CAM-382
Good ore heading for the waste dump
Mid-morning at the haul road fork. On the left, the green sign sends ore to the process plant; on the right, the red one sends waste to the reject dump. A yellow dumper loaded with dark rock comes up from the pit and takes the right-hand branch. A worker in a white helmet watches it go by from the verge. IRIS sees a loaded vehicle taking the branch that does not match what it is carrying.
Turn on IRIS Vision
AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- loaded dumper taking the wrong branch
- sign for the ore route
- sign for the waste route
- ore stockpile beside the plant
- worker on foot beside the haul road
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 09:38Time of the movement
- 46Trucks counted at the fork today
- 19Trips to the reject dump today
- 3Wrong-destination turns today
- 1People on foot at the fork
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
a loaded vehicle takes the branch that does not match its material
Then
- alert the haul road supervisor with the camera, the branch and the time
- save the video of the truck from the moment it enters the fork
- count the trip separately in the shift tally of destinations
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if a truck loaded with ore takes the turning to the reject dump.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
A load of ore taken to the dump is a haul paid for twice and a load that never comes back: buried under the waste of the rest of the shift. The other way round is worse, because waste rock enters the plant and dirties the process. With the camera, the haul road supervisor knows while the dumper is still climbing: the vehicle, the time and the branch it took. Turning round costs five minutes.
What people usually ask
How does IRIS know the body is carrying ore and not waste?
By appearance and by route. IRIS sees the colour, the shape and the size of the rock showing above the body, and it sees where that truck loaded: at the ore face or at the waste face. The two together are enough to flag a wrong turn. What the camera never tells you is the grade of that load, how much metal it holds, because that is measured in the laboratory from a sample.
Can it also count trips, not just raise alerts?
Yes. The same camera can do two different jobs, and they are not set up the same way. Alerting on a wrong turn is asked for in a sentence. Counting trips down each branch is set up by drawing a line on the image, and that number comes out by hour, by shift and by day, always the same way, always repeatable. Asking is for finding; counting is for measuring. A line cannot be described in a sentence: it has to be drawn.
And if the mine changes destinations from one day to the next?
You change the rule and carry on. The branches, the materials and the destination each one is due are written by the mine, not by the system. In a working pit this changes with the weekly plan: today the rock from this bench goes to the plant, next month it goes to waste. The camera checks what it has been told today, and when the plan changes, the sentence changes. Nothing else has to be touched.
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-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
- CAM-386 · A loaded truck slipping past the weighbridge
Simulation · how IRIS works
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.
- Checks the whole system
- Flags what is failing
- Puts it on one screen
Next step
Who is watching when the load swings over somebody?
11 cases: 9 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.
Who is watching the yard screen when the fight starts?
17 cases: 16 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
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.