CAM-469
A car coming up the ramp the wrong way
A curved ramp between two levels of the parking lot. The arrow painted on the floor points down; a red car is coming up that same lane with its lights on and at some speed, enough for the image to catch it blurred. On the other side of the concrete divider, another car is going down where it should and is braking. IRIS compares the direction of travel with the lane’s own, and times the run between two lines drawn on the roadway.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- car coming up the descending lane
- direction arrow painted on the roadway
- no-entry sign at the ramp
- car going down its own lane
- central divider of the ramp
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 31 km/hMeasured speed
- 1,4 sTime between the two lines
- 12 mDistance between the two lines
- 3Wrong-direction vehicles today
- 19:38Time of the run
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 vehicle takes the ramp against the flow or covers the two lines in less than the set time
Then
- alert the control desk with the camera and the exact time
- save the video of the whole run down the ramp
- log the speed measured between the two lines
The instruction that set it up«Tell me when a car comes up the down ramp or goes above the speed we have set.»
What changes
What changes for whoever runs the parking lot
On a curved ramp there’s no visibility: by the time two cars see each other, there’s no room left. The parking lot finds out about these things through the insurance report. With the camera the manager has the direction, the measured speed and the video, and can see whether it happens once a month or twenty times a day on the same ramp. That’s what decides whether the signage or the layout has to change.
What people usually ask
How does a camera measure speed?
With a stopwatch and two lines. Two lines are drawn on the roadway at a known distance apart, and the time the vehicle takes to go from one to the other is measured. The result is a repeatable number, the same today or a month from now. A line can’t be described in a sentence: it has to be drawn, and that’s what makes the number hold up.
Does IRIS read the plate of the car going the wrong way?
No. On this camera IRIS doesn’t read plates. It detects that a vehicle is traveling the lane against the configured direction, measures its speed between the two lines and saves the video with the time. Identifying the vehicle, if that’s needed, is a matter for the parking lot system with its own access records.
Can IRIS stop the car or close the ramp?
No. IRIS alerts and keeps the footage; it doesn’t act. It doesn’t lower a barrier, it doesn’t switch a light and it doesn’t send anybody anywhere: a person at the parking lot decides that, with the video in front of them. What it does do is count how many times it happens and on which ramp, which is what you need in order to change anything.
Other cameras
- CAM-460 · How many spaces are left, and of what kind
- 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
A different case every time
A new case each time. Always the same screen.
It plays by itself and shows one case from start to finish. It’s a summary: the real screen has far more functions than fit in this box.
- You ask
- IRIS searches
- It shows you
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
Nobody covers the night shift:the camera that is already on covers it.
It doesn’t tire, it doesn’t blink and it doesn’t go for coffee. What happens at night is understood just as it would be at midday, and whoever is on duty hears about it while it’s happening.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.