Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute

AI for Safety Monitoring and Incident Prevention

Industry

Energy & Utilities

Ensure Safety with Risk Detection

AI-driven safety systems proactively identify risks, prevent accidents, and ensure compliance, enhancing worker safety, operational efficiency, and environmental stewardship in energy and utilities operations.

The Problem

Energy and utilities operations face significant safety challenges, including hazardous work environments, equipment failures, and the complexity of regulatory compliance. Traditional safety measures rely on manual processes and reactive responses, which are prone to human error, inefficiencies, and delays. These limitations can lead to accidents, injuries, operational disruptions, and environmental harm.

The AI Opportunity

AI enables proactive safety and compliance by analyzing real-time operational data to detect hazards and predict risks before they escalate. These systems can detect or predict equipment failures, unsafe behaviours, and potential site hazards, enhancing operational reliability, regulatory compliance, and worker protection.

Why It Matters

Addressing safety risks protects workers, ensures compliance, and safeguards the environment. Proactively reducing accidents improves operational reliability, minimizes downtime, and strengthens public trust. Effective safety measures also reduce financial risks, including penalties and costs associated with incidents, supporting long-term sustainability and resilience.

Benefits & Impact

Accident Reduction

Proactive identification of risks reduces workplace accidents, creating safer environments for employees.

Compliance Assurance

Automated monitoring ensures adherence to regulatory standards, avoiding penalties and operational disruptions.

Operational Continuity

Predictive maintenance and risk mitigation minimize equipment failures, reducing downtime and unplanned costs.

AI Methods & Models

  • Purpose: Identify risks like equipment failures or environmental hazards early.

  • Why: Prevent accidents and improve operational safety.

  • Tools/Models: Time-series models (e.g., ARIMA), anomaly detection (e.g., autoencoders), decision trees.

Build Your AI Solution with Amii

As one of Canada’s three national AI institutes, Amii brings decades of expertise, advancing AI innovation and delivering industry solutions to your team. Whether you’re just starting to explore the possibilities of AI or are ready to develop advanced AI models, Amii is here to help.

Training

A successful AI solution requires both technical know-how and a strong understanding of your business. Our training aligns technical and non-technical teams, creating a shared language and fostering the collaboration needed for successful AI implementation.

Strategy

We collaborate with your team to brainstorm, evaluate, and prioritize AI use cases aligned with your business goals, building your internal capacity along the way. Our experts then validate the top idea, positioning your team for a smooth transition into development.

Development

Our unique approach places a full-time Machine Learning Resident within your team, supervised by Amii experts, to help build a custom AI solution. After the project, you have the option to hire the resident, ensuring continuity to deployment and expanding your internal AI capacity for future AI innovation.

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