CAM-303
The tanker is still connected and nobody’s watching it
Midday at the transfer point. The tanker is chocked, with the black hose coupled to the valve of the white container standing on the yellow containment. Everything is rigged and set. What’s missing from the shot is a person: not by the tanker, not by the container, not at the pump skid behind. IRIS can’t see whether liquid is flowing; what it can do is time how long the hose has been connected with nobody in front of it.
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What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- hose connected with nobody in front of it
- container receiving the transfer
- tanker chocked at the transfer point
- containment containment under the container
- pump skid in the background
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 1 h 12 minTime the hose has been connected
- 48 minTime with nobody in the area
- 0People in frame
- 10:26Time the last person was seen
- 1Vehicles in frame
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 hose has been connected for longer than allowed and there is nobody in the area
Then
- alert the shift supervisor with the camera and how many minutes it has been alone
- save the video of the moment the last person left
- keep counting until somebody comes back to the area
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if a hose has been connected for more than twenty minutes with nobody in the area.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
Somebody goes off for a packing slip and gets held up: that’s how a container ends up overflowing and the containment full, almost every time. It isn’t a serious lapse, it’s a transfer left alone at midday, hose connected and nobody in front of it. With the camera, the shift supervisor gets an alert after the number of minutes he set himself, with the time the hose was connected and the time the last person was seen. It gets corrected before the overflow, not after.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS know whether liquid is actually flowing?
No. The camera sees the hose connected, the container and whether anybody is standing there. Whether flow is running is what the flow meter or the truck scale tells you. That’s why the rule doesn’t talk about gallons: it talks about minutes with the hose on and about people present. A camera counts and times that well, and it’s exactly what’s missing when a transfer drags on.
How many minutes have to pass before it alerts?
Whatever the plant says. A twenty-minute unload and a two-hour one aren’t watched the same way, and the threshold is written per transfer point. IRIS times from the first second and alerts on reaching the agreed minute. If the alert comes too early or too late, the number changes and the effect shows up on the next shift.
Does it recognize which operator walked away?
No. IRIS does not identify anybody and does not compare faces with anything. It detects situations: “there’s a person in the area” or “there’s nobody.” The alert says the hose has been connected for forty minutes with nobody in front of it, not who should have been there. Who was on duty is in the shift log, not in the camera.
Other cameras
- CAM-300 · The drum arriving at the station isn’t the one on the order
- CAM-301 · Flammables, corrosives and oxidizers in the same containment
- CAM-302 · The tanker hose, coupled to the forbidden manifold
- CAM-304 · Two drums with the label torn off in the marked bay
- CAM-305 · The IBC has sagged onto a broken pallet and is dripping on the floor
- CAM-306 · The reactor is pushing foam out of the manway and down the whole shell
The real interface, step by step
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 is watching a whole quay at three in the morning?
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.
Who is watching the cameras of a whole branch network?
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.
And the best part
A whole afternoon in front of a screennow fits into one written sentence.
The video hasn’t changed: it’s all still there, in the same place. What has changed is that you can ask it questions, and the answer comes with its camera and its time.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.