Awera
For Warehouses & factories

Give every camera on your floor a brain.

Awera watches your floor and yard cameras for PPE, forklifts and hazard zones, on every camera at once, and tells the supervisor while it still matters.

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Warehouses & factories, on the cameras already there. Everything in this film runs on your own feeds: no new cameras, no rewiring. Watch with sound

Use cases

What Awera watches for at warehouses and factories.

Some of the things it catches on your floor, day and night:

🦺

Missing PPE

No helmet or vest in a zone that requires one.

☣️

Hazard-zone entry

A person in a machine-only or chemical area.

🚑

Man-down on the floor

Someone collapsed or not moving.

🔥

Blocked fire lane or exit

An obstruction on the escape route.

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Dock & yard theft after hours

Movement at the dock or in the yard overnight.

🧱

Perimeter breach

Someone crossing the boundary or fence.

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High-voltage / restricted area

Entry to a panel or plant room.

👁️

Loitering in the yard

Someone lingering where they have no task.

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Vehicle in a no-go lane

A truck or forklift where it shouldn't be.

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Camera tampering or blackout

A camera covered, turned away, or suddenly blind.

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Fire & smoke

Smoke or flame in view, flagged in seconds.

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Unattended bag or object

A bag or object left where it shouldn't stay.

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Water leak or flooding

A leak spreading where it will do damage.

Custom rules

Not on the list? Tell it what to watch.

Add your own checks in plain English — Awera watches for those too.

The console

A Thursday on the floor and at the docks.

How many are on the floor and in high-vis, which dock doors are working, whether the dock walk and the fire exit check happened, and the yard backing up before anyone rang.

Awera console · Northgate DC · Bay 2Example figures · the shape of the screen, not a customer's numbers

Thursday on a 64-camera distribution site.

Northgate DC · Bay 2 · 64 cameras · 1 of 2 sites
TodayThis site ▾Ask anything…
Metricswhat the cameras count here
On the floor now4631 in high-vis · 3 visitors
Trucks at the docks today58avg 41 min at bay · 2 waiting now
Dock doors in use6 of 9Dock 3 busiest · 71% of the day
Forklifts active7 of 11aisles 4 to 9 · none near people

Trucks at the docks today, with the routines and automations marked on it

049now 13:5400:0006:0012:0018:0000:0005:57 Dock walk done06:00 Shift 1 in06:42 Busiest hour at the docks09:12 4 trucks waiting in the yard → dock lead told11:30 High-vis this morning14:00 Fire exit check14:09 No high-vis at dock 3 → supervisor told22:00 Cold store seal23:00 Yard gate lock
countedroutine doneautomation fireddue later
● LIVEDock 3 · CAM-174 people · 1 truck · 3 in high-vis
  • Dock 34 people · truck at bay
  • Racking aisles 4 to 911 people · 7 forklifts
  • Yard2 trucks waiting
  • Packing line18 people
  • Cold store1 person · door closed
  • Fire lane, bay 1clear
Routineswhat must happen on a schedule, and whether it did

Today 1 of 4

1 of 4 done today · next: Fire exit check at 14:00
  • Dock walkdone05:58 · 9 doors · fire lanes clear
  • Fire exit checkduelast done Wed 14:06
  • Cold store sealdue
  • Yard gate lockdue

This week

MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Dock walk06:00
Fire exit check14:00
Cold store seal22:00
Yard gate lock23:00
done on timelatemissed, someone was told
Automationswatched all the time, act the moment it happens
WhenThenToday
countMore than 3 trucks waiting in the yard→WhatsApp the dock leadfired 1×09:12 · cleared in 20 min
eventPerson without high-vis at a dock→Alert the shift supervisorfired 3×14:10 · there in 40 s
timeCold store door open over 2 min→Call the cold chain leadwatchinglast Wed 11:20
eventPerson inside the hazard zone→Call the floor leadwatchinglast Mon 22:05
eventSomeone down on the floor→Call the first aider and the supervisorwatchingnever · watched on all 64 cameras

Today, in one paragraph Highlights · sent at 18:00

Dock walk done before shift 1. 58 trucks through, 12 more than last Thursday, with the yard backing up once at 09:20. High-vis was 94% and the misses were all at shift change. The fire exit check is due at 14:00. Nobody entered the hazard zone.

