CAM-27
A fire burning on the sand
An urban beach seen from above in the late afternoon. On the left, the palm-lined promenade and the bins; on the right, the water, with people swimming and a couple of boats further out. The sand is covered in parasols and towels. In the middle of the dry sand there is a ring of stones with a fire burning in it and a dozen people sitting and standing around it, a cool box beside them. There are parasols and towels a few steps away.
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What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- fire on the sand
- people around it
- cool box
- parasol
- towels on the sand
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 12 minBurning for
- 13People around the fire
- 118People in the frame
- 4Parasols in the area
- 0Other fires in the frame
- 20:40Time of the alert
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
a source of heat and smoke appears on the sand and is still there seconds later
Then
- alert the beach service with the camera, the stretch of sand and the time
- open the video from the moment it was lit
- keep the clip in case a report has to be filed
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if anyone lights a fire on the sand — a bonfire, a barbecue, a grill, whatever it is.»
What changes
What changes for whoever runs the city
Lighting a fire on the sand is banned almost everywhere, and the problem is not the picture of the bonfire: it is what is left behind. Embers buried in the sand that a barefoot child steps on the next day, broken glass, a gust of wind with a parasol a few steps away. Today the warden sees this if he happens to walk past, and a beach is long. IRIS sees a source of heat and smoke on the sand and reports it while it is happening, with the camera, the stretch and the time. It does not know whether this is a permitted barbecue, a party bonfire or a fire that has got out of hand, and it is not going to claim otherwise: it alerts so that someone can go and look. The one who decides and acts is a person.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS know whether that fire is allowed?
No. IRIS sees a source of heat and smoke on the sand, and that is where its knowledge ends. It cannot tell a permitted barbecue from a party bonfire or from a fire that has got out of hand. What it does is alert someone to go and look, with the camera, the stretch of sand and the time. Which stretches have a rule and at what hours is decided by the beach service, not by us.
Does IRIS know who lit the fire?
No. IRIS does not identify anyone: not the bathers, not the person who lights the fire. It does not recognise faces, it does not compare them against any database, it does not store who anyone is and it does not follow a particular person. What it detects is a situation — there is a fire on the sand — and what it hands over is the place, the time and the video. It cannot be used to penalise anyone: that is for whoever turns up and for the authority in charge.
Does this prevent a fire?
No, and we are not going to claim it does. IRIS puts out nothing, calls nobody on its own account and promises nothing about what will or will not happen. All it does is let someone find out while it is happening, instead of finding out the next day from what was left in the sand. What you gain is time; what is done with that time is decided by a person.
The real interface, step by step
A new case each time. Always the same screen.
It plays by itself and shows one case from start to finish. It is a summary: the real screen has far more functions than fit in this box.
- Checks the whole system
- Flags what is failing
- Puts it on one screen
Next step
Who is watching a whole quay at three in the morning?
14 cases: 13 raise an alert when something happens and 1 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
Who is watching the cameras of a whole branch network?
13 cases: 12 raise an alert when something happens and 1 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
Ten cameras or four thousand:not one of them goes unwatched.
The day IRIS starts, they all start: the ten in a school or the four thousand in a whole network. And it only raises its hand when the thing you asked for happens.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.