Critical infrastructurePersonal safety
CAM-152
No hard hat in the plant walkway
The technical walkway of a treatment plant, between the aeration basin and the tanks. Someone is coming down the path toward the camera, with no hard hat and no safety vest. At the far end of the same walkway three workers stand by the handrail in vests and hard hats, and on the right another operator in a white hard hat is working on the pumps. The basin is aerating right beside the path.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- person without PPE
- workers wearing PPE
- operator at the pumps
- technical walkway
- aeration basin
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 5People in the frame
- 4Wearing hard hat and vest
- 1Without hard hat or vest
- 40 sIn the area for
- 3Alerts here today
- 12:18Time 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
someone is inside the marked area without a hard hat or without a vest and is still there seconds later
Then
- alert the plant manager with the camera and the exact point on the walkway
- keep the still, so it can be shown at the safety briefing
- log how many times it has happened at that same spot today
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if anyone walks into the technical area without a hard hat and a safety vest, whether they work here or not.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the site
The person without a hard hat is almost never a plant operator: it’s the driver who parked and came in to ask something, the supplier’s technician who came to look at a pump, the visitor who walked six feet ahead. And that walkway has an aerating basin a step from the edge. Today this gets corrected if someone sees it, and at four on a Tuesday afternoon nobody does. IRIS doesn’t stop anyone and doesn’t hand out hard hats: it alerts the person who can walk over and hand one, while the visitor is still there. And because it logs how often it happens and where, the plant manager discovers it’s almost always the same gate.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS know who the person without a hard hat is?
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. It sees a person in an area where a hard hat and a vest are required, and sees that they aren’t wearing them. That’s enough for someone to go and hand them over, and for that you don’t need a name.
What if it’s a visitor being escorted by plant staff?
Escorted or not, that area requires a hard hat. The rule is written by the plant: you mark on the image where the mandatory-PPE zone starts and in which time bands it applies, and the offices and the parking lot stay outside it. If the plant decides an escorted visit shouldn’t raise an alert, it is set up that way; the decision is theirs, not ours.
Is this for disciplining people?
It isn’t designed for that, and the way it works it couldn’t serve that anyway: IRIS doesn’t know who the person is. The alert goes to whoever can walk over with a hard hat in hand, and what gets logged is the spot and the time, not a name. What the site does with that information afterward is decided by the operator of the plant, who writes the rules.
Demo · IRIS at work
You set the rule once. IRIS applies it every time.
You will see a summary of the interface, played step by step and hands-free. Each round starts with another case. The complete tool doesn’t fit in a demo.
- The rule gets built
- It goes to every camera
- Published, it watches alone
- And then it fires
Next step
How long does it take to find a hand played two hours ago?
12 cases: 9 raise an alert when something happens and 3 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
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.
And the best part
If the camera doesn’t show it,IRIS doesn’t see it. We say so up front, not afterward.
No camera sees through a wall or in complete darkness. We’d rather show you where the limit is, and place what you have well, than promise something that never appears on screen.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.