Croc Digital Worker

Main article: What is the Internet of things (Internet of Things, IoT)

Digital worker is an integration platform that combines global and local positioning systems, data processing from wearables, video surveillance, video analytics, access control and control systems (MCDS), pre-shift inspection. The platform processes information from all sources, displaying a complete picture of events in a three-dimensional digital double of an industrial object. The system is also able to analyze data to identify threats and risks of injuries.

2020

Connect to "Digital Worker" Intelligent Event Analytics and Facial Recognition

On December 8, 2020, it became known that the CRIC company strengthened Digital Worker. The updated Digital Worker will help enterprises optimize control over labor safety and productivity, and introduce this integrated system in hazardous industries. The CRIC connected intelligent event analytics, facial recognition to the software platform and prepared the product for work on the scenarios most in demand in metallurgy, oil and gas, energy, construction. By applying the system, companies can reduce the level of industrial injuries, reduce downtime hours, and increase labor discipline.

"Krok" strengthened "Digital Worker": more intelligence for safe and effective work

As explained, Digital Worker is an integration platform that combines indoor and outdoor positioning technologies IoT,,. video analysts The platform can handle data thousands of devices and systems simultaneously and on a to visualize information 3D model of the object. The ability to integrate the platform with customer systems allows you to connect access control and control tools (), ACS electronic work permits and much more to the Digital Worker.

The system is implemented for the benefit of employees who regularly expose themselves to danger, heads of HSE enterprises and services, chief engineers, production and capital construction directors. The development of the CRIC is included in the register of domestic software.

In the updated version of Digital Worker, CRIC paid attention to six scenarios for the use of the system, many of which involve the use of the CRIC IoT module, which gives helmets intelligent functions. The wearable device has certificates necessary for operation.

The "Violation - intruder" bundle for video analytics appeared in the system, which, as an option, can be connected to the "Digital Worker." Now, using the facial recognition function, you can determine not only the fact of a security violation (for example, the worker did not put on a helmet in the danger zone), but also "face" determine which employee violated labor discipline. In one of the projects on the construction site, the customer uses face recognition to fine the contracting organization, whose employees violate the HSE rules. There are fewer violations.

The approach to identifying possible personnel incidents has changed. As before, the system can warn dispatchers, medical personnel and other interested persons in the event of an emergency. "Digital worker" now knows how to not just show messages about strikes, falls that transmit wearable devices (helmets, bracelets). Another intelligent approach implemented in the system now allows you to build several such messages in the chain of a single event about a possible accident.

Using the system, you can now visualize the working day in the format of a "heat map" and receive reports on the time of stay of employees in zones. You can analyze work, both one employee and several teams. Such a tool is mainly used to monitor the work of contractors and accelerate the progress of work. One of the CRIC clients in the oil and gas industry has established round-the-clock work monitoring to monitor the number of employees. This allowed him to reduce FOT by 5% by optimizing the staff of contractors and reduce the check for their work by 30%.

The system has the functionality to monitor workarounds. In Digital Worker, you can now load the walk route and record in real time the fact that the employee passes the checkpoints on the route and the time of stay in them. The system compares the tour schedule with the information received through the workaround wearable devices and automatically notifies the dispatcher when the equipment is left unattended longer than the established norm. Misconduct during rounds reduces the likelihood of timely detection of problems and increases the risk of incidents. In one of the oil companies, the system is planned to be used to control pipelines located 10-15 km from the base in an area with unstable communications. The purpose of the rounds here is to monitor the tightness of the equipment, the violation of which can lead to an oil spill. To solve this problem, a long-range network LoRaWAN and an IoT module with an alarm button are used.

The system allows you to fix the employee's entrance to the danger zone, for example, the area near the operating equipment, the area with an increased gas content, etc. This version of the platform has been prepared for integration with external systems - it is possible to transmit messages about entering and leaving hazardous areas to the external loop. The platform can also interact with collision prevention devices and report hazards in the work area through the Digital Worker. For example, at one of the metallurgical enterprises, thanks to this, the driver receives a signal that there are people in the danger zone (closer than 10 meters) and stops the coker.

The platform now integrates with most digital (electronic) work permit matching systems. The system user can select the hazardous work area on the map. If in the course of the work on the along-admission on the site there is an unauthorized person, the Digital Worker notifies of the violation of the dispatcher. The system allows you to keep the history of the brigade: record the arrival of the brigade and the person responsible for the work zone, track the composition of the brigade, according to the along-permit, record the departure of workers.

