CAM-335
A machine is digging right over the pipeline
Mid-morning, right against the plant fence. A yellow backhoe is lifting a bucket of soil straight over the trench. Down inside, the buried pipe is already showing, with its red bands. One worker in hard hat and vest is bent over it; another watches from the edge. Yellow barriers and red-and-white tape ring the hole, and a white pickup is parked on the track. IRIS sees the machine, the open trench and the exposed pipe, and marks each one in the frame.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- backhoe working over the pipeline route
- trench open over the pipeline
- buried pipe now exposed
- worker bent over the pipe
- fence of the installation
- pickup parked inside the strip
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 10:12time the machine entered
- 00:31time spent digging so far
- 1machines inside the strip
- 4people inside the barriers
- 2vehicles inside the strip
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
excavation plant or a heavy vehicle enters the pipeline protection strip
Then
- alert the control room with the camera, the time and the image of the machine
- save the video from the moment the machine entered the strip
- count the machines, the people and the vehicles inside
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if excavation plant or a heavy vehicle enters the pipeline strip.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
Eleven in the morning on an ordinary Tuesday, and the excavator has already taken two passes. A bucket strike sets off no alarm of its own: it leaves the pipe scored or torn, and the leak turns up hours later, once the machine has gone. So somebody has to see it and call before the third pass. A camera watching the protection strip raises the alert as soon as machinery enters, with the time and the image. With that, the network manager decides whether it is authorized work or whether it has to stop and someone has to go out there.
What people usually ask
Can a camera watch miles of pipeline?
No, not the whole route. A camera covers what it sees: a crossing, a valve, the stretch beside the fence, the point where the line runs close to a road. There it does report as soon as plant enters. The rest still needs patrols, flyovers or buried sensors. IRIS covers the points that already have a camera, and it covers them around the clock.
How does it tell authorized work from work that isn’t?
Not on its own. IRIS sees that a machine is digging inside the strip and reports it with the time and the image. Who holds a permit that day is what the company permit system says, not the camera. What changes is that the check happens in the first minute, not after something has already broken.
Does it also pick up trenchless drilling?
It picks up what’s visible in the frame: the machine, the truck, the people and the moved soil. If the drilling is done by a rig that’s visible inside the strip, then yes, it reports it. If the rig works outside the camera field, it doesn’t. A camera doesn’t see underground: that’s what line inspection and its sensors are for.
Other cameras
- CAM-320 · A jet from the pump and a pool that keeps growing
- CAM-321 · Flame and smoke in the pump row
- CAM-322 · The flare isn’t burning the way it always does
- CAM-323 · The tank is overflowing from the top
- CAM-324 · The tank hatch is open and nobody’s up there
- CAM-325 · The hose is coupled to the wrong header
Simulation · how IRIS works
No extra alarms here. Just what needs looking at.
Not a recorded video, not an explanatory drawing: a summary of the real screen, with a different case every time it starts. There’s a lot more behind it.
- The alert fires
- It lands in the tray
- You open it
- You confirm or dismiss
Next step
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.
Who is watching a site where there’s almost never anybody?
44 cases, and in every one of them IRIS raises an alert when something happens. You see each image as it is, and then with what it understands on top.
And the best part
Nothing changes on the wall.On the screen, everything changes.
Same brackets, same cabling, same cameras. The only difference is that those images are now understood as they come in, instead of waiting for someone to open them.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.