Venues and trade showsLogistics efficiency
CAM-484
The ramp is packed and the concourse next to it is empty
Twenty minutes before the start. The ramp up to the stand is full from wall to wall: people take up the whole width and climb shoulder to shoulder up to the opening at the top. On the left, the concourse is clear, you can walk without brushing anyone and there are people standing at the bar. On the right, another open stretch, almost empty, with spectators standing and eating. Everybody is going up the same ramp.
Turn on IRIS Vision
AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- ramp full from wall to wall
- top of the ramp into the stand
- clear access concourse
- side passage, almost empty
- concourse bar, with people standing at it
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 160People inside the ramp
- 0,2 m/sSpeed going up
- 3,8 / m²Square feet per person on the ramp
- 38 / minPeople coming out at the top per minute
- 0,4 / m²Square feet per person on the concourse
- 18:52Time 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
more people go into a ramp than come out at the top for more than two minutes in a row
Then
- alert the control room with the ramp, the block it leads to and how many people are inside it
- save the video of the minute the ramp stopped clearing
- show at the same time how many people are in the passages beside it
The instruction that set it up«Tell me when more people go into a ramp than come out at the top for more than two minutes and the passage next to it is empty.»
What changes
What changes for whoever runs security at the venue
Twenty minutes to the start and the middle ramp is packed wall to wall while the concourse beside it’s empty. The control room manager has twelve screens and not one of them tells him. The safe capacity of a venue isn’t the number of seats: it’s what the entry, the circulation, the exit and the evacuation can take, and that’s measured in the ramps and the corridors, not on the seating plan. A jammed ramp with an empty concourse beside it’s exactly the fact you can’t see from a screen: there’s room to spare, just not where the people are. IRIS compares what goes into the ramp with what comes out at the top and raises an alert when the gap stops closing.
What people usually ask
Is a venue’s capacity the number of seats?
No. The seats say how many people fit sitting down; safe capacity says how many can get in, move around, get out and evacuate without anyone being crushed. That number is set by the ramps, the corridors, the stairs and the doors, and it’s always lower than the seat count. IRIS measures it where it actually happens: how many people go into each passage, how many come out and how fast they move inside it.
Does IRIS send people down another corridor?
No. IRIS doesn’t act and doesn’t give anyone orders. What it does is put two figures side by side that nobody sees together today: the packed ramp and the empty passage next to it. With that, the venue’s staff can open the other route and say so over the PA or by voice. Who moves and where is always decided by a person.
Do you need a camera on every ramp?
Not on every one, but on the ones that narrow. A venue has a handful of points where the passage becomes tighter than everything feeding into it: that’s where the jam forms, and that’s where measuring is worth it. The venue knows those points better than anyone, and they’re the same ones that appear in the evacuation plan. Cover those and you see almost everything that matters about circulation.
Other cameras
- CAM-480 · The line tells you when the gates should open
- CAM-481 · One gate standing idle while the next one jams
- CAM-482 · Twenty-four arrive a minute, the search line clears nine
- CAM-483 · Less room per person than three minutes ago, and nobody moves
- CAM-485 · Twenty thousand people leaving at once, all through the same gate
- CAM-486 · A merchandise stall has eaten half the exit
Demo · IRIS at work
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
How many spaces are open right now?
15 cases: 9 raise an alert when something happens and 6 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
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.
And the best part
A wall of monitors is impressive.Nobody can read forty tiles at once.
The more tiles there are, the less each one gets looked at. IRIS watches all four thousand cameras at once and points at a single one: the one that needs someone right now.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.