Critical infrastructureInfrastructure integrity
CAM-166
Water pouring into the underground chamber
An underground chamber of the network, with water pouring through the opening in the far wall and falling in a curtain onto the floor. Two workers in hard hats and safety vests are standing in the middle, water up to their calves, and on the stairs to the left the water is already running down the steps. Up on the walkway there are three people watching. IRIS sees water coming in where it should not and people inside; it does not know who any of them are.
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What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- water coming in
- opening in the wall
- workers inside
- people on the walkway
- stairs under water
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 11 minWater coming in for
- 2People inside
- 3People on the walkway
- 2 / 6Steps under water
- 1 / 2Usable ways out
- 19:48Time 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
water comes in through the opening in the wall and there are people inside the chamber
Then
- alert the standby crew and the network manager, with the camera and how many people can be seen inside
- keep the video from the moment the water started coming in
- keep the alert open for as long as water keeps coming in or somebody is still inside
The instruction that set it up«Alert me the moment water comes in through the chamber opening, and tell me how many people are inside right then.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the site
An inspection chamber is empty nearly all the time, and the stretch when somebody is inside is the stretch when work is going on. If water comes in while two people are down there, everything turns on when the person up top finds out. Today they find out when somebody below gets a signal, or when they climb out. IRIS prevents nothing and pulls nobody out: it puts the alert on the desk of the person up top while it’s happening, with the number of people visible in the picture.
What people usually ask
How does it tell water coming in from water already there?
By movement. The rule isn’t looking at a still surface: it looks at the jet falling through the opening and the wave spreading from it, which behaves in the image in a way still water never does. And it doesn’t fire on a drip: you tell it from how long and how persistently it should alert, exactly as with anything else. That line is drawn by the operator of the site, not by IRIS.
Is it any use for knowing whether somebody is still down there?
It’s good for saying how many people are visible in frame while it’s happening, and that already changes a phone call: reporting a flooded chamber isn’t the same as reporting a flooded chamber with two people inside. What it does not do is count them in any certified way or follow anybody through the network: it counts figures in an image, and if one is out of frame or hidden behind the cascade, it is not there. What’s done with that number is decided by a person.
Does it recognize the workers or the people on the walkway?
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 anybody is. It tells that there are people and where they are, and nothing else. For the rule, the difference between the ones below and the ones above is where they stand, not who they are.
Every simulation
Search by license plate
Show me every time that plate crossed the barrier this week, with the time and the video.
- What you’re looking for
- Where to look
- What matches
- Who looks
Next step
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.
Why did the line stop?
237 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
Nothing changes on the wall.On the screen, everything changes.
Same brackets, same cabling, same cameras. The only difference is that those images are now understood as they come in, instead of waiting for someone to open them.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.