CAM-393
The hopper is blocked and somebody is reaching in
Mid-afternoon at the crushing plant. The feed hopper has jammed: material sits still over the mouth, spills over the side and cascades down into the pit. A worker in a yellow helmet and vest is leaning over the walkway rail and pushing the stone with his hands. Behind him a wheel loader keeps working. IRIS sees that material has stopped moving down and that a person is within its reach.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- worker clearing the jam by hand
- material stopped over the hopper mouth
- material spilling over the side
- grated walkway beside the hopper
- wheel loader feeding the hopper
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 14 minTime the hopper has been stopped
- 1People on the walkway
- 0,4 mMaterial above the hopper rim
- 6Hand-clearings counted this month
- 16:22Time of the jam
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
material stops going down the hopper and a person leans within its reach
Then
- alert the plant manager with the hopper, the time and the camera
- save the video from the moment material stopped going down
- count the hand-clearings at that point over the month
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if a hopper stops taking material and someone comes to clear it by hand.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
Clearing a jam by hand is one of the most dangerous jobs at a crushing plant, and it never shows up in any report until it goes wrong. With the alert as it happens, the manager knows which hopper, at what time and how long it has been stopped, and sees on the video that somebody is up there. And there is a number: how many hand-clearings that point has in a month. A point that jams every day is not a discipline problem, it is a design problem.
What people usually ask
Can IRIS tell a blocked hopper from an empty one?
Yes, because they look different. Blocked means material sitting still over the mouth and spilling over the side; empty means the mouth in plain view and nothing coming down. The camera watches the movement of the material, not an electrical level signal, so it also warns on the days the level probe misses it.
Can IRIS stop the feed when it detects the jam?
No. IRIS acts on no machine: it alerts, with the camera, the time and the video. Cutting the feed, pulling the loader back or sending somebody onto the walkway are the plant’s decisions. What changes is that they are taken with the image in front of you and in the minute it is happening, not half an hour later.
Is the data any use to justify rebuilding the point?
Yes. Every alert is kept with its hopper and its time, so you can show how many times it jams in a month and how many times somebody had to put their hands in. That count is what turns a request for investment into a case file with dates and footage.
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- CAM-381 · Dark material going into the bay for pale aggregate
- CAM-382 · Good ore heading for the waste dump
- CAM-383 · A bucket of grey gravel on top of the wrong stockpile
- CAM-384 · A boulder too big for the crusher mouth going in anyway
- CAM-385 · A tanker loading under the wrong silo
Simulation · how IRIS works
We won't just tell you. We'll show you.
It is a summary of the real screen: it plays by itself, step by step, and shows only the path of one case. The actual tool has far more than fits in here.
- You ask
- IRIS searches
- It shows you
Next step
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.
Who sees the child who has fallen at the far end of the playground?
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
Nothing changes on the wall.On the screen, everything changes.
Same brackets, same cabling, same cameras. The only difference is that those images are now understood as they come in, instead of waiting for someone to open them.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.