Critical infrastructurePersonal safety
CAM-164
A worker on the ground, not moving
A worker in blue coveralls and a safety vest, lying on the gravel between two transformers. He is alone: there’s nobody else on the site. He hasn’t moved for several minutes. IRIS doesn’t know what happened to him, and won’t say: it knows there’s a person on the ground who hasn’t moved for a while.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- person motionless on the ground
- transformer at the back
- transformer in the foreground
- access gate
- control cabinet
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 6 minNot moving for
- 3 minMinutes set by the site
- 1People on the site
- 0People moving
- 22 minVisit under way for
- 13:10Time of the alert
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 person stays motionless on the ground for longer than the site allows
Then
- alert the control room with the camera, the time and the video
- alert whoever has to call medical assistance and rescue
- keep the live picture open for as long as the alert lasts
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if somebody stays still on the ground for more than a few minutes, especially if they are alone on the site.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the site
Twenty past eleven in the morning. The technician came in at nine, alone, with the key and the day’s work order, and he has been on the ground between two transformers for four minutes. That’s how a substation is visited: somebody arrives, does the job and leaves, and in between there’s nobody who can see that they have gone down. What exists today is a phone that doesn’t answer and a long hour before anyone worries. A camera watching that walkway doesn’t prevent the fall, but it turns that hour into a few minutes, and for a person on the ground minutes are almost everything. IRIS doesn’t say what happened or why: it says somebody is still where nobody should be still, and it raises the alarm.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS know whether he is hurt or just crouching down to work?
It doesn’t know, and it doesn’t say. All it sees is that there’s a person on the ground who hasn’t moved for a while. A worker crouching moves; someone who has fallen doesn’t. That’s why the rule is about time and not about posture, and why the alert arrives with the picture: whoever gets it sees in two seconds whether to send somebody. We would rather warn once too often and have it closed in two seconds.
Does it replace a lone-worker device?
No. It’s another layer, and both are needed. The device depends on being carried, charged and working; the camera depends on the person being in frame. Neither covers the whole site on its own, which is why one doesn’t replace the other. What the camera adds is a picture, and the picture is what decides what you set out with.
Does IRIS follow technicians around while they work?
No. IRIS does not identify anyone: it does not recognize faces, it does not read license plates, it does not compare against any database and it does not store who anyone is. It keeps no record of who came in, it does not measure how long anybody works and it is not for that. It detects a situation — a person motionless on the ground — and raises the alarm; it doesn’t watch the person.
A different case every time
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 rule gets built
- It goes to every camera
- Published, it watches alone
- And then it fires
Next step
What does a mall see beyond the visitor count?
12 cases: 4 raise an alert when something happens and 8 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
What does an airport see before the line forms?
14 cases: 7 raise an alert when something happens and 7 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
Sometimes you don’t need an alarm:you need a number.
How many people came in, and when. You draw a line over the image and the camera counts. People counting is approved by the Centro Español de Metrología — Spain’s national metrology institute — through NeuralPax. It’s a Spanish approval: it isn’t equivalent to any U.S. certification and we don’t present it as one. What crosses over is the method. The same line, in the same place, every day.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.