CAM-123
A bed left blocking the way
A ward corridor. An empty bed, side rails up, has been left across a set of open double doors, with the stairwell behind it and the green exit sign above. Beside it, a wheelchair, also empty. A member of staff has stopped in front of it, clipboard in one hand and the other on his head; a visitor is waiting in the middle of the corridor with her arms out. People walk past at the far end. Nobody is using the bed or the chair.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- bed left in the way
- doorway blocked
- empty wheelchair
- member of staff held up
- visitor waiting in the corridor
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 11 minStanding there for
- 2Items in the passage
- 2People held up in front of it
- 9People who have had to go round it
- 3 minTime the hospital allows
- 09:47Time 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
something is left standing in a passage the hospital has marked as having to stay clear, and is still there longer than the time set
Then
- alert the ward station with the camera, the doorway and how long it has been there
- ask for someone to move it out and put it back where it belongs
- log the time and the spot, so the ward learns which doorways get blocked and on which shift
The instruction that set it up«Tell me when something is left standing in front of a doorway and nobody has moved it within a few minutes.»
What changes
What changes for whoever runs the ward
A bed gets left in front of a doorway for thirty seconds a hundred times a day, and nothing happens: somebody comes back and takes it away. The problem is the time nobody comes back. That bed stays for an hour, then for a shift, and on the day somebody has to be taken through that door in a hurry, it has to be shifted first. Today it is sorted out by whoever runs into it and has a spare minute. With IRIS the alert goes out after the number of minutes the hospital has set, with the camera and the doorway, and it reaches somebody who can send a person to move it. This is not a serious incident: it is a two-minute job that today never makes it onto anybody's list.
What people usually ask
Won't it fire every time somebody leaves a bed there for thirty seconds?
No, because the rule is not «there is a bed», it is «something is standing in this passage and is still there after the number of minutes the hospital has set». The threshold is set doorway by doorway: in front of a stairwell exit it might be one minute, in a store-room corridor, ten. You raise it until the alert only fires when the thing really has been left there. That tuning is what keeps the ward sister still opening the alert in month three.
Does IRIS know whose bed it is or who left it there?
No, and that is not what it is for. IRIS does not identify anyone: it does not recognise faces, it does not compare them against any database, it does not know who any member of staff or patient is, it holds no record of anybody and it does not touch the clinical record. It sees that something is standing in a passage that has to stay clear and it asks for someone to move it. Looking for who is to blame does not clear the corridor, and it is not what this camera does.
What if the bed is there because there is a patient on it?
Then it is not the same thing, and the rule tells them apart by what can be seen. An occupied bed in front of a doorway is usually a transfer in progress, and there the hospital can decide that nothing is raised until much longer has passed, or that nothing is raised at all. The one who writes the rule is the hospital, which knows how each ward works. IRIS applies what it has been told, and decides nothing on its own.
A different case every time
This isn’t a video. It’s a slice of the real screen.
A summary of the real interface, played hands-free. You see one case from start to finish; what you do not see are the other screens, and there are many.
- You ask
- IRIS searches
- It shows you
Next step
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10 cases: 4 raise an alert when something happens and 6 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
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And the best part
What happens outside the framedoes not exist for IRIS. No camera sees the whole world.
So the first thing we do is check what each camera covers and write it down: from here you can understand this, and not that. A dull hour that saves a lot of misunderstandings.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.