The trigger moments that start this conversation, what actually changes on day one and a four-phase plan that keeps every site recording throughout. Written for EHS and plant leaders running computer vision over an industrial workspace they already have cameras in.
The cameras do not move, so switching changes what sits behind them and how far a hazard travels. Both rows describe what each vendor publishes.
Four moments when a plant running safety-only computer vision starts this conversation. If none of them are true, staying put is a reasonable answer.
Kinetic Eye publishes a remote dashboard, alerts to your inbox, trend reporting over time and as many users as you need. That is a real reporting loop and it is what an EHS program needs to prove a direction of travel. What it is not is a response: nothing on the pages read describes anything firing at the moment a hazard appears. When the corrective action has to happen inside the shift rather than at the review, the reporting loop is the wrong shape for the job.
A trend line survives an audit only if the events behind it can be pulled up. Kinetic Eye publishes no storage, retention or deployment behavior, so the footage lives wherever your recorder puts it and the evidence chain runs through a second system. Ask what happens when an insurer, a regulator or a corrective-action review wants the thirty seconds either side of a counted event.
The published product is safety scoped: automated risk identification for industrial workspaces. Nothing about perimeter, intrusion, dock dwell or throughput appears on the pages read. If the plant's cameras now have to serve three teams rather than one, the choice is a platform that covers all three or three contracts on one fleet, and the second option gets expensive faster than anyone budgets for.
Kinetic Eye names no individual hazard classes, no camera compatibility list and no deployment model. That is not the same thing as those answers being bad, and this page will not pretend otherwise. It does mean a procurement round has to get them from the vendor directly, and a shortlist where one platform documents its detection set and the other does not is a shortlist that ends in a long questionnaire.
The structural differences that decide whether a switch is worth starting.
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Kinetic Eye data comes from Kinetic Eye's own public documentation at kineticeye.io, read on August 14, 2026, across its home, product and company pages. The site publishes no hazard-class list and no camera compatibility list, so several of these cells record a documented absence rather than a value.
A rollout that keeps coverage live throughout. Most sites go live inside six weeks.
Inventory the fleet per site: manufacturer, model, resolution, codec, mounting height and network path, and mark which cameras actually see the zones the safety program cares about. Plant estates usually have coverage nobody has audited since the cameras went in, so this phase finds the aisles and dock faces that were never watched. Because both platforms run on cameras you already have, this is a coverage map rather than a replacement list.
Run one site live on both at once. That overlap is the point: it is the only way to compare detection quality on identical footage rather than on two vendors' demo reels, and it costs one site rather than an estate. Pick the building with the worst near-miss record rather than the cleanest one, because a well-run site produces too few events in a fortnight to tell two systems apart.
Move site by site rather than estate-wide, keeping Kinetic Eye live at each site until its replacement has produced a full week of comparable counts. Cameras do not move and cabling does not change, so a site cutover is a configuration change plus an IVR. Export the trend history before the subscription lapses: a safety program's baseline is the one thing on this page that cannot be rebuilt from the cameras afterwards.
Once safety coverage is at parity, the work moves to what a single-tenant tool could not do: adding security and operations agents on the same cameras, building an Iris detection for a hazard specific to your process rather than a generic one and setting what fires on the floor at the moment a hazard appears rather than at the Monday review. This phase is where the switch stops being a like-for-like replacement.
The six that come up in every one of these conversations.
Most switches start before the contract ends, because assess and pilot cost little and the comparison is more honest with both systems live. Run the pilot on one site during the overlap and time the cutover to the renewal date rather than paying twice across the estate. The notice period has to come off your own order form in the assess phase.
No, and the plan makes that structural rather than a promise. Kinetic Eye keeps running at each site until its replacement has produced a full week of comparable counts, the cameras never move and cutover happens site by site. If a site fails its sign-off test, that site stays where it is while the others proceed.
This is the one to plan first, and it is easy to miss because it is not footage. A safety program's value is partly the baseline it has accumulated, and that history lives in the platform reporting it. Export it before the subscription lapses, with the extraction date recorded, and treat that export as a deliverable of the cutover rather than something to chase afterwards.
Running on cameras you own is common ground, so it is not the reason to move. What changes is whether the platform also records, whether the detection set is named rather than described, whether the same fleet serves security and operations as well as safety. Then there is whether anything happens on the floor at the moment a hazard appears.
That cost is real and worth naming. The offset is that natural language search replaces most of the digging the old workflow needed, and the alert routing rebuilds in an afternoon rather than a project. Budget a fortnight of overlap in the pilot so the safety team compares on their own floor rather than on a demo, and let the supervisors call the result.
Anyone answering with a number is guessing. What is comparable is scope. Quote both against the identical site list over three years, and count the contracts a plant would otherwise need to cover security and operations on the same cameras, because that is where the arithmetic actually differs.
Bring a camera list and we will tell you what works as it is.
Customer-reported outcomes from named Spot AI customers.
Staccato went from first conversation to full deployment across an 800-acre campus in seven weeks, on the camera infrastructure it already had.
Bridge33 Capital standardized video across 25 plus properties, each acquisition arriving with a different camera system, and cut footage search from hours to minutes.
The YMCA of Greater Richmond deployed 17 locations in two weeks and standardized retention across the estate.
"Within four minutes of the alarm going off, Spot AI gave us video footage of the incident on the responding officers' phones. We had five recoveries within the hour."
No. Spot AI reads any ONVIF or RTSP IP camera and brings older analog channels in through the Intelligent Video Recorder, so a mixed plant fleet does not need replacing. Kinetic Eye publishes no camera compatibility list, so confirm with them what their side accepted, but nothing on your wall or in your rafters has to move for the switch itself.
Most estates are live inside six weeks: a week to assess, a fortnight of pilot on one site, then site-by-site cutover. Sites go live individually rather than in one switch, so the timeline scales with how many buildings you have rather than how many cameras.
Only if nobody exports it. The trend history sits in the platform that produced it, and it does not migrate on its own. Take the export in the assess phase, record the date it was taken and keep it alongside the new baseline so the two can be read as one line rather than two disconnected programs.
Yes, and the plan depends on it. The pilot runs one site on both at once so detection quality can be compared on identical footage from your own floor. Kinetic Eye keeps running at every site until that site's replacement has produced a full week of comparable counts.
Its published set is 15+ pre-trained Video AI Agents spanning security, safety and operations, with named safety detections including PPE compliance, forklift near-miss, falls and crowding in hazard zones, plus Iris for building a detection specific to your process in natural conversation. The same fleet then also carries the security and operations questions.