CAM-425
The buyer wants to know how much contamination is in the bale
Mid-morning in the sorting hall. Plastic bags, containers with leftovers and the odd piece of textile ride up the paper and cardboard belt. From the walkway, the quality operator pulls them out by hand. Below there are three bins: one for materials that are not allowed, one for the contaminants already removed and one for the fraction that will no longer be sold. Pressed bales wait at the back. IRIS counts every contaminant crossing the marked stretch.
Turn on IRIS Vision
AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- contaminants on the counted stretch
- quality operator on the walkway
- bin of contaminants already removed
- bin for the contaminated fraction
- bales already pressed
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 34contaminants counted
- 412contaminants this shift
- 3bins in use
- 4people in the area
- 11:42time of the 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
the contaminants counted on the paper and cardboard stretch go above the limit set for the shift
Then
- alert the line quality desk
- save the video of the stretch with the count and the time
- add the figure to the shift and daily count
The instruction that set it up«Alert me when the paper and cardboard stretch is carrying more contamination than usual, and tell me how many there are so far this shift.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
Whoever sells the material is working blind: they know the bale carries contamination, but not how much. Counting on the belt turns that into a figure per hour and per shift, always measured the same way, with the video behind it. With that figure the line gets adjusted the same day, the buyer can be shown where the price comes from, and it becomes clear which supplier sends the dirtiest material. It stops being a verbal argument and becomes data.
What people usually ask
Can the contamination count be shown to the buyer?
Yes. Counting is set up by drawing a stretch on the image, and that stretch does not move: every hour is measured in exactly the same way. The result is a figure per hour, per shift and per day, with the video behind it. It can go into a sheet and be defended in front of whoever buys the material, because it has always been counted at the same place and in the same way.
Why is counting drawn while an alert is asked for in words?
Because a line cannot be described in a sentence: it has to be drawn. Asking is for finding. Counting is for measuring. And they are not done the same way. An alert is set up by writing what you want to be told about, in your own words. A count is set up by marking on the image where the counting happens, and that is why the figure comes out the same today as in six months.
Does IRIS know whether the material is contaminated inside?
No. The camera sees what can be seen: a plastic bag among the cardboard, a container with liquid, a textile. Paper moisture, a chemical residue or what is inside a closed container do not show up in the image, and that is what a laboratory analysis is for. IRIS provides the count of what is visible, with the image and the exact minute, and it works alongside the plant quality systems, not instead of them.
Other cameras
- CAM-420 · A lithium battery is riding the belt towards the shredder
- CAM-421 · A gas cylinder is heading into the shredder mouth
- CAM-422 · A hot spot is already smoking in the waste bunker
- CAM-423 · A drum, a paint tin and a clinical bag on the same belt
- CAM-424 · A glass bottle is riding down the paper and card line
- CAM-426 · The pile is growing on the wrong side of the fence
Simulation · how IRIS works
No extra alarms here. Just what needs looking at.
Not a recorded video, not an explanatory drawing: a summary of the real screen, with a different case every time it starts. There is a lot more behind it.
- The alert fires
- It lands in the tray
- You open it
- You confirm or dismiss
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
The cameras you bought years agostill hold up. What they were missing was not image quality.
It was someone to look. IRIS connects to the installation you already have — same equipment, same cabling — and those images go from being stored to being understood.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.