Heureka PPE
Heureka PPE applies computer vision to existing CCTV cameras to check whether workers wear the required protective equipment. It detects helmets, vests, gloves, boots, glasses and ear protection, and alerts supervisors in real time when equipment is missing.
What is Heureka PPE?
Heureka PPE is a computer-vision product from the Spanish AI developer Pervasive Technologies that checks, automatically and continuously, whether the people on a worksite are wearing the protective equipment their environment requires. It reads the feed from ordinary CCTV cameras and applies advanced analytics and machine learning to the images, replacing the manual visual inspection that supervisors have traditionally carried out. Monitoring concentrates on marked zones, usually the entrances and exits of an enclosure, where compliance can be established as people move in and out.
The model recognises eight classes: helmet, head, vest, gloves, safety boots, acoustic protector, glasses and person. When someone is detected without the equipment required for that area, the system raises a real-time alert to supervisors or safety staff, so the situation can be corrected on the spot rather than reconstructed after an incident.
Two components make up the offer. The Heureka Edge device is a GPU processing unit that performs detection locally, on the device itself, close to the camera; one unit supports up to four cameras, and remote support and configuration assistance are included. The Heureka PPE license is the AI detection module, and it is tied to each individual camera. Results, alarms and related information can then be forwarded to the cloud or to a central processing unit. Pervasive states that the solution works with any CCTV camera and describes it as scalable, secure and suited to a range of infrastructure requirements.
Integration runs over REST: predictions can be pushed by REST callback to a customer server, or queried by REST call directly against the Edge device. Detections can from there feed a video management system, an access control system or a self-registration entry and exit system. Several paid options extend the package, namely adjusting the model to the particularities of a customer's case in order to raise accuracy, remote monitoring of the device over two years, license maintenance over two years, and priority replacement of the device within 24 to 48 hours over two years.
The sectors named on the site are industry, manufacturing and construction, and the product is sold by quotation rather than online sign-up.
What it does
- Detect in real time whether workers are wearing the required protective equipment
- Recognise helmets, heads, vests, gloves, safety boots, ear protectors, glasses and people
- Alert supervisors or safety staff the moment a non-compliance is detected
- Run detection locally on a GPU appliance connected to existing CCTV cameras
- Send detections and alarms to the cloud or to a central processing unit
- Feed results into a video management, access control or entry and exit system over REST
- Build up compliance data to target safety training where it is actually needed
When to use Heureka PPE / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Heureka PPE is the right fit.
When to use Heureka PPE
- Safety and HSE managers on industrial sites where protective equipment is mandatory
- Construction site supervisors who must evidence compliance across changing crews
- Manufacturing plant and production managers already equipped with CCTV cameras
- Corporate security teams looking to extend existing surveillance to safety monitoring
- Facilities and warehouse managers controlling access points to hazardous zones
When not to use Heureka PPE
- Small organisations wanting a self-service tool: there is no online sign-up, only a quotation
- Buyers who need a published price before starting a conversation, as none exists
- Teams looking for a free plan or a free trial, neither of which is offered
- Sites needing detection beyond the eight supported classes, such as harnesses or respirators
- Anyone expecting a mobile app, as the product is an appliance plus server-side software
How to use Heureka PPE
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Request a demonstration through the vendor's booking form, as there is no online sign-up
- Agree the scope with Pervasive Technologies and obtain a quotation
- Identify the zones where protective equipment is mandatory, typically entrances and exits
- Install CCTV cameras at those strategic points, or reuse the cameras already in place
- Install the Heureka Edge GPU appliance, allowing up to four cameras per unit
- Take up a license for each camera that will run the detection module
- Use the included configuration assistance and remote support to tune the installation
- Run a pilot in real conditions if the specificity of the use case calls for one
- Connect the REST callback or REST query to your own server, VMS or access control system
- Review the accumulated compliance data to shape safety policy and training
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Works with any existing CCTV camera, so no dedicated capture hardware is needed
- Detection runs locally on the Edge appliance, close to the camera
- REST integration into video management and access control systems is described
- Replaces a manual visual check that is slow, costly and prone to human error
- The vendor is established in the European Union, in Barcelona
- Support options are time-bound and specific, including 24 to 48 hour hardware replacement
- Compliance data accumulates into something usable for targeting safety training
Cons
- No public pricing whatsoever: no rate card, no amount anywhere on the site
- The REST API is claimed but no public documentation exists for it
- No terms of service are published at all; the site's only legal page is the privacy policy
- The detailed product description is a blog post from March 2021 that has not been refreshed
- The name Heureka PPE no longer appears on the current product pages
- Nothing is published about where product data is hosted, and no DPA or subprocessor list exists
- The site is almost entirely in Spanish despite declaring English, and the footer copyright is frozen at 2024
Pricing & Plans
No pricing is published. Pervasive Technologies does not put a rate card, a starting price or any amount in any currency on its site, and the absence is confirmed by the sitemap, which contains no pricing page. There is no free plan and no free trial. The billing structure is nonetheless known in outline: a Heureka Edge appliance, plus one detection license per camera, plus optional services covering model adjustment, remote monitoring, license maintenance and priority hardware replacement. Figures are obtained by requesting a demonstration and a quotation.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Heureka PPE handles your data.
