Frequently Asked Questions

Sparrosense AI Supervisor is a new tool for manufacturing facilities to monitor people and processes on their shop floors using the power of video analytics. Sparrosense provides new data & insights to solve delays, drive productivity and optimize various processes. 

Sparrosense

• Provides data for processes which previously went unmonitored and unrecorded in real-time, works 24*7 and fully automatically.
• Predicts delays by comparing the process timings against SOPs and prevents them by sending alerts and reminders via WhatsApp to workers & supervisors in real-time. 
• Enables diagnosis and optimizations of manual processes by easy data analytic tools.

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As manufacturing is adopting Industry 4.0, sensors are helping automate data collection which is leading to automatic optimization of various processes.

So now, manual work (and manually operated machines) is the next big bottleneck for the optimization of the manufacturing processes. Other than this, collecting data accurately and automatically for such processes is also a huge challenge.

This leads to three interrelated problems on the factory floors:

• Difficulty in unclogging bottlenecks that require coordination of multiple manual processes.
• Non-availability of tools to drive execution of manual processes.
• Supervisor bandwidth gets expended on collecting very basic data manually.
  

All of these issues, combined together, lead to less production, less asset utilization, poor productivity and loss of many potential optimization opportunities. Sparrosense AI supervisor solves these issues by leveraging the power of AI Video Analytics.

Sparrosense AI Supervisor works in three steps:

1. Video feed is captured by regular CCTV cameras installed specifically to monitor critical processes.
2. Fine-tuned AI video analytics algorithms running on on-premise servers identify visual cues such as – changes in light intensity, movement of equipment, movement of workers, unique worker actions etc. to determine status of processes and provide time-stamps.
3. The time-stamps are then compared with SOPs and schedules to generate SMS & WhatsApp alerts to workers & supervisors. Real-time dashboards enable visibility of processes to the entire management hierarchy. 

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Ask yourself these questions:

• Are your critical bottleneck processes manual or require careful coordination of various manual processes?
• Are you always surprised by low productivity of manually driven tasks and are never sure of underlying causes for these delays?
• Is your supervisory team spending too much time punching routine data manually in SAP or Factory Automation tools?

If the answer to any of the above questions is yes – Sparrosense AI Supervisor might be exactly what you need to boost your productivity. 

Deployment of Sparrosense AI Supervisor is a simple 3 step process:

• Create account and provide secure access to DVR/NVR here (add a link);
• Schedule a workshop with Sparrosense Industry Expert to help us capture your issues and estimate pricing and timelines;
• Procure & install the recommended on-premise server and provide access to the Sparrosense team. 

The Sparrosense team will configure & deploy models and keep your team updated. The expected time for deployment ranges between one to three months.

Alerts can be configured on your WhatsApp or SMS from your admin portal.

Desired email reports can be configured on daily, weekly and monthly basis from your admin portal.

Real-time dashboards can be viewed by logging into nest.sparrosense.com from any internet connected device.

Sparrosense AI Supervisor is currently available only in India and theUSA.

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Sparrosense can serve any and every manufacturing sector where manual work dominates. Sparrosense is already working for following sectors with great results:

• Casting Shops
• Steel Plants
• Automobile and Auto ancillaries
• Cement factories
• Textile manufacturing factories
• Electrical factories and warehouses
• Construction sites and many more..

Check out our case studies here. Please leave us a note and we would try to explore ways in which Sparrosense AI Supervisor can add value to your operations. 

• CCTV Infrastructure

                 - IP or Analog Cameras

                  - DVR or NVR 

• On-premise GPU server (Based on Sparrosense expert recommendation)
• High speed internet (Min. 2 mbps)
• Static IP or VPN for secure access

Sparrosense AI Supervisor has been designed to leverage best of cloud and on-premise deployment to ensure best and most cost-efficient solution for you.

Sparrosense edge solution:

• Processes all videos locally using AI algorithms.
• This ensures that videos are not required to leave your systems.
• Only the final results after processing of the videos are shared with Sparrosense cloud solution.

Sparrosense cloud solution:

• Sparrosense cloud solution manages your on-premise servers and monitors health of all CCTVs and DVRs
• It ensures that all AI models are running smoothly and monitors accuracy of the models.
• It enables remote troubleshooting by Sparrosense team in case of bugs or issues.
• Sparrosense team regularly trains and updates models and algorithms remotely by leveraging Sparrosense cloud solution.
• Sparrosense cloud solution powers WhatsApp alerts, reports and dashboards.

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Sparrosense does not provide on-premise servers but we would be happy to connect you to third party hardware providers.

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Sparrosense comes with built-in APIs using which you may directly pull data from Sparrosense databases to your existing BI and automation systems.

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Please leave your details here . Sparrosense expert will be with you right away.

Sparrosense deployment has two distinct phases:

Configuration:

• Understand problem statements, available data and edge cases
• Work with clients to create data capture strategy
• Recommend server specifications for on-premise deployment
• Collect and annotate training data annotated
• Train, test and deploy custom models
• Configure reports, alerts & dashboards

Subscription:

• Ensure availability of reports, alerts & dashboards
• Maintain accuracy of all models
• Maintain uptime and accuracy
• Continuous AI algorithms upgrade pushed remotely
• Remote trouble shooting
• Continuous feature updates just like regular SaaS

Configuration charges are one-time charges depend upon the industry, use-case and time-effort required to configure Sparrosense AI Supervisor for you.

Subscription charges are recurring charges. Please reach out to our Sales team for pricing options here - https://www.sparrosense.com/request-demo

Sparrosense takes data security and privacy extremely seriously and entire system is designed keeping in mind the best practices.

• During inference no video-data is transferred over the internet
• All training data is stored in servers not connected to internet, with restricted access only on need to know basis
• Sparrosense is in compliance with all industry standard security protocols.