CAM-517

A cash box crosses twenty-five feet of sidewalk

Mid-morning. The armored van is stopped at the curb with its rear doors open. Two people from the crew carry a cash box to the branch door, where a third one waits. Between the van and the door there are twenty-five feet of sidewalk: it’s the only stretch of the journey where the money is in plain sight. IRIS times that stretch — when the doors open, how long the walk takes, when the box goes in — and alerts on one thing only: the rear door still being open with nobody from the crew beside it.

CAM-517 · CASH DELIVERY · REAR DOOR OPEN 2 min

What IRIS understands

What it recognizes in this scene

rear door open, 2 minutes
armored van
cash box
person carrying the box, in front
person carrying the box, behind
crew member at the door
branch entrance

What this camera measures

An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.

2 min 10 sHow long the rear door has been open
38 sHow long the box took to cross
8 mFeet of sidewalk in the open
3Crew members on the sidewalk
10:14Time of the alert
10:12:31Video saved from

The figures on this screen are an example from the illustration, not any client’s measurement.

The rule

You decide once. IRIS applies it always.

the van’s rear door has been open for more than sixty seconds and there is nobody from the crew within six feet

Then

alert the control room with the camera, the time and how long the door has been open
save the video from the minute the van’s doors were opened
log the collection with the time the doors opened, how long the walk took and the time it went in

The instruction that set it up«Tell me if the van’s rear door stays open more than a minute with nobody from the crew beside it, and keep the time of every collection for me.»

What changes

What changes for whoever answers for the branch network

A van is armored and a safe is a safe. What’s fragile is the twenty-five feet of sidewalk in between, and today nobody times those twenty-five feet. IRIS leaves a record of every collection: when the doors opened, how long the walk took, what time the box went in. When everything goes well — which is almost always — that record interrupts nobody: it just sits there. The day a transfer takes three times as long, or the rear door stays open with nobody in the van, somebody will know while it’s happening and not three weeks later. Video stops being a tape and becomes a memory you can ask questions of.

What people usually ask

Does IRIS recognize the crew?

No. IRIS identifies nobody and stores no names. What it tells apart is a position, not a person: either somebody is within six feet of the open door, or nobody is. If a different crew comes tomorrow, the rule works just the same, because the rule says nothing about who anyone is.

Is it any use if the collection goes fine every single day?

It’s useful precisely because of that. Since it goes fine every day, nobody watches it — and on the day it doesn’t go fine, nobody will be watching either. And the record isn’t only for the bad day: with the times of a hundred collections you can see what a normal transfer takes at that branch, and one that takes three times as long stops being an impression and becomes a figure. That protects the crew doing the job too.

What can this camera not see?

It doesn’t know what’s inside the box, it doesn’t check whether the collection was scheduled and it doesn’t see inside the van. And it has a blind spot worth saying out loud: with the vehicle parked between the camera and the sidewalk, its own bodywork hides part of the route. That’s why the transfer zone is drawn from the back of the van to the door and not from one side of the street to the other, and why the record keeps times and durations, which are what can actually be measured from here.

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