Data centersIntrusion detection
CAM-550
A wooden wedge holding the hall door wide open
Six fifteen in the morning, service corridor. The hall door is wide open and not coming back: somebody has jammed a wedge under the edge and the door closer has been left with nothing to do. From the corridor you can see the cabinets on the other side. Down the way, a cleaner is running a floor scrubber with the hose across the floor. The door has been like that for nine and a half minutes.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- door held open
- wedge stopping it from closing
- open doorway
- cabinets on the other side
- wall reader
- door closer left with nothing to do
- cleaning worker
- floor scrubber and hose
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 9 min 30 sTime held open
- 30 sAlerts after
- 0People through since then
- 06:12Time it stopped closing
- 06:02:40Video saved from
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 hall door has been open for longer than the procedure allows
Then
- alert the guard station with the door, how long it has been open and since when
- save the video of the moment it opened and stopped closing
- repeat the alert every five minutes while it stays open
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if a hall door stays open for more than thirty seconds.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for physical security on site
Six fifteen in the morning. The cleaner has wedged the room door open so he can go in and out with the scrubber, which is what anyone would do. Nobody here has done anything wrong. The problem is the time: a room door left open for half an hour stops separating two zones, and zone separation is half of what gets audited in a data center. IRIS doesn’t look for culprits and doesn’t interrupt anyone for opening a door: it watches how long it’s been open. Once the time the site has set has passed, it asks somebody to close it. That’s all, and that’s enough.
What people usually ask
Doesn’t the door contact already raise an alert?
Sometimes it does. But a contact says open or closed, and not always: if the door is in maintenance mode, if the contact has drifted, or if the leaf stops halfway, the system can report a door as fine when it isn’t closing at all. The camera looks at the leaf. It sees that it is open, it sees a wedge underneath and it sees that nothing has changed nine minutes later. And where the contact gives an alert with no picture, here there’s a video that explains the case in two seconds.
Does the alert point at whoever left it open?
No, and it shouldn’t. IRIS does not recognize faces and does not know who anyone is. The alert says which door, since when and for how long. Whoever wedged it did so in order to work, and what’s needed isn’t a telling-off: it’s for somebody to close it before it stays like that all morning. If cleaning needs that door open, the right answer is to change the procedure, not to scold anyone.
Can it be turned off during cleaning?
It can, and in many sites that’s the sensible thing: you mark a time window in which that door may stand open, and the alert only fires beyond it. The rule is decided once and applied always, on every shift, with nobody having to remember to switch it on and off. That’s what separates a rule from a note taped to the door.
Other cameras
- CAM-547 · Two people go through and only one showed a badge
- CAM-548 · Both of them inside the airlock, inner door still open
- CAM-549 · Someone alone in an aisle where nobody goes unescorted
- CAM-551 · It looks like routine maintenance, and it probably is
- CAM-552 · The cabinet was left open and nobody’s standing at it
- CAM-553 · A single pair of hands inside the open panel
The real interface, step by step
Everything comes in. Only what matters gets through.
This sums up what IRIS does with one alert, from the moment it appears until it’s closed. The real screen holds far more; this is the main thread.
- Checks the whole system
- Flags what is failing
- Puts it on one screen
Next step
Who watches a whole station at rush hour?
17 cases: 11 raise an alert when something happens and 6 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
Who sees the sales that never reach the register?
10 cases: 4 raise an alert when something happens and 6 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
The door was left open at two.Finding out at nine is no use to anyone.
The video tells you at nine. IRIS says it at two, with the camera, the time and the images from that moment. The difference between the two is whether someone can go.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.