Category: Industrial Inspection

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Enhancing Workplace Safety and Efficiency: ZistosHD Industrial Pole Cameras for Height Inspections

In industries where regular inspections at heights are necessary, such as construction, maintenance, and infrastructure management, ensuring worker safety while maintaining efficiency is paramount. Traditionally, these inspections often required workers to ascend ladders or scaffolding, exposing them to potential hazards. However, with the advancement of technology, solutions like ZistosHD Industrial Pole Cameras are revolutionizing height inspections by enabling workers to perform thorough assessments from the ground level, significantly enhancing safety and productivity.

The Challenge of Height Inspections

Conducting inspections at elevated locations has inherent risks, including falls, strains, and exposure to environmental elements. Climbing ladders or navigating scaffolding to reach these areas not only jeopardizes worker safety but also consumes time and resources. The challenge lies in finding a solution that provides a comprehensive view of the inspection site without subjecting workers to unnecessary risks.

Introducing ZistosHD Industrial Pole Cameras

ZistosHD Industrial Pole Cameras offer an innovative solution to the challenges of height inspections. These advanced camera systems provide high-definition video and imaging capabilities, allowing workers to remotely view and assess areas that would otherwise require physical access. The pole cameras consist of a telescopic pole (3ft to 30ft options) that can extend to significant heights, along with a camera module equipped with HD imaging technology.

Benefits of ZistosHD Industrial Pole Cameras

  1. Enhanced Safety: By eliminating the need for workers to climb ladders or access elevated areas, ZistosHD Industrial Pole Cameras dramatically reduce the risk of falls and other potential accidents. Workers can perform inspections from a safe distance, ensuring their well-being while obtaining clear visual information.
  2. Improved Efficiency: Traditional methods of inspection can be time-consuming and resource-intensive. With pole cameras, workers can complete inspections more efficiently by obtaining immediate visual feedback, which aids in quicker decision-making and task prioritization.
  3. Detailed Visuals: ZistosHD Industrial Pole Cameras offer high-definition imaging, providing intricate details of the inspection site. This level of clarity enables workers to identify issues that might have otherwise gone unnoticed, leading to more accurate assessments and targeted corrective actions.
  4. Versatility: These cameras are suitable for a wide range of industries and applications, from construction sites and manufacturing facilities to utility maintenance and infrastructure inspections. The telescopic design of the pole allows for access to various heights and angles.
  5. Documentation: The ability to capture HD images and videos during inspections provides valuable documentation for future reference and analysis. This documentation can aid in tracking the progress of maintenance tasks and compliance with regulations.

ZistosHD Industrial Pole Cameras offer a transformative solution for height inspections by enhancing worker safety, efficiency, and the overall quality of assessments. As industries continue to prioritize safety and seek ways to optimize operations, these advanced camera systems present a powerful tool that minimizes risks while maximizing productivity. By keeping workers safely on the ground while maintaining a comprehensive view of elevated inspection sites, ZistosHD Industrial Pole Cameras usher in a new era of safety and efficiency in workplace inspections.

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Avoid Confined Spaces & Fines While Reducing Risks to Workers

A pole camera system – like those from Zistos – can bring substantial value to a company by both reducing risks to its workers and helping the company avoid confined space entries and the consequences of worker fatalities and injuries. The cost of getting fined for a worker fatality can be significant and may have several adverse effects on a company, including financial, legal, and reputational repercussions. Here’s how the value of a pole camera compares to the potential costs of fines due to a worker fatality.

  1. Enhanced Safety and Risk Mitigation: A pole camera provides a safer alternative for confined space inspections, reducing the risk of worker injuries or fatalities. By using a pole camera, companies can proactively mitigate hazards, prioritize employee safety, and minimize the likelihood of oversight violations.
  2. Avoiding Fines and Penalties: Fines for worker fatalities resulting from confined space entries can be substantial, ranging from thousands to millions of dollars, depending on the severity of the violation and the company’s history of compliance. A pole camera investment is likely significantly lower than the potential cost of fines.
  3. Legal Liability and Lawsuits: Beyond potential fines, companies can also face civil lawsuits and legal liabilities if a worker is injured or killed during confined space entries. Implementing a pole camera as part of safety protocols can demonstrate due diligence in preventing accidents.
  4. Preserving Reputation and Business Continuity: Workplace fatalities can damage a company’s reputation, leading to loss of trust from customers, investors, and employees. Negative publicity can have lasting effects on business continuity and growth. Using a pole camera to prioritize safety reinforces the company’s commitment to employee well-being and can help maintain a positive reputation.
  5. Improved Efficiency and Productivity: With a pole camera, companies can streamline confined space inspections, reducing downtime and improving productivity. Employees can focus on other essential tasks, enhancing overall operational efficiency.
  6. Preventive Maintenance and Cost Savings: Regular inspections using a pole camera can help detect issues early, allowing for preventive maintenance and avoiding costly emergency repairs that may arise from neglecting confined spaces.
  7. Employee Morale and Retention: Demonstrating a commitment to employee safety through the use of advanced tools like pole cameras can boost employee morale and job satisfaction. It may also help attract and retain skilled workers who prioritize a safe work environment.

