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Collision at a junction
Two cars have collided in the middle of the junction. One person is on the ground being treated by paramedics, a bus is stopped behind them and onlookers line both pavements; traffic is stopped on all four approaches.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- vehicle
- person on roadway
- ambulance
- officer
- bus stopped
- crowd forming
The rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
two or more vehicles collide and come to a stop
Duringmore than 5 seconds
And alsothere is a person on the roadway
Then
- alert emergency services
- report which approaches are blocked
- preserve the evidence
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if there is a collision with people on the roadway, and which approaches are blocked.»
What changes
What changes for whoever runs the city
It is quarter past eight in the morning and the junction has stopped on all four approaches. There are two people in the control room and forty cameras, and the first alert comes by phone: somebody who cannot name the street and does not know whether anyone is hurt. While that gets sorted out, the queue grows backwards and blocks the buses on three routes. With IRIS that operator has the camera open from the first minute, knows there is a person on the roadway and which approaches are closed. The ambulance sets off knowing which way in, and the diversion is in place before the queue reaches the next junction.
What people usually ask
Can IRIS report a collision before anyone phones it in?
Yes, IRIS can report a collision before anyone phones it in, because it recognises the impact in the image itself: two vehicles that meet, stop and never move again. The alert goes out with the camera, the time and what can be seen in the scene, without depending on a witness calling or an operator happening to watch that monitor. The call still comes; what changes is that it is no longer the first alert.
Can IRIS alert the emergency services on its own?
IRIS can send the alert to the emergency services on its own, if the council sets it up that way: to the control room, the local police or the emergency dispatch desk. What it sends is the camera, the time and what it saw, so whoever receives it can open the image and confirm in seconds. Sending an ambulance is still a person's decision.
Does IRIS know which approaches to the junction are blocked?
Yes, IRIS knows which approaches to the junction are blocked, provided those zones are drawn on the image. Each approach is marked once and from then on IRIS says where traffic has come to a stop. That is the information you need to divert traffic before the queue builds. It only covers what the camera sees: anything outside the frame cannot be known from that spot.
The real interface, step by step
A camera looks. IRIS understands what it sees.
An extract of the real screen, no voice-over and hands-free. Each round poses another situation. What sits behind it is a good deal bigger than what you see.
- The alert fires
- It lands in the tray
- You open it
- You confirm or dismiss
Next step
Who watches an entire motorway?
10 cases: 8 raise an alert when something happens and 2 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
Who watches a whole station at rush hour?
17 cases: 11 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.
And the best part
Video is late by definition:you watch it once the thing has already happened.
IRIS tells you while it is happening, with the camera, the time and what it saw. Arriving in time changes the end of almost any story, and no new cameras are needed for that.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.