AI-powered monitoring that detects blocked exits and sends instant alerts to keep people safe.
Blocked emergency exits, freezer doors, fire extinguishers, and electrical panels create serious safety risks and costly compliance violations. i3Ai Obstruction Detection provides continuous AI monitoring to detect obstructions in real time and send instant alerts to managers. The system automatically generates audit-ready records, helping organizations protect employees, avoid fines, and maintain safe operations.
This solution is delivered through the Compliance and Safety Management (CSM) platform, where obstruction detection works seamlessly alongside other safety modules. By centralizing monitoring and compliance reporting in one platform, CSM ensures that safety violations are prevented before they become deadly.
Using your existing camera infrastructure, CSM captures images of critical zones such as emergency exits, freezer doors, fire extinguishers, and electrical panels. These images can be analyzed locally through your on‑prem AI‑enabled system or automatically uploaded to the i3Ai Cloud Data Center, where advanced algorithms detect obstructions and safety violations in real time.
The AI engine identifies when exits are blocked by merchandise, pallets, or equipment, when freezer doors are obstructed, or when electrical panels are compromised. This ensures that hazards are caught immediately, rather than waiting for periodic manual inspections.
Once an obstruction is detected, CSM sends immediate notifications via push alerts, SMS, or email to designated safety managers. Each alert includes photographic evidence, enabling managers to verify the issue and dispatch corrective action without delay.
Every monitored frame is timestamped and stored within CSM, creating a complete audit trail. This documentation demonstrates proactive monitoring and rapid resolution, helping organizations prove due diligence during regulatory inspections and reducing the risk of costly penalties.
Monitor exits across all stores without daily staff. Catch blocked doors from pallets, displays, or restocking before inspections.
Protect freezer staff from blocked exits. Detect obstructions at busy emergency doors caused by carts and merchandise.
Keep dock exits and electrical rooms clear. Prevent hazards from pallet staging and equipment movement.
Monitor kitchen and cooler exits. Detect obstructions from deliveries, storage, and equipment during peak hours.
i3Ai captures video frames from designated camera views covering emergency exits, walk-in freezer doors, fire extinguisher locations, and electrical panels. These images can be analyzed locally or automatically uploaded to the i3Ai Cloud where Ai algorithms monitor each frame for obstructions or violations. This approach provides uninterrupted detection without bandwidth-intensive video streaming while catching hazards long before scheduled inspections would discover them.
Yes. i3Ai can monitor walk-in freezer exit doors where blocked egress can trap employees in life-threatening cold exposure situations. The system detects when inventory, pallets, or equipment obstruct freezer exits, sending immediate alerts so managers can clear obstructions before employees are endangered—a critical safety protection that manual daily inspections often miss.
The system sends a push notification and can be configured to send out calls, SMS or email notifications to designated safety managers, including a snapshot showing the specific life-safety hazard. Managers can instantly review the issue remotely, dispatch staff for urgent corrective action, and verify safety restoration—protecting personnel and customers without physically visiting the location. Every detection is timestamped and documented for audit trails.
The system maintains complete timestamped documentation of all monitoring activities, showing regulators that you maintain proactive 24/7 safety and compliance oversight rather than periodic manual checks. If violations are detected, you have records proving rapid corrective action. This documentation demonstrates due diligence that can prevent citations or mitigate penalties while proving your commitment to personnel and customer safety.
Absolutely. i3’s flexible architecture scales effortlessly either locally or on-Cloud, from single locations to enterprise deployments with hundreds of facilities, with all monitoring, alerting, and documentation managed from one platform—enabling safety managers to protect lives across unlimited locations without proportional increases in inspection labor.
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