CAM-518
A package leaves through the vault door, and now the time is on record
The cash room, almost ten in the morning. The vault door is open and a person is stepping through the doorway with a sealed package in their hands. At the back, an employee is working with her back turned by the shelves; on the counting table there are trays made up, and a trolley with more trays waits beside the doorway. IRIS marks three things and only three: that the door has been open for four minutes, that an object has crossed the doorway on its way out, and how many people are in the room while it happens. A movement like this may well be a scheduled shipment written down on a delivery note. IRIS does not know that, and it does not say it.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- sealed package crossing the doorway
- vault door open, 4 minutes
- vault doorway
- person stepping out through the doorway
- trolley with trays
- counting table
- employee working at the back
- trolley with boxes
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 4 min 12 sHow long the vault door has been open
- 1Objects that have crossed the doorway
- 1People at the doorway at that moment
- 2People inside the room
- 09:52Exact time of the crossing
- 09:47:50Video saved from
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
an object crosses the vault doorway on its way out while the door has been open for more than two minutes
Then
- alert whoever runs the room with the exact time of the crossing and how many people are inside
- save the video from the minute the vault door was opened
- log the crossing in the day’s record, with the time, so it can be checked against the delivery note
The instruction that set it up«Tell me when an object goes out through the vault doorway, and give me the exact time and how many people are in the room.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the branch network
What leaves a cash room gets written on a piece of paper. The paper says what was meant to leave; it does not say what time it left or who was there. IRIS leaves the other half of the proof: the exact minute an object crossed the vault doorway and the video of that minute. Almost always it will match the delivery note, and when it matches nothing has happened: nobody hears about it, and that is how it should be. The day it does not match, the gap shows up in ten seconds instead of turning up in next month’s stocktake, when nobody remembers who was on shift.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS know what is inside the package?
No. It sees a box the size of a box and nothing else: it does not look inside anything, it does not read labels and it does not know what is in there. What it records is that an object that size crossed the vault doorway at that time, and it keeps the video so that somebody can compare it with the delivery note. Comparing is a person’s job, not IRIS’s.
Does this turn the staff into people under surveillance?
No, and it is worth saying out loud. IRIS identifies nobody, follows no one around the building and does not measure what anyone does during their shift. It watches a doorway, not the people who cross it: the rule talks about a door and an object. And the record protects the people who work there too. When a count does not add up and there is no data, the doubt gets shared out among everyone who had a key; when there is a time and a video, the doubt lasts as long as it takes somebody to watch it.
Where is this camera’s limit?
It is not connected to the delivery note, it does not check authorisations and it does not know whether that movement was scheduled: all it can say is that it happened and when. It also cannot tell one package from a similar one. And the room has a difficulty of its own: the doorway is narrow and there are pillars, so if the object is held close to the body with the back turned to the opening, IRIS may record that a person went through and not that an object did. That is why what it hands over is always the minute and the video, never a conclusion.
Other cameras
- CAM-510 · The queue tells you how many desks you need at that hour
- CAM-511 · Five people waiting and a desk set up with nobody at it
- CAM-512 · Two people through the door on a single opening
- CAM-513 · A restricted door standing open and someone waiting outside
- CAM-514 · An operation that takes two people, and there is one in the room
- CAM-515 · Someone has been in the ATM lobby for twenty-two minutes
Demo · IRIS at work
Everything comes in. Only what matters gets through.
This sums up what IRIS does with one alert, from the moment it appears until it is closed. The real screen holds far more; this is the main thread.
- You ask
- IRIS searches
- It shows you
Next step
What does a shopping centre see beyond the visitor count?
12 cases: 4 raise an alert when something happens and 8 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
What does an airport see before the queue 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.
And the best part
You decide the rule onceand it is applied the same way every time.
At three in the morning it means what it means at noon, on camera one and on camera four thousand. It does not depend on who is on shift, or how tired they are.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.