EVI Safety Technology
EVI Safety Technology turns a vessel's existing CCTV cameras into an AI safety system, spotting unsafe behaviour and near-misses in real time onboard, then guiding structured incident investigations and compliance reporting for fleets of any size.
What is EVI Safety Technology?
EVI Safety Technology is a Dutch company that applies computer vision to the CCTV cameras already installed on ships. Rather than selling hardware, it connects to existing IP cameras and NVRs and adds an onboard edge device that runs more than twenty in-house AI models trained on real maritime footage. The site frames the product as four stages: monitor, recognise, investigate, then report and improve.
The offer splits into three systems. The EVI Prevention System watches for unsafe behaviour as it happens, covering missing PPE, people in danger zones, falls, immobile persons, crowding, forklift areas, speeding, open doors, unauthorised access, smoke, fire, approaching boats and weapons. The EVI Investigation System takes over after an event, rebuilding a minute-by-minute timeline, cross-checking reported details against video and logs, reviewing weather and crew actions, and surfacing similar past events across a vessel, a fleet or global datasets. It supports recognised methodologies including 5 Whys, Kelvin TOP-SET, DNV M-SCAT and the SHELL model, with editable WHY diagrams and configurable report templates. A third product, the EVI Action System, handles real-time operational control and is explicitly described as neither a reporting tool nor an investigation platform.
The architecture is the distinguishing feature. All video is processed locally on the vessel and only compressed events, clips and metadata travel to shore, so the system keeps working fully offline while sailing and syncs when a port or satellite link appears. Bandwidth use stays low and controllable, and operational modes adapt automatically to port, sea, night or heavy weather to cut false alarms. Vessel-to-cloud links are encrypted with role-based access.
The company, EVI Safety Technology B.V., is based in Haarlem and was founded by former seafarer and senior incident investigator Vladimir Ponomarev. Development is kept in house, spanning machine learning, hardware integration and edge computing. A 2025 partnership with the non-profit Eyesea extends the technology to detecting containers lost overboard.
What it does
- Analyse the feed from CCTV cameras already fitted onboard, with no need to replace them
- Detect missing PPE in real time, including helmets, gloves, face shields, uniforms, safety shoes and hearing protection
- Flag operational hazards such as unauthorised access, falls, crowding, running, forklift zones, speeding and weapons
- Raise instant alerts on the bridge touchscreen and forward them to shore teams
- Rebuild an incident minute by minute from video, logs, sensor data and crew input
- Produce structured investigation reports aligned with ISM, ISPS, TMSA, SIRE and IMO expectations
- Track fleet-wide safety indicators such as LTIF and near-miss rates on shared dashboards
When to use EVI Safety Technology / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if EVI Safety Technology is the right fit.
When to use EVI Safety Technology
- Fleet and vessel managers who need one view of safety across ships they never physically visit, from a single vessel up to fleets of 200 or more
- QHSE managers preparing ISM, ISPS, TMSA, SIRE and IMO records, and facing internal audits, port inspections and customer vetting
- Shipowners already running IP cameras and NVRs onboard, who want more from that hardware without replacing it
- Captains and crews working on vessels with poor or no connectivity, since all video is analysed locally and the system runs fully offline at sea
- Port, terminal and warehouse operators applying the same camera-based detection to loading bays, ramps, forklift traffic and other high-risk ground areas
When not to use EVI Safety Technology
- Buyers who want to compare prices before talking to anyone, as nothing is published and every quote is built around your sites, cameras and automation level
- Teams looking for a free trial or a self-service sign-up, neither of which exists here
- Sites with no CCTV infrastructure, since the whole product assumes IP cameras and an NVR are already installed
- Developers hoping to embed the analytics elsewhere, as no public API documentation is published anywhere on the site
- Anyone needing mobile apps, since no iOS or Android application is offered and the software is reached through a web portal
How to use EVI Safety Technology
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Check that your vessels or sites already run IP cameras with an NVR, which is the main prerequisite
