Critical infrastructurePersonal safety
CAM-180
Person on foot among machines
The yard of a waste plant: a wheel loader swinging its bucket toward the heap on the left, a garbage truck stopped in the middle and the compactors on the right. Through the wide-open gate a worker is walking in, on foot, into ground where only machines move.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- person on foot
- wheel loader
- garbage truck
- compactors
- open gate
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 1People on foot in the yard
- 1Machines moving
- 3Vehicles in the yard
- 35 sIn the yard for
- 2Gate leaves standing open
- 09:12Time 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 on foot enters the yard while a machine is moving inside it
Then
- alert the yard supervisor with the camera and the way in that was used
- alert the cab of the nearest machine as well
- log the time and the way in, so the plant learns where people slip through
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if anyone walks into the yard while machines are maneuvering.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the site
A machine operator can’t see what’s behind him or right beside his wheel. A slewing loader has a huge blind spot, and the person crossing on foot doesn’t think about it, because he does it twice a day and nothing has ever happened. It’s the same case as the forklift on a building site and it is solved the same way: somebody has to find out while the person is walking in, not afterward. IRIS alerts the supervisor and the nearest cab the moment someone steps into the maneuvering area with a machine running. It brakes nothing, touches no machine and promises nothing: it shortens the stretch of time in which nobody knows that person is there.
What people usually ask
What if the worker has to go in because it’s his job?
Then it isn’t an incident, and the rule has to say so. The area, the hours and who may set foot in it are defined by the plant, not by IRIS. You can leave the yard open to pedestrians during the midday stop and close it while a machine is running; you can ask for it to fire only when the machine is actually moving. The rule is written by the operator of the site: IRIS applies the one it’s been given, and that’s what keeps the alert meaningful.
Does IRIS know whether the worker is wearing a safety vest?
That’s a different camera and a different rule, not this one. What matters here’s that there’s a person on foot where machines are maneuvering, and that’s a problem whether or not he is wearing a vest. Cramming both things into one alert is what makes an alert useless: whoever gets it no longer knows what he is responding to.
Does IRIS recognize who the worker walking in is?
No. IRIS does not identify anyone: it does not recognize faces and it does not read license plates. It detects that there’s a person and where that person is, not who it is. To warn that somebody is on foot among the machines, that’s all you need, and nothing else is stored.
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
Who sees the child who’s fallen at the far end of the schoolyard?
14 cases: 13 raise an alert when something happens and one only measures. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
Who is watching a site where there’s almost never anybody?
44 cases, and in every one of them IRIS raises an alert when something happens. You see each image as it is, and then with what it 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.