CAM-353
Black smoke pouring out of a battery container
Mid-afternoon at a battery site: six white containers on gravel, fans along the roof. On the front one the door has been blown off its latch and orange flame shows through the opening; a column of black smoke rises from the roof and already covers half the site. The other five are untouched and nobody is inside the fence. IRIS sees the smoke and the blown-open door. What happens inside the cells is reported by the battery management system, and the gases by the detector.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- container with smoke and flame
- column of black smoke
- door blown open, wide open
- containers with nothing wrong
- site connection cabinets
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 2 minTime since the first smoke
- 1Containers with visible smoke
- 6Containers on site
- 1Doors open
- 0People inside the fence
- 14:52Time of the first smoke
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
smoke or flame appears at a battery container, or a door opens with nobody opening it
Then
- alert the control room and the on-call team with the camera and the time of the first smoke
- save the video from thirty seconds before the smoke appeared
- show whether anyone is still inside the fence and where the smoke is coming out
The instruction that set it up«Alert me right away if smoke or flame comes out of a battery container, or if a door opens on its own.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
At a battery site the first minutes are everything, and whoever decides is usually kilometres away. The camera puts the site in front of them: which container it is, whether the door is open, which way the smoke is going and whether anyone is still inside the fence. That means calling the fire service with good information, closing the access and deciding without going in. The video of the first smoke is kept for the report.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS detect a fire in a battery storage site?
It sees what can be seen: smoke, flame and a door that has been blown open. It alerts straight away, with the camera, the time and the video of the seconds before, and shows whether anyone is still inside the fence. What is happening inside the cells is reported by the battery management system, and the gases are measured by the detector. IRIS works alongside those systems and provides the image.
Can it warn before the smoke appears?
With a thermal camera it reads the heat visible on the outside of the container, and a hot spot on a wall or a vent shows up before the flame does. With an ordinary camera, no: there has to be visible smoke or flame. In no case does it predict: IRIS reports what is happening, not what is going to happen.
Is the alert any use if the fire service takes a while to arrive?
Yes, because it changes what they know when they get there. Before going in they already know which container is burning, whether the door is open, which way the smoke is going and whether anyone is inside the enclosure. The camera also keeps sending live images throughout, and the video of the first minute is kept for the report afterwards.
Other cameras
- CAM-340 · Someone is walking through a compound that is always empty
- CAM-341 · The fence is down and someone is coming through the gap
- CAM-342 · Eleven minutes parked where nobody ever stops
- CAM-343 · A cabinet is being emptied of its copper
- CAM-344 · Flame and black smoke on the transformer
- CAM-345 · A trail of oil under the transformer
See it for yourself
We won't just tell you. We'll show you.
It is a summary of the real screen: it plays by itself, step by step, and shows only the path of one case. The actual tool has far more than fits in here.
- You ask
- IRIS searches
- It shows you
Next step
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.
Who watches an entire motorway?
10 cases: 8 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.
And the best part
Adding a camera costs what it costs;adding someone to watch it costs every single month.
Past a certain number, almost nobody is watching anything. IRIS watches them all at once and only calls you when something you said mattered happens in one of them.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.