Example figures, shaped like a real week. The screens are the product’s own.

The same product, set up for your place.

1 · Your cameras

No rip-and-replace. Awera runs on the CCTV you already have.

2 · The brain

Every feed is understood in plain language and checked against the rules above, 24/7.

3 · The alert

Only what matters reaches your people — in seconds, on WhatsApp or a call.

Teams and sites

One account for every site you run, with a role for each person.

The dock supervisor sees the docks. The shift lead sees the floor. The site manager sees every site.

A role for each person

Nobody opens footage that is not theirs.

ShiftMgrYou
Their own area✓✓✓
The whole site·✓✓
Every site··✓
Add people··✓

Set once, per person, per site.

Every site on one login

Two distribution centres or twenty, one screen shows which one is backing up right now.

Northgate DC64 cameras
Southbank Depotneeds you
Kilmore Cross-dock40 cameras
Eastgate Yard28 cameras

Alerts follow the rota

Until a real person has it.

1
The person on dutycalled 22:14 · no answer
2
Two minutes latermoved down the list
✓
The manager answered22:16 · handled
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FAQ

The questions people running warehouses and factories ask.

Do supervisors get a web dashboard, or does everything come to a phone?

Both, and they do different jobs. The shift supervisor uses the web console on the floor office screen: people on the floor, dock doors in use, trucks waiting in the yard, and whether the dock walk and the fire exit check were done. The alerts, a missing high-vis or a blocked fire lane, go to the phone of whoever is on shift.

Can the site manager, the shift supervisors and head office share one account across two depots?

Yes. One account, roles for each person, every depot under it. A supervisor sees their site and their shift. The site manager sees everything on that site. Head office can see all depots side by side on the All sites screen and compare them, without being able to change the rules on any of them.

Can it count how many people are on the floor and how many trucks are at the docks?

It counts what the cameras can see. People on the floor in each zone, forklifts moving, trucks at each dock door and waiting in the yard are live counts. Trucks through the docks today is counted at the gate. A single figure for every person inside the building needs a camera on every door and drifts, so we say per zone rather than per building.

Will it confirm the dock walk and the fire exit checks were actually done?

Yes. You tell it the routines you expect, the dock walk before the first shift, the fire exit check at 14:00, the cold store seal at 22:00, and it watches for the person walking the route on the cameras. Each one shows as done, late or missed for every day of the week, and a missed check reaches the supervisor the same shift.

Our staff and the union will ask: is this monitoring workers?

It watches for the moments you have asked it to watch for: nobody in high-vis at the dock, a person inside a hazard zone, a fire lane blocked. It does not track individuals through the day or score people. The footage stays on your recorder, faces can be blurred on the device before a clip leaves, and who can see what is set by role. Many sites show staff the console so they can see what it does.

We have a large mixed installation, some cameras ten years old. Will Awera run on it?

Usually, yes. The Awera device sits beside your NVR or DVR and takes the feeds it already records, from Hikvision, Dahua, Axis, CP Plus and anything speaking RTSP or ONVIF. Older analogue cameras through a DVR work too, though a very low-resolution feed limits what can be seen at distance. We check every camera on day one and tell you which ones are worth connecting.

Will it flag every forklift as a hazard?

No. A forklift in an aisle is normal work. A forklift and a person on foot in the same marked zone at the same time is what it flags, and only if you have drawn that zone. The same goes for PPE: it looks for the absence of high-vis where you require it, not for high-vis everywhere. The trial is spent tuning these rules on your floor until they are quiet.

What happens if someone goes down on the floor at night?

A person on the floor who does not get up is one of the few things Awera treats as critical. It calls the on-shift supervisor, not just a WhatsApp, with the clip attached and the camera named, so they know which aisle before they start running. On a quiet night shift with two people on the floor, that call is the whole point.

30 minutes, on footage like yours

Book a demo for warehouses and factories.

We show Awera running on a place like yours, map your top scenarios to the console, and give you an indicative price for your camera count. Then, if you want it, a 30-day trial on your own cameras.