Agriculture has a fatality rate 20 times greater than the industrial average. In real terms, this means that each year in the UK alone, 50 people lose their lives, 500 experience life-changing injuries and a further 5,000 suffer minor injuries.
Farms, quarries and other primary industry sites are some of the most essential, yet most dangerous places to work in the UK. With most incidents across these sites being caused by humans and machines coming into contact when they shouldn’t, Machine Eye aims to control these interactions, manage risks and make the primary industries safer places to work. Using advanced sensing and artificial intelligence, Machine Eye continually monitors humans in the vicinity of large machines. With an understanding of how the machine and humans are interacting pertinent to these specialised environments, Machine Eye uses artificial intelligence to automatically implement preventative action to reduce risk of workplace accidents.
Over the next 12 to 18 months, Brendan is looking forward to seeing Machine Eye enter live deployments across the UK. “It’s an exciting time handing it over to others, and we look forward to working with some fantastic partners throughout this period.”
