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Collision at an intersection
Two cars have collided in the middle of the intersection. One person is on the ground being treated by paramedics, a bus is stopped behind them and onlookers line both sidewalks; traffic is stopped on all four approaches.
Turn on IRIS Vision
AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- vehicle
- person on roadway
- ambulance
- officer
- bus stopped
- crowd forming
The rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
two or more vehicles collide and come to a stop
Duringmore than 5 seconds
And alsothere is a person on the roadway
Then
- alert whoever coordinates the response
- report which approaches are blocked
- preserve the evidence
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if there is a collision with people on the roadway, and which approaches are blocked.»
What changes
What changes for whoever runs the city
It’s eight fifteen in the morning and the intersection has stopped on all four approaches. There are two people in the control room and forty cameras, and the first alert comes by phone: somebody who can’t name the street and doesn’t know whether anyone is hurt. While that gets fixed, the line grows backward and blocks the buses on three routes. With IRIS that operator has the camera open from the first minute, knows there’s a person on the roadway and which approaches are closed. The ambulance sets off knowing which way in, and the diversion is in place before the line reaches the next intersection.
What people usually ask
Can IRIS report a collision before anyone phones it in?
Yes, IRIS can report a collision before anyone phones it in, because it recognizes the impact in the image itself: two vehicles that meet, stop and never move again. The alert goes out with the camera, the time and what can be seen in the scene, without depending on a witness calling or an operator happening to watch that monitor. The call still comes; what changes is that it’s no longer the first alert.
Can IRIS alert whoever coordinates the response on its own?
IRIS can send the alert to whoever coordinates the response on its own, if the city sets it up that way: to the control room, the city’s duty desk or whoever coordinates the response. What it sends is the camera, the time and what it saw, so whoever receives it can open the image and confirm in seconds. Sending an ambulance is still a person’s decision.
Does IRIS know which approaches to the intersection are blocked?
Yes, IRIS knows which approaches to the intersection are blocked, provided those zones are drawn on the image. Each approach is marked once and from then on IRIS says where traffic has come to a stop. That’s the information you need to divert traffic before the line builds. It only covers what the camera sees: anything outside the frame can’t be known from that spot.
The real interface, step by step
A camera looks. IRIS understands what it sees.
An extract of the real screen, no voice-over and hands-free. Each round poses another situation. What sits behind it is a good deal bigger than what you see.
- The alert fires
- It lands in the tray
- You open it
- You confirm or dismiss
Next step
Who watches an entire highway?
10 cases: 8 raise an alert when something happens and 2 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
Who watches a whole station at rush hour?
17 cases: 11 raise an alert when something happens and 6 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
Video is late by definition:you watch it once the thing has already happened.
IRIS tells you while it’s happening, with the camera, the time and what it saw. Arriving in time changes the end of almost any story, and no new cameras are needed for that.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.