CAM-184
Load spilled in the tunnel
A flatbed truck has ended up across the left-hand lane of the tunnel and has lost its load: long pipes, pallets and cardboard boxes strewn over two lanes. A person is standing on the truck bed. Behind it vehicles have already stopped, and traffic is still going by in the right-hand lane.
Turn on IRIS Vision
AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- flatbed truck
- load on the carriageway
- loose pipes
- person on the truck bed
- stopped vehicles
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 1 minOn the carriageway for
- 2 / 3Lanes with load on them
- 3Vehicles stopped
- 1People out of the cab
- 14Items counted on the carriageway
- 20:05Time 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
there is an object on the carriageway of the bore that was not there and is not moving
Then
- alert the control room supervisor with the camera, the location and the lanes affected
- say how many vehicles have already stopped behind it
- keep the video from before the load came off
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if a load or any object ends up on the carriageway inside the tunnel.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the site
An object on a tunnel carriageway does not move itself and cannot be seen coming: whoever enters the bore goes from daylight into gloom and finds it right in front of them. Here there are two lanes full of pipes and boxes, and cars keep coming in behind. What normally happens today is that the control room hears about it from whoever manages to call from inside, and inside there is no signal. IRIS sees the object the moment it is on the carriageway and alerts with the camera, the location and the lanes, which is exactly what you need to decide whether to close one lane or the whole bore. It clears nothing: it brings the decision forward.
What people usually ask
How does IRIS know that isn't a shadow or a stain on the road?
Because what it looks for is a change that stays. A shadow moves with the light and a stain has been there for months; a fallen object appears all at once and is still in the same place seconds later. That is the rule, and the waiting time is set by the operator of the tunnel: shorter where speeds are high, longer where they are not.
What if the object is very small?
There is a limit and it should not be hidden: the smaller the object and the further from the camera, the fewer pixels it occupies and the harder it is to tell apart. IRIS sees well what can stop a car — a wheel, a pallet, a length of pipe — and it makes no promises about what it cannot. Claiming otherwise would be selling something we cannot demonstrate.
Does IRIS store the plate of the vehicle that lost the load?
No. IRIS does not read number plates and it identifies nobody. It sees a stopped vehicle, the load on the carriageway and a person on the truck bed. The image goes into the tunnel's incident report, and who was driving is established by others, with their own means, not by the camera.
See it for yourself
A new case each time. Always the same screen.
It plays by itself and shows one case from start to finish. It is a summary: the real screen has far more functions than fit in this box.
- The alert fires
- It lands in the tray
- You open it
- You confirm or dismiss
Next step
What does a venue with twenty thousand people inside see?
15 cases: 11 raise an alert when something happens and 4 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
When does a bad review get decided?
15 cases: 11 raise an alert when something happens and 4 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
A recording gets watched when nothing can be done.An alert lands while there is still time to act.
IRIS raises the alert while it is happening and says where: the camera, the time and the images from that moment. With that, whoever is on duty is still in time to act.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.