Critical infrastructureMobility analysis
CAM-155
A drum missing from the rack
The plant’s product rack, both levels loaded: blue drums, jerrycans, totes and tubs. On the lower level there’s an empty bay, marked out with yellow and black stripes, with nothing in it. An operator in a safety vest has stopped to one side and is looking at it. In front, a pallet of stacked sacks on the concrete; behind, the plant building and the basins.
Turn on IRIS Vision
AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- empty bay
- product rack
- drums on the top level
- operator checking
- pallet of sacks
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 24Bays in the rack
- 1Empty bays
- 2 h 10 minEmpty for
- 06:50Last time it was occupied
- 1People in the frame
- 14:05Last check
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
a bay in the rack goes empty and is still empty at the next check
Then
- log which bay it is and since what time it has been empty
- put it in the rack log, without interrupting anybody
- keep the last frame in which the bay was occupied
The instruction that set it up«Show me the product rack every morning and tell me if anything is missing from its bay, without anyone having to go and count.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the site
Tuesday morning, and the store operator has stopped in front of the rack: there’s an empty bay on the lower level and nobody knows since when. This isn’t an incident, and that’s why it interrupts nobody: the dot shows in gold and doesn’t blink. It’s a visual audit of the rack. Today someone walks it with a sheet once a week and writes down what they see; the rest of the week nobody looks at it. The camera looks every time: how many bays there are, how many are occupied, and since what time the missing one has been missing. There’s nothing to attend to, there’s something to know. And the limit is an honest one: IRIS sees that a drum is missing from its bay; it doesn’t know what’s inside any of them.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS know what’s inside the drums?
No. IRIS sees whether a bay in the rack is occupied or empty, and that’s as far as it goes. It doesn’t know what’s inside any drum, it doesn’t read labels and it doesn’t know whether the one in a bay is the one that should be there. That’s what the plant’s own records are for, with their packing slips and data sheets. What the camera adds is that those records can be checked against what’s actually on the rack every day, instead of once a week.
Why does this not come through as an alert?
Because there’s nothing to attend to. A drum missing from its bay may be exactly what was supposed to happen: somebody took it down to dose with it. Interrupting a plant manager for that would spend the attention he needs for the camera watching a person on the ground. That’s why it shows in gold and doesn’t blink, and why it lives in a log rather than in an alert. If everything interrupts, nothing does.
Does IRIS identify the operator standing in front of the rack?
No. IRIS does not identify anyone: it does not recognize faces, it does not read license plates, it does not compare them against any database and it does not store who anyone is. Here counting people isn’t even needed for anything: what’s being looked at is the rack. Someone appearing in the frame changes nothing about what gets logged.
See it for yourself
Everything comes in. Only what matters gets through.
This sums up what IRIS does with one alert, from the moment it appears until it’s closed. The real screen holds far more; this is the main thread.
- You draw the line
- It counts by itself
- A number comes out
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
A recording gets watched when nothing can be done.An alert lands while there’s still time to act.
IRIS raises the alert while it’s happening and says where: the camera, the time and the images from that moment. With that, whoever is on duty is still in time to act.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.