IndustryEnvironment and cleanliness
CAM-434
The bunker is overflowing and waste is falling onto the road
One in the afternoon on the tipping floor. Bunker two is full to the brim: the waste rises above the top of the wall and has started falling onto the internal road, with bags and material spread forty feet along the foot of the wall. A garbage truck with a blue body is coming down that same road toward the camera. Another truck is unloading at the back and rows of bins are lined up to the right.
Turn on IRIS Vision
AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- waste on the road
- bunker filled to the top
- garbage truck
- bale store
- row of bins
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 80 cmwaste above the wall
- 12 mwidth of the spill
- 35 mintime overflowing
- 3trucks tipped since the alert
- 13:05time 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
material rises above the top of the bunker or falls out onto the road
Then
- alert the tipping floor supervisor and the truck scale
- save the video from the moment material started falling outside
- log the camera, the time and the trucks that have tipped since then
The instruction that set it up«Tell me when waste rises above the bunker wall or falls onto the road.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
Ten past one, and the truck scale operator sends the next truck to bunker two without knowing that material is already falling into the roadway. An overflowing bunker is fixed with a loader; a blocked roadway with a truck inside it is fixed far worse. With the alert right away he can divert it before it enters, and the supervisor knows how many have tipped since the spill began. There’s also the figure for arguing about collection rounds: what time that bunker really fills up, always measured against the same reference, the wall.
What people usually ask
How does IRIS measure that the bunker is overflowing?
Against a physical reference that appears in the picture: the top of the bunker wall. The camera sees how far the material rises above that line and how much has fallen onto the road. It isn’t an estimate: it’s a measurement against something that doesn’t move, which is why the figure can be repeated tomorrow and compared.
Can IRIS divert the trucks to another bunker?
No. IRIS alerts; it doesn’t route trucks or open barriers. The alert reaches the truck scale and the supervisor with the camera and the time, and they decide whether the next truck tips somewhere else or waits. Who decides, and on what grounds, is written by the plant, not by the camera.
Can I use the truck count as management data?
Yes, with one important caveat: the only thing approved by the Centro Español de Metrología, Spain’s national metrology institute, is people counting. Truck counting isn’t, even though the number comes from the same image and can always be audited against the video. It’s a solid working figure for deciding collection rounds, not a legal measurement. It’s a Spanish approval. What crosses over isn’t the seal, it’s the method: the same line, in the same place, every day.
Other cameras
- CAM-420 · A lithium battery is riding the belt toward the shredder
- CAM-421 · A gas cylinder is heading into the shredder mouth
- CAM-422 · A hot spot is already smoking in the waste bunker
- CAM-423 · A drum, a paint tin and a clinical bag on the same belt
- CAM-424 · A glass bottle is riding down the paper and card line
- CAM-425 · The buyer wants to know how much contamination is in the bale
A different case every time
This isn’t a video. It’s a slice of the real screen.
A summary of the real interface, played hands-free. You see one case from start to finish; what you don’t see are the other screens, and there are many.
- The rule gets built
- It goes to every camera
- Published, it watches alone
- And then it fires
Next step
Why did the line stop?
237 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.
How many spaces are open right now?
15 cases: 9 raise an alert when something happens and 6 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
What happens in the small hoursdoesn’t have to wait for the morning report.
IRIS understands it there and then and tells whoever is on call, with the camera and the time. The next day there is nothing to reconstruct: it’s already written down.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.