Named stages
Disassembling guards, hosing down, foaming, scrubbing and rinsing are different steps, so a spec names each one and the order they run in.
Task family
Requirements
Disassembling guards, hosing down, foaming, scrubbing and rinsing are different steps, so a spec names each one and the order they run in.
The catalog rows say production equipment, a production area, hoods, walls, counters, fryers, floors and shelving, and no more, so the spec says which ones your policy needs.
A head-mounted view or a multiview rig keeps the hands, the hose or scrub pad and the surface in frame through the whole sequence.
Frame-accurate action segments mark where hosing ends, where foaming starts and where the final rinse begins.
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Why it matters
Egocentric food plant sanitation and washdown data is real-world video of the physical work of cleaning down a food-production area or a commercial kitchen. In a plant, equipment is rinsed with hoses, foam sanitizer is applied, and the area is scrubbed and rinsed down. In a restaurant kitchen, fryers, hoods, floors, walls, counters and shelving are emptied, degreased and scrubbed. It is recorded against a written spec, with the streams the site states for its custom collections.
The food and beverage manufacturing page lists the two plant rows inside a table of eight plant rows. The two kitchen rows appear on no page of their own. This page centres all four and the neighbouring rows they are often confused with. It describes task video only, and it makes no chemical, food-safety, HACCP, allergen, microbial or certification claim.
Catalog rows
Four, in two environments under the Food & Beverage sector. In the Food & Beverage Manufacturing Plant environment, "Sanitation Washdown" is described as rinsing equipment with hoses, applying foam sanitizer, scrubbing and rinsing down the production area. "Wash down and sanitize production equipment using hoses and foam sanitizer" is described as disassembling guards, hosing down equipment, foaming, scrubbing and rinsing to a sanitary finish. Both are rated Medium and listed as Ready to deploy. The words "sanitary finish" are quoted from the catalog; the site states no measured result behind them.
In the Restaurant & Commercial Kitchen environment, "Restaurant Kitchen Deep Clean" is described as emptying and scrubbing fryers, hoods, floors and shelving with degreaser, brushes and mops. It is rated Medium and listed as Ready to deploy. "Degrease and scrub kitchen surfaces using degreaser and scrub pads" is described as spraying degreaser on hoods, walls and counters, scrubbing with pads and rinsing the surfaces. It is rated Easy and listed as Active collection. Every row lists a head-mounted phone or a multiview rig as the capture mode, and the steps inside each line are set by your spec.
The difference
The plant environment has eight rows, and two of them are sanitation rows. The others, such as Packaging & Sealing, QA / Foreign-Object Inspection and Production Line Operation, are separate listings. The kitchen environment has thirteen rows, and two of them are cleaning rows. Restaurant Dishwashing, washing and racking dishware with a commercial dishwasher and spray hose, and setting up and breaking down a prep line with gastronorm pans and sanitizing buckets, are separate listings too.
General wiping, mopping and janitorial work sit in other environments and have their own pages. For dishware, see the dishwashing page. For wiping surfaces, see the wiping and surface cleaning page. For building cleaning rows, see the janitorial page.
Streams
Firsthand custom collections record ten hardware-synchronized streams aligned under 2 ms, with head and wrist RGB, depth, 3D hand pose with a per-joint visibility flag, contact and grasp events and frame-accurate action segments. The one language label the site states is a task instruction for each episode.
Standard capture is cameras, depth and IMU. A separate glove tier records a tactile signal, and the site does not state whether it applies to these rows. The site also does not state how the capture hardware is protected from water or spray. Equipment models, product names, and whether force or tactile data are needed are therefore settled in the spec.
Privacy
Every episode links to a signed contributor release through a documented consent chain, and the consent record is part of the delivery. Faces, plates and screens are detected and irreversibly blurred at ingest, and a reviewer confirms the result before anything ships. Footage with bystanders who cannot be de-identified is discarded.
That is the whole of the privacy wording the site states. It does not state a rule for plant access, hygiene zones or customer areas in a restaurant, so this page makes no such claim. Raise it in the spec if it matters.
Fast · on demand
Where coverage is already deep, the first validated batch lands in a median of 48 hours from signed spec. Thin environments typically take three to four weeks, because vetting operators there is the bottleneck, and we quote that up front. The site does not state which of the two applies to these rows.
You describe the equipment, surfaces and cleaning sequence your policy needs, and we turn that into a written spec covering tasks, environments, capture tier, annotation depth and accept criteria. A Spec Pilot, a small and fast first batch, can prove the spec before you scale. Billing is per validated hour, a reject log ships with every batch, and rejected items are recaptured at our cost.
