CAM-354
Three rows of panels with the glass shattered
A solar field on the hillside, mid-morning. Eight rows of panels facing the sea. The upper ones are perfect, deep blue and even. Down at the bottom, three rows look whitish: the glass is chipped and cracked, there are modules split and shifted out of place and, in the middle, a gap where a panel is missing and the bare frame shows. From this same camera, yesterday they all looked the same.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- row with the glass shattered
- gap with no module, bare frame showing
- modules cracked and shifted out of place
- upper rows, unchanged
- front row, intact
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 34Modules with broken glass
- 6Gaps with no module
- 3Rows with visible damage
- 5Rows unchanged
- 1Days since the last undamaged image
- 09:15Time of the comparison
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 row changes appearance compared with the neighbouring rows or with how it looked yesterday
Then
- alert the plant manager with today’s image and yesterday’s
- mark the affected rows and count the broken modules and the gaps
- keep the series of the same framing for the claim
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if broken, dirty or displaced panels show up in any row of the field.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
The plant manager can see output is down, but the meter does not tell him which row to look at or since when. The camera does: it shows which rows have changed, how many modules are broken and the day they appeared that way. The crew goes straight to the spot with replacement panels, and a claim can be made with the before and after image. The count is validated against the production data of each string.
What people usually ask
Can a camera count the broken panels in a solar field?
Yes, the ones it can see. From a fixed point it counts the modules with chipped glass, the ones shifted out of place and the gaps where a panel is missing, and it compares one row with the ones beside it in the same image. That number is repeatable: same camera, same framing, same count every day. Panels hidden behind another row are not included, and the report says so.
Does it detect a panel that produces less but looks fine?
No. A panel with a degraded cell or a bad connection can look perfect from the outside. That is answered by the production data of each string and by thermography. IRIS detects visible damage — broken glass, dirt, modules moved out of place or new shading — and is useful for explaining a drop in output that the data has already flagged.
Do you need a drone to inspect the field?
For the detail of each cell, yes. To know what has changed since yesterday, no: a fixed camera looks at the same field every day and raises the alert the same day the damage appears, not during next year’s drone campaign. The two work together; the camera says when and where it is worth flying.
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
A different case every time
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
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
At eleven the last person leaves.The cameras stay, and now they understand what is going on.
Nobody switches anything off on the way out. What happens in an empty building is understood right then, and nobody waits for the doors to open to find out.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.