CAM-15
Vehicle with no readable plate
A narrow old-town street in the middle of the morning. A car has been standing against the kerb for three days, its rear facing the camera, and the recess in the bumper where the plate goes has nothing fitted in it. Another car is coming down the lane, two more are parked across the street, and people walk past without noticing.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- plate recess
- standing vehicle
- moving vehicle
- parked vehicle
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 1No plate in place
- 3 d 4 hStanding for
- 3Nights in a row
- 6Vehicles in frame
- 6People in frame
- 09:12Time of the check
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 vehicle has been standing for more than a day and there is no readable plate where the plate goes
Then
- alert the local police with the camera, the street and the time
- keep the video of the moment it was detected
- check again every morning until the vehicle moves
The instruction that set it up«Tell me when a vehicle has been standing in the street for more than a day and there is no readable plate where the plate should be. I don't want to know what it says: I want to know it isn't there.»
What changes
What changes for whoever runs the city
Today an officer sees this if they happen to walk past and notice. A car standing for three days in the same street with an empty plate recess goes undetected, because nobody looks at the same street three days running. The camera does. What reaches the local police is not an accusation: it is a street, a time and a video, so that a person can go and look. It may be a newly bought car, a plate that has fallen off, or someone who would rather their plate wasn't read, and IRIS does not know which of the three. The officer who arrives finds that out, with their own means. IRIS has simply noticed sooner.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS read the number plate of the car it detects?
No. IRIS does not read the number, does not store it, does not compare it against any database and does not identify the vehicle or its driver. All it sees is that there is no readable plate where the plate goes: none fitted, or one covered, bent or obscured. That takes no reading at all, just as you can see somebody is not wearing a helmet without knowing who they are. The alert carries the camera, the street, the time and the video, and it goes to the local police so that a person can go and look. Identifying the vehicle is done by an officer with their own means, not by us.
What if the plate has fallen off, or the car has just been bought?
Then nothing happens, and that is precisely the point. IRIS does not know why the plate is missing: it may be a newly bought vehicle, a plate that has fallen off, or somebody who would rather theirs wasn't read. All three look the same from a camera, and telling them apart is not a video system's job. That is why the alert does not say anyone has done anything: it says there is a vehicle standing in that street with no readable plate, and has been for three days, so that a person can go and check. If it is the first case, the officer sees it in a minute and that is that. What changes is not the judgement — it is that somebody looked.
Does IRIS report or fine the vehicle?
No. IRIS raises the alert and its job ends there. It opens no case, identifies nobody and decides nothing: a person with the authority to do so does that. The camera hands over the street, the time, the video and the fact — there is no readable plate where the plate goes — and the local police decide whether it is worth going. Nor does it prevent anything: it does not stop a vehicle being there and it does not replace the patrol. All it does is let somebody find out on day one instead of day three, or day ten.
See it for yourself
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.
- Four cameras at once
- Each understands its own view
- The numbers climb by themselves
Next step
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.
When does a bad review get decided?
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
You do not need to buy cameras:you need yours to understand what they see.
Nothing gets built, mounted or rewired. It plugs into what is already up and running, and the only thing that changes is what those cameras understand.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.