Egocentric Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Video Data

It is first-person video of a person doing plumbing or pipe work, recorded from a head-mounted camera, with two wrist cameras for a closer view of the hands. The contributor is a paid, consented person following a written skill spec, not an actor and not a robot.

The point of the data is what the hands do with pipe, fittings and hand tools: gripping, turning, seating, clamping, feeding. It is labeled so each step can be sliced out. Where the site states nothing, a table says "Not stated" and the answer lives in the spec or the quote.

The task catalog names ten rows that are explicitly about plumbing or pipe work. Four cover fixtures and general plumbing: "Plumbing", "Plumbing repair call", "Plumbing Fixture Installation" and "Remove and install plumbing fixtures using pipe wrenches and sealant tape". Two cover drains: "Drain Snaking & Clearing" and "Snake and clear drain lines using a drain auger and inspection light".

The other four are "Water Heater Replacement", "Shut-off valve + gauge check", and two pipe rows from a metal workshop, "Pipe Cutting & Fitting" and "Cut and fit steel pipe using a bandsaw and pipe clamps". Statuses vary: Ready to deploy, Active collection or Available on request, and the catalog does not define any of them further, so ask which applies to your row. The second table lists neighbouring rows that touch pipes or drains but are not plumbing rows.

The catalog ties these rows to five environments. Active Construction Site lists plumbing among its trades. Trade Service Calls is described as a plumber, electrician or HVAC crew on service calls at client sites. On-Site Home Repair is described as a professional plumber, electrician, HVAC technician or handyman working in a client’s home. Trades Workshop Bench and Metal Fabrication & Welding Workshop cover the bench and pipe-shop rows.

Most rows list a head-mounted phone or multiview rig. The shut-off valve row lists a multiview rig plus handheld grippers. The site does not otherwise state where capture happens or who hosts it, so the spec settles location and access.

An episode is one contributor performing one task from the skill spec, recorded with ten hardware-synchronized streams that line up within 2 ms. The site documents a canonical episode schema, and every delivery format is a view of it.

Hand pose is stored as 21 joints per hand in metres in the head frame, with a visibility flag for each joint. Contact events record when a hand meets an object. The site does not say whether a pipe, a fitting or a wrench counts as the object, so settle it in the spec.

Action segments carry a start, an end, a verb and a noun from a taxonomy the site states as 97 verbs and 512 nouns, human-reviewed. Every episode links to its contributor’s signed release by a consent artefact ID, and each batch ships with a data card.

The unit of labeling is the action segment. A spec that says "replace the fixture" gives you one long segment. A spec that names remove, fit, seal and test gives you a sequence you can slice by step.

Every episode is machine-checked, then reviewed by a human against its skill spec, and rejected episodes are recaptured at our cost. The site states no label for pipe material, joint type, leak result or task success, and no force, torque or tactile reading, so ask for any such label at the start.

Only what the site already states applies. Every contributor signs a written release, and each episode links to it. Faces and screens are detected and blurred irreversibly, a human reviewer confirms that no un-consented person is identifiable, and footage with bystanders who cannot be de-identified is discarded rather than shipped.

The site does not state how a household or other people on a job site are handled beyond that general rule, so settle it in the spec before capture. This is not legal advice, and the executed agreement controls.

Data is delivered in RLDS, LeRobot, WebDataset, HDF5, zarr or Rerun .rrd, or as raw streams with metadata, with the episode schema as the canonical layout. QA runs once, against the canonical episode, before any format is cut. The formats table sets the site’s delivery next to each maintainer’s own documentation, linked under Sources.

The license is perpetual, irrevocable and worldwide, buyer-owned and non-exclusive by default, with exclusivity available as a separate term and the executed order form governing.

The site states one published timeline: from a signed spec to a first validated batch, a median of 48 hours where coverage is already deep, and typically three to four weeks where it is thin because operators have to be staffed. The site does not say which applies to the plumbing rows and promises nothing faster, so ask when you request the quote.

Collection is on demand, so a focused brief, such as one fixture swap from shut-off to leak check, is a normal starting point.

Start with the free sample pack to check the loader and label quality, then move to a Spec Pilot: a small, fast first batch against the written spec that proves the fill rate and reject rate on your conditions before you scale.

A good plumbing brief names the setting, the sequence of steps, how each step starts and ends, what counts as a reject and the privacy rule for the space. The site’s skill-spec guide walks through that structure. Then request a custom dataset.