Computer vision for the factory floor

See your floor the way it actually runs.

Ward connects to the cameras you already have. It shows you where time and output really go, and flags machine trouble before it becomes downtime. No new hardware. No facial recognition.

RTSP / ONVIF readyNo new hardwarePose + zone only
Works with existing CCTVEdge inference, video stays on-siteLabor and machine health, one feedNo facial recognition, ever
The problem

Most of what happens on a floor is invisible until it costs something.

The cameras are already there. The footage just sits, unwatched, until someone goes looking for a reason things went wrong.

After the fact
Footage nobody reads

Video only gets reviewed once something has already gone wrong. By then the shift it could have saved is over.

Reactive
Downtime found too late

A failing motor or a jammed line shows up in the output numbers hours after the machine first started showing it.

Guesswork
Fixes based on hunches

Without real throughput and idle data by station, every process change is an educated guess.

Floor intelligence · labor

Understand where the shift actually goes.

Active and idle time by station, units processed, and task-level breakdowns. Ward points at the specific bottleneck, not just the number next to it.

  • Active vs idle time by station and zone, every shift.
  • Units processed and pace measured against target.
  • Task-level breakdowns, so a slow station has a reason.
  • Ranked bottlenecks with a likely root cause attached.
Open the live console
Station efficiencySHIFT A · 14:20
STATION 188%
STATION 291%
STATION 379%
STATION 468%
STATION 585%
FLAGStation 4 is running 20% under pace. Likely cause: understaffed during shift change.
Variance
+18%
Uptime 30d
99.2%
Risk
MED
CONVEYOR B · motion variance +18% over baseline. Early wear signal.
Machine health · equipment

The same camera reads the machines.

Ward sees unusual motion and visual patterns on equipment, early wear signals, and downtime risk. One feed, no added sensors. The camera already pointed at the line is enough.

  • Motion and vibration patterns read straight from video.
  • Early wear signals before they reach the output numbers.
  • Downtime risk flags, ranked by urgency.
  • One system, two kinds of intelligence from the same feed. That is what makes Ward different from a worker-tracking tool.
How it works

From a camera to a specific action.

01
Connect

Point Ward at any RTSP or ONVIF camera, existing or new. No proprietary hardware to install.

02
Detect

Edge inference identifies zones, poses, actions, and equipment states in real time. Raw video can stay on-site.

03
Analyze

Patterns across shifts surface bottlenecks, idle time, and early machine anomalies.

04
Act

Supervisors get specific, ranked flags. Nobody has to sit and review footage after the fact.

For workers

Built for the person on the floor, not just the one managing it.

The worker app is how Ward earns trust. Each person sees their own shift, their own numbers, and exactly what the system sees about them. It is fair-workload visibility, not a leaderboard to punish.

Your shift
Your own summary. Hours active, units, and breaks, visible to you the moment the shift ends.
Safety
Alerts that protect you. If a machine flags risk nearby or a hazard zone goes active, you know first.
Fairness
Workload you can see. The same data your supervisor sees, so a heavy station is visible instead of hidden.
Transparency
Nothing hidden. Pose and zone only, never your face. You can see exactly what Ward sees about you.
Maria · Station 4SHIFT A
Today
6.2h
Active time
214
Units
!Safety: forklift route active in Zone 2. Stay clear until it clears.
Ward sees: pose + zone. Never your face.
Trust & privacy

Ward is built to be trusted by the people it sees. If a worker read this page, nothing here should surprise them.

No faces
No facial recognition. Ever. Ward tracks pose and zone. It does not identify who a person is by their face, and the default product has no capability to.
What's stored
Aggregates by default. Efficiency and health metrics are kept. Raw clips are short-lived and expire automatically, typically within days.
Who sees it
Scoped access. Supervisors see line and station level. Workers see their own data. Nobody sits and browses raw footage of individuals.
At the edge
Video can stay on-site. Inference runs at the edge, so raw video does not have to leave the plant to be useful.
Infrastructure

Built on AWS.

Ward runs on managed, elastic infrastructure, so it scales from one camera to a whole plant without re-architecture.

KVS
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
Secure, durable ingestion for every camera feed.
PANORAMA
AWS Panorama
Edge inference, so raw video can stay inside the plant.
SAGEMAKER
Rekognition Custom Labels / SageMaker
Pose and action models, trained and served.
SITEWISE
AWS IoT SiteWise
Ties existing machine telemetry in alongside the vision layer.
Get started

Book a floor walk.

We come to your plant, connect to a camera you already have, and show you what Ward sees on your actual floor. Not a slide deck.

A floor walk takes about an hour. No rip-and-replace. Bring one camera feed and we'll do the rest.

We reply within one business day. No sales sequence.