CAM-13
Load spilled on the road
A truck has shed part of its load inside the tunnel: boxes, metal pipes and a pallet are lying across the lane. A worker has got out to set down a cone while cars swerve around the debris.
Turn on IRIS Vision
AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- spilled load
- truck
- worker
- stopped vehicle
- vehicle
- cone
The rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
an object falls from a vehicle onto the road
And alsoit comes to rest inside a running lane
Then
- alert the traffic control room
- say which lane needs closing
- send the video of the spill
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if a vehicle drops its load on the road, and which lane it is blocking.»
What changes
What changes for whoever runs the city
The frightening thing in this scene isn’t the pallet: it’s the worker who climbed down to put out a cone, standing in a lane where cars are still coming through. Today the control room doesn’t know they’re there until somebody phones. With IRIS the operator gets the alert as soon as the load stops moving on the roadway, and sees which lane it’s in. He closes that lane and drops the speed limit while the worker still has their back to the traffic, which is the only moment when closing it is worth anything.
What people usually ask
Do you need a special camera to see an object dropped on the road?
No, you don’t need a special camera: IRIS works with the cameras already installed in the tunnel or on the road. What changes isn’t the sensor but what’s understood from the picture: IRIS compares the scene with itself and flags something that wasn’t there before and isn’t moving. If a camera isn’t good enough at that spot, IRIS says so.
Does IRIS spot a small object on the road too, or only a big pallet?
IRIS spots small objects as well as large ones: you choose the minimum size when the camera is configured. The rule isn’t defined by the object but by how much of the roadway it takes up: you set the surface from which you want an alert. The lower that threshold, the more alerts you get, including some you don’t care about. That balance is tuned during commissioning, stretch by stretch.
Does IRIS tell a dropped load from a bag blown by the wind?
Largely yes: IRIS looks at whether the object stays still in the lane or keeps moving and disappears. What raises the alert is something that has been motionless on the roadway for a while. Even so, a windy day can produce the odd extra alert; that’s why the alert arrives with the camera open and is confirmed or dismissed in seconds.
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.
- It lands in the tray
- You open it
- You confirm or dismiss
Next step
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.
Who sees the sales that never reach the register?
10 cases: 4 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 tells you what happened.An alert reaches you while it’s happening.
Reviewing the recording helps you explain. Hearing about it at the time helps you get there. Two different things, and until now you only had the first.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.