CAM-401
The clarifier has filled with foam and it is going over the weir
Midday at the secondary clarifier. A brown blanket of foam covers almost the whole water surface, with bottles and packaging trapped in it. Water is falling over the weir, carrying foam into the outlet channel. The scraper bridge is still turning above the basin. Out on the roadway, three crew in white helmets are watching and one is pointing. From ground level nobody knows when it started: foam builds slowly, and before long it is over the edge.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- foam blanket
- floatables and packaging
- weir overflowing
- scraper bridge
- crew watching the basin
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 26 mintime since the blanket formed
- 34floatables counted on the surface
- 2weir sections with foam going over
- 3crew on the roadway
- 12:05time 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
foam covers the basin outside its normal pattern or floatables go over the weir
Then
- open a warning alert for the plant supervisor
- save the video of the water surface from before the blanket formed
- attach the still with the camera, the basin and the time
The instruction that set it up«Tell me when the clarifier fills with foam or floatables start going over the weir.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
A basin with foam outside its normal pattern sends floatables into the discharge and dirties the effluent. The people running the plant want to know within the first half hour, not on the afternoon round. IRIS watches the water surface through the whole shift and alerts when foam covers more surface than usual or floatables start going over the weir. The video shows what arrived at the inlet earlier, so dosing is corrected with facts.
What people usually ask
Does the camera tell you why there is foam?
No. IRIS sees the foam, how much surface it covers and how long it has been there. The cause is confirmed with process control and laboratory analysis. The image contributes the exact time, which is precisely what you need in order to go and find what arrived at the inlet beforehand.
Can it be used to measure effluent quality?
No. Water quality is measured with probes and in the laboratory, and IRIS does not go there. What it contributes is the visible part: foam, floatables and water going over the weir, with video and a timestamp. It works alongside process control, not instead of it.
Does it work at night?
Yes, if the basin is lit or the camera sees in low light. Without enough light there is no image, and without an image there is no detection: lighting the spot is part of the installation and is decided before the camera goes up.
Other cameras
- CAM-400 · Water is coming up through the cover and the street is a river
- CAM-402 · The screen is packed with wipes and the water is not getting through
- CAM-403 · A tree has come down the channel and is blocking the intake
- CAM-404 · A jet is spraying from the flange and the puddle keeps growing
- CAM-405 · The container plugged in is not the one that belongs there
- CAM-406 · The gate says one thing and the control system says another
Demo · IRIS at work
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.
- Four cameras at once
- Each understands its own view
- The numbers climb by themselves
Next step
And who watches the cameras?
0 cases, and in every one of them IRIS raises an alert when something happens. You see each image as it is, and then with what it understands on top.
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.
And the best part
What happens outside the framedoes not exist for IRIS. No camera sees the whole world.
So the first thing we do is check what each camera covers and write it down: from here you can understand this, and not that. A dull hour that saves a lot of misunderstandings.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.