CAM-565

Who went into the store, when, and what can be proved

An evidence store. In the middle there’s a registration table with sealed, labeled items and a marked-off area on the floor around it. At the back, a locked custody cage with shelving inside. Four people work in gloves: one writes on a form, one sorts on the table, one moves a box on a cart and one goes into the cage. There’s a board where it is written by hand who handles what, and a workstation with a screen and a label printer. IRIS does not look at what is inside the items or at who each person is: it looks at a door and a time.

CAM-565 · 1 ROI · 60 s

What IRIS understands

What it recognizes in this scene

locked custody cage
cage door
registration table
sealed and labeled items
person working at the table
person writing on the form
person moving a box
inner door of the room
handwritten log board
registration desk with label printer

The rule

You decide once. IRIS applies it always.

the custody cage door stays open for more than a minute

Then

alert whoever is responsible for the room, with the time it was opened
save the video from the moment it opened until it was closed again
attach the sequence to that day’s log, so it can be checked later

The instruction that set it up«Tell me if the cage door opens outside service hours or stays open for more than a minute.»

What changes

What changes for whoever goes out, whoever decides and whoever justifies it later

Here’s the sentence that holds up this whole sector: the same recording that serves to watch also serves to defend. If a year from now somebody questions what happened to an item, the answer isn’t the word of whoever was on shift against somebody else’s word: it’s the sequence with its timestamp, and that sequence backs up whoever is right. That protects above all the people working in that room, who have the most to lose if nobody can prove anything. And along the way it settles the boring problem: who left the cage open at seven thirty on a Monday.

What people usually ask

Is this to keep an eye on the people who work there?

It can be read that way, which is why it’s worth putting the other way round: it’s above all there to protect them. Whoever works in a custody room is the first person asked when something doesn’t add up, and until now they had nothing to answer with but their word. Now there’s a sequence with a timestamp saying exactly what happened. The rule watches nobody: it watches a door. And it recognizes no faces, so it can’t say who opened it; it can say that it opened, and when.

Does IRIS see what’s inside the items?

No, and it doesn’t need to. For this rule an item is an item: an object on a table or inside a cage, with a shape and a place. What’s inside is a matter for the procedure, not for the camera. IRIS watches the door, the marked floor area and whether an object leaves it without passing the registration desk. None of that requires knowing what the seal contains.

How long is that recording kept?

That’s decided by whoever operates the system, not by us, and it’s a decision with legal rules behind it. What IRIS contributes is that the part that matters is marked: instead of having to review whole days of video, there’s a clip with its timestamp attached to a specific fact. That makes keeping only what’s needed possible, because you don’t have to store everything to be able to prove something.

Other cameras

The real interface, step by step

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.