CAM-556
Goods coming in at the dock, and the door has been open six minutes
Mid-morning at the dock. A van with its rear doors open, already empty. In front of it, a shrink-wrapped pallet on a pallet truck that an operator is pushing inside. Someone from goods-in is checking the packages and a third person is noting them down. The way into the building has been open since unloading started, and on the other side a cart with material is already waiting. IRIS counts the packages that cross, measures how long the doorway has been open and sees how many people are on the dock.
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What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- doorway held open into the building
- van with its doors open
- pallet with packages
- pallet truck
- operator pushing the load
- goods-in staff
- third person recording the delivery
- cart already inside
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 1Vehicles at the dock
- 3People on the dock
- 1Pallets that have crossed
- 6 min+4 minDoorway open for
- 09:12Time
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 dock doorway into the building has been open for more than five minutes
Then
- alert the control desk with the camera and the time
- record how many packages have crossed up to that point
- save the video from the moment the doorway was opened
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if the dock doorway has been open for more than five minutes during an unload, and tell me how many packages have gone in.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for physical security on site
The dock is the big door. Everything inside the building came in through here one day, and while unloading goes on, the way into the building is open. Nobody wants to stop the unloading: what the head of security wants is to know how long that doorway stood open, how many packages crossed and who was standing there, and to have the video of those six minutes without hunting for it. That turns a delivery into a record with pictures, and next week's argument into a minute of video. The limit is clear: whether that delivery was expected is told by the delivery note, not by the camera. When the two pieces of data meet, the packages that came in and the ones that were expected compare themselves.
What people usually ask
Won't this fire an alert on every single unload?
Not everything that matters is an alarm. Sometimes what matters is a number. Here the normal thing is for this to interrupt nobody: at the end of the day there is a list of how many unloads there were, how long the doorway was open in each and how many packages came in. The live alert is kept for what falls outside normal: a doorway open far longer than it should be, or material coming in when no delivery is expected. The threshold is set by the customer, not by us.
Does IRIS read what is written on the boxes?
Not here. This camera counts packages and sees movement: how many cross, in which direction and at what time. What is inside each box is on the delivery note, and that comes from the goods-in system. When the two meet, the gap between what was expected and what came in shows up on its own, with nobody recounting anything by hand.
Does it identify the delivery drivers who arrive?
No. IRIS does not recognise faces or compare them with anything, and here it does not need to: what it watches is a doorway and some packages. Who comes in and with what authorisation is told by the access system, which is a separate thing. What the camera brings is the time, the picture and the number — exactly what is missing when somebody asks what happened at the dock on Tuesday.
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See it for yourself
A camera looks. IRIS understands what it sees.
An extract of the real screen, no voice-over and hands-free. Each round poses another situation. What sits behind it is a good deal bigger than what you see.
- You ask
- IRIS searches
- It shows you
Next step
Who is watching when the load swings over somebody?
11 cases: 9 raise an alert when something happens and 2 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
Who is watching the yard screen when the fight starts?
17 cases: 16 raise an alert when something happens and 1 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
No building work, no trenches, no new cabling:the cameras are already up and already looking.
What changes is what happens to the picture. It used to be stored and never seen; now it is understood while it happens, on the same equipment you bought years ago.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.