CAM-398
Red-hot clinker spilled outside the kiln
Late afternoon in the kiln yard. Red-hot material is coming out of the rotary kiln mouth, running down the chute and falling outside the intended area. On the ground there is a pile of glowing clinker burning, with open flame and smoke. Around it, eight people in hi-vis vests watch from behind red and white tape and a restricted access sign. A tanker is parked on the left. IRIS sees hot material out of place.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- glowing clinker on the ground
- rotary kiln mouth
- kiln discharge chute
- crew watching from behind the tape
- tape and restricted access sign
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 3 minTime with hot material outside
- 8People in the yard
- 6 mSpread across the floor lines
- 1Vehicles in the yard
- 18:42Time of the first 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
glowing material or fire appears outside the intended kiln area
Then
- alert the control room and the emergency team with the camera and the time
- save the video from the first hot material outside the chute
- count the people in the yard and warn if anyone crosses the tape
The instruction that set it up«Tell me right away if hot material comes out past the kiln mouth or if there is fire in the yard, and tell me how many people are nearby.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
The kiln is run from the control room through the process system. What the control room cannot see is the yard: how much material has fallen outside, how far it has spread across the painted floor lines and who is walking towards it. With the camera, the plant manager gets the alert straight away, with the image of the spill, how long it has been there and how many people are in the yard. It helps close the area before anyone walks in, and afterwards it helps reconstruct what happened and at what time.
What people usually ask
Do you need a thermal camera to see the hot material?
For this case, no. Red-hot clinker and flame show up in a normal image, at night too, because they give off their own light. A thermal camera adds something different: reading the heat of a surface that is not glowing, such as a hot shell or casing. For an incandescent spill on the yard, the colour camera already sees it, and records the exact time it started.
Does it tell fire apart from a sun reflection or a welding arc?
Yes, and the plant tunes when it wants the alert. IRIS looks at how the bright patch moves and changes over time, not at a single flash, and the yard area is drawn on the image so that a reflection on a roof does not count. Even so, what deserves an alert and what does not is written by the plant in the rule, and it can be tuned with the video from the first few days.
Does IRIS measure the temperature of the material?
Not with a colour camera: it sees that there is glowing material and fire, and where it is. Temperature comes from the kiln sensors and, if one is installed, from a calibrated thermal camera. IRIS works alongside the process system: the control room has the kiln reading, and the camera adds the picture of the yard, how far the material reached and the exact minute it came out.
Other cameras
- CAM-380 · A loaded truck leaves by a way that is not a way out
- 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
A new case each time. Always the same screen.
It plays by itself and shows one case from start to finish. It is a summary: the real screen has far more functions than fit in this box.
- The rule gets built
- It goes to every camera
- Published, it watches alone
- And then it fires
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
You write the rule yourself, in your own words.Nobody has to program it for you.
“Tell me if a fire door is left open.” That is the whole rule. From then on it applies on every camera and at any hour, without ever touching it again.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.