CAM-580
The kerb jams before the terminal does
Half past six in the morning at the departures kerb. Three lanes and none of them moving: cars double-parked, a taxi across the middle, an SUV with its boot open taking out cases and a line waiting for a gap. The shuttle is in its bay and people are boarding with big luggage. Along the pavement a steady stream walks towards the doors. IRIS counts the vehicles entering the drop-off lane, measures how long each one stays and how much kerb is left free. It reads no number plate here and does not know who is driving: it counts vehicles and measures minutes.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- shuttle in its bay
- passengers boarding the shuttle
- taxi stopped in the lane
- car unloading luggage
- queue of vehicles waiting for a gap
- double-parked cars
- people walking along the kerb
- passenger crossing on foot
What this camera gives back
Nobody gets an alert here. Here you get numbers.
- 1 240 / h+180Vehicles entering the drop-off lane
- 34 / 40Drop-off spaces in use
- 3 min 40 sAverage time stopped
- 18Stops over ten minutes today
- 06:00 – 08:00Busiest slot
- 07:25Last updated
The figures on this screen are an example from the illustration, not any client's measurement.
How the counting works
Counting is not something you ask for. You draw a line.
There is a line drawn at the mouth of the drop-off lane: whatever crosses it is added. And there is a zone painted over that lane, telling you how many vehicles are inside at any moment and how long each one stays. A second zone covers the shuttle bay, so you know whether it is clear when a bus arrives. Neither the line nor the zones are asked for in words: they are drawn once on the image and there they stay, so a Tuesday and a Sunday are measured the same way.
- line at the entrance to the drop-off lane · Counting line
- line on the kerb towards the doors · Counting line
- drop-off lane zone · Dwell zone
- shuttle bay zone · Dwell zone
And also, one rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
a vehicle has been stopped in the drop-off lane for more than ten minutes
And alsothere are vehicles waiting for a gap behind it
Then
- alert whoever runs the kerb, with the lane and the time
- save the video of that minute so you can see whether it is still unloading or left there
- log the episode so you know at what hours the kerb jams up
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if a car has been stopped in the drop-off lane for more than ten minutes and others are waiting for a gap.»
What changes
What changes for operations, for the passenger and for maintenance
The kerb is the first thing a passenger sees and the last thing anybody looks at from the control room. With the figure per time slot, whoever runs landside access knows when the drop-off lane saturates, how many minutes a car stays on average and whether the shuttle bay is blocked exactly when the buses arrive. That is how you open another lane, put someone on the kerb at the hour it matters, or change the traffic direction. And you decide with last Tuesday's figure, not with somebody's impression.
What people usually ask
Does this camera read number plates?
Not here. This framing is set up to measure: it counts vehicles crossing a line and measures how long each one stays inside a zone. IRIS can read number plates on other cameras and for other purposes, but to know whether the kerb is saturated you do not need to know whose car each one is, and on this camera it is not known.
Is it used to fine anybody?
No. IRIS decides nothing and calls nobody on its own: it alerts whoever runs the kerb, with the lane, the time and the video of that minute. What happens next is a decision made by a person and by the airport's own procedure, and that takes a great deal more than a framing that counts cars.
Other cameras
- CAM-581 · Eighteen minutes in one queue, four in the one beside it
- CAM-582 · How long the security wait really is, measured not guessed
- CAM-583 · An open lane nobody has gone through in nine minutes
- CAM-584 · Fifty-two minutes of queue and seven booths switched off
- CAM-585 · The aisle is clear and ten metres on, nobody moves
- CAM-586 · Three minutes stood at the board is not walking slowly
The real interface, step by step
This isn’t a video. It’s a slice of the real screen.
A summary of the real interface, played hands-free. You see one case from start to finish; what you do not see are the other screens, and there are many.
- Four cameras at once
- Each understands its own view
- The numbers climb by themselves
Next step
Who watches a whole station at rush hour?
17 cases: 11 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.
Who sees the sales that never reach the till?
10 cases: 4 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.
And the best part
You do not need to buy cameras:you need yours to understand what they see.
Nothing gets built, mounted or rewired. It plugs into what is already up and running, and the only thing that changes is what those cameras understand.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.