CAM-185
A stretch of tunnel in the dark
The same bore, at night. The first half has its luminaires on; from one point onwards the vault goes completely dark and stays that way to the far end. Traffic keeps going in regardless: a car has just entered the unlit part, and further ahead all you can see is tail lights.
Turn on IRIS Vision
AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- unlit stretch
- lit stretch
- vehicle entering
- vehicle inside the stretch
- vehicle in the lit stretch
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 12 minUnlit for
- 9Luminaires out in the stretch
- 6Luminaires lit before the stretch
- 4Vehicles that have entered the stretch
- 3Lanes affected
- 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 stretch of the bore that should be lit loses its lighting and stays unlit
Then
- alert the control room supervisor with the camera and the stretch that has gone out
- open a maintenance job with the exact time the lighting went out
- keep reminding while the stretch is still unlit
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if a stretch of the tunnel loses its lighting, even when nothing else has happened.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the site
This camera is different from the other three: it does not report an event, it reports a state. Nobody has crashed and nobody has lost anything; a stretch of tunnel has simply lost its lighting and traffic keeps driving into it. Today that gets found during the inspection round, which comes when it comes, or when somebody calls to say you cannot see a thing in there. Between the two, hours can pass in which every car goes in blind. IRIS watches the vault the same way it watches the carriageway and reports the same day, with the stretch and the time it went out. It repairs nothing: it makes the job get raised today instead of on Thursday.
What people usually ask
How does it tell an unlit stretch from an area that is darker by design?
Because what it compares is the tunnel with itself. The normal level of each stretch is learned from how that stretch looks when everything is working, and the alert fires when that particular stretch drops below its own level. A stretch that has always been darker never fires; the one that goes out does.
Is it useful for knowing how many luminaires have failed?
It gives you a count of the ones that are not lit in the stretch the camera covers, and that already orients whoever is going up to repair them. It does not replace the inspection round or the asset inventory: it tells you when the lighting went out and which stretch, which is what nobody knows today.
Does IRIS identify the vehicles entering the unlit stretch?
No. IRIS does not identify anyone: it does not recognise faces and it does not read number plates. It counts how many vehicles have entered the stretch since the lighting went out, because that number helps decide how urgent the job is. Who they are it neither knows nor stores.
Simulation · how IRIS works
Watch what happens. Then watch what IRIS does with it.
Not a recorded video and not a drawing: it is a summary of the real tool, with a different case each time round. The whole tool does not fit in a box.
- Checks the whole system
- Flags what is failing
- Puts it on one screen
Next step
And who watches the cameras?
0 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.
Who watches the cameras of a whole city?
23 cases: 18 raise an alert when something happens and 5 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
Nothing changes on the wall.On the screen, everything changes.
Same brackets, same cabling, same cameras. The only difference is that those images are now understood as they come in, instead of waiting for someone to open them.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.