- Book a demo through the calendar linked from the site, or send the basics through the contact form
- Take a short scoping call in which the team reviews your camera setup, operational needs and safety priorities
- Review the more than twenty detection models and flag any custom scenario you need built
- Receive a written proposal covering price, timeline and the earliest possible start date
- Start small, typically one vessel or a pilot project, before committing the wider fleet
- Let the EVI team connect the system to your existing cameras and install the edge box and bridge touchscreen
- Have detection zones configured per camera and per-vessel rules added where needed
- Put the crew through the training session covering alerts, manual reports and anonymous reporting
- Run day to day from the bridge touchscreen onboard and the web portal ashore, then roll out to the rest of the fleet in phases
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Reuses the CCTV already onboard, which removes the hardware cost that usually blocks this kind of project
- Runs fully offline during sailing, addressing the single biggest constraint of maritime IT
- Local video processing means only compressed events leave the ship, limiting both data exposure and satellite bills
- Detection models are built and trained in house on real maritime footage rather than adapted from a generic product
- Reporting is aligned with the frameworks the industry actually uses: ISM, ISPS, TMSA, SIRE, IMO and SOLAS
- Supports established investigation methodologies out of the box instead of imposing a proprietary method
- Founded and staffed by former seafarers, including a senior incident investigator, which shows in how the workflow is framed
Cons
- No pricing is published at all, so budgeting requires a sales conversation before any figure appears
- No terms and conditions are published; the privacy statement is the only contractual document online
- No Data Processing Agreement is offered and no subprocessor list exists, which is a gap for a product filming staff at work
- Nothing is said about whether customer footage trains the models, and no opt-out is documented
- Installation is physical and performed by the vendor, so nothing can be trialled independently
- No mobile app, no public API documentation, no status page and no help centre
- The privacy statement carries obvious boilerplate from a video-conferencing template, mentioning webinars, virtual backgrounds and whiteboards
Pricing & Plans
No pricing is published. The site carries no pricing page at all, and the complete sitemap confirms this is an absence rather than an oversight. There is no free plan and no free trial. Pricing is established by quotation, calculated from the number of sites, the number of cameras and the level of automation required, and delivered as a written proposal after a scoping call. The company advertises no hidden fees, no lock-in and full equipment ownership, but attaches no figure to any of it. Buyers wanting a low-commitment entry point are directed towards a pilot on a single vessel before fleet-wide deployment.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how EVI Safety Technology handles your data.
GDPR overview
The word GDPR never appears on this site, which is worth stating plainly. What exists instead is a section of the privacy statement headed "European Data Protection Specific Information", covering users in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland. It lists the full set of data subject rights: access and portability, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and withdrawal of consent. It names the legal bases relied on, including contractual necessity, consent, legal obligation, vital interests and legitimate interests. International transfers are covered by Standard Contractual Clauses and by the EU-U.S., UK-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Frameworks. Rights requests go to a published address. The gaps are real: no Data Processing Agreement is offered, no subprocessor list is published, and no data protection officer is named. The statement is dated 07.10.2025.
Who owns the data?
The published privacy statement separates data EVI collects for itself from data it processes on behalf of its customers, which keeps Customer Content under the customer's control. EVI states its employees do not access or use Customer Content unless the account owner authorises it or law, safety or security requires it, and that Customer Content is never used for marketing. Account owners and users can amend their own personal data directly from their accounts, and the company advertises full equipment ownership with no lock-in. One caveat matters: EVI publishes no terms and conditions, so no contract text on the site settles ownership of the recorded video itself.
