CAM-383
A bucket of grey gravel on top of the wrong stockpile
Mid-morning at the stockyard. Each pile has its grade board hung behind it: limestone, silica sand, gravel, iron ore. A yellow wheel loader lifts its bucket over the pile of tan material and drops a load of grey gravel that runs down the slope and leaves a tongue you cannot miss. A worker in a white helmet sees it from the edge of the yard. IRIS sees material of one appearance landing on a pile of another.
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What IRIS is
IRIS watches the plant for you.
IRIS looks at the cameras you already have on the plant floor and understands what it sees: a stopped line, someone inside a robotic cell, someone without their safety gear on, jammed parts. When something like that happens, it alerts right away; and whatever can be counted, it counts in numbers. All day long, with no one needing to watch the screen.
You tell it what you need to watch, and IRIS does it.
Here, for example, IRIS sees that the load being dropped doesn't look like the material in that pile and raises the alert straight away, with the machine, the pile and the time. So the supervisor arrives while the bucket is still up, not once the furnace has already received the wrong mix. With that alert they decide whether to remove the load or check the rest of the pile.
Works with the cameras you already have. Nothing to replace.
A person replies, not a form.
- Your footage never leaves your premises.
- It doesn't identify people.
- Certifications →
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- grey gravel falling onto the stockpile
- wheel loader tipping
- stockpile taking the load
- reddish iron ore stockpile
- worker on foot in the yard
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 11:05Time of the tip
- 12Tips onto this pile today
- 7Stockpiles watched in the yard
- 18 sTime since tipping started
- 2People on foot in the yard
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 of a different appearance is tipped onto a stockpile
Then
- alert the yard supervisor with the machine, the pile and the time
- save the video from the loader filling up to emptying the bucket
- flag that pile for sampling before it goes to the process
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if a loader drops material on a stockpile that is not that pile’s material.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
Mid-morning, and the loader driver has moved forty buckets in a row between stockpiles. Number forty-one lands on the wrong pile. Nobody notices today: it shows up when the kiln gets a mix that was not the one planned and the whole shift has to be readjusted, because blending is what makes a product come out the same every time. With the camera, the supervisor has the alert while the bucket is still in the air: the machine, the pile and the video. Removing a bucket just tipped is easy. Finding it inside a mountain is not.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS read the grade written on the stockpile board?
It can read the board, but that is not measuring grade. IRIS ties each mountain to the stockpile the mine has assigned to it and checks what is tipped on top, by colour, shape and particle size. What is actually inside that mountain, in percentage of metal, silica or moisture, is stated by the laboratory from a sample. The camera warns that the blend has changed; the assay says by how much.
Can it tell how much material each stockpile holds?
Not in tonnes. A camera counts tips and assigns them to each pile: how many bucketloads and how many trucks went to each stockpile today, and at what time. That tally is repeatable and it is useful for reconciling against the weighbridge. The exact volume of a mountain is surveyed with topography or a scanner, not with an image. The camera gives the movement; the survey gives the volume.
Can you look up afterwards who tipped on each pile?
You can look up which machine and at what time, not who. IRIS does not identify people and does not tie them to a shift. What is kept is the scene: the machine, the pile, the minute and the video of the tip. With that, the supervisor can search by stockpile and by time window and see every tip of a day in a few minutes. What is done with that information afterwards is the plant’s business.
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-384 · A boulder too big for the crusher mouth going in anyway
- CAM-385 · A tanker loading under the wrong silo
- CAM-386 · A loaded truck slipping past the weighbridge
The real interface, step by step
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 hour, as a grid
- You look where it's dark
- You jump to that minute
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What does a venue with twenty thousand people inside see?
15 cases: 11 raise an alert when something happens and 4 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
When does a bad review get decided?
15 cases: 11 raise an alert when something happens and 4 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
With two screens you watch.With twenty you look without seeing.
It is nobody’s fault: it happens to everyone. IRIS watches all twenty at once and only interrupts when something deserves a person’s attention.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.