Critical infrastructureInfrastructure integrity
CAM-147
Water has come over the dam crest
The same crest, this time with water over it. The roadway has gone under the sheet of water, the control hut has water above the threshold of its door, and only the top half of the mesh fence shows. On the right, the spillway bays are discharging at full load. The stairway at the far end is still dry. Nobody is in shot. IRIS reads the height against those fixed references in the picture.
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What IRIS is
IRIS watches over critical infrastructure.
IRIS looks at the cameras you already have at the dam, the water plant or the power plant, and understands what it sees: someone entering where they shouldn't, a strange vehicle, an overflow, the perimeter. When something like that happens, it alerts right away; and whatever can be counted, it counts in numbers. All day long, with no one needing to watch the screen.
You tell it what you need to watch, and IRIS does it.
Here, for example, IRIS reads how much water is over the dam crest by comparing it to a fixed reference, like the threshold of the control hut door. That way you get the number even at 3am with nobody there to see it. With that you decide whether to get up and act, and later check how it has developed.
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
- water over the crest
- control hut
- fence half submerged
- stairway still dry
- spillway discharging
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 78 cm+17 cmAbove the hut threshold
- 40 cmWarning mark
- 8 cm / hHow fast it is rising
- 6 hAbove the mark for
- 0People in shot
- 14:20Time
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.
The day's rise and the warning mark
- Height above the threshold
- Warning mark
| Slot | Height above the threshold |
|---|---|
| 00 | 12 cm |
| 02 | 19 cm |
| 04 | 27 cm |
| 06 | 38 cm |
| 08 | 49 cm |
| 10 | 61 cm |
| 12 | 72 cm |
| 14 | 78 cm |
| Warning mark | 40 cm |
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
the water passes, measured against the fixed references in the frame, the warning mark the operator has set
Then
- alert the operations manager with the reading, the rate of rise and the video
- repeat the alert every time it climbs another step of the ones the operator has set
- keep the day's series, so the curve is there when the operation has to be explained
The instruction that set it up«Tell me how high the water is against the threshold of the hut door, alert me when it goes past the warning mark, and show me how it has risen.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the site
Twenty past three in the morning and there is nobody at the dam. The operations manager is forty minutes away by car, and what decides whether he gets up and whether a gate is moved is a number: how much water is over the crest and how fast it is rising. Seventy-eight centimetres is alarming or not depending on what it read six hours ago. Without that reading, the event is discovered from the next day’s damage. With IRIS the level reads itself, including where there is no instrumentation and at the hour when nobody is there. And the limit, spelled out: this is a reading against a visible physical reference — the threshold of the hut door — not a water-level gauge, and it does not replace the dam’s instrumentation.
What people usually ask
Does this replace the dam's instrumentation?
No, and it should not. IRIS reads a height against a visible physical reference — here, the threshold of the hut door; it is not a water-level gauge and it does not replace the dam's instrumentation. What it adds is something else: a check with video behind it, at a point where there may be no sensor, at an hour when nobody is watching. When the reading and the instrument disagree, that too is useful information.
Who decides what the warning mark is?
The site operator, always. IRIS does not set marks, does not know what this dam's mark is and has no basis for choosing one. It is told which physical reference to watch, at what height above it to raise the alert, and how often to repeat it while the level keeps rising. Changing that mark means changing a number, not rebuilding anything.
Does it warn before the water gets there?
No. IRIS does not predict. It reads what is happening: how high the water is now and how fast it has risen over the last few hours. You decide with those two things, but the decision belongs to a person. Anyone promising that a camera announces a flood is promising something they cannot deliver.
Simulation · how IRIS works
This isn’t a video. It’s a slice of the real screen.
A summary of the real interface, played hands-free. You see one case from start to finish; what you do not see are the other screens, and there are many.
- It lands in the tray
- You open it
- You confirm or dismiss
See it somewhere else
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.
Who sees the child who has fallen at the far end of the playground?
14 cases: 13 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
You decide once what matters to you.It stops depending on who happens to be on shift.
You say it in your own words and it stays written down. Nobody has to remember anything at the start of a shift: what you decided is already in place, and still there tomorrow.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.