CAM-273
Dock door open, and there is no truck behind it
Half past nine at dock 7. The door is up and there is no trailer behind it: just the metal leveller and a good metre of empty air down to the yard. A worker in high-vis has leaned out over the edge. A forklift with a strapped pallet is coming straight at the door, and the light above it is still green. IRIS sees the open door, sees there is no trailer body behind it and sees traffic heading for the gap.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- open gap with no trailer behind
- worker leaning over the edge
- forklift approaching the dock
- pallet on the forks
- dock light showing green
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 09:38Time of the alert
- 6 min 40 sTime the gap has been open
- 3Forklifts that have passed the gap
- 2People in shot
- 2Alerts at this dock today
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
the dock door is open, there is no trailer body behind it and something enters the edge zone
Then
- alert the dock manager with the camera, the dock number and the time
- save the video from the moment the door was left with no trailer behind it
- time the open gap until somebody closes it or a truck arrives
The instruction that set it up«Tell me when a dock door is open with no truck behind it and a forklift or a person comes near.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
A forklift going off a dock is one of the worst things that happens in a warehouse, and it almost always starts the same way: somebody raises the door too early, or the truck pulls away and the door stays up. With the camera, the dock manager finds out while the gap is open, not once somebody has already fallen. And he knows how long it has been like that — which is exactly the figure nobody has today.
What people usually ask
How does it tell a dock with a truck from a dock without one?
By what you can see through the opening. With the trailer docked, behind the door there is a closed body and a continuous floor; with no trailer there is a dark background and the concrete edge. IRIS compares what it sees with the zone drawn over that door and alerts when it changes. No sensor on the leveller is needed: if the image shows it, the rule can be written and checked on the video.
The light is green. Does IRIS switch it to red?
No. IRIS alerts, it does not act: it does not switch the light, it does not lower the door and it does not stop the forklift. What it does is make plain that the light says one thing and the door says another, and put that in front of a person straight away. That contradiction between the signal and reality is exactly what causes dock accidents, and until now nobody saw it until it was too late.
Does it also count how long the dock stays like that?
Yes. Besides alerting, IRIS times from the second the door is left with no trailer until a truck arrives or somebody closes it. At the end of the month that is a list of docks and minutes, always measured the same way. A dock that shows up every week with the gap open for twenty minutes is not bad luck: it is a procedure that needs changing, and now you can show it.
Other cameras
- CAM-260 · A cage goes out through the wrong door
- CAM-261 · Two people, one turn of the gate
- CAM-262 · Hands on a trailer's rear lock
- CAM-263 · The trailer is at the wrong dock
- CAM-264 · The truck pulls away with a worker still inside
- CAM-265 · The pallet going into the truck is not the one for that route
See it for yourself
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.
- Cameras on the map
- You draw an area
- What passed shows up
Next step
Who watches the cameras of a whole city?
23 cases: 18 raise an alert when something happens and 5 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
Who watches an entire motorway?
10 cases: 8 raise an alert when something happens and 2 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
A recording gets watched when nothing can be done.An alert lands while there is still time to act.
IRIS raises the alert while it is happening and says where: the camera, the time and the images from that moment. With that, whoever is on duty is still in time to act.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.