Best Protex AI alternative
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Surveily is an EU-native, edge-first alternative to Protex AI for industrial sites in Europe and the UK.Both put compute at the edge and pick up the same hazards. Surveily runs on a GPU server the customer owns, keeps non-event raw video off disk and stays a safety platform. Protex AI runs on its own branded appliance and sends encrypted event clips and metadata to its cloud. Its platform now covers operations as well as safety.
The two platforms detect the same things. What differs is whose box it runs on, what crosses the site boundary, and what the system is allowed to look at.
Surveily is software only and is able to run on roughly 95% of existing digital camera infrastructure - no need to replace or expand your own security. Surveily works on a standard GPU server you can procure at round 600 EUR per camera as a one-time purchase. It stays yours if you stop paying us.
Protex AI is built around its own branded appliance, which belongs to the vendor and which you need to host and swap on every new site.
Video is analysed in working memory on local servers inside your network, and raw footage not attached to an event never reaches disk. The on-premises deployment runs with no egress. It can be air-gapped, with updates on a schedule your IT agrees on. Any data labelling is performed by our own team in the EU, and anonymization is the standard.
Protex AI anonymizes the footage but streams the clips and metadata up to its cloud. If you have any privacy and security concerns Surveily is the better choice.
Surveily looks for missing PPE, vehicle-pedestrian interactions, restricted zones, unsafe behaviours, housekeeping, smoke and fire. Throughput, cycle time and individual output aren't measured. No person can be identified and no worker is scored. Surveily raises safety alerts to let your team decide what to do, and whether to stop the line.
Protex AI positions itself as site intelligence, with modules for facility flow, operational state and process compliance. Such monitoring may raise some issues with the DPOs in EU.
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.
| Capability | Surveily | Protex AI |
|---|---|---|
| Runs on your existing cameras | SurveilyYes - software only, on ~95% of digital camera infrastructure | Protex AIYes, via its own on-site edge appliance |
| 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 | Protex AIBranded on-site edge appliance, hosted by you and owned by the vendor |
| Where detection runs | SurveilyOn your own servers, on site. On-premises is a standard deployment model, not an upgrade | Protex AIOn the vendor's edge appliance, on site |
| 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 | Protex AIEncrypted event clips and metadata are sent to the vendor cloud |
| 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 | Protex AINot published. Models are updated centrally by the vendor, with no per-site retraining |
| 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 | Protex AINot published |
| 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 | Protex AICloud-connected by design, over an outbound-only path; offline operation not published |
| Data residency | SurveilyEU only, EU-domiciled vendor | Protex AIIn-country cloud regions; EU-established vendor holding company-level ISO 27001 |
| Anonymisation | SurveilyBy default, before anything is stored, displayed or used for model improvement - face, head or full-body | Protex AIFace blur, full-body blur, silhouette and videoless modes |
| Facial recognition, biometric ID, emotion recognition, worker scoring | SurveilyNone, in any configuration, on any market | Protex AINot offered as a product line |
| Automated action against a worker or machine | SurveilyNever - decision support only, human in the loop, response stays client-managed | Protex AIFeeds PLC and safety hardware for machine hard-stop |
| Detection coverage | Surveily50+ rules in six families: PPE, area control, vehicles, behaviours, housekeeping, critical alerts (smoke, fire, man down) | Protex AISafety modules for vehicle control, ergonomics, behavioural safety, area control, PPE and housekeeping, plus operations modules for facility flow, operational state and process compliance |
| Rule tuning | SurveilyPer camera view, calibrated to your site | Protex AICentral models with daily automatic updates; no site-specific retraining |
| Movement paths and heatmaps | SurveilyYes - path mapping, heatmaps and an interactive map on your site floor plan | Protex AIYes - heat maps and facility-flow analysis |
| Multi-site management | SurveilySingle dashboard across all sites, comparable risk signal between them | Protex AIMulti-site reporting and workflows |
| Your EHS platform of record | SurveilyAdditive - feeds Intelex, Cority, Enablon, EcoOnline and VelocityEHS the leading-indicator data they cannot produce | Protex AIAdditive, with a published Cority integration |
| Implementation | SurveilyOne-time setup fee per site, published on the rate card; reduced or waived on committed multi-year rollouts | Protex AINot 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 | Protex AIStrongest published references in logistics, retail, food distribution and packaging |
| Integrations | SurveilyExisting CCTV and VMS, IoT/OT sensors and smart devices, open API | Protex AIExisting CCTV through its own appliance, plus Cority, BI, WMS, LMS and MES systems, and PLC and safety hardware |
Compiled from each vendor's own published material. Competitor facts are point-in-time and re-verified before publication. Corrections welcome: [email protected]
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European sites in heavy industry, chemicals and building materials, all running Surveily on the cameras they already had. No new hardware went in.
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 MaterialsEmployee 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.
Radosław StudzińskiHSE Coordinator, Reckitt BenckiserWe 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 companyThe questions that come up before a demo, usually from IT, the DPO and finance, answered the way we'd answer them on a call.
Surveily is EU-native and edge-first, and it picks up the same families of risk as Protex AI, from missing PPE to smoke and fire. There's no vendor appliance to host, just a GPU server the site buys itself.
Detection stays inside your own network. Protex AI processes on its own edge appliance and sends events up to its cloud.
Yes. The software runs on roughly 95% of existing digital camera infrastructure, so every camera stays where it is and a GPU server you own takes the vendor appliance's place, often in the same rack slot.
Clips also stop going up to a vendor cloud in normal running. Anonymised material still moves to keep the models accurate, under transfer and retention terms your InfoSec has agreed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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You remain the Data Controller. Surveily is the Processor. No biometrics, in any configuration.
