CAM-154
Someone opens the chemical compound gate
The fenced compound with the storage tanks and the dosing room. A person with their hood up is pushing one of the chain-link gate leaves open. Inside you can see the vertical tanks, the bunded area with its yellow grating, and the green door of the room, open, with an operator walking out of it. To the left, the plant's basins and pipework.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- person at the gate
- gate leaf open
- compound fence
- storage tanks
- retention bund
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 25 sGate open for
- 1 / 2Gate leaves open
- 1People inside the compound
- 0Work scheduled right now
- 1Room doors open
- 19:48Time of the alert
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 leaf of the compound gate opens during a time band in which the plant has scheduled no work
Then
- alert the operator on duty with the camera and the video of the gate
- log the time it was opened and whether the compound is still open
- keep the alert open until somebody confirms the gate is shut
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if anyone opens the chemical compound gate in a time band with no work scheduled there.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the site
That compound is fenced for a reason: there are storage tanks and a dosing room inside, and walking in without knowing what is there is dangerous for whoever walks in. At a quarter to eight in the evening on an ordinary day nobody is scheduled there, and the gate has just opened. IRIS does not say who that person is or what they came for, and it will not hint at it: it could be an operator who swapped shifts with a colleague, a driver who took the wrong gate, or someone who should not be there. All the camera says is that the gate is open at an hour with nothing scheduled, and what that means is decided by a person, looking at the video.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS decide whether that person is allowed in?
No, and it cannot. IRIS does not identify anyone: it does not recognise faces, it does not read number plates, it does not compare them against any database and it does not store who anyone is. Nor does it judge what anyone came for. All it sees is a gate leaf opening in a time band where the plant had scheduled no work. Who may enter and when is written by the operator of the plant, and it is a person who looks at the image and decides what to do.
What if it is an operator doing his job?
Then nothing should fire, and normally nothing does. The rule is written around the plant's time bands and planned work: if dosing is scheduled at that hour, that entry is normal and raises nothing. When it does fire and it was work, whoever gets it closes it in a second and it stays logged. An alert that fires every time somebody does their job stops being read within a week, and then it is no use on the day it matters.
Do you need a sensor on the gate?
No. The camera is already looking at that gate. You mark the fence on the image and what gets checked is whether the leaf is in place or not. And there is something a contact switch cannot give you: the video of the moment it opened, which is what lets you understand what happened without reconstructing it from memory the next morning.
See it for yourself
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.
- Four cameras at once
- Each understands its own view
- The numbers climb by themselves
Next step
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.
Who is watching a whole quay at three in the morning?
14 cases: 13 raise an alert when something happens and 1 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
A wall of monitors is impressive.Nobody can read forty tiles at once.
The more tiles there are, the less each one gets looked at. IRIS watches all four thousand cameras at once and points at a single one: the one that needs someone right now.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.