CAM-365
A coil is passing right over a worker
Mid-morning in the coil bay. The overhead crane is crossing the central aisle with a coil hanging from the tongs. Right underneath, a worker in a yellow hard hat stands in the aisle, arm raised, signaling. The coil is traveling directly over him. Two colleagues are up on the walkway, another watches from the railing on the right. Further down you can see the yellow-striped crossing. IRIS sees the load in the air, the aisle it’s traveling along and the person inside that aisle.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- person under the load
- suspended coil
- crane tongs and hook
- marked crosswalk on the floor
- workers on the upper walkway
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 9 sTime with the load over the aisle
- 1People directly under the load
- 7People in the frame
- 3Crossings with a load this shift
- 11:24Time 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 person enters the path directly under a load suspended from the overhead crane
Then
- alert the crane operator and the bay supervisor with the camera and the time
- save the video from the moment the load entered the aisle
- add the pass to the list of crossings with a load and people underneath
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if anyone is underneath a load hanging from the overhead crane.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
Eight in the morning, shift change in the coil bay: the hour when most people cross the central aisle. The coil is still in the air, and that’s the whole difference. The crane driver and the bay manager get the alert with the camera, the time and the image while there’s still maneuver left. At the end of the shift there’s also the count of how many times the aisle was crossed with a load and people underneath, and at which point. That’s what you need to change the crane route or the hour it runs.
What people usually ask
Can IRIS stop the overhead crane if someone is underneath?
No. IRIS doesn’t act on any machine: it alerts. It sends the alert to the crane operator and the bay supervisor with the camera, the time and the picture, and a person decides whether to stop the lift. What it adds is when that alert arrives: while the coil is still in the air, not once it has already gone over. In a coil bay, that difference is the whole difference.
Does it recognize the person who walked underneath?
No. IRIS does not identify anyone and does not compare faces against any database. It detects a situation: there’s a person under a suspended load. The record gives the camera, the time and the point in the aisle, not who was there. The shift supervisor knows that, and is the one who has to talk to that person.
How does the camera know where the load is going to pass?
The plant tells it. The aisle the overhead crane works along is drawn on the image, and IRIS looks for a person inside that aisle while a load is hanging above. The rule doesn’t come preset: which aisle, which loads and at what hours count as an alert is decided by the bay, and it changes when the operation changes.
Other cameras
- CAM-360 · The slab has stopped on the mill, with the beacons on red
- CAM-361 · The ladle stream has missed and molten metal is running across the floor
- CAM-362 · Snow and closed drums in the basket, still hanging over the furnace
- CAM-363 · The basket has been loaded from four different bays
- CAM-364 · Somebody is walking the aisle while the full ladle is moving
- CAM-366 · Two coils out of the rack, and the chocks lying on the floor
See it for yourself
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
- You open it
- You confirm or dismiss
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
Behind one camera you can put a person.Behind four thousand you can’t put anyone.
Adding a camera costs little; adding another pair of eyes doesn’t. So the cameras keep growing and the attention doesn’t. IRIS watches all four thousand at once and flags what matters today.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.