ConductVision Enterprise

Research

ConductVision checks lab benches for the goggles, gloves and masks each room requires, logs empty lab hours and flags freezer doors left open for research facility teams.

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Research laboratories demand precision observation, rigorous documentation, and strict safety compliance across environments that range from chemistry labs to animal facilities to field stations. Researchers need continuous, objective behavioral data for animal studies, equipment utilization metrics for shared facilities, and safety monitoring that operates without disrupting sensitive experiments. ConductVision was born from ConductScience, a company with over a decade of experience in scientific instrumentation and research methodology, including proven expertise in lab animal behavioral tracking and analysis. This heritage informs every aspect of the platform, from experiment documentation that meets publication standards to animal behavior tracking algorithms validated against manual scoring. Research facilities gain a vision analytics partner that understands the scientific method.

Outcomes

What your team gets

Eye protection through long sessions

Goggles and gloves come off during long bench sessions, and the lab manager sees only the start of the day.

Without a record by room and hour, refresher training cannot target the gaps.

How
ConductVision checks each person at a bench for the goggles, gloves and mask that room requires.
You get
PPE rates per room and hour, with stills the safety officer can use in training.

Empty labs at full ventilation

Labs run high air-change rates around the clock, whether anyone is in the room or not.

Ventilating an empty lab at full rate spends energy the building does not need.

How
ConductVision counts the people in each lab view and logs the hours each room stands empty.
You get
Occupied and empty hours per lab by weekday, ready for the facilities team's setback schedule.

Freezer and cold room doors

A freezer or cold room door left ajar goes unnoticed until the temperature alarm sounds.

By then samples may have warmed for an unknown length of time.

How
In a pilot, ConductVision logs each door opening and flags a door that stays open past a set time.
You get
A door log per unit with open times, durations and a still of each long opening.

The challenge

Animal behavior studies depend on hours of manual video scoring that is tedious, subjective, and rate-limiting for research throughput. Shared equipment in core facilities is often underutilized due to poor scheduling visibility. Laboratory safety incidents frequently occur during off-hours when supervision is minimal.

Our approach

ConductVision provides automated animal behavior tracking and scoring that correlates with established manual methods, freeing researchers to focus on analysis rather than observation. Equipment utilization monitoring provides facility managers with objective usage data. Lab safety monitoring detects PPE violations, fume hood misuse, and after-hours incidents.

What the model sees

Detections in two more settings

A scientist in a lab coat and gloves works at a bench beside a microscope, with large water tanks behind him; a box marks the scientist.
Fish research laboratory
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Lab bench behind a glass partition
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Endpoints

What a pilot measures

Each endpoint is defined before the pilot starts, with what is counted, its unit and how the results are broken down.

What a pilot measures
PrimaryBench PPE rateShare of person-minutes at lab benches with every item the room requires worn.Unit:%By:Room, hour, item
SecondaryEmpty lab hoursHours per day with no person detected in a lab view, from frames sampled each minute.Unit:hours per dayBy:Room, weekday
Long door openingsFreezer or cold room door openings that last past the set time, counted once per opening.Unit:openings per weekBy:Unit, hour
Gap durationMinutes from the first frame with a required item missing to the first frame with it back on or the person away from the bench.Unit:minutes (median)By:Room, item

How we check the model

Each pilot measures ConductVision on your own footage against a sample checked by hand, before anyone relies on its numbers.

  • Occupancy agreement

    Share of sampled frames where the ConductVision empty or occupied call matches a reviewer's.

    % · by room, time of day

  • Door event recall

    Share of door openings a reviewer finds in sampled footage that ConductVision also logged.

    % · by unit

  • PPE alert precision

    Share of missing-item alerts that a reviewer confirms in a hand-checked sample of clips.

    % · by room, item

Use cases

Where teams put it to work

Automated Animal Behavior Tracking

Overhead and side-view cameras track animal position, movement trajectories, social interactions, and specific behaviors in home cages and test apparatus. Built on ConductScience's proven foundation in lab animal behavioral analysis, automated scoring reduces observer bias and enables continuous monitoring across light/dark cycles.

Experiment Documentation

Time-stamped video records of experimental procedures, equipment configurations, and environmental conditions provide objective documentation that supports reproducibility. Footage is linked to electronic lab notebooks and indexed by experiment ID.

Laboratory Safety Monitoring

Cameras verify PPE compliance, fume hood sash position, and proper chemical handling practices. After-hours lab occupancy is monitored for lone-worker safety, with alerts when personnel are detected in restricted areas outside of authorized schedules.

Shared Equipment Utilization

Core facility instruments such as microscopes, centrifuges, and sequencers are monitored for active use versus idle time. Utilization data informs grant-funded equipment purchases, scheduling optimization, and cost-recovery calculations.

Vivarium Environmental Monitoring

Cameras in animal housing areas monitor cage conditions, water bottle levels, and environmental indicators. Behavioral anomalies across colony populations can indicate environmental issues before they are detected by standard environmental sensors.

Systems it connects to

  • Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELN)
  • Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)
  • Animal Facility Management Systems
  • Equipment Booking Platforms (SUMS, iLab)
  • Institutional Safety Reporting Systems

Pilot

Scope a research pilot

Tell us about your sites and cameras, and a ConductVision engineer replies with a scoping plan built around the endpoints above.