Everything Buddywise Detects. Hardened by Years in Heavy Industry.
Transform your plant’s existing cameras into a high-performance safety network. With years of proven performance in heavy industry and no physical appliances to install, Surveily deploys seamlessly onto your own infrastructure under your team’s oversight and with 100% EU compliance.
Surveily is an EU-native, edge-first alternative to Buddywise for industrial sites in Europe and the UK.Both are European vendors that spot missing PPE, vehicle-pedestrian conflicts and restricted-zone entries on cameras a plant already has. Surveily adds no hardware, so detection runs on a GPU server the customer buys and owns, and that model has run in kiln conditions for two years. Buddywise ships its own Buddybox Hybrid edge device. Its channel is built on a camera-manufacturer partnership.
80%
fewer vehicle incidents - lime & cement multi-site, 24 months in continuous production
95%
PPE compliance at six months - refinery
800%
more near-misses surfaced - chemical and consumer-goods plant, Poland, 30 cameras
Three reasons EU plants choose Surveily over Buddywise
Both platforms pick up the same hazards, and both vendors are European. So the choice sits elsewhere. It's about what arrives on site, whether on-premises is the version people actually run, and what a governance reviewer sees.
Software only, run on any camera, on your server.
Surveily is a software, running on the CCTV infrastructure already in place. It can even run on cameras nobody installed with detection in mind and on sites dealing with a lot of dust and vapor pollution. Detection runs on a GPU server you own or you can buy from Surveily at around 600 EUR per camera as a one-time reference.
Buddywise's Buddybox Hybrid is an edge device build around a camera-hardware partnership. That works well if your estate is already standardized on that specific brand. If your CCTV is a twenty-year mix of whatever each plant bought, Surveily and the software-only approach is the shorter path.
Site safety AI run on-premises only
With Surveily on-premises isn't an upgrade tier, it's the standard deployment. Detection sits on servers inside your own network, non-event, raw video is never stored, and the system can be cut off from the internet, with updates delivered on a schedule your IT agrees on. The footage is labelled by an European team and with full compliance to EU privacy laws.
Nobody is identified, full anonymization in ensured
Faces, heads or whole bodies are blurred before anything is stored, displayed or used to keep the models accurate. No worker can be identified or scored based on the footage. Surveily's main focus is safety and privacy. Hazards only raise an alert and your team decides whether to stop the line or take other action. Surveily never acts on a worker or machine by itself. You stay the Data Controller and Surveily is the Processor, which will make it easy if your local DPO raises questions.
Surveily vs Buddywise, feature by feature
Everything below comes from each vendor's own published material and describes what both platforms do today, not what either has announced. Checked August 2026.
Surveily compared with Buddywise, feature by feature
Capability
Surveily
Buddywise
Runs on your existing cameras
SurveilyYes - software only, on ~95% of digital camera infrastructure
BuddywiseYes, with a technology partnership around one camera manufacturer
Hardware you have to buy
SurveilyNo Surveily camera or appliance line, and no lock to a camera brand. Detection runs on a GPU server you procure and own - roughly 600 EUR per camera as a one-time reference, scaling linearly with the cameras you licence
Buddywise“Buddybox Hybrid” edge device
Where detection runs
SurveilyOn your own servers, on site. On-premises is a standard deployment model, not an upgrade
BuddywiseOn the vendor's edge device, in a hybrid architecture
Video leaving your site
SurveilyOn-premises: nothing leaves. Hybrid: only anonymised event metadata and face-blurred clips. Non-event raw video is never stored, in any model
BuddywiseHybrid deployment, with offline operation offered on the edge device
Is your footage used to train the models
SurveilyYes - anonymised material only, to improve the models running at your own sites. Transfer and retention terms are agreed per engagement and reviewed by your InfoSec
BuddywiseVendor-side annotation and data-quality function
Who labels your footage
SurveilySurveily's own annotation team, in-house in the EU. Training runs on Surveily's own EU GPU infrastructure - never outsourced, offshored or crowdsourced
BuddywiseVendor-side annotation and data-quality team
Works without an internet connection
SurveilyYes - the on-premises deployment runs with no cloud dependency and no egress, and can be fully air-gapped. Updates are then delivered on an agreed schedule
BuddywiseYes, offline capability published for the edge device
Data residency
SurveilyEU only, EU-domiciled vendor
BuddywiseEU-based vendor
Anonymisation
SurveilyBy default, before anything is stored, displayed or used for model improvement - face, head or full-body
SurveilyNever - decision support only, human in the loop, response stays client-managed
BuddywiseNot published
Detection coverage
Surveily50+ rules in six families: PPE, area control, vehicles, behaviours, housekeeping, critical alerts (smoke, fire, man down)
BuddywisePPE, forklift and traffic discipline, published through customer results
Rule tuning
SurveilyPer camera view, calibrated to your site
BuddywiseNot published
Movement paths and heatmaps
SurveilyYes - path mapping, heatmaps and an interactive map on your site floor plan
BuddywiseNot published
Multi-site management
SurveilySingle dashboard across all sites, comparable risk signal between them
BuddywiseMulti-site rollouts published across five countries
Your EHS platform of record
SurveilyAdditive - feeds Intelex, Cority, Enablon, EcoOnline and VelocityEHS the leading-indicator data they cannot produce
BuddywiseNot published
Implementation
SurveilyOne-time setup fee per site, published on the rate card; reduced or waived on committed multi-year rollouts
BuddywiseNot published
Heavy-industry references in Europe
SurveilyLime and cement, refinery, heat and power, steel, glass - including two years continuous on-premises production in kiln conditions
BuddywiseManufacturing and Nordic construction
Integrations
SurveilyExisting CCTV and VMS, IoT/OT sensors and smart devices, open API
BuddywiseCCTV, plus a technology partnership with a camera manufacturer
Compiled from each vendor's own published material. Competitor facts are point-in-time and re-verified before publication. Corrections welcome: [email protected]
European sites in heavy industry, chemicals and building materials, all running Surveily on the cameras they already had. No new hardware went in.
