Critical infrastructureInfrastructure integrity
CAM-183
Vehicle on fire inside the tunnel
Inside a tunnel. A white van has stopped in the left-hand lane with flame at the front and a column of black smoke already touching the vault. The driver is standing on the roadway beside the vehicle. A line is forming behind, and on the left you can see the green door of an emergency exit.
Turn on IRIS Vision
AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- van on fire
- black smoke
- person on the roadway
- line behind
- emergency exit
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 25 sSmoke visible for
- 6Vehicles stopped behind
- 1People out of the vehicle
- 1 / 2Lanes blocked
- 1Emergency exits in view
- 18:20Time 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
smoke or flame appears inside the bore and does not clear within seconds
Then
- alert the control room supervisor with the camera, the point in the bore and the picture
- say that there is a person out of the vehicle and which exit is nearest
- log the time and keep the video from before the smoke started
The instruction that set it up«Tell me the moment there is smoke or flame inside the tunnel, and tell me where and what is behind it.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the site
A fire inside a tunnel is the most critical case a tunnel has, and for one simple reason: the smoke has nowhere to go. Inside there’s no phone signal, no real shoulder and nobody watching, so the alert arrives when somebody manages to call. IRIS watches the whole bore continuously and alerts the control room with the camera and the location the moment smoke appears, and adds what weighs most in the decision: there’s a person out of the vehicle. It doesn’t extinguish, it doesn’t ventilate and it doesn’t close the tunnel: the control room supervisor decides that, and now he decides it sooner.
What people usually ask
Don’t the tunnel’s own sensors already detect this?
The tunnel has its detectors and they carry on doing their job; IRIS doesn’t replace them. What the cameras add is something else: a picture of the exact spot at the exact moment. A detector says there’s something; the camera says what it is, where it is, how many vehicles are behind it and whether anyone is out of their car. A control room supervisor doesn’t decide the same way with a bare alarm as with an image.
Does IRIS call anyone by itself?
No. IRIS doesn’t act: it doesn’t close the tunnel, it doesn’t start fans and it doesn’t phone anyone. It alerts the person who has to decide, with the camera and the image. Who is sent out, when the tunnel is closed and how it is ventilated is decided by the control room, which knows the tunnel and the traffic inside it.
Does IRIS identify the vehicle or the driver?
No. IRIS does not identify anyone: it does not recognize faces and it does not read license plates. It sees that a vehicle has stopped, that smoke is coming off it and that a person is standing on the roadway. That’s enough to raise the alert, and nothing else is stored.
See it for yourself
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
Who is watching the cameras of a whole branch network?
13 cases: 12 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.
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.
And the best part
There’s a moment when you can still act.It’s while it’s happening, and it’s short.
After that, all you can do is tell the story. IRIS speaks up at that moment — camera, time and images — and whoever is on call decides what to do with it.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.