CAM-549
Someone alone in an aisle where nobody goes unescorted
Mid-morning, in the aisle between the caged room and a row of cabinets. One person is standing there, badge on a lanyard, looking around. There’s nobody else in the whole frame. In this area the site’s procedure says nobody walks alone: anyone without their own access comes in escorted. IRIS doesn’t see the escort because there isn’t one, and that’s exactly what it sees: one person, alone, in this area, for the last four minutes.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- person alone in the area
- badge on a lanyard
- wall reader
- door at the end of the aisle
- glazed room
- row of cabinets
- raised floor
- empty aisle behind
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 4 min 12 sTime alone so far
- 0Other people in frame
- 2 minAlerts after
- 10:24Time of the alert
- 10:19:48Video 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
one person has been alone for more than two minutes in an area that requires an escort
Then
- alert the hall supervisor with the area, the time and how long they have been alone
- save the video from the moment they were left alone
- put the alert next to the last access read for that area, so it can be checked at a glance
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if a single person spends more than two minutes alone in the escort-only area.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for physical security on site
Mid-morning. The technician escorting a supplier takes a call, says “wait here, I’ll be right back” and walks off two aisles away. Escorting is one of those rules everybody signs and that falls apart the moment somebody is in a hurry, and nobody logs those two minutes. IRIS doesn’t judge: it counts how many people are in the zone and how long one has been on their own. If it’s staff with their own access, the alert is closed in ten seconds. If it’s a visitor, somebody goes back for them. Both are better than not finding out.
What people usually ask
How does IRIS know that person was missing an escort?
It doesn’t, and that should be said plainly. What the camera sees is one thing: there’s a person alone in an area where the procedure calls for an escort, and they have been there four minutes. Whether that person was a visitor, a contractor or staff with their own access is known to access control, which is what let them in. IRIS supplies the fact and the minute; the permission comes from the other system. With both pieces, the check is immediate.
What if it’s an employee who works there every day?
Then the alert is closed and nothing else happens. The area is drawn once, and you state at what hours and for whom the rule applies; from then on, most alerts last thirty seconds. We would rather have an alert that closes itself than a visitor wandering about whom nobody remembered. And if that area turns out to generate ten alerts a day, that’s information too: either the rule or the area is wrong.
Does it identify the person from their badge?
No. The badge you can see hanging is a card, not something IRIS reads. The camera does not recognize faces, does not read cards and does not know who anyone is: it sees a body, an area and a clock. The badge appears in this page only as a description of the scene, never as an identification.
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-550 · A wooden wedge holding the hall door wide open
- 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
Demo · IRIS at work
A camera looks. IRIS understands what it sees.
An extract of the real screen, no voice-over and hands-free. Each round poses another situation. What sits behind it is a good deal bigger than what you see.
- You draw the line
- It counts by itself
- A number comes out
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
A recollection can’t be checked.A number can, and it comes out the same every day.
The number doesn’t depend on who was on shift or how they remember it. It’s measured the same way every day, and that’s why people counting is approved by the Centro Español de Metrología. That approval is Spanish and it isn’t equivalent to any U.S. certification: we say so up front and not at the end.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.