What the camera records
Hands, tools, material and workpiece from the worker's point of view, across the full shift: setup, execution, correction and handover, as they happen. Recordings are unstaged and cover the task from start to finish.
The AI data layer for European industry
Two licensed datasets from the same companies: first-person video of industrial work, and operational business data from Slack, Jira, ERP, machine logs and CAD. Consented, anonymised and GDPR-compliant. Delivered ready for training.
Consented.
Licensed.
Deployable.
We document how European industry operates — on the shop floor and in its systems — and deliver it as licensed training data.
Head-worn cameras record regular shifts in workshops, warehouses and facilities. Licensed exports are drawn from the systems those companies operate: Slack, email, Jira, ERP, machine logs and CAD. Each worker consents individually and is compensated. Each company signs a licence. Each file carries a documented chain of title. The result is data your organisation can train on and deploy commercially.
Pilot programme · Q3 2026
Figures updated with each delivery
7
Capture sites
Germany today, further EU regions next
1,240h
Approved hours
Passed quality and consent review
9
Licensing companies
German firms under written data licence
100%
Consent & licence coverage
Every clip, every record, every person in frame
2Line one · Egocentric video
First-person video from manual work across German industry.
Recordings are unstaged. Workers perform their regular tasks while the camera captures hands, tools, materials and the decisions between them. We record in any sector where manual work takes place and scope new domains on request.
Sectors
We record wherever manual work takes place. Sites are active or onboarding in the sectors below; further sectors are added on request.
- 01Wood manufacturing
- 02Commercial cleaning
- 03Industrial trades
- 04Warehouse & logistics
- 05Food & beverage production
- 06Metal fabrication & welding
- 07Automotive service & tyre shops
- 08Construction sites
- 09Plastics & light assembly
- 10Hotels, kitchens & hospitality
- 11Commercial laundry
- 12Recycling & waste
- 13Print & packaging
- 14Retail back-of-house
- 15Agriculture & greenhouses
- 16Textile & garment
- 17Healthcare support & care
- 18Facility maintenance & landscaping
3The camera
A camera designed for the working day.
A slim head-worn band with a single forward-facing lens. It leaves the hands free, records a full shift, charges overnight and pauses with a single press. The worker remains in control at all times.
- WornOn the forehead, hands free
- RecordsA full shift on one charge
- ControlPause any time, one press
- SetupShips in a box, fitted in minutes
4Line two · Business data
Operational data from the systems companies run on.
We source and license operational data from German companies: from Slack, email and Jira to production and machine records and CAD files. Data is anonymised at the source, fully GDPR-compliant and delivered ready for training. Further systems are scoped on request.
Engineering
CAD models and assemblies, technical drawings, bills of materials and change histories. Geometry together with the engineering rationale, from concept to released part.
02
Communication
Slack and Teams channels, email threads, Jira tickets and Confluence pages. How decisions are made, escalated and closed, in the working language of German companies, with personal identifiers removed.
03
Operations
ERP orders, CRM pipelines, production and shift logs, machine and sensor records, quality and maintenance reports. Structured tables and time series, linked across systems.
Further sources
Every system a company operates holds training signal. We are licensing or onboarding:
- 04Meeting notes & transcripts
- 05Internal wikis & handbooks
- 06Support & service tickets
- 07Procurement & supplier records
- 08Logistics & shipping records
- 09Quality & inspection reports
- 10Maintenance logs
- 11Sensor & PLC time series
- 12Quotes, offers & contracts
- 13Test reports & lab data
- 14Simulation & FEA results
- 15Change requests & ECOs
5Why European data
Most training data cannot be deployed in Europe. Ours is built to be.
The legal chain is built with the same rigour as the data. Every clip and every record is cleared for training and for commercial deployment, and the documentation is delivered with it.
01
Signed consent, per worker
Each recording worker signs an individual, revocable agreement, separate from the employment contract, in their own language and with fair compensation. Bystanders are consented or masked prior to delivery.
02
A written licence, per company
Each business dataset is licensed directly from the company that produced it. Personal data is removed on the company's side and verified on ours, with works-council involvement where required. No scraping, no inference.
03
GDPR-compliant from the ground up
A documented legal basis, a data processing agreement and an anonymisation report accompany every dataset. Raw material remains on servers in Germany. Source, licence scope, review status and content hash are delivered with every file.
04
Deployable, not just trainable
Research-only licences do not support commercial products. Our standard licence covers training, fine-tuning and commercial deployment, with optional exclusivity per domain.
“The data is only as good as the rights behind it.”Emberlab principle no. 1
6For data partners
A second revenue line from work you already do.
We partner with workshops, contractors and trade businesses that record their work, and with manufacturers, engineering firms and service companies that license the data their systems already hold. Germany today, with further EU regions opening. No process changes, no additional staff, and nothing leaves your premises without your approval.
01D+0
Hardware or export tooling provided
Capture kits are delivered by courier and consent sessions are run on site by our team. For business data, we map your systems, agree the anonymisation rules with you and provide the export tooling.
02D+3
Operations continue unchanged
Staff wear the kit during regular shifts, opt-in and pausable at any time. Systems export on a schedule, anonymised before anything leaves your network.
03Monthly
Compensation per hour and per dataset
Every approved hour is paid, to the business and to the individual who recorded it. Every licensed dataset earns a recurring fee for the duration of its use. No minimum volumes.
04Under a week
Operational within five working days
From first call to first recorded shift or first export. We provide the documentation; you provide the work.
Currently onboarding capture partners across manual industries and licensing partners in manufacturing, engineering and services, across Germany. Further EU regions and domains on request.
Become a data partner7Request data
Tell us what your model requires.
data@emberlab.eu
Sample accessWithin 24 hours, under NDA
FormatsVideo, stereo, IMU · JSONL, Parquet, STEP, native CAD · structured sidecars
Custom datasetsDomain, task list, system or format on request
Compliance packConsent, licence and anonymisation records with every delivery
LocationGermany, expanding across the EU · data hosted and processed in the EU