CAM-909
Being taken down
A sunlit square, seen from the camera. The same person in a dark hooded sweatshirt has climbed a stepladder and is level with the equipment. In one hand a screwdriver whose tip is already against the mount; with the other he grips the housing, so close that it comes out blurred. Along the right edge and the bottom corner the camera’s own bracket has come into shot: the framing has started to move. Behind him the square carries on: a terrace with a parasol and people at the tables, a row of orange trees, a parked scooter, pale façades. IRIS sees a tool in contact with the mount and a person within reach of the equipment. It does not know who he is or what he intends: it does not recognise faces and does not read number plates.
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What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- tool on the mount
- a person
The rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
a tool comes into contact with the mount, the housing or the junction box, or the framing starts to swing while somebody is in front of it
Then
- alert at once with the camera, the spot and the time
- set aside the video of the previous minutes so the recording cycle cannot erase it
- wake the neighbouring camera that covers the same spot, so the scene stays covered if this one goes down
The instruction that set it up«Tell me the moment somebody touches a camera mount or housing with a tool, even if the picture still looks fine, and set the video aside.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the cameras working
The alert that says a camera has lost signal always arrives late: it arrives when there is nothing left to see. If a camera ends up on the ground, the last thing it recorded is a piece of sky or pavement, and what mattered — who turned up, with what, at what time — happened a few minutes earlier, when nobody was watching that screen. With IRIS the alert goes out while the tool is on the mount, with the camera still alive and the square still in frame. And the video of those minutes is set aside so the recording cycle cannot erase it. That is the difference between finding out tomorrow that a camera is missing and knowing today what is happening to it.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS recognise the person handling the camera?
No. IRIS does not recognise faces and does not read number plates. All it states is what can be seen: there is a tool in contact with the mount and there is a person within reach of the equipment. It does not say who that is, does not look them up in any database and does not store anyone’s identity. Who it is and what they were doing is for a person watching the video to decide. That is the usual split: IRIS alerts while it is happening, a person judges afterwards.
Does this work as evidence?
What counts is the video, and what IRIS does is make sure it exists. When the alert fires, the preceding minutes are pulled out of the overwrite cycle and kept with their camera, date and time, alongside the record of which rule fired and when. That is what goes to whoever has to weigh it up. IRIS does not classify what happened and does not identify anyone: it describes what was in front of the lens. Classifying is a job for people, with the video in front of them.
And what if it is the maintenance technician, there to take it down?
It fires anyway, and it has to: from the lens, scheduled work and anything else look exactly the same. What you tune is the response, not the detection. With a work order open for that camera, the alert is logged and wakes nobody; with no work order, it calls. And there is a side effect maintenance crews like: it is on record that work was done on that camera and at what time, so when one turns up hanging loose, nobody has to reconstruct it from memory.
See it for yourself
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
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.
What if the outage does not start with an attack?
13 cases, and in every one of them IRIS raises an alert when something happens. You see each image as it is, and then with what it understands on top.
And the best part
What happens in the small hoursdoes not have to wait for the morning report.
IRIS understands it there and then and tells whoever is on call, with the camera and the time. The next day there is nothing to reconstruct: it is already written down.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.