CAM-128
Is anyone covering this area?
A ward corridor. Two people in scrubs walk down it talking, one holding a tablet; further back two more are coming, one in a white coat and one in scrubs. On the left, a bay's sliding door is open and you can see the bed, made and empty. At the back on the right, the seats by the window with visitors waiting. This camera alerts nobody: it shows a state you look up. And what it counts is not where each professional is, but whether this area has someone attending it. IRIS tells scrubs from street clothes, like a helmet on a building site; it does not know who anyone is and it does not know whether this is the same person as an hour ago.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- in work clothes in the area
- in work clothes further down
- bay with the door open
- sliding door
- waiting seats
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 2In work clothes in the area
- 1Minimum set by the hospital
- 58 minArea covered, last hour
- 2 minLongest gap with nobody
- 6People in the frame
- 07:52Time 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 area is left with nobody in work clothes for longer than the hospital has set
Then
- show it in the ward's status, without interrupting anyone: nothing rings here
- add those minutes to the time the area has been uncovered within the hour
- store nothing about who was there: the area yes, the person no
The instruction that set it up«Tell me whether this corridor has anyone attending it right now, and how many minutes of the last hour it was left with nobody.»
What changes
What changes for whoever runs the ward
A ward sister does not need to know where each person on her shift is: she knows that. What she cannot know is that, at four in the morning, a ward corridor has had nobody in it for twenty minutes because the two people on duty are inside two different rooms at once. That is nobody's fault and it is not fixed by watching anybody: it is fixed by knowing how many minutes of each hour an area was left uncovered and changing the split or the backup. IRIS gives that figure per AREA, never per person. It does not know who anyone is, it does not know whether the person there now is the one from before, and no timesheet and no report on anybody comes out of this, because there is nothing to build one from. In a real deployment this is discussed with the works council before anything is installed, not afterwards: a camera the staff do not accept is a camera you should not fit.
What people usually ask
Is this a way of monitoring staff?
No, and that is the line that does not get crossed. IRIS does not identify anyone: it does not recognise faces, it does not know who any professional is, it keeps no file on anyone and it does not know whether the person it sees now is the same one as an hour ago. It tells scrubs from street clothes, the same way it tells a helmet on a building site, and it tells nothing else. What it gives back is a figure about the AREA — this area was covered for fifty-eight minutes of the last hour — not a figure about a person. There is no time-and-attendance here, no clocking in, no productivity measure and no appraisal of anyone: it is not that it is switched off, it is that what the camera sees cannot be used to build it. And in a real deployment this is discussed with the works council before anything is installed, not afterwards.
So what question does it actually answer?
It does not answer «where is so-and-so?». It answers «is there anyone at the third-floor station right now?». They are two different questions, and only the second can be answered by looking at an area instead of at a person. The first one IRIS does not answer: not now, not by configuring it differently, not by asking in writing. And the second is the one that is actually needed, because it lets you split a night shift with data instead of with a hunch that that ward runs short.
Are there cameras inside the rooms?
No, and there will not be. These cameras look at common areas: corridors, lobbies, doors. Not in a room, not in a bathroom, not in an examination room. What you see of the bay on the left is what the open sliding door lets you see from the corridor, and once it closes you see nothing. That is why this camera cannot say whether someone is attending a patient: it only says whether there is anyone in the corridor or nobody at all.
Demo · IRIS at work
You set the rule once. IRIS applies it every time.
You will see a summary of the interface, played step by step and hands-free. Each round starts with another case. The complete tool does not fit in a demo.
- It lands in the tray
- You open it
- You confirm or dismiss
Next step
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.
How long before somebody comes down that corridor at four in the morning?
13 cases: 12 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
You decide the rule onceand it is applied the same way every time.
At three in the morning it means what it means at noon, on camera one and on camera four thousand. It does not depend on who is on shift, or how tired they are.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.