CAM-171
An open manhole with nothing around it
A sunny street seen from above. In the middle of the lane there is an open manhole: the black hole and the cast-iron cover out of place, propped up beside it. Not one cone, not one barrier, nobody working. Two pedestrians are crossing the road towards it and there are more people on the pavement. IRIS sees a cover out of place and an open hole with nothing around it; it identifies none of the people in frame.
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What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- open manhole
- cover out of place
- pedestrians approaching
- people on the pavement
- parked car
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 22 minOpen for
- 0Cones or barriers
- 14People who have gone past
- 11People in frame
- 0Workers on site
- 12:07Time 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 manhole cover turns up out of place and there is nothing marking off the hole
Then
- alert the standby crew so they can go and mark it off, with the camera and the exact spot
- log what time it has been open since
- close the alert only when the cover is back in place or the marking-off appears
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if a manhole cover turns up out of place and nobody has put a cone around it.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the site
An open manhole with nothing around it in the middle of the roadway is one of the shortest-lived things on a street and one of the most expensive while it lasts. Today you know about it because somebody sees it and calls, and between the seeing and the calling everybody who passes, passes. This camera watches a cover, not a person: it says the hole is open and since when, so the crew sets off knowing what they are going to. IRIS closes nothing and promises nothing will happen: it shortens the stretch in which nobody knows.
What people usually ask
How does it know the cover is out of place?
Because the cover is part of the fixed scene: it has always been there, in the same place in the image, and what the rule watches is for it to stop being there. It is the abandoned-object mechanism the other way round: instead of alerting about something that appears, it alerts about something that is missing. Which cover is watched and how long you hold off before alerting is set by whoever runs the street, on the image itself.
And when a crew is working with the cover lifted?
That is exactly the case that separates an alert from no alert, and it is why the rule has two parts and not one: the cover out of place and the absence of any marking-off. With cones around it and people working, there is no alert, because there is nothing to report. With no cones and nobody there, there is. And if the crew leaves and the hole stays open, the alert comes back.
Does it identify the pedestrians walking towards it?
No. IRIS does not identify anyone: it does not recognise faces, it does not read number plates, it does not compare against any database and it does not store who anybody is. Seeing people approach serves one purpose and one only: so the alert can say that this hole is not in an empty street. No data comes out of those people and none of them is followed.
See it for yourself
We won't just tell you. We'll show you.
It is a summary of the real screen: it plays by itself, step by step, and shows only the path of one case. The actual tool has far more than fits in here.
- The hour, as a grid
- You look where it's dark
- You jump to that minute
Next step
Why did the line stop?
237 cases, and in every one of them IRIS raises an alert when something happens. You see each image as it is, and then with what it understands on top.
How many bays are free right now?
15 cases: 9 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
One camera,and you already have a watchman. Four thousand cameras, and you have four thousand watchmen.
None of them tires, none of them looks away and none of them works shifts. And there is nothing to install: the cameras you already have can start understanding what they see.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.