CAM-111
Someone in an area that should be empty
An internal corridor seen from a high corner camera. A single person is walking down the middle, seen from behind. Against the wall stands a linen cart with folded laundry on top; on the floor, the yellow hatching that marks the crossing; at the far end, the open barred gate and, beyond it, two people in uniform. On the right, the glazed post with the monitors. At this hour this stretch should be clear, and it isn’t.
Turn on IRIS Vision
AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- person in the closed area
- floor hatching
- barred gate
- staff beyond the gate
- linen cart
The rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
someone appears inside the marked stretch during a time band in which that stretch has to be empty
Then
- alert the duty governor with the camera and the stretch
- open the video from the moment they came in, to see which way they got there
- log the time, so the facility knows whether that stretch is often used off-hours
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if there is anyone in the service corridor during the hours when that stretch has to be empty.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the facility
A facility has dozens of corridors and dozens of schedules, and almost all of the corridors are empty almost all of the time. That’s exactly what makes them useful to anyone who shouldn’t be there. Today you find out on the route, when nobody is there any more. With IRIS the stretch watches itself during the hours the facility has set and raises the alert while someone is still inside, with the camera, the stretch and the video from the moment they entered. The alert doesn’t say who they’re or why they’re there: it says there’s someone where there should be nobody right now, and that’s enough to go and look.
What people usually ask
Who decides which area is closed and at what hour?
The facility does. IRIS doesn’t arrive with a list of forbidden places or with its own idea of what’s right or wrong: it arrives blank. Someone at the facility draws the area on the image, sets the time bands in which it has to be empty and chooses who gets alerted. And it changes when the day’s regime changes, without touching the camera. That’s the part you can’t delegate to a system: a facility’s rules are written by whoever answers for that facility.
Does the alert point at a particular person?
No. IRIS identifies nobody and can’t be used to sanction a particular person. It does not recognize faces, does not compare them against any database, does not store who anyone is and keeps no record on anyone: it sees that there is a person inside an area at an hour when that area has to be empty, and that is all the alert says. Who that person is will be known by the officer who goes there, if it matters, and through the facility’s own procedures.
What if the person walking through is staff, or someone with permission?
IRIS doesn’t know whether that person has permission. It can’t know and it isn’t its place to know: permission is a piece of paper and a decision of the facility, not something you can see in an image. The alert arrives anyway and comes with its video, and whoever receives it closes it in two seconds if they recognize a routine task. That’s better: an alert closed quickly costs very little, and an area that only alerts once nobody is there’s worth nothing.
See it for yourself
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.
- The rule gets built
- It goes to every camera
- Published, it watches alone
- And then it fires
Next step
Who watches the cameras of a whole city?
23 cases: 18 raise an alert when something happens and 5 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
Who watches an entire highway?
10 cases: 8 raise an alert when something happens and 2 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
You can’t describe a line with a sentence.You have to draw it on the image.
Asking is for finding. Counting is for measuring. And they aren’t done the same way. That’s why the number comes out the same every day, and why people counting is approved by the Centro Español de Metrología — Spain’s national metrology institute. It’s a Spanish approval and it isn’t equivalent to any U.S. certification.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.