CAM-127
Corridor closed off by visitors
An admissions corridor with forty-odd visitors closed in a ring, wall to wall. In the middle of the ring there is a trolley with someone lying on it and two professionals in scrubs leaning over; a third, in a white coat, is caught at the edge and cannot get out. On the left, an open bay with a free bed and the monitor on: that is where you have to get to. On the right, the desk with two people behind it. There is no way through: right now a second trolley cannot get in. IRIS counts people and sees where they are; it does not know who any of them are.
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What IRIS is
IRIS watches the hospital's cameras for you.
IRIS looks at the cameras you already have in the hospital and understands what it sees: a fall, a patient on the floor, someone left alone for too long, a long queue at admissions. When something like that happens, it lets you know; and whatever can be counted, it counts in numbers. All day long, with no one needing to watch the screen.
You tell it what you need to watch, and IRIS does it.
Here, for example, IRIS counts how many people are in the admissions corridor and sees when it's closed off wall to wall. As soon as that happens, it alerts straight away with the exact camera and stretch of corridor. That way control can open a path before the next trolley arrives and can't get through.
Works with the cameras you already have. Nothing to replace.
A person replies, not a form.
- Your footage never leaves your premises.
- It doesn't identify people.
- Certifications →
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- corridor with no way through
- trolley being attended
- professional boxed in
- free bay
- nurses' station
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 46People in the corridor
- 31+14Around the trolley
- 5 minClosed off for
- 18Limit for this stretch
- 4Professionals inside the ring
- 18:26Time 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
that stretch of corridor holds more people than the hospital has set and the way through stops being clear
Then
- alert the station with the camera and the stretch that has clogged up
- say how many people there are and since when, so you know who to send
- log the time, so the hospital learns what hour that corridor fills up every day
The instruction that set it up«Tell me when the admissions corridor gets so full that a trolley can't get through, and tell me while it is filling up, not once it is already closed off.»
What changes
What changes for whoever runs the ward
Seven in the evening, visiting hours, and the admissions corridor has closed wall to wall. Nobody here is to blame: people gather where the person they love is, and that is not fixed with signs. What is a problem is that a second trolley cannot get through right now and that the family who have just arrived cannot find anyone to ask. With IRIS the control desk knows while the corridor is closing, with the camera, the stretch and how many people are there, and there is time to open a route. And the figure remains afterwards: what time it fills up each day, which is what makes it possible to change how visits are organised instead of pushing people around.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS know who the visitors are?
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 visitor is, it keeps no file on anyone and it has no access to medical records. Nor does it follow a person from one corridor to another. To know that a trolley cannot get down a corridor you only need to count bodies and see where they are, and that is exactly all it does here.
Is this the same as the room's capacity?
No. Capacity is a limit on the building, measured at the door: how many people are inside. This measures something else — how tightly packed one specific stretch of corridor is — and they are two different figures. A lobby can be well under its capacity and still have a corridor no trolley can get down. The second figure is the one that stops people working, which is why it is the one that matters here.
What if a lot of people is normal at that hour?
The limit is set by the hospital, and it can be different per stretch and per time band. During visiting hours you raise the limit for the lobby, where the crowd is expected, and leave the limit for the trolley stretch as it is, because that has to stay passable at all times. That is what keeps the alert meaningful: if it fires every afternoon at the same hour, within a week nobody looks at it.
A different case every time
A new case each time. Always the same screen.
It plays by itself and shows one case from start to finish. It is a summary: the real screen has far more functions than fit in this box.
- The rule gets built
- It goes to every camera
- Published, it watches alone
- And then it fires
See it somewhere else
Who is watching the cameras of a whole branch network?
13 cases: 12 raise an alert when something happens and one only measures. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
How long does it take to find a hand played two hours ago?
12 cases: 9 raise an alert when something happens and 3 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
We would rather promise less.Let the first week be the surprise, not the brochure.
What it cannot do gets said on day one, not on the last day. A short list that holds beats a long one that falls apart the moment it is switched on.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.