CAM-145
A van parked on the dam crest
The same crest, at midday. A white van is stopped at an angle against the fence, its nose up against the no-entry sign and the transformer just on the other side of the mesh. One person is sitting at the wheel with the window down, and the rear doors are shut. Nobody else is in shot. IRIS sees a vehicle stopped where nobody stops; it does not read the number plate and does not know whose it is.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- vehicle stopped
- person at the wheel
- crest fence
- transformer
- no-entry sign
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 11 minStopped for
- 1People inside the vehicle
- 0Vehicle doors open
- 0Site staff in shot
- 1Vehicles on the crest
- 13:05Time
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 vehicle has been stopped on the crest for longer than the operator has set, and it is not just passing through
Then
- alert whoever is on call, with the camera, the spot and the video from the moment it arrived
- keep the clock running and alert again if anyone gets out of the vehicle
- log the time it arrived and the time it left
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if a vehicle stays parked on the crest for more than five minutes outside working hours, and tell me if anyone gets out of it.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the site
A vehicle stopped on the crest is not a crime, it is an anomaly, and the two look alike enough to be worth a look. Most of the time it is a breakdown, a lost delivery driver or somebody taking photographs. Occasionally it is something else. The trouble is that today nobody looks: a dam has no gatekeeper, no manned barrier, and the track leads nowhere else. With IRIS the alert arrives once the vehicle has been there for as long as the operator has decided is too long, with the picture and the time, and whoever is on call decides whether it is a breakdown or worth driving out for. What IRIS does not do is identify the vehicle or the person inside it.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS read the plate to check whether the vehicle is authorised?
No. IRIS does not read number plates and does not recognise faces. It does not read them, it does not check them against any authorised list and it does not store who anyone is. What it sees is a vehicle, where it is and how long it has been there. If the operator wants to control who comes in, that is an access-control job, which is a different thing and goes separately.
What about visits and maintenance vehicles, which do stop there?
That is exactly why the rule is written by the site operator and not by us. You set how long counts as too long, the time bands where no alert fires and the stretches where parking is expected. A maintenance van at ten in the morning with the crew working need not raise anything; the same van at eleven on a Sunday night should. It is the same camera with two different rules.
Is it any use for the transformer right next to it?
It is useful for the same thing as the rest of the frame: seeing that someone is where they should not be, or that a vehicle has been sitting there longer than it should. IRIS does not know what is inside an electrical cabinet and measures nothing about the electrical installation. What it does is let somebody find out now that a vehicle is parked up against it, instead of discovering it when something has gone missing.
Every simulation
On the edge of a drop
Tell me if someone steps to the edge of a drop with nothing holding them.
- The sentence
- Where it applies
- What it finds
- The same rule
Next step
Who is watching the yard screen when the fight starts?
17 cases: 16 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.
How long before somebody comes down that corridor at four in the morning?
13 cases: 12 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
“The white van, Tuesday afternoon.”That is enough to find it.
You type it the way you would tell a colleague, and the matching minutes come back, each with its camera and its time. You do not need to remember the exact moment.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.