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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 and 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 are 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. It is the ability to allow a device-agnostic human to join a call and share what it sees that is powerful.

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.

Why Unleash live

We pride ourselves on fast outcomes for our customers. We believe implementing Unleash live should deliver results like consumers signing up for a service and just getting going.

We’ve built Unleash live with the security, scalability, and reliability that enterprise demands so people on the ground can get the job done.

Stream and view multiple devices from the Unleash live iPhone and Android App

Just some of the features you’ll experience with Unleash live and nowhere else are:

Provision devices on the fly — use the device available on hand
Use a mix of devices, from existing IP cameras to drones, smartphones, or GoPro
Retain complete security — activate and deactivate devices, not user accounts, so contractors and on-ground staff can do the job.
Bring stakeholders on the live stream — share with unlimited viewers.
Share live stream through a simple URL
For simplicity, view in the browser with no downloads.
Like it and want to scale operations?— do so instantly, as we’re completely cloud-based

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.

How do I get started?

Contact one of our team members, and we’ll set you up, or go to unleashlive.com to learn more.

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