The cityInfrastructure integrity
CAM-31
Sinkhole in the roadway
A sinkhole about six metres across has opened in the middle of the roadway. Two cars have stopped on either side, a barrier is in place at one end, a worker stands next to the hole and several pedestrians are walking up to the edge.
Turn on IRIS Vision
AI-generated image
What IRIS is
IRIS watches the street for you.
IRIS looks at the cameras you already have on streets and squares and understands what's happening: a fight, a spill, an overflowing bin or a crowd building up. When something important happens, it alerts you; and whatever can be counted, it counts. All day long, with no one watching a screen.
You tell it what you need to watch, and IRIS does it.
Here, for example, IRIS spots the moment the road surface has changed and alerts the on-call technician straight away with the picture and the exact spot. So you know where the sinkhole is the instant it opens, without waiting for someone to call it in. With that alert you decide to close the street right away and how many people to send.
Works with the cameras you already have. Nothing to replace.
A person replies, not a form.
- Your footage never leaves your premises.
- It doesn't identify people.
- Certifications →
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- sinkhole
- stopped vehicle
- vehicle
- barrier
- worker
- pedestrians
The rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
a collapse appears in the roadway
And alsovehicles or people are within 5 metres
Then
- alert the municipal duty service to close the street
- notify the works crew
- open an incident report
The instruction that set it up«Alert me as soon as the pavement collapses, and tell me if vehicles or people are near the edge.»
What changes
What changes for whoever runs the city
A sinkhole gives no warning: the pavement gives way, and from that moment every car that arrives is at risk. If it opens at four in the morning, the street stays like that until somebody manages to call and explain where it is. IRIS cannot see what is happening under the asphalt or predict when it will collapse, and that is worth saying plainly. What it does do is raise the alert as soon as the pavement has changed: the duty engineer and the municipal duty service get the image and the position at the same time, and the street is closed that same night. The time gained is exactly the time the street would have stayed open with nobody knowing.
What people usually ask
Do the cameras have to be replaced to detect a sinkhole?
No, in most cases you do not need to change the cameras to detect a sinkhole: IRIS builds on the street cameras already there, and what it adds is not more resolution but the understanding that the road surface has changed and that vehicles and people are close by. During the project, each camera is checked to see whether its framing and quality work for that spot, and the ones that do not are named. Replacing a camera is the exception, not the starting point.
Does IRIS see the collapse before a car goes in, or only afterwards?
IRIS sees the collapse once the road surface has already changed, not before. IRIS reads the image: it cannot know what is happening under the asphalt or predict when it will give way. What does change is reaction time: a hole that opens at four in the morning on an empty street is picked up right then, not when the first car arrives. For what happens underground you need other sensors.
Can IRIS close the street automatically?
IRIS does not close the street by itself, but it can send the command to systems that are already connected: variable message signs, traffic lights, the rising bollard or barrier on that street. And if you would rather a person confirmed the closure before it takes effect, it is set up that way from day one.
The real interface, step by step
We won't just tell you. We'll show you.
It is a summary of the real screen: it plays by itself, step by step, and shows only the path of one case. The actual tool has far more than fits in here.
- It lands in the tray
- You open it
- You confirm or dismiss
See it somewhere else
Who is watching the yard screen when the fight starts?
17 cases: 16 raise an alert when something happens and one only measures. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
How long before somebody comes down that corridor at four in the morning?
13 cases: 12 raise an alert when something happens and one only measures. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
The door was left open at two.Finding out at nine is no use to anyone.
The video tells you at nine. IRIS says it at two, with the camera, the time and the images from that moment. The difference between the two is whether someone can go.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.