CAM-41
Boulevard: cars, bikes and people
A wide street in the afternoon: cars and a bus on the roadway, a green cycle lane down the middle and a pavement with café terraces on the right. Nothing unusual is happening; the city is simply moving.
Turn on IRIS Vision
AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- bus
- car
- bicycle
- scooter
- pedestrian
What this camera gives back
Nobody gets an alert here. Here you get numbers.
- 1.842+4%Vehicles
- 613+21%Bicycles
- 178Scooters
- 2.407Pedestrians
- 46Outside the lane
- 9No helmet
The figures on this screen are an example from the illustration, not any client's measurement.
The series, not one figure
One number says nothing. A curve does.
Traffic by time slot
- Vehicles
- Bikes and scooters
| Slot | Vehicles | Bikes and scooters |
|---|---|---|
| 06 | 88 | 22 |
| 08 | 214 | 71 |
| 10 | 156 | 54 |
| 12 | 141 | 43 |
| 14 | 168 | 38 |
| 16 | 152 | 49 |
| 18 | 231 | 96 |
| 20 | 174 | 88 |
| 22 | 96 | 41 |
The figures on this screen are an example from the illustration, not any client's measurement.
How the counting works
Counting is not something you ask for. You draw a line.
Three lines are drawn on the image: one across the roadway, one across the cycle lane and one across the pavement. Anything that crosses a line is added up, and the direction of the line says whether it is coming or going. You cannot describe a line in a sentence: you have to draw it onto the frame. That is why counting is set up by drawing, and searching is done by talking.
- roadway line · Counting line
- cycle lane line · Counting line
- pavement line · Counting line
And also, one rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
someone rides a bike or scooter along the boulevard without a helmet
Then
- add it to the day's count
- keep the clip for reference
- take it to the monthly road-safety report
The instruction that set it up«Also tell me how many people ride past without a helmet, so I know whether we need a road-safety campaign.»
What changes
What changes for whoever runs the city
The mobility engineer has to defend the cycle lane at a council meeting. Some say it is always full, others that it is empty, and both are speaking from memory: nobody has the number. With the three lines in place that engineer knows how many bicycles go past, at what times, how many ride outside the lane and how many cars still use the same stretch. With that he decides whether the lane needs widening, whether a signal should change or whether another bus is needed, and he defends it with the series in front of him. There is no incident here and nobody to alert: there is a figure that can be repeated next year and compared.
What people usually ask
Can I just tell IRIS 'count the cars' and be done?
No, asking IRIS to just count the cars is not enough, and it is worth knowing why. To find something, describing it is enough: 'show me yesterday's red motorbikes' is a sentence, and IRIS resolves it. To count, you have to say where the counting happens: a line across the roadway, with a direction, or an area painted on the image. That geometry is drawn once and stored; from then on the count is always the same, it repeats month after month and it can be audited. A number that changes with the wording is no basis for a decision.
Can a council rely on a count made with a camera?
A camera count is reliable when the line is well placed and the framing does not change, and that is exactly what is checked at commissioning. The geometry is stored, so the March figure is measured the same way as the October one. Where the count loses reliability is at night without enough street lighting, in heavy rain, or if the camera shifts: when a spot is in that condition, we say so before installing, not after.
Does IRIS tell a bicycle from an e-scooter?
IRIS tells a bicycle from an e-scooter and from a pedestrian, and each one is counted separately. The difference between a bicycle and a scooter is harder to see far away and in poor light, and there a few can end up in the wrong category. That is why the figure published is the hourly trend, which absorbs that margin, and not the exact number for one single minute.
Simulation · how IRIS works
You set the rule once. IRIS applies it every time.
You will see a summary of the interface, played step by step and hands-free. Each round starts with another case. The complete tool does not fit in a demo.
- The hour, as a grid
- You look where it's dark
- You jump to that minute
Next step
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.
Who sees the sales that never reach the till?
10 cases: 4 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
You have paid for years to store video.Nobody has ever watched it.
Recording is not understanding. The footage is still kept in case you need it, but you no longer have to sit through it to know what happened.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.