Report title: Smart Innovators: EHS Analytics In The IoT Age’ report Published on 21 October, 2019 by Sarah Bloch & Steve Bolton, Verdantix Executive Summary This report helps corporate decision-makers at all levels within the EHS function better understand the drivers and challenges of the market for EHS analytics, while also highlighting capabilities that are available, high-growth areas in the market and a roadmap for future innovations across the technological landscape. Firms seek to improve their analytical capabilities to alleviate key resource constraints and derive actiona ..read more

Cortexica Joins Intel® AI Builders Program to Advance AI-PPE Compliant, an AI-powered Workplace Protection Solution At Cortexica, we focus on creating and turning cutting-edge AI and machine learning research into real-world solutions for retailers and health and safety professionals that make businesses commercially stronger. That’s why we are excited to be part of the Intel® AI Builders program and take advantage of the opportunity to reach more customers and ecosystem partners. “Being part of Intel® AI Builders program not only proves our credibility but open ..read more

Advanced AI technology for worker safety In this podcast you will hear from: Thomas, a PhD student studying Cancer Biology John Kersey,  a veteran within the health and safety industry and contributor to SHP Online. Tony Skurr, Senior Solutions Director, Cortexica Myrofora Ioannidou, Head of Innovation Demonstrations, CISCO Maria Hernandez, Head of Innovation UKI, CISCO This podcast in summary Thomas, a Ph.D. student studying Cancer Biology talks about his experience of working within a laboratory environment, and how he would welcome a system that could formalize the PPE requirement and che ..read more

The world’s first edge compute solution for Personal Protective Equipment monitoring Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is the equipment that protects the user against health or safety risks. Not wearing PPE dramatically increases the chances of injuries and in many situations also of financial losses due to fines for injuries and death of workers as well as contamination caused by not wearing gloves, hairnets, shoe covers, etc. This post describes the world’s first edge compute solution for PPE ingress and real-time PPE compliance monitoring. AAEON partnering with Cortexica allows us to ide ..read more

The current state of PPE Compliance   Since the 1992 Personal Protective Equipment and Work Regulations Act came into force, businesses working in high-risk environments and required to provide Personal Protective Equipment, have been exploring new ways to monitor for compliance in as an efficient a way as possible. Manually monitoring for PPE compliance among the workforce is still one method employed by many businesses today. There are many issues with this, particularly that human eyes can make mistakes, lose concentration, or simply not be focusing on the right place at that crucial moment ..read more

If your business operates in construction, mining, manufacturing, oil and gas or any environment dealing with industrial machinery and volatile conditions, your workers are putting themselves at risk to deliver for the business. And while health and safety professional are already aware of the responsibility to keep employees as safe as possible – accidents can still happen, and your employees are not the only ones at risk if they get injured. The implications for your business could be immense. We know that accidents happen and that humans make mistakes. It is impossible to eliminate the risk ..read more

Technical focussed white paper Real-time PPE monitoring; powered by the latest ultra-low-power high-performance Intel Myriad X VPU Author:  Martin Peniak, PhD — Head of Innovation at Cortexica Abstract — Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is the equipment that protects the user against health or safety risks. Not wearing PPE dramatically increases the chances of injuries and in many situations also of financial losses due to fines for injuries and death of workers as well as contamination caused by not wearing gloves, hairnets, shoe covers, etc. Recent advancements in edge computing ha ..read more

White paper announcement: Overcoming the barriers of PPE compliance Author: Dr Martin Peniak, Head of Innovation at Cortexica The safety of employees in the workplace is integral to any business, and with tighter government legislation, workers are better protected by the law than ever before. However, despite this, or perhaps because of it, workplace accidents still pose a serious threat tobusinesses’ financial viability. This threat is extremely prevalent in industries that operate in potentially hazardous environments, such as construction, manufacturing, engi ..read more

Health & Safety Matters reports on the startling effects of PPE-non compliance, explained by Cortexica published white paper   “In a new white paper titled “Overcoming the barriers of PPE compliance with the use of artificial intelligence”, Cortexica identifies injury claims, inefficiencies caused from injured and absent workers, and the purchase of new equipment as the most significant costs to businesses caused by PPE non-compliance. On an individual level, 5% of businesses in high-risk environments lost over £1 million from PPE non-compliance in the last ..read more

AI Safety: Delivered in partnership with UP Let me introduce you to Cortexica’s very first off-the-shelf product designed for real-time PPE monitoring on the edge. Developing this kit was a great experience and I really enjoyed collaborating with our partner AAEON UP ! Bridge the gap and making this happen. We are presenting this solution at the leading IoT event in the industry – IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona. Last but not least, we have already got this product working ..read more