The highwayInfrastructure integrity
CAM-65
Landslide onto the road
Earth and rocks from the slope have come down onto the right-hand lane and cover almost all of it. A car is coming up the next lane and hasn’t seen it yet.
Turn on IRIS Vision
AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- landslide
- rocks
- slope
- car
The rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
earth or rock appears on the road at the foot of the slope
And alsothe slope looks different from how it was at the last check
Then
- alert the control room with the affected lane
- close the lane and lower the limit on the stretch
- alert the maintenance manager with the before and after images
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if material comes down from the slope onto the road, and show me if the slope looks different from the last inspection.»
What changes
What changes for whoever runs the road
It’s been raining since the night before, and at six thirty in the morning the slope sheds earth and stone onto the right-hand lane. The first car arrives two minutes later. Let us be clear: IRIS doesn’t predict when a slope will come down, and anyone who promises that’s lying. What it does is see the material the moment it’s on the roadway, at any hour and without anyone having to drive past. And because the camera always looks at the same framing, the maintenance manager can compare today’s slope with last week’s and see whether it has moved. The value is in the time: closing the lane now, and not when the first car meets the stones head on.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS warn before the landslide happens?
No. IRIS doesn’t predict landslides or anything else: it sees what has already happened or what’s happening. What it does do is two useful things: raise the alert as soon as there’s material on the roadway, and show whether the slope has changed compared with earlier images of the same frame. That second one is a reason to go and look, not a prediction.
How does it know the slope has changed?
By comparing the scene with itself. The camera is fixed and always looks at the same piece of hillside, so you can put one image next to another and see where the earth has moved, where a new crack has opened or where vegetation has come down. If the camera shifts or the framing changes, that comparison stops being valid and the reference has to be redone: it’s a real limitation and we say so.
Does this replace inspecting the slope?
No. The inspection is done by a technician who goes there, looks and touches, and no camera replaces that. What changes is the order of the visits: instead of walking every slope on the same calendar, the maintenance manager starts with the ones that have changed. There’s still an inspection; you just get sooner to where it matters.
Demo · IRIS at work
This isn’t a video. It’s a slice of the real screen.
A summary of the real interface, played hands-free. You see one case from start to finish; what you don’t see are the other screens, and there are many.
- Four cameras at once
- Each understands its own view
- The numbers climb by themselves
Next step
How many spaces are open right now?
15 cases: 9 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.
What does a venue with twenty thousand people inside see?
15 cases: 11 raise an alert when something happens and 4 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
Video tells you what happened.An alert reaches you while it’s happening.
Reviewing the recording helps you explain. Hearing about it at the time helps you get there. Two different things, and until now you only had the first.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.