RDI workflow
Smart Search / Object Detection for Operational Intelligence
the evidence system's Smart Search and AI object detection engine allows users to define a search query and interrogate stored footage to surface matching events — eliminating the need for manual frame-by-frame review.
- Category
- Design Verification & Quality
- Frequency
- Occasional
- Confidence
- Medium
- Evidence records
- 5
- Cost model
- Qualitative
Trigger, activity, conclusion
A site manager or PM needs to locate a specific object, person, vehicle, or activity within a large volume of recorded footage — either reactively (an incident occurred) or proactively (routine intelligence gathering).
Executing an AI-powered object detection search across stored camera footage to rapidly surface timestamped clips of a specified object, event type, or activity.
A targeted set of timestamped footage clips returned, reviewed, and acted upon. Intelligence need satisfied without manual footage review.
Workflow steps
- Step 01
A site team member identifies a need to locate specific footage of an object, person, vehicle, or activity within the project's recorded archive.
Inferred - Step 02
User accesses the evidence system's Smart Search interface and selects camera(s), date range, and object/activity type to be searched.
Evidenced - Step 03
AI object detection engine processes the footage against the defined query parameters.
Evidenced - Step 04
System returns a results set: a list of timestamped events or clips matching the search criteria.
Evidenced - Step 05
User reviews the returned clips, filtering or refining the query if needed.
Inferred - Step 06
Relevant clips flagged, annotated, or exported directly from the Smart Search results interface.
Evidenced - Step 07
Exported clips or event logs used for downstream purposes: safety compliance reporting, incident investigation, operational pattern analysis.
Evidenced - Step 08
Findings communicated to the relevant party with timestamped evidence attached.
Inferred - Step 09
Action taken based on findings, or footage archived as a compliance record.
Inferred
Evidence records
AI object detection used within recorded footage to search for specific items, vehicles, or events — confirming the core workflow as a documented product capability distinct from live monitoring or manual review.
Automated correlation of AI-detected site activity against Primavera P6 scheduled tasks — confirming both the capability and the future integration aspiration that would elevate frequency significantly.
AI-assisted automation aspirations for footage analysis, corroborating the direction of the product and the customer appetite for intelligent search beyond manual scrubbing.
ROI model
Qualitative workflow
This workflow is currently represented as a qualitative benefit. A parametric cost model should be added only when the assumption set is credible.