To scale the system from one workshop to the whole enterprise, this is not enough. It is also necessary to solve many organizational issues - to introduce a different approach into business processes and legal relationships with contractors and employees, and, most importantly, to convince their own people of the benefits of innovations. told Ivan Popkov, head of Digital Solutions for Industry, IT company KROK

The CRIC has teams focused on working with customers from certain industries. Among them are the oil and gas and chemical industries, energy, MMC, and the agro-industrial complex.

The development of Digital Worker, smart helmets and other domestic developments that can optimize labor safety in the country should be supported. And here you should think about the collaboration of IT companies, PPE manufacturers, industry associations, authorities and, of course, industrial enterprises themselves. said Vladimir Kotov, President of ASIZ

Release of serial version of IoT module for helmets

On July 13, 2020, the CRIC IT company announced the update of the Digital Worker platform and the release of a serial version of the IoT module for helmets. Business functions, analytics tools, updated graphical interface are part of the product version of the system, ready for implementation in hazardous production. Thanks to the combination of Industry 4.0 technologies, the platform will allow companies to reduce the risks of industrial injuries, approach international safety requirements for LTIFR indicators, increase labor productivity and its discipline.

Interface of Digital Working software platform

According to the developer, Digital Worker is a software platform developed by the CRIC taking into account the needs of industrial companies. Its modules are designed for the benefit of HSE managers and services, chief engineers, production directors and workers who work in risk areas. The system in real time helps to monitor compliance with labor protection and industrial safety rules, identify violations of technological processes, prevent the threat of accidents and promptly notify interested parties. The updated platform was the result of the use of advanced technologies in piloting the system in Russian and foreign companies. The industry expertise of the IT company also helped in its development.

The updated Digital Worker has all the attributes of the finished product: fast implementation and adaptation of the system to the current IT landscape of enterprises and the ability to scale.

According to the developer, attention in the updated Digital Worker is paid to analytics of data that can come from thousands of sources at the same time, including from CCTV cameras, smart helmets and other sensors. Working with data analytics has become more convenient thanks to the intuitive interface, which has been refined taking into account the wishes of real users, and the designer of analytical panels, which allows you to form widgets based on metrics of interest to the user. For example, a manager with his help can get a rating of high-risk areas or a list of employees who have violated labor discipline, and make a balanced management decision. Also in the system it became possible to adjust the digital representation of an industrial object - on the map in 2D and 3D format.

Smart Helmet IoT Module

CRIC also released a serial version of the patented IoT module for helmets, which gives protective helmets intelligent functions. Now it is an industrial product with certificates necessary for operation.

The CRIC noted that in combination with IoT sensors, the platform allows you to monitor the actual location of workers, access to hazardous areas, monitor the parameters of a person's physiological state, minimize the likelihood of people and moving equipment colliding, collect telemetry from equipment, accompany single employees, and investigate incidents. The module allows you to determine the presence of personal protective equipment (PPE) on employees, analyze the behavior of drivers, detect open fire, smoke, pipeline breakthrough and other situations.

"The human factor is one of the main causes of accidents and injuries at work. An employee, for example, can forget to wear safety glasses or gloves and enter a danger zone or not notice an approaching car, and this can cause tragedy. According to the results of the pilot projects, Digital Worker proved that this is a tool with which you can prevent emergency situations and provide assistance in time if the accident did occur. We are preparing to replicate the experience and continue to develop the platform. Including developing new types of threats, testing the system in different conditions and at different sites, so that the platform helps our customers manage risks and achieve the goal of safe production, " noted Alexey Lysenko, owner of the "Digital Worker" product of the IT company KROK

For example, thanks to the Digital Worker testing project at the oil depot, the platform has the ability to monitor work on construction sites. The system allows you to identify employees of contracting organizations, monitor the presence of people in the areas of work, instantly report falls from height, immobility of people or after pressing the alarm button on the "smart helmet." One developer began using the platform to take into account the working hours of staff and excluded cases of penetration of builders into the site without a work permit, which led to a decrease in fines and accelerated construction, the CRIC emphasized. Solved "Digital Worker" and non-standard problems. In one project, he "sailed" on cargo tankers in the Persian Gulf, where he also helped monitor compliance with safety rules during work.

2019

Entry into the register of domestic software. Ability to visualize the situation on the site

On December 12, 2019, CRIC introduced the updated Digital Worker platform, developed on the basis of Industry 4.0 technologies for occupational health and safety tasks, taking into account the requirements of the Zero Injury concept. This specialized system allows real-time monitoring of the safety and productivity of regular workers and contractors at hazardous production facilities.

