OpenMV handles the identification of exposed soil piles and their dust-proof tarpaulin coverage status.

Exposed soil piles are one of the most common and recurrent issues in dust control. Manual inspections cannot provide round-the-clock coverage, and violations often occur during inspection intervals. OpenMV enables continuous and traceable supervision through visual monitoring.

At construction sites, road renovation projects, and temporary soil stockpile areas, uncovered soil piles that fail to meet the requirement for dust suppression netting constitute one of the primary sources of dust pollution and are a key focus of routine environmental regulatory oversight and enforcement inspections. Particularly under windy conditions or at construction sites with frequent vehicle entry and exit, exposed soil is highly prone to generating secondary dust, significantly affecting ambient air quality and residents’ daily life.

Traditional environmental protection supervision methods primarily rely on manual inspections or unscheduled sampling checks, resulting in intermittent oversight and practical constraints related to personnel availability, time costs, and inspection coverage. Violations occurring between inspections are often difficult to detect promptly, and issues such as incomplete evidence collection and challenges in continuously tracking rectification processes also persist.

By deploying SingTown’s OpenMV intelligent camera, continuous and automated visual monitoring of soil stockpile areas at construction sites can be achieved. Once the camera is securely installed at an appropriate height and angle, it operates stably over the long term, continuously capturing on-site images to provide objective and continuous data for environmental supervision.

OpenMV runs colour recognition, texture feature analysis, and regional rule evaluation algorithms in real time on the camera edge device, effectively distinguishing between exposed soil surfaces and dust-proof net coverage. The system determines whether stockpiled soil has been covered as required by identifying the dust-proof net’s distinctive colour distribution, mesh texture, and coverage integrity, thereby accurately differentiating between “compliant” and “non-compliant” conditions.

By integrating pre-defined rules for key regulatory zones, OpenMV can automatically determine whether critical soil stockpile locations are exposed. Upon detecting anomalies such as uncovered or incompletely covered conditions, the system can instantly output identification results at the edge, trigger local alerts, or upload violation information along with timestamps to the regulatory platform, enabling rapid response and traceable management.

Environmental supervision can be achieved around the clock, in a quantifiable and traceable manner—without requiring frequent manual inspections. Leveraging OpenMV’s low-cost, low-power, and easily deployable edge-computing capabilities, this solution can be scaled across multiple construction sites simultaneously, significantly enhancing both the coverage and execution efficiency of dust-control measures, thereby providing reliable technical support for intelligent construction sites and refined environmental supervision.