What if the outage does not start with an attack?

Most outages are not caused by an attack. They are caused by a procedure somebody skipped without meaning to.

Somebody wedged a critical door open to get the floor scrubber through. A cabinet was left open at the end of the job. A task that calls for two people ended up with one. We show thirteen cameras here, all of them the kind that raise an alert. A real site has hundreds. The system is exactly the same.

Elevated view of a corridor inside a data centre: a polished concrete floor and, on the left, a worker in dark overalls pushing a yellow industrial floor scrubber with its cable trailing along the ground. In the middle, a heavy metal door standing wide open and held by a black wedge on the floor; through the opening you can see a white-floored room with metal cabinets behind a mesh screen. To the right of the door, an access reader with a small display on the dark wall.

CAM-547 · Two people go through and only one showed a badge CAM-548 · Both of them inside the airlock, inner door still open CAM-549 · Someone alone in an aisle where nobody goes unescorted CAM-550 · A wooden wedge holding the hall door wide open CAM-551 · It looks like routine maintenance, and it probably is CAM-552 · The cabinet was left open and nobody is standing at it CAM-553 · A single pair of hands inside the open panel CAM-554 · A unit leaves the rack and no work order is open for it CAM-555 · A tool case, a coil of cable and some screws in the middle of the aisle CAM-556 · Goods coming in at the dock, and the door has been open six minutes CAM-557 · Water falling in the aisle and creeping towards the floor grilles CAM-558 · Smoke coming out of one module in the battery block CAM-559 · Someone on the floor and an aisle you cannot get through

13 of several hundred · 8 active incidents

Without IRIS this is just an empty corridor on a screen.

AI-generated image

The alert is there to close the door

Almost nobody comes in here to do harm. They come in to clean, to swap a part, to take a piece of equipment out or to unload a delivery. And along the way a door that should never stay open gets wedged, a cabinet is left unlocked, a task that calls for two people is done by one, a tool is left on the floor of a cold aisle. Nobody does it in bad faith, and nobody notices: it comes to light later, reviewing video, once something has already gone wrong.

IRIS watches for them. It analyses every camera at once and only interrupts when a rule written by the site itself is met: a door that has been open too long, a cabinet standing open with nobody in front of it, one person where the procedure asks for two, water on the raised floor, smoke at the battery block. It identifies nobody and accuses nobody: it says what is happening, where, and since when. Never who.

And it says where it stops. IRIS supplies the fact; the meaning comes from another system. A technician in an aisle is not a problem: it is one if the work order says a different aisle. One person in front of a switchboard is not a problem: it is one if the procedure asks for two. That cross-check is done by the access control system, the work-order system or the facility management system, never by the camera. And all of this runs without internet, inside the site itself: in a critical, isolated facility that is not a detail.

The real scale

Thirteen here. Hundreds in a real site.

This demo shows thirteen cases because thirteen fit on a screen. A real site has cameras on the fence line, at the goods dock, at reception, at the entry airlock, in every cabinet aisle, in the plant rooms, at the battery block, under the raised floor and at every door that separates one area from another. Hundreds of them, and a few more with every expansion. Nobody can watch them all at three in the morning; that is exactly the problem IRIS solves: it analyses however many there are, all at once, and only interrupts when a rule is met. And it does it inside the site itself, without pushing the video out to the internet.

Examples

These thirteen are just examples.

Each one shows a different kind of thing: a door, a cabinet, an aisle, a floor, a battery block. They are not the thirteen things IRIS can do: they are the ones that fit on a screen. Open any of them and you will see the image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.

Data centres

The real interface, step by step

No extra alarms here. Just what needs looking at.

Not a recorded video, not an explanatory drawing: a summary of the real screen, with a different case every time it starts. There is a lot more behind it.

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Imagine knowing while the door can still be closed.

Two people crossing a door on a single authorisation. Two inside the airlock when it should have been one at a time. A visitor left on their own because whoever was escorting them turned back. A critical door wedged open so nobody has to unlock it again. A technician working in the aisle next to the one on their work order. A cabinet standing open with nobody in front of it for a while now. A task that calls for two people, and there is one. A piece of equipment coming out of a cabinet with no open work order behind it. A delivery coming in through the dock with the door held open. A tool left on the floor of a cold aisle. Water under a pipe. Smoke at the battery block. A containment aisle standing open with a person on the ground.

All of that is happening in front of cameras your site already owns and already paid for. And nobody knows until someone reviews the video, almost always because something has already failed. IRIS watches them all at once and tells you while it is happening, with the camera, the door and the time. It names nobody and blames nobody: it supplies the fact. Whether that fact was planned is answered by the access control system or the work order, and what to do about it is decided by a person, with the video in front of them. And it runs without internet, inside the site itself.

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