CAM-334
A valve hanging from the crane and a worker right underneath
A lifting job in the tank yard. A large steel valve, its blue handwheel in plain sight, hangs from two slings hooked to the yellow crane. Underneath, almost directly below the load, a worker in blue coveralls and a yellow hard hat is talking on the radio. He isn’t looking up. Orange cones mark out the ground, but he is inside them. The camera sees the load in the air and sees the person below it.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- person under the load
- valve hanging from the slings
- crane hook
- mobile crane
- stack of pipe
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 2 min 05 sTime with the load in the air
- 1People under the load
- 5People on the lift
- 4Cones marking out the ground
- 10:38Time 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 load is hanging from the hook and a person moves directly underneath it
Then
- open the alert with the camera, the time and the video of the lift
- call the crane operator and the banksman over the radio
- keep the video clip for the lift plan review
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if anyone goes underneath a load while it is hanging from the crane.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
Four in the afternoon, a steel valve going up, and the worker below is on the radio without looking up. You don’t walk under a suspended load, and yet people do. The alert goes out while the valve is still in the air, with the camera, the time and the video: the crane operator hears it over the radio and the lift stops before anything comes down. IRIS does not identify anyone: it sees that there is a person under the load, not who it is. And it doesn’t command the crane or stop the hook. What it adds is that somebody finds out now, not tomorrow when reviewing the video.
What people usually ask
How does IRIS know there’s a suspended load?
Because it sees it. The camera tells apart the hook, the slings and the piece hanging in the air, and it tells apart the ground below. That’s what the area which must stay clear during the lift is drawn on. Nothing has to be wired to the crane: the rule works on the image.
Can IRIS stop the crane?
No. IRIS alerts, it doesn’t act. It doesn’t brake the hook and it doesn’t lock the controls. What it does is make sure the crane operator and the banksman find out while the load is still up, with the camera and the video of the moment. Stopping the lift is decided and done by a person.
What if the banksman has to be close to the load?
The zone is drawn together with the plant. People work near the load; nobody works directly underneath it. The rule is set to the vertical and to the radius the lift plan defines, and from then on it only fires when someone steps where nobody may stand. What counts as a no-go zone is decided by the plant, not by IRIS.
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
A different case every time
Watch what happens. Then watch what IRIS does with it.
Not a recorded video and not a drawing: it’s a summary of the real tool, with a different case each time round. The whole tool doesn’t fit in a box.
- The alert fires
- You open it
- You confirm or dismiss
Next step
What can a camera see without pointing at anyone?
13 cases: 9 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.
What if the outage doesn’t start with an attack?
13 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
You can’t describe a line with a sentence.You have to draw it on the image.
Asking is for finding. Counting is for measuring. And they aren’t done the same way. That’s why the number comes out the same every day, and why people counting is approved by the Centro Español de Metrología — Spain’s national metrology institute. It’s a Spanish approval and it isn’t equivalent to any U.S. certification.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.