GDPR overview
The privacy policy is a complete Spanish data protection notice, last revised in February 2024. It names the controller, gives the company identification number, and sets out the full set of data subject rights: access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection, portability and withdrawal of consent. It designates the Agencia Espanola de Proteccion de Datos as the supervisory authority and gives its telephone numbers and Madrid address. Rights are exercised in writing to the Barcelona office with a copy of an identity document, or by email. Two points are worth noting. The policy never uses the words GDPR or RGPD; the compliance reading rests on the substance and on the supervisory authority named. And its scope is the website only, so it says nothing about the video processing that Heureka PPE performs. No data protection officer is named.
Who owns the data?
The site does not answer this question for the product. Pervasive Technologies publishes no terms of service at all, only a privacy policy, and that policy governs solely the personal data collected through the website itself, namely the contact form, the blog and the newsletter. For those, the data controller is named as Pervasive Technologies s.l., CIF B86338316. Nothing is published about who owns the video footage, the detections or the compliance records generated by Heureka PPE, nor about what the vendor may do with them. Since detection runs locally on the Edge device installed at the customer's premises, the footage plausibly stays with the customer, but this is nowhere stated contractually.
Reuse rights
For website data, the stated purposes are limited and explicit: handling contact enquiries sent through the web form, identifying and managing blog users, and managing electronic communications about the company's services and products. The legal basis is the data subject's consent. The policy states that personal data will not be transferred to third parties and will not be transferred outside the European Union. For the product itself, no reuse rights are described. There is no statement about whether customer footage or detections may be used to improve the vendor's models, and no opt-out mechanism is documented. One paid option does mention adjusting the solution to the particularities of a customer's case in order to increase accuracy, but the site does not explain what data that involves or where it goes.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Very little is published. The privacy policy states that personal data will not be transferred to third parties and will not be transferred outside the European Union, which places website data within the EU. That statement's scope is important: the policy governs the contact form, the blog and the newsletter, not the video streams or detections handled by the product. No hosting country is named, and no cloud provider is named. Architecturally, the product's detection runs locally on the Heureka Edge appliance installed on the customer's own premises, with results, alarms and information optionally forwarded to the cloud or to a central processing unit whose location is never specified. The website itself sits behind an anycast content delivery network, so the resolved server address says nothing about where any data actually lives. Buyers with a hosting requirement will need to obtain it contractually.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Heureka PPE.
- The product films employees at work; the site says nothing about the legal basis, worker information or consultation of staff representatives that this normally requires
- The privacy policy covers only website data, so no published commitment governs the video footage or the detections themselves
- No data processing agreement and no subprocessor list are available, which will complicate a procurement review
- Automated compliance scoring can drift into individual performance monitoring if detections are attached to named workers
- Treating an alert count as a safety indicator can encourage box-ticking rather than genuine risk reduction, and false negatives may breed misplaced confidence
- The detailed product page dates from March 2021 and the brand name has since disappeared from the site, so the current specification should be confirmed in writing
- The displayed contact address works, but the underlying mailto link on the contact and product pages points to an unrelated template address, so email may silently go nowhere
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Moderate to high, because this is a hardware deployment rather than a sign-up. Cameras must be positioned at the points where equipment is mandatory, and a GPU appliance installed and connected. Configuration assistance and remote support ship with the device, and a pilot in real conditions can precede full rollout, which lowers the risk. Connecting detections to an existing video management or access control system over REST is integration work that falls to the customer. There is no self-service path: everything goes through the vendor.
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Frequently asked questions
What exactly does Heureka PPE detect?
Do I need special cameras?
How many cameras does one appliance handle?
Is processing done locally or in the cloud?
Is there an API?
Can it be connected to my existing security systems?
How much does it cost?
Is there a free trial?
Who develops the product?
What language is the documentation in?
Should you pick Heureka PPE?
Heureka PPE is a narrow, well-defined product rather than a broad safety platform: it detects eight classes of protective equipment on camera and raises an alert when one is missing. Within that scope the design is sensible. It reuses the CCTV cameras a site already has, it runs detection locally on a GPU appliance instead of streaming everything away, and it exposes results over REST so they can drive an existing video management or access control system. The maintenance options are unusually concrete for a product of this size, with two-year commitments and a 24 to 48 hour replacement window on the hardware.
The reservations are mostly about what the vendor does not publish. There is no price anywhere on the site and no rate card to compare against, so every evaluation starts with a sales conversation. The REST API is described in prose but never documented publicly. There are no terms of service at all, only a privacy policy, and that policy covers the website's contact form and newsletter rather than the video the product processes. For a system whose whole purpose is to film employees, that gap matters: the questions a works council or a data protection officer will ask are simply not answered on the site.
The documentation is also showing its age. The only detailed description of Heureka PPE is a blog post from March 2021, and the current product pages no longer use the name at all, calling it Control de EPIs or Workplace Safety instead. Buyers who want the technical detail will have to ask for it directly. For a safety or HSE manager on an industrial site already equipped with cameras, the concept is sound and worth a conversation, but expect to do the compliance groundwork yourself.
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