Smart Innovators: Video Analytics For Safety

Executive Summary

Amid rising pressure to reduce serious injuries and strengthen proactive risk prevention, video analytics has become a high‑impact technology for EHS, operations and IT leaders. This report provides a benchmark of 10 video analytics vendors focused on core safety applications, evaluating their strengths across five key capabilities: PPE detection, behavioural safety, unsafe conditions, area controls and vehicle safety. It also assesses five technical differentiators shaping vendor performance: configurability, privacy and security, detection accuracy, systems integration and analytics. EHS professionals and IT leads can use this report to assess solution maturity, compare vendor capabilities, explore emerging innovations such as vision language models (VLMs) and AI agents, and guide future technology selection. Video analytics vendors can leverage the insights from the report to evaluate their competitive positioning and understand evolving buyer needs.