CAM-22
Night gathering in the square
It is the middle of the night and the square is full: one large group in the centre and smaller ones spread around it. There are bottles across the ground, the bins are overflowing and the terrace at the back is still open.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- gathering
- group
- bottles on ground
- bins overflowing
- terrace
The rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
crowd density in the square exceeds the configured threshold
Duringmore than 20 minutes
And alsobetween 00:00 and 06:00
Then
- notify the local patrol
- schedule extra cleaning
- log the hourly occupancy
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if people gather in the square above the threshold at night, and how full the bins are.»
What changes
What changes for whoever runs the city
At half past one in the morning the square is full and the phone at the station does not stop: the neighbours on the first floor call every night and always say the same thing. The officer heading out on patrol does not know whether there are a hundred people tonight or three hundred, and the next morning nobody can say how many there were or when they left. With IRIS that officer only gets an alert when the threshold the council set is crossed, with occupancy measured hour by hour. And the following month the engineer can put the extra cleaning shift on the right night and explain the decision with numbers, not with the impression of whoever happened to walk past.
What people usually ask
Does measuring how many people are in a square mean identifying them?
No, measuring how many people are in a square does not identify anyone: IRIS works with density and counts, not identity, and the figure it produces is how many people are in an area, not who they are. What gets stored, for how long and who may see it is set by the council, and the system can be deployed locally, with no images leaving the site. The measurement is there to size cleaning and patrols, not to follow anyone.
Does IRIS listen to what is said in the square?
No, IRIS does not listen to what is said in the square: it works with the image, not with audio. In this scene what it measures is how many people are in the area and the state of the bins; it does not record conversations and it does not identify anyone. If the council wants to measure noise, that is a separate sound-level meter and its own decision, not something IRIS does on the quiet.
Can IRIS tell me when to send the cleaning crew?
Yes, IRIS helps decide when the cleaning crew goes in, and that is usually the use that pays off most. Because it is recorded when the square fills and when it empties, week after week, the real pattern of that spot becomes visible and the next day's cleaning shift can be adjusted. It is the same data that raises the night-time alert, looked at calmly and over months.
Simulation · how IRIS works
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
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
We would rather promise less.Let the first week be the surprise, not the brochure.
What it cannot do gets said on day one, not on the last day. A short list that holds beats a long one that falls apart the moment it is switched on.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.