CAM-410
An operator on the ground beside the clarifier, helmet lying next to him
Mid-afternoon at the plant. An operator is lying face down on the walkway that runs around the clarifier, his helmet and his toolbox on the ground a metre away. A colleague is running towards him from the electrical cabinet. The life ring is still hanging on the handrail, untouched. IRIS diagnoses nothing: it sees that a person is horizontal, on the ground, in an area where people work standing up, and that they have not moved for a while.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- operator lying on the ground
- helmet on the ground
- toolbox open on the ground
- colleague running towards him
- life ring on the handrail
- water surface of the clarifier
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 2People in shot
- 40 sTime without movement
- 1Helmets on the ground
- 1Life rings in shot
- 13:24Time 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 ends up on the ground on the clarifier walkway and stops moving
Then
- alert the control room and the on-call team with the camera and the time
- save the video from a few seconds before the fall
- keep the alert open until a person closes it
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if anyone ends up lying on the ground on the clarifier walkways.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
For the plant manager what changes is the clock. A fall next to a basin is dealt with in minutes or it is not dealt with at all. If nobody is watching the monitor, the alert goes out anyway, with the camera, the time and the video of the exact moment, and the on-call team knows which basin to head for without asking. Afterwards the recording is there for the incident report, which is the part nobody ever reconstructs properly from memory.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS know whether the operator fainted or fell?
No. IRIS diagnoses nothing and does not know what is wrong with a person. What it sees is that someone is horizontal, on the ground, in an area where people work standing up, and that they have not moved for a while. On that basis it raises the alert and hands over the video. What happened, and what to do about it, is decided by whoever gets there, not by the camera.
And if the operator is crouching down to work?
It does not fire. The rule tells apart a crouching person, who shifts position and moves their arms, from someone lying still. How long it has to last before an alert goes out is set by the plant: in some sites it is fifteen seconds, in others a minute. IRIS does not write that rule, it applies it.
Is it any use at night or with the plant empty?
Yes, and that is when it matters most. The camera does not need anyone watching a monitor: the alert goes out on its own to the on-call phone or to the control room. In low light you need a camera built for it, with infrared or with support lighting. No image means no detection, and that is checked before anything is installed.
Other cameras
- CAM-400 · Water is coming up through the cover and the street is a river
- CAM-401 · The clarifier has filled with foam and it is going over the weir
- 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
Every simulation
Queues that don’t move
Alert me when more than five people have been waiting over ten minutes, and tell me how many desks are open.
- The sentence
- Where it applies
- What it finds
- The same rule
Next step
Who is watching a whole quay at three in the morning?
14 cases: 13 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.
Who is watching the cameras of a whole branch network?
13 cases: 12 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
Whoever is on duty already has a job.Watching forty screens does not fit into the shift.
No shift has time to spare. IRIS watches all forty at once and brings only what needs to be seen, with its camera and its time. What happens next is that person’s call.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.