Reuse rights
There are no published terms and conditions, so the site never grants or restricts the customer's right to reuse their own data, and the question is left to the private contract. What the privacy statement does describe is EVI's own use: delivering and managing the service, billing, authentication and security, communication, legal compliance, and marketing where consent or settings allow. Automated tools scan certain uploaded content for policy violations or illegal activity. Sharing is limited to three cases: vendors bound by contractual restrictions, legal requirements, and marketing, advertising and analytics partners. Customer Content is excluded from marketing. Practically, exported reports and video evidence can be shared with auditors, port authorities or insurers through a secure third-party access feature, which is the closest the site comes to describing onward reuse.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Hosting starts onboard. An edge device installed on the vessel processes all video locally and stores events and clips there, so footage does not leave the ship by default; only essential events, compressed clips and metadata are sent ashore, over encrypted vessel-to-cloud links with role-based access. Beyond that, the picture is thin. The privacy statement names no hosting location, no cloud provider and no data centre. Its only geographic statement concerns international transfers: personal data may be transferred outside the user's jurisdiction, including the Netherlands, the U.S. and other regions, some with less protective regulation. Transfers are covered by Standard Contractual Clauses and by the EU-U.S., UK-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Frameworks. The site's own IP resolves to a Cloudflare anycast node, which says nothing about where the application is hosted. Buyers should ask directly where shore-side data lives.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting EVI Safety Technology.
- The system films crews continuously, so treating it as a safety tool while staff experience it as surveillance is the central human risk; consultation with worker representatives is likely required in several jurisdictions and the site does not address it
- No terms and conditions are published, meaning the contractual framework cannot be reviewed before a sales conversation
- No Data Processing Agreement and no subprocessor list exist, which is a significant gap for a product processing footage of identifiable employees
- Nothing states whether customer video is used to train the models, and no opt-out is documented, so this must be settled contractually
- Automated behavioural detection can be wrong; treating an alert or a near-miss classification as established fact in a disciplinary context would be a serious misuse
- Crews may over-trust the system and relax their own vigilance, which would invert the intended safety benefit
- The privacy statement contains boilerplate from a video-conferencing template, so its real coverage of this product should be checked by a lawyer
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Low effort for the customer, because the vendor does the work, but not instant. EVI's team connects the system to your existing cameras, installs the edge box and bridge touchscreen, configures detection zones per camera and trains the crew. No cameras need replacing in most cases, and the crew-facing side is presented as plug and play with a simple bridge touchscreen. The real prerequisites are an existing IP camera and NVR setup and a physical intervention onboard, so nothing can be self-installed or trialled alone. Large fleets are phased. The site never states how long an installation takes.
Deployment
Behind EVI Safety Technology
Fundraising
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Frequently asked questions
Does EVI work with the cameras we already have onboard?
Will it keep working at sea without an internet connection?
Which vessels and sites is it suitable for?
What can the AI actually detect?
How much does it cost?
What does installation involve and how long does it take?
Does it help with maritime compliance and audits?
Is a Data Processing Agreement available, and are subprocessors listed?
Is there an API or a mobile app?
Who is behind the product?
Should you pick EVI Safety Technology?
EVI Safety Technology is a narrow, credible vertical product rather than a general-purpose AI tool, and it should be judged on that basis. Its central insight is a good one: ships already carry cameras, and the two things that normally kill onboard analytics are connectivity and hardware cost. Processing video locally on an edge device removes both at once, and the system genuinely keeps working with no internet at all. The sector fluency is real too, with reporting aligned to ISM, ISPS, TMSA, SIRE and IMO, support for established investigation methodologies such as 5 Whys and Kelvin TOP-SET, and a founding team drawn from seafaring and incident investigation rather than from software alone.
The reservations are commercial and contractual rather than technical. There is no published price, no terms and conditions, no Data Processing Agreement and no subprocessor list. For a product whose entire function is filming people at work, that documentation gap deserves attention, especially where works council consultation or a data protection impact assessment may apply. Nothing is said about whether customer footage is used to train the models. The privacy statement itself carries visible boilerplate from a video-conferencing template, which does not inspire confidence in how closely it was written for this product. The company is also young and small, with a domain registered in 2025.
This is a considered B2B purchase that begins with a sales call and a pilot on one vessel, not something to evaluate online. For a fleet operator already running CCTV and under pressure to evidence HSE performance, it is a serious candidate. Ask for the contract, the DPA and a clear answer on model training before committing.
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