Did you perform live-line work without wearing insulating gloves? OpenMV will immediately issue an alert!

At live electrical work sites, a single moment of inattention can lead to serious consequences. Relying solely on safety personnel for inspections makes it difficult to achieve continuous, real-time monitoring. OpenMV enables the system to determine in real time whether gloves are being worn.

Correctly wearing insulating gloves during power maintenance, live-line work, and equipment maintenance is a critical prerequisite for ensuring personnel safety. However, in actual operational settings, traditional supervision methods largely rely on on-site monitoring by safety officers or post-event inspections, making it difficult to achieve comprehensive, continuous, and standardised control.

Based on SingTown Technology’s OpenMV smart camera, the system can automatically and in real time identify whether personnel are wearing their personal protective equipment, upgrading safety inspections from “manual monitoring” to “system-based perception.”

The camera can be deployed above the work area or at critical operation points. OpenMV continuously captures operational footage at the edge, locates personnel through a human detection algorithm, and further performs fine-grained detection and tracking of hand regions.

By integrating colour features, shape contours, and a glove-wearing status recognition model, the system can accurately determine whether personnel are wearing insulating gloves and identify instances of non-wearing or improper wearing.

When non-compliant behaviour is detected, OpenMV can instantly output an alert signal at the edge, triggering on-site audible and visual alarms, voice prompts, or operational systems to enable immediate intervention and prevent hazardous operations from continuing.

As all identification and decision-making are completed on the camera’s edge side, the system does not rely on cloud computing, enabling fast response times and stable deployment—making it especially suitable for environments with extremely high requirements for real-time performance and reliability, such as power infrastructure sites. Leveraging OpenMV’s edge AI vision capabilities, safety protection has shifted from “relying on experience and manual effort” to “relying on data and systems”, significantly reducing safety risks arising from human error.