CAM-915
The branch has grown
A residential street mid-morning, in full sun. On the left, the stone façade, the planters and the pavement with bollards. In the middle, the road with a red car stopped, a white van further up and another car pulling away at the bottom. And on the right, taking up more than a third of the frame, a branch with big leaves, so close to the lens that every vein shows. Behind that branch are the pavement and the doorway this camera was watching. IRIS sees that part of the field of view is covered by vegetation, and that this part has been growing week by week. It does not know which tree it is or when it was last pruned.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- branch across the frame
The rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
vegetation is covering more of the field of view than the site operator has accepted
Then
- alert the maintenance manager with the camera, the time and today’s picture
- show alongside it what that same camera saw when it was installed
- keep measuring the covered area until somebody prunes
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if a camera is seeing less than it used to, and tell me since when.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the cameras working
A branch does not cover a camera overnight. It grows a few centimetres a week, for months, and that is exactly why nobody notices: today’s picture looks almost identical to yesterday’s. On the day the doorway video is needed, the doorway has been behind the leaves for half a year and nobody remembers when it stopped being visible. That is what changes here. IRIS compares what this camera sees now with what it used to see, and raises the alert once the covered area has grown enough. The alert comes with the camera, the time and the picture. And it comes in spring, while pruning can still be arranged, rather than in October once something has happened.
What people usually ask
Who decides when the branch is really in the way?
You do. A branch covering a corner of sky bothers nobody; one covering the door you needed to watch does. So the alert does not depend on how much foliage there is, but on whether the vegetation reaches the part of the frame that matters to you. That part is marked once, on the image, and from then on IRIS alerts when it gets covered. It is the same camera with two different criteria, depending on where the tree grows.
The wind moves the leaves all day. Will it not alert constantly?
No. A leaf blown by the wind goes back where it was; a branch that has grown does not. IRIS does not look at one frame, it looks at the trend: how long that piece of the frame has been covered across days and weeks. A gust does not change the trend. That is why this alert does not arrive the day the wind picks up, but when the covered area has stayed covered.
And if the tree belongs to the council and the pruning is not ours to do?
It still helps, quite a lot. The alert can be deferred to the date pruning is scheduled, and in the meantime the camera stays flagged: it keeps recording, but anyone who opens it sees that part of the frame is not being covered. And it is on record since when. When the pruning has to be requested from someone else, that date and that picture are worth far more than a phone call.
A different case every time
Watch what happens. Then watch what IRIS does with it.
Not a recorded video and not a drawing: it is a summary of the real tool, with a different case each time round. The whole tool does not fit in a box.
- The hour, as a grid
- You look where it's dark
- You jump to that minute
Next step
Who is watching a site where there is almost never anybody?
44 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.
Why did the line stop?
237 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
The cameras you bought years agostill hold up. What they were missing was not image quality.
It was someone to look. IRIS connects to the installation you already have — same equipment, same cabling — and those images go from being stored to being understood.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.