Overall, the value of a pole camera lies in its ability to enhance safety & prevent accidents for workers, as well as protect the company from the potentially devastating consequences of worker fatalities and large fines. It is an investment that not only reduces financial risks but also demonstrates responsible corporate practices, fostering a positive work culture and securing the well-being of employees.

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Portable Industrial HD Pole Camera Components

Greater Performance Through Cutting-Edge Technology

Since 2001, Zistos has been designing and manufacturing portable video systems for industrial confined space inspection, military, tactical surveillance, physical search & security, and collapse search & rescue. Our products increase the safety and effectiveness of trained personnel by enabling them to gain access into areas considered inaccessible or potentially dangerous situations, while staying out of harm’s way. The company has earned an excellent reputation for many pioneering innovations in surveillance, rescue and industrial inspection technology.

Zistos offers an array of portable video solutions, which along with our standard definition video systems, includes the new ZistosHD (full 1080P) wireless systems and components. All of our systems are engineered and designed for dependability, rapid deployment, modularity with field-swappable components.

Portable Industrial HD Pole Camera Components

Control Handle

Poles

  • Attaches to any ZistosHD pole or cable
  • Provides power to cameras
  • Transmits video/audio stream via WiFi
  • Keypad controls both pole & tablet

Cameras

Smart Displays

  • Smart Displays – 5″, 6″, 10″
  • Preloaded with the ZistosHD App
  • Fully integrated with the ZistosHD cameras for control, viewings & recording

Batteries

Specialty Products

  • Smart Lithium-Ion
  • Internal Fuel Gauge
  • 6+ hour run-time
  • Snap-in & go

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ZistosHD Pipe and Vault Inspection System

UPDATED: The ZistosHD Pipe & Vault Inspection System is designed to perform safe, visual inspections from the street level of vaults, pipes and manholes for maintenance conditions, cracks, corrosion, hot-spots & blockages – without the need for the inspector to make a confined space entry.

This system has been engineered to support true 1080P HD video for highly detailed images. The wireless inspection tool features a submersible, self-illuminating 30X zoom camera, mounted on a telescoping pole with remote motorized articulation. This camera has optical zoom capabilities, allowing for zooming without the loss of resolution associated with digital zoom cameras. The 30X Zoom camera can be fitted with optional side lights, if more light is required.

The system is designed to be field configurable and other optional cameras are available that can add additional capability. This includes the ZistosHD Dual Mode Thermal camera. This camera is ideally suited for use in an underground electrical vault to search for hot-spots from overheating cable splices and the camera’s audio capability can be used to listen for the sounds of electrical arcing. This can all be accomplished with the worker outside of the confined space and safely above ground.

The Pipe & Vault system is secured with an adjustable pole support rod which allows for the height of the camera to be adapted to the inspection environment. It also removes the weight of the system off of the operator and protects the camera head. On top of the height adjustment of the support rod, the telescoping, motorized articulating pole can be extended up to 16 feet (larger and smaller pole lengths available) for additional reach, if required. Camera articulation is accomplished with the use of the push buttons on the handle or on-screen touch controls.

Images are viewed on a rugged, specially configured 5” display, preloaded with our proprietary viewing application, that can be chest, pole or wrist-mounted, and transmitted via wired or wireless methods. The display has a removable SD card for easy image archiving, but images can also be uploaded to cloud storage, if desired.

This easily transportable system can be used to maximize the safety and efficiency of personnel engaged in maintenance operations in underground vaults, as well as many other industrial inspection operations.

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The External Monitor Receiver (EMR)

The External Monitor Receiver is an optional accessory to the ZistosHD Pole Camera Systems. It allows users to utilize an off-the-shelf external monitor as a display option to view images generated by a ZistosHD system. The External Monitor Receiver (or EMR for short) is a physically small device that is slightly larger than a thumb drive. It plugs into a standard HDMI input on a TV, Monitor, or other display device and is powered by a USB input that can be sourced externally, or directly from the monitor.

The EMR is preloaded with the ZistosHD imaging application that the user controls with an included remote control. Real-time video that is generated by the ZistosHD system can now be seen on a screen that is large enough to allow numerous individuals to view simultaneously. The EMR receives wireless video and allows the external monitor to be positioned anywhere within the transmission range of the ZistosHD system. The External Monitor Receiver is another one of the optional accessories available in the ZistosHD line of products that expands the capabilities and the usefulness of our video systems.

Call us for more information or to schedule a virtual product demonstration at your convenience. 

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