OpenMV handles the identification of exposed soil piles and dust-proof net 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 gaps. OpenMV enables continuous and traceable supervision through visual monitoring.

Uncovered soil piles at construction sites, road renovation projects, and temporary soil storage areas—where dust suppression nets are not installed as required—are a major source of dust pollution and a key focus of routine environmental regulatory oversight and enforcement inspections. Particularly during windy weather 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 regulatory approaches primarily rely on manual inspections or irregular sampling checks, resulting in intermittent oversight and practical constraints related to personnel availability, time costs, and inspection coverage. When violations occur between inspection intervals, they are often difficult to detect promptly, and issues such as incomplete evidence collection and challenges in continuously tracking rectification processes also arise.

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

OpenMV runs real-time color recognition, texture feature analysis, and regional rule judgment algorithms on the camera edge device to effectively differentiate 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 distinguishing between “compliant” and “non-compliant” states.

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

Environmental monitoring and regulation can be achieved round-the-clock, quantifiable, and traceable without frequent manual inspections. Leveraging OpenMV’s low-cost, low-power, and easy-to-deploy edge computing capabilities, this solution can be scaled across multiple construction sites simultaneously, significantly enhancing both the coverage and implementation efficiency of dust control measures, thereby providing reliable technical support for smart construction sites and refined environmental regulation.