CAM-432
He is clearing a jam with the press still live
Half past nine in the baler room. A worker in a white helmet and reflective jacket has climbed onto the edge of the machine and is leaning half his body into the compaction mouth, pulling the jam clear by hand. To his right the stack light is green and the control panel screen is lit: the press is available to start. Above, the conveyor keeps dropping paper onto the machine. There is no padlock hanging anywhere.
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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 someone leaning half their body into the baler while the light is still green and no padlock is in place. At that same moment it alerts whoever can stop the machine from the panel, with the camera and the time. With that alert you decide to stop it right away, before someone else presses the button.
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
- person inside the mouth
- press mouth open
- stack light on green
- control panel powered up
- conveyor still feeding
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 26 stime with the body inside
- 14 mintime on green
- 0lockout padlocks in view
- 1people on the machine
- 09:35time 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
a person enters the press mouth and the machine is still signalled as available
Then
- alert the shift supervisor and the control room right away
- save the video from the moment the person climbed onto the press
- log the camera, the time and how long the body was inside
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if someone puts their body inside the press and the machine is not stopped and locked off.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
Thirty metres away, at the control panel, another operator sees only a machine that is available and a line that needs restarting. One button is all it takes. That is why this case kills, and it is nothing like the fence: here there is half a body inside and the machine still live. IRIS sees what can be seen: the body in the mouth, the signal green and no lockout padlock anywhere. It does not verify that the energy is isolated, the isolation procedure does that, but it alerts while the person is still inside and leaves the video of the exact minute.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS check that the press is locked off?
No. A camera cannot see whether the isolator is open or whether stored energy is still in the machine. IRIS sees the body inside the mouth, the stack light on green and no padlock hanging where it should be: that is enough to alert while it is happening. Isolating the energy is guaranteed by the lockout procedure and the person who signs it, not by video.
The worker pressed stop. Is that not enough?
No, and that is why the alert fires anyway. Stopping a machine is not the same as leaving it without energy and locked with a padlock. While the panel stays green, anyone can restart it from another point. IRIS alerts on what can be seen, a person inside and the machine available, and the shift supervisor decides whether the work stops.
Can the video be used in an incident investigation?
Yes. The alert is stored with the camera, the time and the video of the minutes before and after, so the investigation starts from pictures instead of versions. It also works the other way round: proving that a job was done with the machine stopped. IRIS does not identify anyone; it leaves the scene and the minute.
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- CAM-424 · A glass bottle is riding down the paper and card line
- CAM-425 · The buyer wants to know how much contamination is in the bale
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 rule gets built
- It goes to every camera
- Published, it watches alone
- And then it fires
See it somewhere else
How long does it take to find a hand played two hours ago?
12 cases: 9 raise an alert when something happens and 3 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
What does a shopping centre see beyond the visitor count?
12 cases: 4 raise an alert when something happens and 8 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
You have cameras to spare.What you run out of is eyes to watch them.
One person can follow two or three screens. Nobody can follow forty. IRIS watches them all and speaks up when someone needs to decide.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.