CAM-122
Wet floor in the corridor
A ward corridor in mid-afternoon. There is a wet stretch of floor, shiny, taking up half the width of the passage, and not a single sign has been put out. Against the left-hand wall, a supply trolley, stacked boxes and a linen bag; on the right, a waste container. A member of staff is walking right along the edge of it. IRIS can see the floor is wet; what has been spilt, it does not know.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- wet floor
- member of staff walking along the edge
- supply trolley
- boxes stacked in the way
- waste container
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 9 minWet for
- 7People who have walked over it
- 1People on that stretch right now
- 0Wet-floor signs put out
- 6Trolleys and items left in the corridor
- 15:24Time 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 wet stretch of floor appears in a corridor and is still there after the time the hospital has set
Then
- alert the ward sister with the camera, the stretch of floor and how long it has been like that
- ask for someone to sign it, dry it and check what it is before touching it
- log the time and the spot, so the ward learns which corridors get wet and when
The instruction that set it up«Tell me when something gets spilt on a corridor floor and is still there with no sign out, and tell me which camera and since when.»
What changes
What changes for whoever runs the ward
Nobody deals with a wet corridor floor because nobody has seen it: whoever walks past is on their way to something else and assumes it has already been reported. Today the ward finds out when somebody calls, and very often the person calling is the one who has just slipped. With IRIS the alert goes out on its own, with the camera, the stretch of floor and how long it has been there, and it reaches somebody who can send a person to sign it and dry it. Nobody is promising this stops anyone falling: the one who acts is still a person. What changes is that the puddle stops sitting there for nine minutes with nobody knowing.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS know what has been spilt?
No, and saying otherwise would be a lie. IRIS sees that there is a wet patch on the floor and sees where it starts and where it ends. It could be water from a machine, a coffee, a glass of juice or something the hospital has a protocol for, and from a corridor camera those four look much the same. What it is gets decided by the person who arrives, not by the camera. The alert is there so that person arrives sooner, not to classify the liquid.
Does the camera identify the people walking down the corridor?
No. IRIS does not identify anyone: it does not recognise faces, it does not compare them against any database, it does not know who any patient or member of staff is, it holds no record of anybody and it does not touch the clinical record. It counts how many people have walked over the wet stretch because that is a number, and a number is not a name.
What if it is a splash and the alert fires anyway?
The size at which it alerts and how long it has to have been there are set by the hospital, and they can differ between a ward corridor and the entrance hall. You tune them until the alert means something. If it fires on every splash, the ward sister stops opening it within a week, and then it is worth nothing at all.
The real interface, step by step
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.
- The hour, as a grid
- You look where it's dark
- You jump to that minute
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
You cannot describe a line with a sentence.You have to draw it on the image.
Asking is for finding; counting is for measuring. That is why the number comes out the same every day, and why people counting is certified by the Centro Español de Metrología.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
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