CAM-524
Every seat taken and seventeen people standing around the table
Deep night, roulette table. All nine seats are taken and nobody is getting up. Two rings of people have formed on either side: some betting over a shoulder, others waiting for a place. Above, leaning on the balustrade, more people are watching. And in front, the floor is empty from wall to wall. IRIS measures how many people are around the table, how long they have been there and how long it takes to get a seat. Demand is not spread across the floor: it is piled in one spot.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- ring of people standing, on the right
- ring of people standing, on the left
- table with every seat taken
- wheel at the end of the table
- dealer at his spot
- people seated and playing
- people watching from the balustrade
- free floor in front of the table
What this camera gives back
Nobody gets an alert here. Here you get numbers.
- 9 / 9Seats taken, of those there are
- 17+6People standing around
- 22 minLongest anyone has waited
- 4Seats that came free this hour
- 11 minIt takes this long to get a seat
- 23:40Time of the reading
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.
Two areas are drawn on the floor, one on each side of the table, right over the spot where people plant themselves. And a line runs along the backs of the chairs: whoever crosses it inward has sat down, and that closes their wait. Three figures come out of that: how many people are around, how long each has been there and how long it takes to get a seat. The line cannot be asked for in a sentence, it has to be traced, and that is why the figure is repeatable: drawn once, measured the same every night. IRIS does not know why each person is there — one is waiting for a seat, another is watching a friend — so the number reads as demand around the table, not as a list of people who want to play.
- line along the backs of the chairs · Counting line
- waiting area on the left · Dwell zone
- waiting area on the right · Dwell zone
And also, one rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
a table has had every seat taken for a quarter of an hour and more than fifteen people are standing around it
Then
- alert the floor manager with the table, how many are waiting and how long the longest has waited
- save the video of the minute the last free seat was taken
- leave the wait for that time slot in the night log
The instruction that set it up«Tell me when a table has been full for a quarter of an hour with more than fifteen people standing around it.»
What changes
What changes for the floor manager and for compliance
For the floor manager this says something you can only know today by walking past: that table cannot cope while there is room to spare ten metres away. With the wait measured by time slot you decide when to open another table of the same game, where to put it and when it is no longer needed. And a figure appears that nobody has today: how many people get tired and leave. Nobody walks out over a five-minute wait; they walk out after twenty, three times in a row.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS know who is waiting for a seat?
No. IRIS does not recognise faces, does not identify any player and does not follow anyone across the floor. It counts bodies inside two areas drawn on the floor and measures how long each has been in them. It knows there are seventeen people standing and that the one who has been there longest has been there twenty-two minutes; it does not know who any of them are, and the figure does not need it. IRIS carries no biometrics.
How does it tell someone waiting for a seat from someone just watching?
It does not tell them apart, and it does not need to. IRIS counts bodies inside the drawn area and how long each has been there. Someone who spends twenty minutes standing beside a full table counts as demand around that table, whether they are waiting for a seat or watching the play. The floor manager does not need anyone's intentions: he needs to know there are seventeen people piled in one spot and room to spare ten metres away. IRIS measures what can be seen; interpreting is a person's job.
Is this figure covered by the approval too?
The approval from the Spanish Metrology Centre, which NeuralPax holds, covers people counting and nothing else. Here that count is what the figure rests on, but what gets published is a waiting time, and a time is not the approved measurement. We say so because the difference matters: we would rather explain exactly how far the guarantee reaches than stretch it by an inch.
Other cameras
- CAM-523 · A full table and an open one with nobody, five metres away
- CAM-525 · The hand is going nowhere and the dealer's spot is empty
- CAM-526 · One dark screen in the middle of a bank of machines that are all lit
- CAM-527 · Three windows open, two dark, and the queue still waiting
- CAM-528 · A player raises a complaint and the table stops
- CAM-529 · The closing hand is up and another one is still on the cloth
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 is a lot more behind it.
- You draw the line
- It counts by itself
- A number comes out
Next step
How many bays are free 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 will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.