CAM-168
Water above the pumps
An underground pumping station in the small hours, lit by the emergency lamps. The two pump sets sit still on their concrete plinths and the murky water already covers them, with litter floating on top. On the left-hand wall there is a red and white gauge with its lower marks under water; on the right, the screened outlet. Nobody is there. IRIS sees a flooded room and water that is not moving; it does not know whether the pumps are running.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- water over the plinths
- pump set
- second pump set
- gauge on the wall
- outlet
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 4 / 6Marks under water
- 2 / 2Plinths covered
- 18 minWater not moving for
- 41 minOver the plinths for
- 0People in the room
- 03:26Time 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
the water in the room covers the pump plinths and holds there without dropping
Then
- alert the standby crew and the operations manager, with the camera and the time
- keep the video of the last stretch, to see since when it has not dropped
- repeat the alert for as long as the water keeps covering the plinths
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if the water in the pumping station goes above the plinths and just stays there without dropping.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the site
When a pumping station floods in the small hours, nobody sees it. What warns you today is the telemetry, and if the telemetry has gone too — or the reading never arrives, or it arrives and nobody looks — the room is discovered in the morning. The camera is a second opinion that does not depend on the same line: it is not the number, it is the scene. And a scene can be understood without being an engineer, at three in the morning and over the phone.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS know whether a pump is running?
No, and it matters to say it plainly: IRIS does not know whether a pump is running. It does not read telemetry, it does not connect to the controller and it does not measure flow. What it sees is a room with water above the plinths, the pumps still, and water that is not moving where it should be moving. That is an observable sign, and it is presented as one: reason enough for somebody to check the telemetry or go down and look, never a reading of the machine's state. Confusing the two would be selling something we do not do.
What if the pump is stopped because it should be, and the room is dry?
Then there is no alert, because what fires the rule is not that the pump is stopped: it is water above the plinths, holding there. A pump at rest with a dry room is the normal state of this room almost all year, and you do not raise alerts about normal. The height at which it does become worth an alert is set by the operator of the site, on the image, not by IRIS.
Does it watch the workers when they come down to the room?
No. This camera 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. It watches a water height and some machines. That somebody is in the room can be reported as a number — how many people are visible — if the operator wants that rule, but who each of them is does not come from here, because IRIS does not know.
Every simulation
Search by number plate
Show me every time that plate crossed the barrier this week, with the time and the video.
- What you are looking for
- Where to look
- What matches
- Who looks
Next step
Who is watching a site where there is almost never anybody?
44 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.
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.
And the best part
You do not need to buy cameras:you need yours to understand what they see.
Nothing gets built, mounted or rewired. It plugs into what is already up and running, and the only thing that changes is what those cameras understand.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.