CAM-314
The emergency shower is behind a stack of drums
Nine in the morning in the service aisle. The emergency shower and the eyewash are where they should be, signposted from a distance, but in front of them stand three blue drums stacked on a pallet, a tote with a wooden crate on top and a folding warning sign. The green pedestrian lane painted on the floor runs up to that point and stops. Three people are looking at the pile; one points up at the shower head that can no longer be reached.
Turn on IRIS Vision
AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- drums in front of the shower
- tote with a crate on top
- shower head
- sign for the shower and eyewash
- pedestrian lane cut off
- people facing the obstruction
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 2 h 15 mintime the access has been blocked
- 6objects in front of the shower
- 3people in the aisle
- 06:50time the first object appeared
- 09:05time 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
an object blocks access to the emergency shower for longer than allowed
Then
- alerts the area supervisor and the internal logistics team
- saves the video from the moment the first object was left there
- logs how many objects are there and how long the access has been blocked
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if anything blocks the emergency shower or the way to it for more than ten minutes.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
An emergency shower is there for the first fifteen seconds after a splash. If a pallet has to be moved out of the way first, it is no longer there for anything. Nobody blocks it on purpose: something gets left 'for a minute' and stays three hours. IRIS times that stretch and alerts the area supervisor. The warning arrives while it can still be cleared, not in an audit two months from now.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS count how long the shower has been blocked?
Yes. The camera sees when the first object appears in front of the access and when the last one goes. That gives a real figure for how long that equipment was unusable, day by day. It is a number almost nobody has today, because the shower only gets looked at when somebody walks past and happens to notice.
Does it also raise the alert if what gets blocked is the emergency exit?
Yes. It is the same rule with a different area drawn on the image. You mark the rectangle that has to stay clear — a shower, an exit, the space in front of an extinguisher — and IRIS raises the alert when something stays inside it longer than the plant accepts. The area is drawn once and holds for every shift.
Is this rule the same thing as a counting camera?
No. They are two different things and they are set up differently. This one is asked for in words: a sentence describes what must not happen and how long it can be tolerated. Counting how many loads cross an aisle is set up by drawing the line on the image, because a line cannot be described in a sentence: it has to be traced. Asking is for finding; counting is for measuring.
Other cameras
- CAM-300 · The drum arriving at the station is not the one on the order
- CAM-301 · Flammables, corrosives and oxidisers in the same bund
- CAM-302 · The tanker hose, coupled to the forbidden manifold
- CAM-303 · The tanker is still connected and nobody is watching it
- CAM-304 · Two drums with the label torn off in the marked bay
- CAM-305 · The IBC has sagged onto a broken pallet and is dripping on the floor
The real interface, step by step
Everything comes in. Only what matters gets through.
This sums up what IRIS does with one alert, from the moment it appears until it is closed. The real screen holds far more; this is the main thread.
- Four cameras at once
- Each understands its own view
- The numbers climb by themselves
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 can add more cameras;you cannot add more hours to anyone’s day.
Cameras can be multiplied; a person’s hours cannot. IRIS looks at everything coming in and leaves them the one thing no machine does better: deciding what to do.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.