The jobsiteInfrastructure integrity
CAM-58
The slurry pit close to the brim
A deep urban excavation seen from above. In the foreground, the settling pits full of slurry, split by concrete walls and ringed with yellow handrails. On the left, a pipe is still discharging slurry into the pit; on the right there’s a band of wall still dry, and that band is the margin left before it spills. Further back, the boring machine, an excavator and two workers on the walkway. IRIS watches one thing only: how high the slurry is. Right now it’s at 85%: 38 cm of dry wall left to the top, and the alert is set at 90%.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- slurry level
- top of the pit
- discharge pipe
- workers on the walkway
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 85 %+6 ptPit level
- 38 cmMargin to the top
- 90 %Alert threshold
- 2 pt / diaHow fast it rises
- 2 diasTime left
- hace 4 minLast reading
The figures on this screen are an example from the illustration, not any client’s measurement.
The series, not one figure
One number says nothing. A curve does.
This week’s rise and the threshold
- Slurry level
- Alert threshold
| Slot | Slurry level |
|---|---|
| Mon | 71% |
| Tue | 73% |
| Wed | 75% |
| Thu | 78% |
| Fri | 80% |
| Sat | 83% |
| Sun | 85% |
| Alert threshold | 90% |
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.
If
the slurry in the pit rises above the marked height and stays there
Then
- alert the site crew lead and whoever runs the pump, with the camera and the pit that is filling up
- log the time and the height, so you know how fast it is rising
- repeat the alert for as long as the level keeps rising instead of dropping
The instruction that set it up«Tell me when the slurry gets within a hand’s width of the top of the pit, before it goes over and I find it all over the site.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the site
A slurry pit that goes over the top takes the site floor with it, runs into the drains and ends up as a formal notice. Today the level is checked by going to look, and whoever goes sees a level, not a slope: they come back knowing how the pit stands, not how long it has left. And a number on its own doesn’t tell you whether to act: 85% is alarming or not depending on what it read yesterday. What decides is how fast it’s rising. At two points a day, 85% to 90% is two days, and emptying a pit or booking a tanker isn’t something you improvise: you ask for it in advance. That’s why the reading comes with its curve and with the threshold line drawn beside it. The crew lead stops walking over just in case and goes when it matters. IRIS doesn’t stop the pump and doesn’t open any valve: it warns while there’s still margin, and a person decides.
What people usually ask
How does a camera know how high the slurry is?
A camera knows how high the slurry is because somebody drew the reference on the image first: where the top of the pit is and from what height it starts to be a problem. It’s the same idea as a ruler painted on a wall — the mark is drawn once and the camera checks whether the surface of the slurry has passed it. That’s why this camera is set up by drawing and not by describing: you can’t explain a line with a sentence, you have to trace it. And it’s worth saying plainly: this is an estimate of the level from the image, not a probe sitting in the slurry. It’s there to warn while there’s still margin, not to certify a volume; a sensor inside the pit measures better, and what the camera adds is that it’s already up there and sees the whole pit.
What if the slurry ripples or changes color in the sun?
Slurry does ripple and it does change color in the sun, which is why the rule doesn’t fire on the first wave. What counts is the level held for a while, not the instant, and the reference is adjusted with the pit working during the first days, in sun and in rain. An alert that fires every time the discharge raises a wave gets turned off within a week, and a camera that’s turned off warns about nothing. Foam, the reflection off the water and the site lights at night are learned in those first days: they’re part of the pit, not part of the level.
Is this camera used to watch the people working next to the pit?
This camera isn’t used to watch the people working next to the pit. It watches a height, not people: it does not recognize faces, it does not compare them against any database and it cannot tell you who was on shift. If workers appear in the picture it’s because they’re working there, not because the rule is about them. All the alert returns is which pit is filling up and at what time.
Every simulation
Something has spilled
Tell me if there is liquid or foam outside its place and it is still there two minutes later.
- The sentence
- Where it applies
- What it finds
- The same rule
Next step
Who watches the cameras of a whole city?
23 cases: 18 raise an alert when something happens and 5 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
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.
And the best part
You can’t describe a line with a sentence.You have to draw it on the image.
Asking is for finding. Counting is for measuring. And they aren’t done the same way. That’s why the number comes out the same every day, and why people counting is approved by the Centro Español de Metrología — Spain’s national metrology institute. It’s a Spanish approval and it isn’t equivalent to any U.S. certification.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.