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Surveily AI solutions have significantly supported our safety efforts - particularly in preventing near-miss incidents involving forklifts, maintaining order on vehicle routes and pedestrian pathways, and eliminating the use of mobile phones in restricted areas. The system provides us with real-time insight into on-site activities and enables quick response to potential hazards. It’s a tangible improvement in both operational visibility and our safety culture, which we highly value.
Piotr ŁukszaEHS Manager, Saint-Gobain Innovative Materials
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Employee safety is our top priority - especially in the demanding environment of chemical manufacturing. Implementing Surveily’s systems significantly enhanced our oversight in critical areas. Their cutting-edge technology enables faster threat detection and real-time data analysis, resulting in a measurable improvement in workplace safety. We value Surveily’s professionalism and are proud to partner with them in building a work environment that meets the highest industry standards.
We gained significantly better visibility and control over our expansive industrial site. Their innovative monitoring technology allowed us to effectively track vehicle movement and reduce hazardous driver behavior - particularly regarding the use of personal protective equipment and adherence to speed limits. As a result, we’ve enhanced safety for everyone working on-site. We firmly believe that partnering with Surveily is an investment that delivers tangible safety benefits.
Patrycja SzotHSE Manager, Trzuskawica S.A. | A CRH company
Questions buyers ask when comparing Surveily and Buddywise
The questions that come up before a demo, usually from IT, the DPO and finance, answered the way we'd answer them on a call.
What is the best Buddywise alternative for industrial sites in Europe?
Surveily picks up the same risks as Buddywise, from missing PPE and vehicle-pedestrian interactions to restricted zones, smoke and fire, and it installs as software on the cameras a site already owns.
Both are European and both label their own footage in-house, so the comparison comes down to what gets installed, and no Surveily device goes in. Buddywise puts its Buddybox Hybrid edge device on site.
Can we move from Buddywise to Surveily without changing our cameras?
Yes. The software runs on roughly 95% of existing digital camera infrastructure, whichever manufacturer supplied it.
What changes is the compute. Detection moves onto a GPU server you specify and own, so there's no vendor appliance in the rack and no camera ecosystem to sit inside.
Where is the video processed, and what leaves the site?
Detection runs on servers inside your own network, and raw video not attached to an event is never written to disk in any deployment model. On-premises, nothing leaves the site. In the hybrid models the only things crossing the boundary are anonymised event metadata and clips with faces already blurred.
The on-premises deployment can be fully air-gapped, with updates delivered on a schedule you agree. The material that keeps your models accurate, selected frames and short clips tied to your team's feedback, is anonymised before it moves, handled under terms your InfoSec agrees, and labelled by our own team inside the EU.
Does Surveily use facial recognition or any biometrics?
No, in any configuration and on any market. That means no facial recognition, no biometric identification, no emotion recognition, no worker scoring. De-identification is applied by default before anything is stored or displayed. A live feed naturally contains identifiable people before masking happens, which is why the masking sits in the architecture rather than in a policy document.
How does Surveily work with a works council, or with our DPO on a UK site?
Surveily detects behaviours and conditions rather than identities, and never takes automated action against a worker, so a human stays in the loop for every response. You remain the Data Controller. Surveily is the Processor.
In the Netherlands and Germany that runs through the works council, the elected worker representatives who approve a system like this. The UK has no co-determination right, so sign-off usually sits with your DPO and, on a unionised site, employee representatives. The DPIA describes a system that keeps video inside your own network and retains no raw footage.
Does Surveily replace our EHS platform?
No, it feeds it. Those platforms record what somebody reports, so the data only exists once a person files something. Surveily adds continuous risk data from what the cameras already see, on top of Intelex, Cority, Enablon, EcoOnline and VelocityEHS.
Let's talk about your site
Thirty minutes with an engineer. We show you the platform running on real de-identified footage from plants like yours, you tell us what your floor looks like, and you get a straight answer on what Surveily would pick up there. If deployment or the works council is the blocker, bring your IT and your DPO.