At a glance
Every collection runs through the same seven-stage end-to-end custom collection pipeline. End-to-end custom data collection is a managed service that takes an AI data need from problem to owned dataset in a single accountable pipeline.
Catalog rows
| Catalog task | Environment and sector | Catalog description | Skill | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sanitation Washdown | Food & Beverage Manufacturing Plant, Food & Beverage | Rinse equipment with hoses, apply foam sanitizer, scrub and rinse down the production area | Medium | Ready to deploy |
| Wash down and sanitize production equipment using hoses and foam sanitizer | Food & Beverage Manufacturing Plant, Food & Beverage | Disassemble guards, hose down equipment, foam, scrub and rinse to a sanitary finish | Medium | Ready to deploy |
| Restaurant Kitchen Deep Clean | Restaurant & Commercial Kitchen, Food & Beverage | Empty and scrub fryers, hoods, floors and shelving with degreaser, brushes and mops | Medium | Ready to deploy |
| Degrease and scrub kitchen surfaces using degreaser and scrub pads | Restaurant & Commercial Kitchen, Food & Beverage | Spray degreaser on hoods, walls and counters, scrub with pads and rinse the surfaces clean | Easy | Active collection |
| Packaging & Sealing (separate row, not sanitation) | Food & Beverage Manufacturing Plant, Food & Beverage | Listed separately in the plant environment | Easy | Ready to deploy |
| Restaurant Dishwashing (separate row, not sanitation) | Restaurant & Commercial Kitchen, Food & Beverage | Listed separately in the kitchen environment | Easy | Active collection |
Streams and tasks
| Stream or label | Status on this site | What it carries in a sanitation episode |
|---|---|---|
| Head and wrist RGB, depth | Stated; ten streams synced under 2 ms | Keeps the equipment, the surface and the hands on one timeline |
| 3D hand pose, per-joint visibility | Stated for custom collections | Carries how fingers hold a hose, a scrub pad or a brush |
| Contact and grasp events | Stated | Marks when hands meet a hose, a guard, a pad or a mop |
| Action segments | Stated; frame-accurate | Separates guard removal, hosing, foaming, scrubbing and rinsing |
| Task instruction | Stated; one per episode | States the cleaning task in plain language |
| Object labels | Set by your spec | Names the equipment and steps in the terms your policy uses |
What is not stated
| Item | Status on this site | Where it is settled |
|---|---|---|
| Cleaning or sanitizing chemicals, concentrations and products | Not stated beyond the words "foam sanitizer" and "degreaser" in the rows | Not claimed on this page |
| Food-safety, HACCP, allergen, microbial or certification claims | Not stated | Not claimed on this page |
| Whether "sanitary finish" is measured or verified | Not stated; the words come from the catalog row | Not claimed on this page |
| Equipment types, makes and models | Not stated; the rows say production equipment and guards only | The written spec |
| Plant type behind each row | Not stated; the environment lists examples such as a packaged food factory, a bottling plant, a meat processing facility and a ready-meal line | The written spec |
| Water pressure, temperature, dwell time or number of rinses | Not stated | The written spec |
| Protection of capture hardware from water and spray | Not stated | The written spec |
| Facility names, regions, number of sites or cleaners | Not stated beyond Western program markets | The written spec |
| Cycle times, throughput, repetition counts | Not stated | Quoted against your spec |
| Force or tactile data | Not stated for these rows | The written spec, if needed |
| Robot or policy results | Not stated | Not claimed on this page |
Formats
| Format | What the official documentation states | Used for here |
|---|---|---|
| RLDS | A dataset is retrieved as episodes, and each episode holds a dataset of steps (RLDS repository README) | Episode-based training loaders |
| LeRobot | LeRobotDataset v3.0 is a standardized format for robot learning data, including multi-camera video, with many episodes stored per Parquet or MP4 file (LeRobot documentation) | LeRobot dataset format and tooling |
| WebDataset | Tar files in which files that belong together share a basename, split into numbered shards (WebDataset README) | Sharded streaming for large training runs |
| HDF5 and zarr | Stated by Firsthand only | Array storage for custom pipelines |
| Rerun .rrd | Stated by Firsthand only | Multi-stream synchronized playback for review |
FAQ
Sources
Tell us the equipment, surfaces and cleaning sequence your policy needs to handle. We will quote reach, timeline, and price against a written spec, with a first validated batch in a median of 48 hours where coverage is deep.