Hygiene Monitoring
A computer vision system for hygiene monitoring and workflow analysis in commercial kitchens. Multi-person tracking, hand detection and heatmap generation run together on the camera feed to show movement patterns, hygiene-sensitive zones and staff interactions in real time, with cleaning activity surfaced live on the feed itself.
- Technology
- Computer VisionHeatmapsMulti-Person TrackingHand Detection
- Key capabilities
- Multi-person tracking / Hand detection / Work-surface heatmaps / Live cleaning-activity state / Hygiene-zone monitoring / Runs on existing kitchen cameras
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Recorded from the live buildAbout the product
The system watches a standard overhead kitchen camera and resolves it into tracked staff, detected hands and a heatmap of where activity actually lands on the work surface. Cleaning state is reported on the feed as it changes, so the footage itself carries the compliance signal rather than needing a separate dashboard to interpret it.
It was built with a scalable architecture aimed at operational visibility, behavioural analysis and performance, which is what makes continuous monitoring practical across a full service rather than in spot checks.
The challenge
Holding hygiene standards and operational efficiency in a busy kitchen is hard: staff move constantly, workflows overlap, and sanitation practice is largely invisible after the fact.
- High staff movement and overlapping workflows in a small space
- Little visibility into whether sanitation actually happened
- Traditional monitoring producing no actionable hygiene insight
- No data on how the work surface and floor space are really used
- Compliance judged on spot checks rather than continuous evidence
What it demonstrates
The system improved hygiene monitoring and workflow efficiency by turning staff movement and operational behaviour into data.
- Heatmap analytics supporting better space utilisation
- Process optimisation grounded in observed movement, not assumption
- Real-time monitoring behind improved hygiene compliance
- Stronger operational oversight across a full service
- Continuous evidence in place of periodic spot checks
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