AI for Telecom — Tower, Antenna & Site Inspection

Challenges

Five fronts where tower, antenna, climber, perimeter and equipment problems slip past on a live telecom network, and why human-monitored CCTV alone cannot keep up with thousands of sites spread across the Kingdom.

A · Tower & asset deterioration

Corrosion

A bare-headed worker without a hard hat among colleagues wearing helmets on a construction site

Tower shaft corrosion

Antenna

A worker in plain clothes without a hi-vis vest standing near a moving wheel loader

Antenna tilt & misalignment

Feeder

A worker at the unprotected edge of a high concrete slab without a fall-arrest harness

Feeder & connector damage

B · Climber safety

PPE

Early-stage fire with small flames and smoke beginning among stacked site materials

Climber without harness

Height

An emergency exit doorway blocked by stacked boxes and debris

Lone climber at the top

Drop

An oil and water spill spreading across a concrete factory floor

Tool drop from height

C · Perimeter & intrusion

Breach

A forklift operating close to a pedestrian worker inside a warehouse

Perimeter fence breach

Theft

An open excavation trench with no barrier or fence around it

Cable & battery theft

Access

A worker walking directly underneath a heavy load suspended from a tower crane

Forced gate, unauthorized access

D · Equipment health & hotspots

Thermal

A control room with one operator facing a large wall of many CCTV feeds

BTS cabinet hotspot

Battery

A large industrial site at night with only a few pools of light and large dark areas

Battery & generator overheating

Power

A single worker isolated in a remote corner of a large industrial site at dusk

Solar & rectifier fault

E · Vegetation, access & inspection

Vegetation Outdoor workers under harsh midday desert sun with visible heat haze

Vegetation over feeders & compound

Inspection A cluttered site safety office desk covered with paper incident forms and clipboards

Manual, after-the-fact inspections

Access

A crowded site entrance at shift start with many workers entering at once

Site access road blocked

Solutions

Every gap above has an answer below: how the AI sees, what it detects on your towers and sites, how alerts become action, the analytics you get, and a deployment that fits your existing cameras, drones and Saudi data rules.

A · How the AI sees

Detection

Workers on a site each outlined by a translucent segmentation mask following their silhouette

Instance segmentation, not boxes

Pose

Pose & action recognition

PPE

A worker with the helmet and vest highlighted by separate segmentation masks for PPE detection

Per-worker PPE check

B · What it detects

A worker with helmet and vest highlighted by AI segmentation masks, unsafe-act detection

Tower & Asset Defects

Flame and smoke highlighted by an AI segmentation mask, unsafe-condition detection

Climber & Perimeter Safety

Outdoor workers under harsh midday sun with a heat-stress overlay, poor-practice and compliance monitoring

Equipment & Thermal

C · From alert to action

Real-time

A site supervisor receiving a safety alert on a smartphone

Tiered, real-time alerts

Verified

Operators in a modern safety control room verifying alerts on a video wall

Operator-verified

Intervene

A public-address speaker on a pole at a site for live talk-down warnings

On-site intervention

D · See it & prove it

Dashboard

Live operations dashboard

Analytics

A screen showing a site map with colour-coded risk heat zones

Trends & heat maps

Reporting

A tablet showing KPI gauges and charts for a safety compliance report

ISO 45001 reporting

E · Fits your site

Integration An existing CCTV camera on a building with a small edge-AI box beside it

Works on existing CCTV

Edge

Edge, hybrid or cloud

Residency

A secure on-premises server rack keeping data inside the Kingdom

KSA data residency

AI Technology

Our solution is built on data-driven video analytics, computer vision that watches live feeds and understands what it sees. The same AI runs across any input you bring: your existing CCTV, drones for tower and antenna inspection, autonomous robot dogs for hard-to-reach compounds, and smart helmets for climbers, all connected into one platform and one app, and processed on-site inside the Kingdom. We keep the engine proprietary; what follows is how it works for you.

Any input, one platform

AI Video Analytics

The brain behind every source, computer vision analyses each frame in real time and flags tower defects, perimeter breaches, climber safety and equipment hotspots the moment they appear.

Existing fixed and PTZ CCTV cameras on an industrial building

Your Existing CCTV

Runs on the cameras you already have, fixed, PTZ and thermal, with no rip-and-replace in most sites.

A survey drone flying over a construction site

Drones & Aerial

Drones carry the same AI up the tower for close-up antenna, mount and feeder inspection, and across large or remote sites from above.

An autonomous quadruped robot dog patrolling an industrial site

Autonomous Robot Dog

A four-legged robot patrols hazardous or remote zones on its own, taking the AI where fixed cameras cannot reach.

Smart Safety Helmet

Climber-worn helmets with an on-board camera add a first-person view of the tower top, fall-arrest verification and lone-climber protection to the same system.

On-Site Edge AI

All analysis runs on a secure unit at your site, so footage and data stay inside the Kingdom, in line with PDPL.

A unified safety app on a phone showing every connected camera and device

One Unified App, everything connected

Every tower, compound and BTS camera, drone, robot and climber helmet feeds a single platform and one app, one place to watch the whole network, verify alerts and act. Add a new site and it simply appears in the same view.

