CAM-129
Where is the crash trolley?
A ward corridor, with the kit where it really lives: against the wall. The crash trolley, with its coloured drawers and the defibrillator on top, is parked in its slot. On the left, a supply cart with labelled compartments, a monitor on a wheeled stand and a free stretcher with a blue mattress. On the right, a rolling rack with sterile supplies stacked on it. In the middle, a professional in scrubs is checking something on a clipboard. At the back, more carts and someone walking away. This camera does not look at people: it looks at equipment, and says whether it is where the hospital said it should be.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- crash trolley
- monitor on wheels
- supply cart
- free stretcher
- rolling rack
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 6Wheeled kit in sight
- 5 / 6In their slot
- 1Out of their slot
- 1Crash trolleys
- 22 minEmpty slot for
- 06:40Time of the reading
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 slot where a piece of equipment belongs stays empty for longer than the ward has set
Then
- show in the ward's status what is missing and since when
- say which camera last saw the equipment
- close the alert only when the equipment is back in its slot
The instruction that set it up«Tell me whether the crash trolley is in its slot, and let me know when it has been out of it for a while.»
What changes
What changes for whoever runs the ward
Hospital kit spends half its life lost. A portable ultrasound, an infusion pump or a crash trolley get borrowed between wards, left in a corridor and turn up three hours later in another department. That never shows up in an incident log, but it is paid for twice: in nursing minutes spent looking, and in machines bought again because the first one cannot be found. Here IRIS watches nobody: it looks at a slot in the corridor and says whether the trolley is in it. When it is not, it says since when and which camera last saw it, and somebody goes and fetches it. It is the dullest thing IRIS does in a hospital, and probably the thing that will get used the most.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS know who took the equipment?
No, and it does not even look. IRIS does not identify anyone: it does not recognise faces, it does not know who any professional or patient is, it keeps no file on anyone and it has no access to medical records. What it sees is the equipment: whether it is in its slot or not. Who moved it appears nowhere, because the camera does not know and there is no way to ask it. And for what is needed here — finding the trolley — knowing that is not needed at all.
Does every piece of equipment need a tag?
No. There is no chip here, no sticker, no battery to change: the camera sees the shape of the equipment in the place, the same way it sees a stretcher or a wheelchair. That has a limit and it has to be said: it tells one type of equipment apart, it does not tell two identical trolleys apart. To know whether there is a crash trolley in this slot, that is enough; to know exactly which of the hospital's trolleys it is, it is not.
What if the trolley is out because it is being used?
Then it is right that it is not there, and the rule is written with that in mind. The hospital decides how many minutes an empty slot is tolerated, in which bands and in which places. The camera does not know whether the trolley is in use: it knows the slot has been without it for twenty-two minutes. Whether that is normal or someone should go and fetch it is decided by the person reading it, which is why the figure appears in the ward's status and not as an alarm that rings. There is nothing to attend to here: there is something to look up.
Every simulation
Queues that don’t move
Alert me when more than five people have been waiting over ten minutes, and tell me how many desks are open.
- The sentence
- Where it applies
- What it finds
- The same rule
Next step
What does a shopping centre see beyond the visitor count?
12 cases: 4 raise an alert when something happens and 8 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
What does an airport see before the queue forms?
14 cases: 7 raise an alert when something happens and 7 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
“The white van, Tuesday afternoon.”That is enough to find it.
You type it the way you would tell a colleague, and the matching minutes come back, each with its camera and its time. You do not need to remember the exact moment.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.