Connected Worker’s Missing Sensor Was Already Mounted on the Wall - Connected World

Mostly, conversations around connected workers begin with wearables like smart helmets, smart watch, panic buttons, and biometric bracelets. This is where most press coverage and vendor activity has happened. While the industry has been building the ‘connected worker’ concept around new hardware, it has overlooked a sensor that has already been mounted on nearly every wall of the jobsite: the CCTV camera.

The main purpose of installing CCTV cameras is security surveillance and not worker connectivity, so they do not generally get mentioned in conversations on connected workers. I see this as a category mistake, not a technology one. The technology is already present but what is missing is the layer of reasoning that turns a passive video feed into a live safety signal.

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