Integration with Your Systems

We adapt to your setup, you don't rebuild for us. The AI runs on the cameras and monitoring systems you already have: a small on-site unit pulls the video, your cameras and VMS keep running untouched, and in most sites nothing is replaced.

Works with what you have

A mix of existing fixed and PTZ CCTV cameras on an industrial building

No rip-and-replace

In 70–80% of sites your existing cameras are reused as they are. We connect over standard RTSP / ONVIF, compatible with virtually any IP camera.

A small edge-AI appliance plugged in beside an existing network switch

Plugs in alongside

A small on-site sidecar unit pulls the camera streams. Your cameras and current VMS keep running exactly as they do today, no disruption.

A technician surveying a CCTV camera with a tablet before deployment

Survey before spend

A pre-deployment camera survey (included) checks each camera's resolution, angle and lighting, so you know exactly what qualifies before buying anything.

Connects to your monitoring systems

Milestone XProtect Genetec Security Center Hikvision / HikCentral Dahua DSS Axis Camera Station

We integrate with the leading VMS platforms used in the Kingdom, pushing events and alerts straight into the system your control room already uses. Not on the list? The edge unit also runs fully standalone over direct RTSP, no VMS required.

Camera requirements

Parameter	Minimum	Recommended
Resolution	2 MP (1080p)	4 MP or higher
Frame rate	10 fps	15–25 fps
Low light	IR / night capable	True WDR
Detail on target	head ≥ 20 px	≥ 40 px for PPE
Compression	H.264	H.265 (½ the bandwidth)

Network & footprint

Light on bandwidth, a few Mbps per 1080p camera; H.265 halves it.
Only alerts leave the edge, short event clips and metadata, never full 24/7 video.
Processed on-site, a site VPN or private APN covers remote locations; data stays in the Kingdom.
No new software for your team, the dashboard is browser-based; nothing to install.

Use Cases

The same AI runs across your telecom network — towers, rooftop sites, indoor BTS rooms and remote compounds. Every corrosion patch, antenna drift, climbing PPE gap, perimeter breach and equipment hotspot is flagged on your existing cameras and drones with a pixel-precise segmentation mask, never a crude box.

Tower Structural Integrity

AI segmentation mask on a corroded steel lattice tower shaft — Tower Shaft Corrosion

AI segmentation mask flagging a cracked welded joint on a tower leg — Weld / Joint Crack

AI segmentation mask on rusted bolts and flanges of a tower connection — Bolt & Flange Corrosion

AI segmentation mask on spalled concrete at a tower foundation pad — Foundation Spalling

AI segmentation mask on a sagging guy-wire of a guyed mast — Guy-Wire Sag

AI segmentation mask on a damaged climbing ladder cage hoop — Ladder Cage Damage

Antenna, Mount & Feeder

AI segmentation mask flagging a tilted panel antenna on a rooftop — Antenna Tilt

AI segmentation mask flagging azimuth drift on a sector antenna — Azimuth Drift

AI segmentation mask on a loose antenna mount bracket — Mount Bracket Loose

AI segmentation mask on a dislodged RRU/TMA unit hanging on a tower — RRU / TMA Dislodged

AI segmentation mask flagging a damaged feeder cable running up a tower — Feeder Cable Damage

AI segmentation mask on a weather-seal lost at a feeder connector — Connector Weatherproof Loss

Climber Safety & PPE

AI segmentation mask flagging a climber with no fall-arrest harness — No Fall-Arrest Harness

AI segmentation mask on a climber with no hard hat on a tower — Climber No Hard Hat

AI segmentation mask on bare climber hands with no gloves — Climber No Gloves

AI segmentation mask flagging a single-lanyard fall-arrest on a climber — Double Lanyard Violation

AI segmentation mask flagging a tool dropped from height during tower work — Tool Drop from Height

AI segmentation mask on a lone climber at the top of a remote tower — Lone Climber at Height

Perimeter, Access & Theft

AI segmentation mask flagging a person breaching a telecom compound perimeter fence — Perimeter Breach

AI segmentation mask on a forced-open site gate at night — Gate Forced Open

AI segmentation mask on an unauthorized vehicle stopped outside a remote BTS compound — Unauthorized Vehicle

AI segmentation mask on a person cutting and removing a feeder cable — Cable / Battery Theft

AI segmentation mask on a tampered equipment cabinet door at a cell site — Cabinet Tampering

AI segmentation mask on a siphoning hose at a backup diesel tank — Diesel Tank Theft

Thermal & Equipment Health

AI segmentation mask on a thermal hotspot on a BTS outdoor cabinet — Cabinet Hotspot

AI segmentation mask on an overheating telecom battery bank — Battery Bank Overheating

AI segmentation mask on a backup generator running hot at a tower compound — Generator Overheating

AI segmentation mask on a rectifier fault indicator in a power cabinet — Rectifier Fault

AI segmentation mask on a hotspot cell of an off-grid solar panel — Solar Panel Hotspot

