CAM-318

Emptying the drum into the wrong waste tank

Mid-morning in the waste area. Two identical totes sit on yellow pallets: the one on the left takes the non-hazardous waste and is closed; the one in the middle takes the acid waste, its hatch is open and the purple line runs into it from above. An operator in a green suit and gloves tips a blue drum into that hatch. To the right, two people in hi-vis vests go over the board on the floor. IRIS sees where it is being poured, not what is being poured.

CAM-318 · WASTE YARD · WRONG STREAM

What IRIS understands

What it recognises in this scene

drum tipped into the hatch
operator in suit and gloves
acid waste tote, open
non-hazardous waste tote, closed
purple line connected from above
two people checking the board

What this camera measures

An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.

2Totes in the area
3People in the area
40 sTime the drum has been tipped
9Drums emptied into that tote today
10:48Time 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.

somebody tips a drum into the hatch of a waste tote that takes no manual loading

Then

alert the waste supervisor with the camera, the time and the tote
save the video from the moment the drum reached the platform
add the pour to the drum count for that tote

The instruction that set it up«Tell me if anybody hand-tips a drum into the acid waste tote.»

What changes

What changes for whoever answers for the plant

A drum in the wrong stream stays invisible until the waste contractor's invoice arrives, or until the outflow tests badly. By then nobody knows who, when or how much. With the camera, the waste supervisor gets the alert while the drum is still tipped over, with the picture, the tote and the minute. And there is a count of how many drums each tote took each day. That is what an inspection asks for.

What people usually ask

Does IRIS know what liquid is in the drum?

No. A camera sees the container: the shape, the colour, the label if it is readable, and it sees which hatch it is poured into. What the liquid contains is told by the analysis or by the waste paperwork. That is why the rule is written on what can be seen — a drum being emptied into a tote that takes no manual loading — and the alert arrives with the picture, so a person can check it.

Can IRIS mix up the two totes?

They look the same from outside, so the rule does not lean on the container but on the place. Each tote has its fixed position on the floor and its area drawn on the picture. IRIS alerts on where the pouring is happening, not on which tote it looks like. If the plant moves a tote, the area has to be drawn again: that is done by whoever configures the system, not by the camera.

Is the drum count any use for the waste register?

Yes, as a dated count taken from the image. Counting means drawing: an area is traced over each tote hatch and the system adds up the drums tipped there, with time and video. It is repeatable and it can be audited. It does not replace the weighing or the transfer paperwork, but it reconciles with them and shows the exact minute of every discharge.

Other cameras

A different case every time

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.