As the developer noted, the platform was based on the needs of the industrial sector in technologies for labor protection and industrial safety (HSE) in Russia and abroad. The updated CRIC Digital Worker platform is suitable for situation centers and allows you to clearly display the current situation on the site on a three-dimensional information model, notify interested persons about violations and threats of accidents.

"Many companies first of all turned to us to reduce industrial injuries. Having seen the technical potential of the platform, representatives of various industries also began to pilot a software solution in the tasks of increasing labor productivity and monitoring the work of contractors. In the updated platform, these opportunities are taken into account, " noted' Sergey Strelkov, Director of Software Development, CRIC '

According to the developer, among the most popular scenarios for using the Digital Worker system: monitoring the correct use of personal protective equipment (PPE), including RFID to control the life cycle of working clothes, minimizing collisions of people and moving equipment, increasing labor productivity. The system also helps track access to hazardous areas, driver behavior, accompany single employees at remote facilities, monitor the parameters of a person's physical condition, collect telemetry from equipment, conduct planned rounds and investigate incidents.

In the management of labor discipline, analytics tools help - thermal maps of the movement of people and equipment, automatic generation in the system of reports about the main types of violation. At any time, you can check where and what a particular person is doing or was doing during the day and, for example, find the cause of the outage, according to the CRIC.

The integrated Digital Worker solution consists of three main components: infrastructure, sensors and software platform. According to the developer, IT Infrastructure the solutions can be implemented on any available transmission technologies: data for example, networks,\, LoRaWAN, GSMLTE NB IoT Ultra-Wide Band,. Bluetooth Any device for equipping employees, machinery and equipment can be included in the number of sensors.

The Digital Worker platform was included in the Unified Register of Russian Programs for Electronic Computers and Databases (Register of Domestic Software) in November 2019. Now enterprise managers can use the Digital Worker tools to effectively manage personnel and monitor productivity and labor safety, including taking into account import substitution standards.

Development of IoT module for smart helmet

On April 24, 2019, CRIC announced that it had developed an IoT module for a smart helmet. The industrial development of the CRIC will help reduce the level of industrial injuries and increase labor productivity in industrial enterprises. The wearable device has become part of the comprehensive solution of the CRIC "Digital Worker" for ensuring labor protection and industrial safety. The system is suitable for both small and large enterprises.

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According to the company, Industry 4.0 solutions for labor protection and industrial safety are relevant for metallurgy, mining, energy, petrochemicals and other industries. At such enterprises, there is a need to manage the risks of falling from a height, entering a danger zone, the impact of moving objects and electrical appliances, the improper use of personal protective equipment (PPE), work clothes and special shoes.

Thanks to the lightweight design (the weight of the device is only 80 gr.) And the universal attachment of the CRIC smart module, the standard protective helmet acquires intelligent functions. The device helps control the wearing of both the helmet itself and other personal protective equipment equipped with special beacons. They help to determine the location of personnel, gas leaks, electromagnetic field strength and other environmental parameters.

In case of a person's impact or fall in the helmet, the accelerometer installed in the module will instantly record the incident and transmit a signal to the dispatcher behind the Digital Worker console. In addition, a smart helmet will help avoid collisions between people and equipment, for example, in industrial warehouses and in places of loading and unloading. In case of danger, the device will notify the worker using vibration or a light signal. In any emergency situation, the employee in the helmet can send an SOS emergency call signal by pressing the alarm button on the device.

Our solution is designed to reduce the risks of industrial injuries in order to preserve the life and health of people. Before starting hazardous work, Digital Worker will remind the employee to wear a helmet and other protective equipment. Our development can be used as part of the implementation of the concept of "zero injuries," which is supported by the Ministry of Labor and industrial enterprises of Russia. With several of them, we have already begun pilot tests of the Digital Worker complex, including a smart helmet. These are large enterprises from the energy, petrochemical metallurgical and transport industries. Sergey Strelkov, Development Director - software IT CRIC Company

When using a "Digital Worker" with a smart helmet and video analytics, the system can identify employees, determine their location, signal the dispatcher about entering the danger zone and offer response options. For example, if a person rises to a height without a safety cable or enters a high-risk zone without suitable workwear. Then the video analyst recognizes, and the module on the helmet signals the employee about the need to take precautions. Also, thanks to the "time machine" function, a comprehensive solution will help quickly investigate incidents, for example, a breakdown of expensive equipment or an accident. Alexey Lysenko, Head of RTLS and CRIC Wearable Technologies

The solution is based on open source products. A modular, horizontally scalable architecture allows you to combine systems from different manufacturers and process data from several thousand devices.