CAM-503
How many are inside the room and how many are still at the coffee
A conference day, mid-morning. In the room at the back there’s a seated audience and a speaker in front of the screen; the double door is open and people are still going in. In the middle of the foyer, three accreditation posts are working through the afternoon line. On the right, the coffee break: high tables with people standing and the catering counter along the side. IRIS counts people: how many cross the door of the room, how many pass the desk, how many are inside at any moment and how many are still at the coffee once the talk has begun.
Turn on IRIS Vision
AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- line at the accreditation desk
- audience seated in the room
- speaker in front of the screen
- door into the room
- accreditation desk
- high tables at the coffee break
- catering counter along the side
- groups standing in the foyer
What this camera gives back
Nobody gets an alert here. Here you get numbers.
- 212+40People inside the room
- 160People in the foyer
- 386Accredited so far today
- 9 / minAccreditations per minute
- 6 minWait at the desk
- 11 minTime to get back into the room after the break
The figures on this screen are an example from the illustration, not any client’s measurement.
IRIS incorporates NeuralPax, a separate license approved by the Centro Español de Metrología — Spain’s national metrology institute — for people counting, occupancy and crowd-flow control. That the figure is right is guaranteed by a third party, not by us: the occupancy figure you show is measured and approved, not estimated. The approval covers that measurement — counting people — not the whole product. That approval is Spanish and it isn’t equivalent to any U.S. certification: we say so up front and not at the end.
How the counting works
Counting isn’t something you ask for. You draw a line.
There are two lines and two areas drawn onto the image. One line on the threshold of the room: whoever crosses it inward adds, whoever leaves subtracts, and that’s the room figure for each talk. Another sits against the desk: it is crossed on being seen, so anybody who joins the queue and never crosses it has left without being accredited. And two areas painted onto the floor: the room and the coffee foyer. None of this can be asked for in words: it is drawn once and stays there, so a Tuesday figure and a Thursday figure are measured the same way. Asking is for finding; counting is for measuring, and they aren’t done the same way. Counting people is the only measurement we hold approval for from the Centro Español de Metrología, Spain’s national metrology institute, and it’s NeuralPax that does it, a separate license built into IRIS. We don’t claim accuracy. We certify it. The approval is Spanish. It doesn’t stand in for a U.S. certification, and we don’t present it as one.
- line across the threshold of the room · Counting line
- line against the accreditation desk · Counting line
- room area · Dwell zone
- coffee foyer area · Dwell zone
And also, one rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
the wait in line at the accreditation desk goes over five minutes
Then
- alert the event manager with how many are waiting and how many posts are open
- save the video of the minute the line stopped moving
- leave the count for that time slot in the event report
The instruction that set it up«Tell me when the wait at the accreditation desk goes over five minutes.»
What changes
What changes for the manager and the front desk
Eleven fifteen: the talk has started and sixty people are still standing at the coffee break. The banqueting manager set up for three hundred because three hundred signed up. A conference is billed for what’s set up, but it is judged by what happens inside. With these figures the hotel caters for the people who are actually there, opens another accreditation post at the hour it is needed, and knows how long a break really runs. And it hands the organizer a report with numbers instead of an estimate by eye, which is what happens today. That shows up on the invoice, and in whether they come back next year.
What people usually ask
Does this figure stand up in the report handed to the organizer?
Yes. Counting people is the only measurement we hold approval for from the Centro Español de Metrología, Spain’s national metrology institute, and it’s NeuralPax that does it, a separate license built into IRIS. That’s why the figure holds up as an attendance report and as a capacity figure in front of whoever has to check it. We don’t claim accuracy: we certify it. Everything else IRIS does isn’t covered by that approval, and we don’t present it as if it were. That approval is Spanish and it isn’t equivalent to any U.S. certification: we say so up front and not at the end.
Does IRIS know who went into the room?
No. IRIS counts bodies crossing a line, not guests. It does not recognize faces, does not read the badge and does not match anything against the registration list: that matching is done by the registration system, and only if the organizer wants it done. What the camera gives is how many there are, where and since when.
Is the hotel’s own staff measured too?
IRIS counts the people in an area, and an area holds attendees and staff alike. Knowing how many are in the foyer is what lets you open another desk when it is needed; it isn’t a way of knowing what each person is doing, and it doesn’t do that. There’s no time-and-attendance record, no file on anybody and no faces. And private spaces — rooms, bathrooms, locker rooms — are outside the system.
Other cameras
- CAM-495 · The check-in line decides the review they are going to write
- CAM-496 · Forty guests crossing the plaza, and reception doesn’t know yet
- CAM-497 · Nineteen people waiting and a single desk open
- CAM-498 · The breakfast room is full and the line never gets past the host stand
- CAM-499 · Eight minutes uncleared, and guests are waiting for a table
- CAM-500 · Four guests standing in line and five tables set with nobody at them
A different case every time
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 ask
- IRIS searches
- It shows you
Next step
How long before somebody comes down that hallway at four in the morning?
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.
Who sees the child who’s fallen at the far end of the schoolyard?
14 cases: 13 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
What happens outside the framedoesn’t exist for IRIS. No camera sees the whole world.
So the first thing we do is check what each camera covers and write it down: from here you can understand this, and not that. A dull hour that saves a lot of misunderstandings.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.