CAM-460
How many spaces are left, and of what kind
Mid-morning on level 2 of a parking garage. The whole deck is in frame: a blue accessible space with a car on it, an occupied purple reserved space, an orange row of motorcycle spaces, two green charging spaces with their posts, and one space closed off with cones over red hatching. IRIS doesn’t add entries and subtract exits: it looks at every space and says whether a vehicle is on it.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- space closed off with cones
- car on an accessible space
- car on a reserved space
- car on a charging space
- motorcycles on the two-wheeler spaces
- charging posts
What this camera gives back
Nobody gets an alert here. Here you get numbers.
- 16 / 50Free spaces right now
- 2 / 6Charging spaces free
- 0 / 2Accessible spaces free
- 2 / 6Motorcycle spaces free
- 1Spaces closed off
- 09:30Time of the reading
The figures on this screen are an example from the illustration, not any client’s measurement.
How the counting works
Counting isn’t something you ask for. You draw a line.
Over each group of spaces there’s a drawn zone: the blue accessible one, the purple reserved one, the motorcycle row and the green charging ones. Inside each zone IRIS looks space by space to see whether a vehicle is on it and for how long. Where each space starts and ends doesn’t fit in a sentence: it is drawn once over the frame and it stays there, so the nine o’clock reading and the seven o’clock one are measured the same way.
- accessible space zone · Dwell zone
- reserved space zone · Dwell zone
- motorcycle space zone · Dwell zone
- charging space zone · Dwell zone
And also, one rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
only one free space is left in the charging zone
Then
- update the count for that level and that space type
- publish the number on the entrance sign and in the app
- save the reading with its timestamp so it can be checked later
The instruction that set it up«Tell me how many free spaces are left on level 2 and how many of them are charging spaces.»
What changes
What changes for whoever runs the parking lot
The manager cares about one thing: how many spaces he can sell right now, and of what kind. If the number comes from counting entries and exits, the error piles up all day and by mid-afternoon nobody trusts it. Looking at the spaces, the count squares again on every reading. And splitting the types changes decisions: if the charging spaces fill up at nine and the motorcycle ones go spare, next year they get painted differently.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS read the license plate to know whether a space is taken?
No. No license plate is read here. IRIS looks at the space and sees whether a vehicle is on it or not, just as a person leaning over the railing would. That’s where the count by level, by zone and by space type comes from. If at some point you need to know whether that vehicle had authorization, the parking lot system answers that, not the camera.
How is this different from a sensor on every space?
In the coverage and in what it leaves behind. A sensor says taken or free; a camera covers many spaces at once and leaves the image too, so you can check why the number says what it says. And it tells space types apart: accessible, charging, reserved or motorcycle. The two systems live together fine; what doesn’t work is trusting everything to entries minus exits.
Is the number that comes out here certified?
No. The approval we hold from the Centro Español de Metrología, Spain’s national metrology institute, covers people counting, and what’s counted here’s spaces and vehicles. The count is repeatable and auditable because the zones are drawn and don’t move, and because the image and the timestamp remain, but it can’t be called certified. The approval is Spanish. It doesn’t stand in for a U.S. certification, and we don’t present it as one.
Other cameras
- CAM-461 · Four minutes circling and not one free space
- CAM-462 · The sign is right because the number comes from the spaces themselves
- CAM-463 · Six cars waiting and the line is already out on the street
- CAM-464 · There’s a line because nobody gets through that machine
- CAM-465 · Two cars crossed on a single opening
- CAM-466 · Three hours in a thirty-minute space
The real interface, step by step
A camera looks. IRIS understands what it sees.
An extract of the real screen, no voice-over and hands-free. Each round poses another situation. What sits behind it is a good deal bigger than what you see.
- Four cameras at once
- Each understands its own view
- The numbers climb by themselves
Next step
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 who watches the cameras?
34 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
Finding something in yesterday’s videoshould take as long as asking for it.
No more scrubbing back through six hours with your finger on the mouse. You type what you’re after, in plain words, and the matching moments come up. Same cameras as always.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.