Trip-and-fall detection. Aggressive-resident logging.
Accelerometer-tuned fall detection, crew-vehicle pairing, anonymised aggressive-resident registry shared across the round.
- +0False-positive falls · pilot target
- 23%Routes flagged 'aggressive history'
Refuse workers have the highest workplace injury rate of any UK sector after agriculture. We tune fall-detection thresholds for the bin-lifting motion (no false positives from the lift cycle), pair the whole crew to the vehicle automatically, and log aggressive-resident incidents so the next crew is warned.
The pain points your existing stack misses.
- Trip-and-fall: highest injury rate, slowest to be detected
- Aggressive residents repeatedly targeting crews with no shared warning
- Vehicle-pairing manual at depot — slows the morning departure
- Council audit demanding incident patterns no one has captured
- Sharps + biohazard exposures not logged for occupational health
- Night-shift commercial collection with no live visibility from the depot
Built specifically for refuse & waste collection.
Trip & fall detection
4G + 12s stillness threshold, tuned to ignore the lift-and-tip motion.
Vehicle + crew pairing
QR scan at depot pairs whole crew to the truck — driver, loaders, supervisor.
Aggressive-resident logging
Anonymised flag attached to the round; next crew gets a heads-up.
Route progress map
Live bin progress per street, missed-bin reports, completion time per route.
Sharps + biohazard exposure log
One-tap exposure report with photo; auto-routes to OH with tetanus-status prompt.
Reversing-zone proximity alert
BLE-paired hi-vis vests pulse-vibrate the moment a crew member enters the truck's reverse cone.
The platform underneath the Refuse pack.
Sector packs add the workflow; this is the operational layer every customer gets regardless of vertical — billing, comms, AI dispatch and trust signals.
Multi-channel SOS cascade
Push + SMS + WhatsApp + voice fan-out in parallel. AI re-ranks responders by distance + role + rationale before dispatch.
AI Virtual Watcher
Three Claude-powered flows: SOS narrative + mandatory ack, PPE/cert gap detection, proactive welfare pings.
Comms allowance + bundles
Monthly SMS / WhatsApp / voice quotas included. Overage auto-bills; pre-buy bundles for cheaper rates. SOS always sends.
Admin broadcasts + inbox
One-to-many alerts to any worker subset, ack-tracked for regulator evidence. Per-worker channel prefs respected.
Trust + verify panel
At-a-glance integrations status and a dry-run test SOS so you can prove the dispatch before betting a real shift on it.
Audit ledger (HMAC-signed)
Every action stamped to ID + timestamp + UUID. Regulator-ready PDF export with one click.
Stripe billing + Customer Portal
Per-active-worker pricing. 14-day trial, no card up-front. Self-serve plan changes and bundle top-ups.
REST + Webhook API
Push incidents into ServiceNow / RIDDOR-to-HR / SIEM (Splunk, Datadog, Elastic). GraphQL on Enterprise.
Your workers lose signal. Their safety net doesn't.
Out on site, in the cab, deep in a valley — refuse & waste collection teams hit blackspots exactly where an incident is most likely. An SOS still counts with no signal: it's saved on the phone with its last location and fired automatically the moment coverage returns, timestamped for the audit ledger. And where the phone has Emergency SOS via satellite, Vygard points the worker straight into it. No £200 messenger to issue, charge or remember — it's the phone every worker already carries.
How off-grid coverage worksBlackspot-proof store-and-forward
SOS raised with no signal is saved with its timestamp and last GPS fix, then delivered the instant a bar returns — logged to the audit ledger, nothing lost.
Satellite, built into the phone
Newer iPhones and Androids include Emergency SOS via satellite. With no signal, Vygard surfaces it at the critical moment — no extra hardware, no second network.
Pair a communicator — optional
Truly remote crews can pair a Garmin inReach or similar. Optional — for most workers the phone is already the safety net.
- HSE Waste Industry
- WISH
Create your account, invite your team, they sign in.
Vygard is one app for every industry — workers don't sign themselves up. You create the account, add your people, and they download Vygard and sign in with their phone number.
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Create your account
Set up your organisation online in a couple of minutes — free 14-day trial, no card.
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Invite your team
Add your workers from the dashboard. Their Vygard Waste Operations service pack is picked at first login.
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They download & sign in
Workers install Vygard and sign in with their phone number — nothing to configure.
Download Vygard — the Refuse pack is built in.
Scan to install on the worker's phone. They sign in and pick Refuse & waste collection; the Vygard Waste Operations pack loads automatically.
See the Refuse pack on your own data.
Try the live demo or book a 30-minute call. We'll show you the workflow your team would actually use.