Critical infrastructureInfrastructure integrity
CAM-146
Logs piling up against the spillway
The mouth of the spillway seen from above. Against the screens of the bays on the right there’s a raft of logs, branches and a bit of plastic, crossed over one another and resting on the concrete; underneath, white water is still coming through. The bay next to it has a clear screen and the water goes in unobstructed. On the walkway above you can see the gate hoists. Nobody is in frame.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- build-up of logs and trash
- screen blocked
- clear bay
- water still coming through
- gate hoists
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 46+18Floating objects counted
- 2 / 4Bays with a build-up
- 2 h 10 minBuilding up for
- 0People in frame
- hace 3 minLast reading
- 09:12Time
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
floating objects build up against a bay screen and are still there after the time the operator has set
Then
- alert the operations manager with the camera, the bay affected and the video
- alert again if the build-up grows over the following hour
- log the time it started, so you know whether it came with the flood or had been there for days
The instruction that set it up«Tell me when wood or trash builds up against the spillway screens, and tell me whether the pile is still growing.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the site
Second day of rain, six in the evening. Timber comes down with the water, arrives all at once and stops wherever it finds a screen; from then on the bay stops discharging and the water looks for somewhere else. Today the operations manager finds out when he looks at the level, sees it isn’t dropping as it should and has to send someone up with the event already under way. With IRIS the alert goes out while the raft is forming, with the bay and the time, and with that you decide whether to operate another bay, send someone or wait. IRIS clears nothing and promises no bay will stay clear: it warns that one is closing up.
What people usually ask
Isn’t it enough to watch the discharge?
Discharge tells you something is wrong once it already is. A build-up forms before it shows in the level, and the gap between the two is exactly the margin you need to decide anything. Discharge also doesn’t tell you where: it tells you less is coming out than should. The picture tells you which bay and what with. Those are two different pieces of information, and the second is the one you take to a gate operation.
How does it tell a log from foam or a reflection?
Because the rule isn’t about a single object, it’s about a build-up that stays. Foam goes past, a shadow moves with the sun, and a lone log floats down and carries on. What’s detected is material that arrives, stops against the screen and is still there after the time the operator sets, and that time is their parameter, not ours. Even so, it’s a reading taken from the picture: if the screen isn’t visible, IRIS can’t say what’s behind it, and it says so rather than making it up.
Does IRIS know whether anyone is working down there?
It sees whether there are people in frame and counts them, and that’s all. It identifies nobody: it does not recognize faces, it does not read license plates, it compares nothing against any database and it does not store who anyone is. On this camera that figure is good for one thing only: knowing whether the site is empty or whether there’s somebody nearby to warn before operating a bay.
A different case every time
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.
- You draw the line
- It counts by itself
- A number comes out
Next step
And who watches the cameras?
34 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.
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.
And the best part
What happens in the small hoursdoesn’t have to wait for the morning report.
IRIS understands it there and then and tells whoever is on call, with the camera and the time. The next day there is nothing to reconstruct: it’s already written down.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.