Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals
Vision Copilot for Oil and Gas Facilities
Map cameras to the places your team manages and ask Vision Copilot about tanker-area activity and controlled operational access. OrionAlerts analyses scenes over time to surface alerts, recommendations and operational scores that help you decide what to review today and what to improve next.
Illustrative photograph — not a verified customer deployment
Separate useful visual awareness from safety-critical detection.
Refineries, terminals and petrochemical sites need to manage controlled access alongside vehicle and contractor activity. An operator benefits from seeing the scene around an event, but ordinary cameras cannot establish gas concentration, process pressure or safe isolation. Design the video workflow around verification and escalation, with a clear boundary between surveillance analytics and process safety.
A reference deployment covers tanker bays, controlled-access points and defined perimeter zones, with cabling and enclosures selected for the area's hazardous-area classification. Retention should match the window an HSE or security investigation typically needs, with access and tanker-area alerts routed to HSE and security rather than a general control room. Where a permit-to-work or access-control system is in use, align review timestamps with its records instead of treating video as a substitute for the permit process.
Ask your building what needs attention. OrionAlerts maps cameras to your sites, buildings, floors, zones and rooms, analyses scenes over time, and brings the results into Vision Copilot. Search in everyday language, review alerts and recommendations, and use operational scores to guide daily decisions and improvement priorities.
Building intelligence
Your operation, mapped
Organise views around the places the team recognises. Select the location to establish the context for scene observations and Copilot questions. This example uses the shared hierarchy; map the actual site rather than inventing rooms or camera coverage.
See your operation in the structure your team uses. Organise sites, buildings, floors, zones and rooms, then map cameras to their locations. A question about reception, a loading bay or a production area starts with a recognisable place and its available camera context.
Site
Terminal
Building
Operations Building
Floor
Ground Level
Zone
Tanker Zone
Room
Loading Bay
Cameras are mapped to the selected tanker bay or controlled zone so questions about Tanker Bay 2 start from recognisable operational context.
Vision Copilot
Ask Vision Copilot
Ask what happened. Find where it happened. Decide what to review next. Vision Copilot lets you type questions and search available visual observations in everyday language. Use the mapped location and a relevant period to focus the conversation on the operation you manage.
Illustrative example
Question
Show observations around Tanker Bay 2 during the evening loading window.
Five ways teams use this
Use cases for your operation
Bring the right location into the decision
Connect tanker-area activity and controlled operational access to the building tree and its mapped cameras. The team can start with a named operational area instead of trying to remember which camera covers it, making observations easier to interpret and discuss.
Search visual observations in everyday language
Ask Vision Copilot, “Show observations around Tanker Bay 2 during the evening loading window.” Use the location and review period to focus the search on relevant available observations. The purpose is to reach useful context without manually working through unrelated camera views.
Identify recurring conditions across scenes
Ask, “Which controlled areas had recurring entry observations this week?” Ongoing scene analysis supports review of patterns across the available observations. Use the recurring condition to frame the next investigation rather than treating one isolated alert as the whole operational picture.
Turn analysis into an improvement decision
Ask, “Summarise the terminal issues that need human review today.” Review the recommendation alongside the underlying observations and the team's operating knowledge. The example below shows a practical next step; it is a suggested action for human consideration, not an automatic instruction to change equipment or procedures.
Use scores to structure the next review
Use 0–100 scores to organise attention across selected terminal zones and periods; never a process-safety or explosion-risk certification. Review the contributing observations and coverage before acting. The proposed dimensions for this industry are Visible Site Practices, Tanker-Area Orderliness and Controlled-Zone Practices; use the approved product methodology when demonstrating actual values.
Illustrative decision story
From scenes to decisions
Illustrative decision story — not a customer result. Observe: Entry observations recur near a tanker working area during overlapping service activity. Ask: “Summarise the terminal issues that need human review today.” Suggested recommendation: Review scheduling and access arrangements with terminal operations; verify permits separately before deciding on an intervention. Decide: The responsible team reviews the evidence and agrees an action. Follow up: Revisit the same area and comparable period to assess observations, coverage and score movement. A subsequent change is not proof of causation.
Cameras are mapped to the places your teams manage. Ongoing scene analysis brings observations and alerts into that location context. Use Vision Copilot to ask what happened and what needs attention, review recommendations, and decide on the next action. Return to the same scope and a comparable period to assess the observations and scores after a change.
Observed
Entry observations recur near a tanker working area during overlapping service activity.
Recommendation
Review scheduling and access arrangements with terminal operations; verify permits separately before deciding on an intervention.
Follow up
Revisit the same area and comparable period to assess observations, coverage and score movement.
Operational scores
See what needs attention—and what changes after action.
Bring tanker-area activity and controlled operational access into a structured review with operational scores out of 100. Use the score alongside the location, period and contributing observations to decide where to focus. Compare selected terminal zones and periods only when the assessment basis is consistent; never treat these scores as a process-safety or explosion-risk certification.
