers

• Highlighting near misses – before they become accidents

• Adding context – giving site managers the full story behind an incident, not just an isolated snapshot

• Creating teachable moments – reporting immediately after the incident, rather than weeks later in a report

• Providing real time video – allowing site managers to review and use in toolbox talks

• Providing insight into site layout issues – identifying traffic management problems such as blocked walkways

How does Ardent Eye Work in Practice?

Ardent Eye uses AI to deliver real-world feedback in real time. This substantially cuts the number of false alarms and insignificant incident alerts, while elevating those critical incidents that require immediate action. 

One Ardent client found alerts reduced from 380 to just 13 per machine per month. This was a 96.6% reduction, cutting the review burden from over 250hours to just 8½ hours. 

Few site managers have 250 hours a month to spend reviewing safety alert footage, especially when much of this turns out to be unimportant. As a result, these unfiltered motion detection systems become unusable and ineffective, generating nothing but meaningless statistics.

By focusing attention on the most serious events, Ardent Eye helps site managers to be more productive and more proactive. Incidents lead to practical interventions to improve site safety, not just numbers on a monthly report.

How can AI improve safety on my site?

If you want to cut your safety workload while improving safety performance, AI-driven Ardent Eye is the ideal solution for your forklifts and rotating telehandlers. That’s why it won the ‘Best Safety Initiative’ title at this year’s European Rental Awards.

To improve safety on your site and slash the demands on your site managers’ time, talk to Ardent Hire about Ardent Eye today and make sure your system never cries wolf again.

Frequently Asked Questions About Ardent Eye and AI

Does Ardent Eye use AI?

Yes. Ardent Eye uses AI to filter out false alarms and insignificant incidents from motion detector cameras on forklifts and rotating telehandlers, leaving site managers free to focus on the moments that matter. Ardent Eye can cut chatter from false alarms and minor incidents, reducing alerts by up to 96%.

How much does Ardent Eye reduce false alarms?

Typical customers find Ardent Eye reduces false alarms and unnecessary alerts by over 90%, slashing the amount of footage that needs reviewing while highlighting serious incidents that require immediate response or retraining.

How does Ardent Eye help train my team?

By producing real-life video in real time, Ardent Eye creates ‘teaching moments’ close to the incident itself, rather than stats in a report days or weeks later. Nothing teaches site staff quicker than seeing their own near miss on video.

Does Ardent Eye work with Ardent Site Manager?

Yes. Ardent Eye fully integrates with Ardent Site Manager to create a wider digital site management and safety platform that puts real-time data and AI analytics in the palm of your hand, covering everything from plant to people, safety to performance, in a way that is wired to how site managers work.