Throw away less.
Pay for fewer collections.
What you throw away costs you twice: once in fines and contamination penalties, again in unnecessary collections. Darkfield watches every bin on the cameras you already have — fill levels, contamination, mis-routed items — and calls the manager when something needs attention. Fewer collections, cleaner streams, a continuous audit you can hand to a regulator.
Three things, watched continuously.
How full is each bin, right now?
Quantitative percentage updated on every keyframe. Triggers a collection request before overflow; suppresses unnecessary collections of nearly-empty bins.
Is there an item in the wrong stream?
Detects oil-soaked rags in recycling, food in dry waste, hazardous in general — and flags it the moment it lands. Direct phone call to the on-call manager.
What's actually in this bin?
Per-item segmentation across 7+ categories: cardboard, mixed plastic, food plastic container, metal, motor-oil bottle, organic, unknown (flagged for review).
Was the bin actually emptied?
Multi-signal verification — bin position movement, sharp drop in fill percentage, scheduled-time match — plus a vision-language model auditing the surrounding clip.
Several methods.
Picked per camera.
No two bin compounds behave the same. Outdoor sites move bins after every collection. Indoor bins near service bays may not be present at all between shifts. Some are colour-coded, some are numbered, some are unmarked. We pick the right method per camera during onboarding, based on what works on your scene.
Fill-level estimation
four complementary approaches
Bin identification
five ways to know which bin is which
Contamination detection
two approaches, picked by site
// all methods validated at TRL 5 · selection happens during the onboarding survey, no partner involvement
A real call, recorded.
When the AI detects contamination, it doesn't email a dashboard — it picks up the phone. The recipient asks questions. The AI answers, logs the response, and follows up. Below is an actual recording of one such call, with the audio you'd hear at the supervisor's end.
Detection, natural-language notification, supervisor confirmation, SMS follow-up, and remediation logging — all in a single sub-one-minute loop, with no human on the platform side.
how alerts work →What you receive, row by row.
First detection on day one. No financial commitment for two weeks.
We typically have bin fill, contamination, and collection events flowing within 48 hours of connecting your first camera. If we can't reach the accuracy you agreed in two weeks, you pay nothing — and we remove anything we installed.