Industrial Fire and Smoke Detection AI

Spot smoke and flame on the cameras you already run, and check that every extinguisher and exit is ready.

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Computer vision bounding boxes detecting smoke near the base of industrial machinery and an accessible fire extinguisher mounted on a support pillar.

Fire and Smoke Detection AI for the Toughest Plants, Mills, and Warehouses

  • Deploy Anywhere, Run Everywhere

    Run fire and smoke detection on the cameras that already cover your lines, dryers, dust collectors, and warehouses. Deploy on the edge, on-prem, air-gapped, in your VPC, or via API.

  • One Platform, Full Adoption

    Tools every plant team can adopt, from EHS managers and fire safety leads to maintenance and plant engineering, with no separate ML team required.

  • Secure, Compliant, and Audit-Ready

    Data stays safe with SOC 2 Type II compliance, encrypted data, and an uptime SLA. Every alert and inspection comes with a time-stamped clip.

  • Smoke at Dryers and Dust Collectors
  • Open Flame and Sparks
  • Smoldering Pallets and Waste
  • Fire Extinguisher Presence and Access
  • Blocked Exits and Aisles
  • Hot Work Area Watch
“The vision AI solutions we developed with Roboflow have been a core component of connecting our teams and unlocking their ability to collaborate.”

Lou Stocco

Director of Manufacturing Advanced Analytics, USG

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Talk to a Vision AI engineer who's shipped in manufacturing.

Bring us your toughest fire and smoke detection problem and we'll map a working solution.

Ask us about:

  • Solution architecture that fits your cameras, alarms, and SCADA
  • A live demo on footage from your own plant
  • Deployment options: edge, on-prem, air-gapped, or VPC
  • ROI modeling against downtime, property loss, insurance, and inspection hours

Over 80,000 organizations build with Roboflow.

  • Rivian
  • Pella
  • Chobani
  • USG Corporation
  • BNSF Railway
  • American Woodmark
Start where you are

Vision AI is transforming businesses

Customers across the board are solving complex challenges and driving meaningful impact.

  • Automotive customer

    $10 million

    Saved by automatically detecting defects on the production line

  • Logistics & freight company

    90%

    Less time spent manually tracking shipping inventory

  • Building materials supplier

    60%

    Lower customer return rate with improved product quality

Watch Every Line for Fire, from the First Wisp of Smoke to the Extinguisher on the Wall

Add a real-time fire watch to every camera with Roboflow Vision AI for industrial fire and smoke detection. Built for plants, mills, and warehouses where a fire starts small, in a dryer, a dust collector, a baler, or a pallet stack, and ceiling detectors only respond once smoke and heat have climbed to the roof. Cameras see the first smoke at the source, so your team gets an alert, a clip, and a location while the fire is still small enough to put out.

Smoke and flame at the source:

  • Detect smoke and open flame with RF-DETR, trained on images from your own camera views.
  • Watch the places fires start: dryers, ovens, kilns, dust collectors, conveyors, battery charging areas, and waste and baler zones.
  • Add thermal cameras with thermal object detection to catch rising heat in smoldering material before it turns to flame.

Fewer false alarms:

  • Tell smoke apart from steam, dust, exhaust, and welding light, using examples of each from your own plant.
  • Confirm a detection holds across frames with object tracking in Workflows before an alert goes out, and set zones so a furnace mouth or a permitted hot work area stays quiet.
  • Start from public fire and smoke datasets on Roboflow Universe, then fine-tune on footage from your own lines.

Readiness and records:

  • Verify every fire extinguisher is in place, mounted, and unobstructed, at every station and on every shift.
  • Detect blocked fire exits, aisles, and electrical panels, alongside EHS monitoring on the same cameras.
  • Keep a time-stamped clip for every alert for incident review and fire safety inspections, and pair it with hot bearing detection on conveyors.

Bring intelligence to every camera today. Stop a smoldering dryer or a pallet fire from becoming lost production, a damaged building, or an evacuation.

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Frequently asked questions

What is fire and smoke detection with Vision AI?

Fire and smoke detection with Vision AI uses cameras and trained computer vision models to spot smoke and flame in live video and alert your team with the camera, the location, and a clip. Because the camera looks directly at the dryer, the duct, or the pallet stack, the alert can go out as soon as smoke is visible, rather than after it has risen to a ceiling detector.

Can we use the cameras we already have?

Yes. Models run on the IP and CCTV cameras most plants already have, connected over RTSP, and on thermal cameras where you want heat as well. Video is processed on edge devices in the plant, so alerts arrive in seconds.

How does it handle steam, dust, and welding?

Models are trained on images from your own plant, including the steam, dust, exhaust, and welding light each camera sees, so they learn what normal looks like at that spot. Zones and per-camera thresholds keep permitted hot work and process heat from raising alerts, and a detection has to hold across several frames before anyone is paged.

Can it connect to SCADA, our PLCs, and our alerting tools?

Yes. Roboflow runs on-prem and fully air-gapped, and sends detections and clips over MQTT or REST to SCADA, historians, EHS systems, and Slack. PLC integration can stop a conveyor or shut down a dryer the moment smoke is confirmed.

Roboflow serves as the detection engine, and your EHS and fire safety teams own the alarm limits, the response plan, and the records.

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