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Inspect Remotely with Live Video

Remote inspections with live video collaboration have become increasingly popular since 2019. Companies are adopting virtual solutions to ensure business continuity, maintain supply chains, deliver operational timelines, and, most importantly, reduce the risk of exposure.

We’ve long talked about remote inspections and the power of tapping into live video to drive operational costs and efficiencies. Covid-19 has been the catalyst for the paradigm shift businesses needed.

Businesses from construction and mining to real estate and public safety are all taking the step because the benefits are clear:

Scaling inspections — across multiple locations or increasing the number of instances where an asset can be monitored
Increased safety by limiting the number of people required to be on the ground, traveling, and possibly unnecessarily exposing workplace hazards
Continuing operations regardless of site access or other types of restrictions
Increased efficiency for clients, suppliers, and contractors

Remote pipeline construction monitoring, powered by Unleash live's powerful live streaming capabilities

Differences between video conferencing and live streaming

Many features differentiate the services. However, three core tenets make a live streaming platform like Unleash live uniquely different from video conferencing tools like MS Teams and other consumer video products like Facetime.

In this article, we’ll explore them and the applications and benefits of live-streaming

Video as a company asset

Video conferences are only recorded in unique circumstances; however, footage of visual inspections is a company asset and should be securely stored and available for:

Team socialization and collaboration
Easy progress reporting,
Auditing and documentation,
Training

Where the inspection is performed accurately, the data can also be later used to train A.I. models to help automate future inspections.

For this reason alone, you can see the immense value of visual data being nurtured and managed effectively.

Un-coupling live video from the device

The object of interest in traditional video conferencing is the contributors; however, for visual inspectors, it’s the field of view from a device.

The device may be a drone in the air or a fixed IP camera on site. What is powerful is the ability to allow a device-agnostic human to join a call and share what it sees.

Centralized Home for all media

Scaling operations with multiple live streams requires a place to store them. Today, if stored, they are trapped and inaccessible across many employees’ devices, personal cloud accounts, and laptops.

One cloud-based centralized home must ingest and securely store all footage, searchable by device, location, and timestamp, for teams to work with.

Remote inspections with Unleash live

Where do existing solutions fall short?

One word answers this question — legacy.

Legacy from both a mindset capability and technology perspective.
Providers in this space typically want to do the following.

Sell a black box
Sell an app
Sell a device tied to a black box
Sell a cloud service tied to a device, tied to a black box
Sell managed services to set up the cloud service tied to the device and the black box

Ultimately, the focus is on their technology, not the customer's workflow.

In our experience, customers are looking for the following:

Use existing hardware, smartphones, drones, whatever they have.
Not shackled with burdensome integration (however easy it’s claimed to be).
Realize value instantly.
Maintain and adapt existing workflows, but do it faster and more effectively.
Consumer-type user experience with enterprise-grade reliability and security.

Connectivity and latency

'Live' isn't always live - Unleash live offers enterprise-quality streaming

If you were to watch a live tennis match on YouTube or Facebook live while at the ground, you’d be surprised to know that the latency is surprisingly more than you would have expected. Live isn’t always ‘live’.

As an Advanced Tier AWS partner and an Inception program member with NVIDIA, our solution is built on the latest infrastructure. We remove the pain of worrying about codecs, file formats, and VMS limitations. Our engineers are world-class (even if we say so ourselves), ensuring that every last millisecond is squeezed out of the connectivity available.