AI segmentation mask on a failed air-conditioning unit inside a BTS shelter — AC Unit Failure

Vegetation, Access & Drone Inspection

AI segmentation mask on vegetation encroaching inside a tower compound fence — Compound Vegetation

AI segmentation mask on tree branches touching overhead feeder lines — Vegetation Over Feeder

AI segmentation mask on a blocked site access road by debris or sand — Access Road Blocked

AI segmentation mask on standing water pooling at a tower foundation after rain — Site Flooding

AI segmentation mask on a drone close-up of a tower top during inspection flight — Drone Tower Inspection

AI segmentation mask on a drone image of a panel antenna connector and RRU — Drone Antenna Check

Not limited to these These are our standard library, we also train custom detection classes for the hazards, equipment and processes specific to your site.

How We Do It

01

Existing CCTV cameras on a pole overlooking an active construction site

Ingest

We pull live video from your tower, compound and BTS cameras, plus drone feeds, over RTSP and ONVIF, no new cameras in most sites

02

A compact edge GPU appliance processing video on site

Edge AI

Inference runs on a small on-site GPU appliance, so video and data stay inside the Kingdom

03

A monitor showing workers segmented by AI masks on a live site feed

Detect

A three-stage cascade segments towers, antennas, climbers, equipment and perimeter breaches on every frame, across a broad library of telecom classes

04

A control-room screen showing an AI reasoning check on a flagged event

Validate

A vision-language model reasons over context to confirm or suppress each alert, killing false alarms

05

Alert

Tiered alerts reach the NOC, regional field-tech phones and WhatsApp within seconds

06

Confirm

For non-critical events an operator confirms with a clip and scene description before anyone is dispatched

07

Dashboard

Every camera, zone and live alert appears on one dashboard, on a control-room screen or a phone

08

An automatically generated safety report with charts and an audit trail

Report & audit

Shift and daily reports, KPIs and an immutable audit trail are generated automatically for ISO 45001 and PDPL

The Monitoring Platform

One console for the telecom NOC and field-ops team. Overview, events, sites, towers, zones, reports and live AI inspection, all in a single app. Every alert traces back to the camera that raised it, the tower or compound it sits in, the moment it happened, and the confidence the AI gave it. Live today at viewkeepersa.com/VisualDefectDemo/hse.

HSE app overview: safety score, hazard breakdown, hottest zones and 3D zone map

Network Monitoring · Overview

Live AI detection: tower corrosion, antenna tilt, climber PPE, perimeter breach, cable theft, equipment hotspots
your PTZ, fixed and thermal cameras on one live wall
Per-camera health and link status
Operator verify, dispatch, and false-alarm workflow
Owner-ready daily, monthly, and incident-evidence reports
Runs in the on-site control room, no foreign cloud

Platform Walkthrough — Page by Page

07 · A

Seven pages, live in our Network app today. The images below come straight from the running build. These are the same screens your NOC and field-ops teams will open on day one.

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01 · Overview

The whole site, one screen

The network landing page. A live network health score, climber PPE compliance, open tower defects and critical incidents run across the top, next to sites online and mean response time. Below sits a 24-hour incident breakdown, the hottest sites ranked, and a 3D map of your towers, compounds and BTS rooms.

Network ScoreIncident BreakdownHottest Sites3D Sites Map

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02 · Events

Every violation, triaged

The working queue of network events. Each one tagged by type — corrosion, antenna drift, climber PPE gap, perimeter breach, hotspot — with the tower, compound and camera that caught it, a severity, a confidence score and a status. An officer verifies, dispatches a crew or closes, and the response clock keeps the team honest.

36+ Event TypesSeverity RoutingEvidence SnapshotResponse Clock

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03 · Cameras

The fleet, at a glance

Every connected camera by site, tower and compound, with live thumbnails, online status and the detections it raised. A field technician sees what needs attention before the morning round.

Live ThumbnailsPer-ZoneOnline StatusLast Event

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04 · Workers

KSA workforce rules, watched

Climber and field-crew safety built for the Kingdom: heat-stress risk levels, the summer midday-work ban window, climber PPE compliance, and lone-climber flags at height, so the rules your auditors check are kept automatically.

Heat StressMidday BanClimber PPELone Climber

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05 · Zones

Danger zones, drawn and enforced

Network zones drawn on the site plan and the 3D model: tower compounds, BTS rooms, restricted cabinets, generator yards. Each zone carries its own rules, and any intrusion shows up in Events with the zone attached.

Zone Rules3D ModelCompoundIntrusion Link

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06 · Reports

Ready for the audit

Shift and daily summaries, climber PPE and tower-defect exports, and incident evidence packs, generated automatically and exportable for internal and regulator reviews. One click, and the record is in your inbox.

Shift SummaryDefect ExportEvidence PackPDPL

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07 · Inspect

Point the AI at anything

A live AI scan page: drop in drone footage or pick a tower camera, and the engine outlines corrosion, antenna drift, climber PPE and hotspots on the spot. The fastest way to see the detection quality on your own sites.

Live ScanDrone or CCTVInstant MasksYour Sites