CAM-214

The cold-store door has been open too long

Mid-afternoon on the inside dock, in front of the cold store. The door is wide open and cold fog is spilling into the corridor. An operator is pulling out a pallet of blue-capped milk jugs with a hand pallet truck; it is already outside the cold. On the left, another operator waits by the wall. On the right a forklift comes in with a second loaded pallet, and behind the glass you can see the packaging hall.

CAM-214 · COLD STORE DOOR · DOOR OPEN

What IRIS understands

What it recognises in this scene

cold-store door open
pallet out of the cold
operator with the pallet truck
pallet on the forklift
forklift truck

What this camera measures

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

6 min 20 sTime the door has been open
2Pallets out of the cold
11 minThe one that has been out longest
14Openings in the last hour
4People in the area
13:05Time 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.

the cold-store door has been open longer than the plant allows, or a pallet has been out of the cold for too long

Then

alert whoever is on the dock and the shift supervisor, with the door and how long it has been open
keep the image of the door and of the pallets standing outside
log the opening in the day's record, with its duration and the time

The instruction that set it up«Tell me when the cold-store door has been open for more than three minutes, and tell me too if a pallet has been out of the cold too long.»

What changes

What changes for whoever answers for the plant

The door stays open because people are in a hurry, not because anyone stopped caring. The problem is that nobody is keeping count: it opens, two trucks go through, six minutes go by and no record is left. IRIS times every opening and every pallet waiting outside, and warns when it goes past the limit the plant has set. That saves cold, keeps ice off the evaporator and, above all, leaves a record of what happened and when. Product temperature still comes from the probe: IRIS supplies the clock and the picture.

What people usually ask

Does IRIS measure the product temperature?

No. IRIS measures time: how long the door has been open and how long a pallet has been out of the cold. Product temperature comes from the probes and the data loggers, and IRIS does not go near that. What it adds is the piece the probes are missing: what was happening in that minute and why the reading rose. A thermal camera does read the heat visible on the outside of equipment, but that is a different installation and a different conversation.

How long is too long?

The plant decides, not IRIS. The threshold is written into the rule: three minutes, five, whatever the procedure sets for each cold store and each product. You also decide which time bands it applies to, because a scheduled unload is not the same as a door left open mid-afternoon. IRIS does not set the criterion: it applies it, times it and logs it.

Is it also useful for seeing how many times the door opens in a day?

Yes. Every opening is counted with its time and its duration, and that can be read by shift, by day or by season. It is a repeatable measurement: what is visible gets counted, the same way every time. That is how you find out whether the problem is a door being left open or a workflow that forces it open twenty times an hour — two different problems, fixed in different ways.

Other cameras

A different case every time

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.