CAM-135
A scuffle in the schoolyard
The schoolyard in mid-morning. In the middle, three children are grabbing hold of each other, arms out, feet planted. Around them, more than twenty kids have stopped playing and are moving in: the ring is closing fast. At the back, the door of the building, and there isn’t a single adult anywhere in frame. IRIS can see that there’s a scuffle and where in the schoolyard it is. It does not know who any of those children are and it does not say who started it.
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What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- scuffle between several children
- the ring closing in
- more kids moving in
- door of the building
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 18 sGoing on for
- 3Children holding on to each other
- 14+9Children who have gathered round
- 26Children in frame
- 0Adults in frame
- 11:24Time of the alert
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
there is rough physical contact between several children in the schoolyard and it does not break up on its own within seconds
Then
- alert the teacher on duty with the camera and the exact spot in the schoolyard
- save the video of the moment, starting a few seconds before the alert
- log the time, so the school knows when in the recess this happens
The instruction that set it up«Tell me when there’s a scuffle between kids in the schoolyard, and tell me at ten seconds, not once the whole ring has formed.»
What changes
What changes for the school team
With two teachers to three hundred children, what decides how a scuffle ends isn’t watching harder: it’s how long an adult takes to get there. At ten seconds it’s three kids holding on to each other and one raised voice settles it. At two minutes there’s a ring of thirty around them, someone on the ground and a whole afternoon of calls to families. IRIS separates nobody and prevents nothing: it warns while it’s happening, with the camera and the spot, and the person who goes and stops it’s a member of the school’s staff. And it keeps the video of the moment, which is what later backs up what you tell a family, instead of everyone’s own version. What it doesn’t do, today or ever: say who each child is or who started it.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS recognize the children in the image?
No. IRIS does not identify any minor: it does not recognize faces, it does not compare them against any database, it does not store who anyone is and it keeps no record on any student. What it sees is rough physical contact between several people at one spot in the schoolyard, and that’s what it reports. It can’t be used to write up a child, because it doesn’t know who the child would be.
And does it say who started it?
No, and this isn’t a technical limit that will lift one day: it’s a decision. A camera sees a scuffle; it doesn’t see what happened before or why. IRIS marks the situation with a single box around everyone involved, never one box per child: the alert says there’s a scuffle and where, not who is doing what. Who started it’s something the school works out by talking to the kids, as it always has — the difference being that now there’s a video of the moment.
Where are there cameras, and where are there not?
In the schoolyard and in the shared parts of the building: hallways, landings and stairs. In a classroom, a restroom or a locker room no camera goes up, and that isn’t a setting: it doesn’t go up. On top of that, what’s watched, at what times and who gets the alert is written by the school, not by IRIS. And it’s worth talking it through with the whole teaching staff before anything is installed.
See it for yourself
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.
- The alert fires
- You open it
- You confirm or dismiss
Next step
What does an airport see before the line forms?
14 cases: 7 raise an alert when something happens and 7 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
What can a camera see without pointing at anyone?
13 cases: 9 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
Ten cameras or four thousand:not one of them goes unwatched.
The day IRIS starts, they all start: the ten in a school or the four thousand in a whole network. And it only raises its hand when the thing you asked for happens.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.