Shell Gas Station Case Study

AI-assisted safety and process compliance for gas stations

Shell gas station operations require reliable supervision across fuel unloading, patrol inspection, personnel behavior, and incident response. Awakedata deployed an end-to-end AI analytics architecture to improve monitoring coverage, searchable data, and process-level compliance analysis.

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Deployment context: The solution and outcomes below describe the systems delivered for this customer project.

Industry background and challenges

Common constraints faced by distributed gas station operations.

High monitoring and storage burden

  • Each station has many camera streams that require continuous monitoring.
  • Regional center live-view and storage of 720P/1080P video consumes large bandwidth and storage cost.
  • Long-term video retention drives persistent enterprise expense.

Limited safety visibility and slow retrieval

  • Safety incidents are hard to discover in time under manual 24/7 guarding.
  • Post-event video review and tracing are time-consuming and labor intensive.
  • Traditional NVR retrieval is time-based, not scenario-based, and weak for structured reporting.

Unstructured video records

  • Historical videos are difficult to link to specific events and workflows.
  • Lack of structured indexing prevents fast scenario-based search and export.

Compliance process gaps

  • Fuel unloading and routine patrol steps need full-process evidence.
  • Without AI tagging, key safety behaviors and risk violations are often missed.

From safety checks to traceable events

Three coordinated layers enable scalable monitoring and multi-dimensional analysis.

Edge Analysis

Edge AI appliances connect directly to station cameras/NVR, run real-time models, compress intelligently, and trigger on-site alarms.

Multi-Level Platform

Regional and central hubs aggregate edge outputs for storage, playback, center-side analysis, and unified monitoring operations.

Multi-Dimensional Query

GIS visualization, event dashboards, data extraction, report export, and central live broadcast support decision-making.

AI scenario coverage

From unloading safety to full-station supervision, the platform supports broad scenario automation.

Fuel unloading safety intelligence

  • High-altitude PPE compliance detection
  • Extinguisher placement validation
  • Anti-static clip usage detection
  • Grounding and hose operation compliance
  • Unloading duration monitoring

Station-wide operational monitoring

  • Night reflective vest detection
  • Mobile phone use detection during operations
  • Electronic fence and restricted-area monitoring
  • Personnel intrusion and cross-area movement detection
  • Cashier/counter personnel management checks

Workflow AI compliance analysis

  • Real-time reminders at unloading start
  • Step-by-step unloading checklist verification
  • Routine patrol full-process recording
  • Automatic evidence snapshots and playback timelines
  • PDF-ready compliance report export

Operational result

  • Faster incident discovery: scenario-triggered alerts reduce delayed response.
  • Lower manual review workload: structured retrieval and AI-tagged events.
  • Higher compliance confidence: full-process records for audit and management.
  • Better decision support: visual dashboards and multi-dimensional report output.

From safety checks to reviewable evidence

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The Shell deployment addressed unloading safety across camera views: checking equipment, personnel and process steps, then connecting detected events to snapshots, playback and reports. This industrial experience informs how we help partners build their next application.

What this experience brings to today’s platform

The Shell gas station solution checked operational steps and connected detections to evidence snapshots, playback, and reporting. It illustrates why industrial AI needs process context as well as object recognition.

For a similar application today, explore Studio for authoring and testing process logic, Edge for on-site execution, and Hub for event review.

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