CAM-118
Someone on the hallway floor
A unit hallway in the small hours. Someone is lying on the floor, on their side, one arm stretched out in front of them. A few feet away an empty wheelchair sits against the wall and, further on, a dressings cart stands unused. The room door is shut and nobody walks past. IRIS sees that there’s a person on the floor and how long they have been there; it doesn’t know who they’re or what happened.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- person on the floor
- empty wheelchair
- dressings cart
- door to a room
- hallway seats
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 2 min 10 son the floor for
- 55 slast movement
- 1people on the floor
- 0people nearby
- 0walked past since the fall
- 03:14time 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
a person ends up lying on the floor of a common area and is still there after the number of seconds the hospital has set
Then
- alert the unit’s nurses’ station with the camera, the hallway and the time
- open the video of the moment the person went down, so whoever arrives knows what the camera saw
- log how long it took for someone to get there, so the hospital can review it
The instruction that set it up«Tell me as soon as somebody is on the floor of a hallway and stays there, even at four in the morning when nobody walks past.»
What changes
What changes for whoever runs the unit
At four in the morning a hallway can go twenty minutes without anyone walking down it. The problem isn’t that someone falls: it’s the time that passes before anyone sees it. Today that depends on a nurse leaving a room at exactly the right moment, or on another patient raising the alarm. IRIS watches the hallway the whole time and alerts the nurses’ station the moment there’s a person on the floor, with the camera, the place and the time, and it opens the video. It doesn’t treat anyone: the team does that. The only thing that changes is how long it takes to find out, and in an empty hallway that’s almost everything.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS know who the person on the floor is?
No. IRIS does not identify anyone: it does not recognize faces, it does not compare them against any database, it does not store who anyone is, and it does not access any medical record or any hospital system. What it detects is a situation — there’s a person on the floor of this hallway and they have been there a while — and that’s what reaches the nurses’ station. Who they’re and what happened is seen by whoever arrives.
Are there cameras inside the rooms?
No. These cameras look at common areas: hallways, waiting areas and lobbies. There’s no camera in any room, in any bathroom and in any examination room, nor anywhere a patient is treated or examined. When the door closes, the camera stays outside — and that isn’t a setting somebody can flip one afternoon: it’s how the area is installed.
What if someone crouches down to pick something up?
That’s why the rule has time built into it. Crouching, tying a shoelace or sitting on the floor for a moment isn’t the same as staying down, and it’s the hospital that decides how many seconds must pass before the alert fires. That number is written by the hospital with its own clinicians, not by us, and it can be different in a unit hallway than in a busy lobby.
Every simulation
Emergency gear blocked
Tell me if something blocks an exit, an emergency shower or a fire lane, or if the equipment is not where it belongs.
- The sentence
- Where it applies
- What it finds
- The same rule
Next step
Who is watching when the load swings over somebody?
11 cases: 9 raise an alert when something happens and 2 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
Who is watching the yard screen when the fight starts?
17 cases: 16 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.
And the best part
You can ask which van came in yesterday.Who was inside isn’t a question you ask here.
IRIS searches for things and situations, not people: it identifies nobody and recognizes no faces. You write what you’re looking for and it returns the matching minutes.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.