CAM-420

A lithium battery is riding the belt toward the shredder

Mid-morning at the drop-off center. A collection truck has just tipped its load and household trash is riding the sorting belt up toward the picking hall. In among the bags, cartons and packaging travels a black battery from an e-scooter. The operator watching the tip has their back turned and the picker up on the walkway is looking at the belt from above. IRIS recognizes the shape of the battery on its way up and reports it before it reaches the shredder.

CAM-420 · SORTING LINE · LI-ION IN STREAM

What IRIS understands

What it recognizes in this scene

lithium battery on the belt
sorting belt loaded with household waste
collection truck tipping its load
operator watching the tip
belt operator on the walkway

What this camera measures

An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.

11:42Time of the alert
9 sTime the battery has been in frame
4Batteries flagged this shift
2People in frame
7Truck tips counted today

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.

a battery, an electronic device or a scooter appears on the household waste belt

Then

alert the control room and the belt operator with the camera and the time
save the video from the truck tipping its load up to the alert
keep the alert open until a person confirms the battery is out

The instruction that set it up«Alert me the moment you see a battery, a phone or a scooter on the sorting belt, before it reaches the shredder.»

What changes

What changes for whoever answers for the plant

Forty seconds: that’s what the scooter battery has left before it reaches the shredder. And there’s no mystery to the mechanism: a lithium cell crushed between paper and plastic heats up on its own, and all around it there’s nothing but dry fuel. Once it’s inside, no alert is worth anything any more, only smoke. For the plant manager the value is in that minute before: stop the belt, lift the battery out with a grab and carry on working. And the video of the truck that brought it is kept, with the exact time of the tipping.

What people usually ask

Why is a battery on the belt so urgent?

Because after that there’s no alert left to give, only smoke. The mechanism is simple, and you can watch it on the belt itself: a lithium cell crushed between paper and plastic heats up on its own, and around it there’s nothing but dry fuel. IRIS sees it on its way up the belt and reports it with the camera, the time and the video, so there’s time to stop and take it out. What happens next is the plant’s decision, not the camera’s.

Does IRIS tell a lithium battery apart from an ordinary one?

It sees the shape, not the chemistry. IRIS recognizes the look of a battery, a phone, a cordless tool or a scooter in a stream where none of them belong. Whether it’s lithium or not comes from the label, or from whoever lifts it off the belt. For what matters here it makes no difference: none of those things should enter the shredder, and the plant writes the rule.

Does IRIS identify the truck or the person who threw the battery away?

No. IRIS does not recognize faces and does not match anyone against any database. It detects situations: a battery on the belt, at a specific time. What it does keep is the video of the tip before it, and from that the plant can work out which load brought the material in. Who it was, and what to do about it, is decided by a person using their own collection records.

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