Proposed score names and formulas are design recommendations. Demonstrate only approved product values or clearly labelled illustrative states. If no valid opportunities exist, show Not assessed — never invent a flattering percentage.
Visible practices
Visible Site Practices
Not assessed
Proposed dimension · proposal-3.2
A specified visible PPE or site practice meets the agreed criterion at an observable entry or work area.
Readiness/orderliness
Tanker-Area Orderliness
Not assessed
Proposed dimension · proposal-3.2
A mapped tanker approach or loading staging space is clear according to an agreed observable criterion during sampled assessment windows.
Access practices
Controlled-Zone Practices
Not assessed
Proposed dimension · proposal-3.2
Reviewed entry into a configured operational or restricted zone follows the agreed schedule or access rule for the review period.
Score presentation context
- Period
- Comparable terminal operating window
- Scope
- Selected terminal zones with mapped cameras
- Coverage
- Monitoring Coverage shown separately when assessment windows are defined
- Evaluated checks
- Not assessed — awaiting approved product dataset
Deployment
Start with the cameras, conditions and decisions that matter.
A useful deployment starts with a defined problem. Review camera coverage, operating hours, lighting, network capacity and who will respond to an alert. Select a small set of observable events, agree how to assess them and expand after the pilot demonstrates useful results. Review hazardous-area classification before selecting cameras, enclosures or edge devices. Confirm network separation with OT/IT and document the limits of any integration. Test glare, night lighting, steam and weather before agreeing alert performance.
- Mapped hierarchy for pilot tanker bays and controlled operational zones
- Agreed response owners for perimeter, access and verification events
- Hazardous-area classification and hardware-approval check for proposed installs
- Representative testing across glare, night lighting, steam and weather
- Hazardous-area classification confirmed for every proposed camera position and cable route before installation
Standards boundary
Standards and procurement considerations
Equipment installed in hazardous areas may require PESO approval within its jurisdiction. IECEx certification and EU ATEX requirements have distinct scopes and do not automatically replace Indian approvals. Verify the exact model and installation conditions.
PESO / IECEx / ATEX hazardous-area schemes
Schemes are distinct; confirm Indian acceptance and approval rather than treating certificates as interchangeable. Verify the exact model and installation conditions.
Authoritative source
How to evaluate a pilot
What to measure in a pilot
Pilot results depend on scene conditions and event definitions. Compare reviewed alerts with representative ground-truth observations, including missed events. Track nuisance alerts and response times before setting a wider rollout target. The measures shown here are evaluation criteria, not guaranteed improvements.
Actionable perimeter alerts
Confirmed relevant perimeter or boundary observations divided by reviewed alerts for the defined site boundaries, using an agreed review rubric.
Source of truth: Security review log and labelled alert samples
Time to review a known alarm scene
Time for an authorised reviewer to locate the correct camera clip from a defined starting input such as time window and zone after a known event.
Source of truth: Timed drills and recording logs
Recording continuity at selected critical views
Share of expected assessment windows at selected critical cameras that remained usable during the pilot period.
Source of truth: Recording logs and surveillance health records
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Common questions
Frequently asked questions
Can AI Vision detect a gas leak?
Ordinary RGB video cannot establish gas concentration or reliably identify all leaks. Gas detection requires suitable instrumentation or separately validated specialist imaging.
Is OrionAlerts automatically ATEX or PESO approved?
No blanket approval can be inferred from software use. Approval must be checked for the actual equipment and installation scope.
Can video analytics replace fire alarms?
No. Any supported visual fire/smoke alert is supplementary and must not be represented as a replacement for the required fire and safety systems.
What is Vision Copilot?
Vision Copilot is OrionAlerts' conversational interface for asking questions and searching available visual observations. It uses the mapped operational context to help teams review what needs attention and consider relevant next steps.
Why map cameras to a building tree?
A camera becomes more useful when its view is connected to a place the team recognises. The hierarchy connects sites, buildings, floors, zones and rooms with their cameras, giving searches and operational reviews a consistent location context.
What do scores out of 100 mean?
Scores help organise review of observed conditions. Read each score with its stated assessment basis, location, period and supporting observations. A score is not a certificate of safety or compliance, and missing observations do not prove that conditions are satisfactory.
Can recommendations guide property improvements?
Recommendations can help your team identify issues to inspect and changes to assess, such as staging arrangements, access practices or camera coverage. Review the evidence and operational constraints before deciding on a change; outcomes are not guaranteed.
Can we use our existing CCTV cameras?
Compatible IP camera streams may be reused after a technical assessment. Camera position, image quality, supported stream formats, network access and available compute determine which use cases are practical. Confirm the selected cameras and deployment architecture before rollout.
How should video access and retention be planned?
Define the purpose of monitoring, authorised users, retention period and incident-review process before deployment. Discuss the required access, storage and privacy controls during the assessment and verify what the selected configuration supports. Apply your organisation's policies and the requirements relevant to your location and people being recorded.
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