Equipment Utilisation Report: what the machines actually did

What it does

This is a report check, not an alert. Once footage finishes processing, it reads the whole timeline and writes a document you can copy, print or forward. For each machine visible on camera (excavators, dumpers, telehandlers, cranes, generators) it reports when the machine appears to be operating versus parked or idle, citing timestamps, gives rough proportions of active against idle time, calls out long idle stretches during working hours, and ends with a one-line utilisation summary per machine.

The hire dispute

Plant-hire disputes are usually memory against invoice. The excavator was broken down for two days, or it wasn't; the telehandler sat idle all week, or it worked every morning. The site camera watched the whole hire, and this report turns that footage into the document both sides needed: timestamps, proportions, the idle stretches named.

It cuts either way, which is what makes it credible. A hire company can show the kit was there and working; a contractor can show it wasn't. Neither side has to take the other's word for what happened on camera.

Utilisation planning

Outside a dispute, the same report answers quieter questions: whether the second telehandler earns its rate or spends the morning waiting for the first one, and which machines pass working hours parked. Run it over each week's footage and the picture accumulates.

Where it runs

Point it at the site camera's footage: an RTSP capture, uploaded files, or a folder of daily exports, and a check can be run across a whole folder in one action, so a month of hire is one job rather than thirty. Reports are comfortable at the Economy watch level (a frame every 15 seconds at 480p), and motion gating means the still hours of a quiet site cost very little. The report arrives on screen and by email, with a JSON webhook if it should land in a system you already run. It reports on machines, not people; there's no facial recognition anywhere in Svid, and a fully on-prem appliance mode exists for sites where footage can't leave the network.

What it costs

Report checks are the cheap end of the Store: they're priced from a $3 a month floor, and the Store shows the exact figure for your usage before you buy, as ‘+$X/mo at your usage’. The subscription it sits on is priced from your own usage with a $9 a month minimum, derivation on screen at signup. The pricing section walks through it.

Can it tell working from idling?

It works from what the camera can see, so machines are reported as appearing active or parked and idle, and the report cites the timestamps it's drawing on. Where the footage is ambiguous, it stays that plain about it.

Is the report usable in a hire dispute?

It's a written document with timestamps that point back into the footage, which is a stronger opening position than recollection. Whether it settles the matter is between you and the other side; what it removes is the argument about what actually happened on camera.

Do I have to run it live?

No. It's a whole-video report, so yesterday's footage, last week's or the whole hire period work equally well. A natural first run is the hire that's already being argued about.