Uncover Area Utilization Insights With AI

Understand how your facility’s workspace layout is best utilized to identify opportunities for improvement.

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Area Utilization and Path Mapping

Optimize area usage with traffic insights across specific cameras, zones, and time periods, including shift-level and object-level metrics to uncover movement trends and identify opportunities for more efficient space utilization.

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Time-Lapse Analysis

Visually track how area utilization evolves over time. Use time-lapse playback to proactively observe patterns, spot changes, and uncover opportunities to optimize workspace layout, traffic flow, and overall operational efficiency.

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Clearway Analysis

Proactively monitor and maintain unobstructed pathways with Clearway Analysis. Gain insights into walkway compliance and identify areas where blockages occur, supporting safer, more efficient movement across your facility.

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Event Mapping

Proactively understand how your workspace is being used with heatmaps that highlight event hotspots. Compare hotspots over time, filter by risk type or shift, and identify actionable opportunities for layout or policy improvements.

Area Utilization Highlights

We’re transforming how enterprise operations and EHS teams make proactive decisions with our cutting-edge AI technology.

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Customizable Workspaces to Fit Your Needs

Configure a workspace tailored to your operational needs, enabling detailed comparison of risk types across multiple areas and cameras, with filters for specific rules, shifts, and timeframes to uncover patterns and drive targeted operational interventions.

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Deep Dive Area Utilization Analysis

Understand how space is used across your site by analyzing activity by object type and zones. Filter and compare by time, shift, or camera to identify inefficiencies, underused areas, and opportunities to optimize layout and flow.

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Turning Insights into Action

Leverage detailed area usage data to repurpose underutilized zones, adjust layouts to reduce congestion, align staffing with peak activity periods, and address safety risks in high-traffic areas. Use these insights to inform operational planning and justify process or layout changes with confidence.

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Area Utilization Highlights

We’re transforming how enterprise operations and EHS teams make proactive decisions with our cutting-edge AI technology.

/1

Customizable Workspaces to Fit Your Needs

Configure a workspace tailored to your operational needs, enabling detailed comparison of risk types across multiple areas and cameras, with filters for specific rules, shifts, and timeframes to uncover patterns and drive targeted operational interventions.

/2

Deep Dive Area Utilization Analysis

Understand how space is used across your site by analyzing activity by object type and zones. Filter and compare by time, shift, or camera to identify inefficiencies, underused areas, and opportunities to optimize layout and flow.

/3

Turning Insights into Action

Leverage detailed area usage data to repurpose underutilized zones, adjust layouts to reduce congestion, align staffing with peak activity periods, and address safety risks in high-traffic areas. Use these insights to inform operational planning and justify process or layout changes with confidence.

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Results that speak for themselves

Evidence-backed impact from the clients who know best.

Protex AI showed us there was a lot we didn't know - and how we could get better. We didn’t just buy a platform, we created a valuable partnership that provides us focused insights about our business and how to make sure our employees go home safely each day.

Jeff Barry
Head of Innovation, Dot Foods

“With Protex Intelligence, we’ve traded manual data entry for instant, actionable insights. Instead of spending hours auditing, we can now instantly drill down by shift or risk type and generate heat maps. This automation allows us to identify and correct issues before they escalate, moving us from reactive to a truly proactive safety culture."

Terrence Timothy
Safety Director, Nucor
200+

hours of labour productivity recovered monthly

84%

reduction in targeted 
behaviors

“This tool helps us send colleagues home safe every day to their families and friends.”

Kevin J Thomas
Global VP, EHS, Sysco

Within just a couple of hours, Protex AI showed how people actually moved through the site. That data helped us make effective changes quickly. The time-lapse feature alone paid for Protex AI many times over

Toni Brooks
Health & Safety Manager, Berry Global
80%

reduction in incidents

Protex Delivers Actionable Risk Insights with a True Partnership

Protex Delivers Actionable Risk Insights with a True Partnership

“In Continuous Improvement, we talk about 'work as imagined' versus 'work as done.' This technology finally shows what's actually happening.”

Dave Roberts
SHEQ Director AB Agri UK (Mono)

Protex Intelligence takes minutes to catch issues that would have taken us months to figure out. We are able to go to a specific site and know which actions to drive home.

Industrial Specialist, Leading Manufacturing Company
Protex AI: Revolutionizing Workplace Safety with Proactive Insights

I enjoy using Protex AI because there's not much additional hardware needed since we can leverage existing security cameras. The dashboard is really helpful as it provides different features and abilities, like using heat map or thermal views, which allow us to pinpoint areas with increased risk. There's also a map that shows intersections between powered industrial trucks and pedestrians, which helps us identify risk areas that may need more than just coaching. Another feature I appreciate is the AI capability similar to a chatbot, which allows different users to customize reports to their needs using AI insights, making it easy to gather meaningful reports. The initial setup was great and proved feasibility, opening up opportunities for injury reduction. The team at Protex is quick to respond, innovative, and shares a people-first philosophy with us, focusing on keeping everyone safe.


Day-to-day, Protex helped us quantify things that otherwise looked like minor drops or inconveniences: how often they happened, variability across shifts, departments, times, the factors that that were contributing to it.  With real data behind us, the investment decision made itself.

