Parking lotsIntrusion detection
CAM-461
Four minutes circling and not one free space
A blue car works its way down the aisle with its brake lights on and takes the right-hand turn, following the arrow painted on the floor. On both sides every space is taken. Further down, another car brakes looking for the same thing. IRIS starts a clock when a vehicle comes onto the level and stops it when it parks. It follows the car by its image, inside the frame; it doesn’t read the plate.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- car looking for a space
- turn arrow painted on the aisle
- row of full spaces on the left
- row of full spaces on the right
- another car driving further down
What this camera gives back
Nobody gets an alert here. Here you get numbers.
- 3 min 40 sTime spent searching
- 2Laps counted
- 4 min 10 s+50 sAverage search this hour
- 11 minLongest search today
- 5Cars driving around the level
- 0Free spaces in this aisle
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.
There’s a line drawn right across the aisle and a zone painted over the whole run. When a vehicle crosses the line the count starts, and every time it crosses again another lap is logged. The clock stops when the car pulls into a space. Asking is for finding; counting is for measuring, and the two aren’t done the same way. A line can’t be described in a sentence: it has to be drawn over the frame, and that’s why the number is repeatable and auditable.
- lap line across the aisle · Counting line
- driving aisle zone · Dwell zone
And also, one rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
the average search on the level goes over five minutes
Then
- alert the manager with the level, the time and the laps counted
- save the video of one full lap as a sample
- send the figure to the guidance sign so traffic goes to another level
The instruction that set it up«Tell me how long it takes a driver to park on this level on average, by time of day.»
What changes
What changes for whoever runs the parking lot
Four minutes going round the same aisle, and another car behind doing the same. That’s a space that isn’t being sold and two more cars filling the roadway. The manager usually doesn’t have that figure: he knows how many cars come in, not how long each one takes to park. With the clock running you can see what time the search spikes, which level it happens on and whether the guidance sign is sending people to a full floor. That’s fixed by changing the signage, not by buying spaces.
What people usually ask
How does IRIS follow a car if it doesn’t read the plate?
By its image, and only inside the frame. IRIS sees a vehicle of a certain color, shape and size and keeps track of it while it’s in view of that camera or the next one. Once it leaves the frame, that’s the end of it. There is no plate, no identity and nobody to follow across town: there is a stopwatch that starts on the ramp and stops in a space.
Is the figure any use when the parking lot is nearly empty?
Yes, above all for comparison. With the level half empty the search is short, and that’s precisely the number you compare Saturday afternoon against. A whole month of the curve shows at what time parking starts to get hard, and that decides where a sign goes, which level opens first and when the tariff should change.
Does IRIS predict when the level will fill up?
No. IRIS counts what’s happening: how many cars are driving around, how long they have been searching and how many spaces are free. The forecast is made by whoever runs the parking lot, with those numbers in front of them and the history of previous weeks. The camera supplies the measured figure and the exact time, not a prediction.
Other cameras
- CAM-460 · How many spaces are left, and of what kind
- 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
A different case every time
We won’t just tell you. We’ll show you.
It’s a summary of the real screen: it plays by itself, step by step, and shows only the path of one case. The actual tool has far more than fits in here.
- Cameras on the map
- You draw an area
- What passed shows up
Next step
What does a venue with twenty thousand people inside see?
15 cases: 11 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.
When does a bad review get decided?
15 cases: 11 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.
And the best part
Sometimes you don’t need an alarm:you need a number.
How many people came in, and when. You draw a line over the image and the camera counts. People counting is approved by the Centro Español de Metrología — Spain’s national metrology institute — through NeuralPax. It’s a Spanish approval: it isn’t equivalent to any U.S. certification and we don’t present it as one. What crosses over is the method. The same line, in the same place, every day.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.