Ed Casper
Safety Director, Bendix CVS
Major North American
automotive manufacturer
80%

reduction in near-miss events within 54 days of deployment

Top 3 North American food distribution company
13,000

audit hours saved annually

27%

ergonomic risk reduction in first 30 days

Top 3 North American food distribution company
97%

decrease in near-miss events

96%

decrease in PPE non-compliance

Top 3 North American food distribution company
44%

reduction in LTIR

74%

decrease in near miss events

We get to see what’s actually happening on the floor. Then, based on the data, we target changes where they’ll have the most operational impact

Site Manager, Multi-billion dollar North
America chemical manufacturing company

“We get to see what’s actually happening on the floor. Then, based on the data, we target changes where they’ll have the most operational impact”

Site Manager, Multi-billion dollar North
America chemical manufacturing company

Protex AI showed us there was a lot we didn't know - and how we could get better. We didn’t just buy a platform, we created a valuable partnership that provides us focused insights about our business and how to make sure our employees go home safely each day.

Jeff Barry
Head of Innovation, Dot Foods

“With Protex Intelligence, we’ve traded manual data entry for instant, actionable insights. Instead of spending hours auditing, we can now instantly drill down by shift or risk type and generate heat maps. This automation allows us to identify and correct issues before they escalate, moving us from reactive to a truly proactive safety culture."

Terrence Timothy
Safety Director, Nucor
200+

hours of labour productivity recovered monthly

84%

reduction in targeted 
behaviors

“This tool helps us send colleagues home safe every day to their families and friends.”

Kevin J Thomas
Global VP, EHS, Sysco

Within just a couple of hours, Protex AI showed how people actually moved through the site. That data helped us make effective changes quickly. The time-lapse feature alone paid for Protex AI many times over

Toni Brooks
Health & Safety Manager, Berry Global
80%

reduction in incidents

Protex Delivers Actionable Risk Insights with a True Partnership

Actionable insights – We’re not just collecting data; we’re receiving clear, usable insights that help us coach teams and reduce risk in real time.
Measurable impact – We can track trends, quantify risk reduction, and demonstrate real safety improvements over time.
24x7 visibility – Continuous monitoring gives us confidence that we’re proactively managing safety across our operations at all hours.
True partnership – Protex doesn’t just provide a platform; they collaborate with us, review data, and help ensure we’re getting maximum value from the solution.

“In Continuous Improvement, we talk about 'work as imagined' versus 'work as done.' This technology finally shows what's actually happening.”

Dave Roberts
SHEQ Director AB Agri UK (Mono)
Protex AI: Revolutionizing Workplace Safety with Proactive Insights

I enjoy using Protex AI because there's not much additional hardware needed since we can leverage existing security cameras. The dashboard is really helpful as it provides different features and abilities, like using heat map or thermal views, which allow us to pinpoint areas with increased risk. There's also a map that shows intersections between powered industrial trucks and pedestrians, which helps us identify risk areas that may need more than just coaching. Another feature I appreciate is the AI capability similar to a chatbot, which allows different users to customize reports to their needs using AI insights, making it easy to gather meaningful reports. The initial setup was great and proved feasibility, opening up opportunities for injury reduction. The team at Protex is quick to respond, innovative, and shares a people-first philosophy with us, focusing on keeping everyone safe.


Protex Intelligence takes minutes to catch issues that would have taken us months to figure out. We are able to go to a specific site and know which actions to drive home.

Industrial Specialist, Leading Manufacturing Company

Day-to-day, Protex helped us quantify things that otherwise looked like minor drops or inconveniences: how often they happened, variability across shifts, departments, times, the factors that that were contributing to it.  With real data behind us, the investment decision made itself.

Ed Casper
Safety Director, Bendix CVS
Major North American
automotive manufacturer
80%

reduction in near-miss events within 54 days of deployment

Top 3 North American food distribution company
13,000

audit hours saved annually

27%

ergonomic risk reduction in first 30 days

Top 3 North American food distribution company
97%

decrease in near-miss events

96%

decrease in PPE non-compliance

Top 3 North American food distribution company
44%

reduction in LTIR

74%

decrease in near miss events

We get to see what’s actually happening on the floor. Then, based on the data, we target changes where they’ll have the most operational impact

Site Manager, Multi-billion dollar North
America chemical manufacturing company

“We get to see what’s actually happening on the floor. Then, based on the data, we target changes where they’ll have the most operational impact”

Site Manager, Multi-billion dollar North
America chemical manufacturing company

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Below are some common questions our product experts have been asked by EHS professionals around the topic of AI safety. If you have any question in particular that you need answered please don't hesitate to contact us.

How does AI help improve area utilization in industrial facilities?

AI systems analyze how space is used and flag inefficiencies that humans might miss. They monitor traffic patterns in real time and identify underused or congested areas so managers can make adjustments. According to a recent safety association position, AI can enhance work environments by improving both operational efficiency and safety outcomes .

What is heat mapping and how can it optimize workspace layout?

Heat mapping in industrial settings means creating a color-coded map of activity levels. It shows which areas are busiest (hot spots) and which are underutilized. By visualizing these patterns, managers can redesign the workspace for better flow. For example, a recent warehouse analysis used heat maps to pinpoint congested aisles and guided a layout change that improved efficiency .

Can I track utilization by shift or specific asset types?

Yes. Advanced AI analytics let you filter data by time period, zone, or equipment type. This means you can see how a night shift uses space versus a day shift, or track specific assets like forklifts separately. Such granularity reveals unique patterns. In fact, a recent digital twin case optimized staffing by analyzing peak usage during certain shifts .

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