CAM-350
A branch touching the substation busbar
Summer midday at a neighbourhood substation, houses all around. Scrub has climbed the wall and creepers hang over the yard. From the tree on the left, a long branch has pushed inside the enclosure: it crosses above the transformer and its twigs reach the insulators and the busbar. A few months ago that gap was clear. IRIS compares today’s image with the usual one, from the same camera and the same framing, and sees where the vegetation has come in.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- branch reaching into the yard, over the equipment
- power transformer
- busbar and insulators
- creepers over the wall
- incoming line pole
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 3Contact points with the equipment
- 2Bays with vegetation inside
- 2Poles with branches on them
- 41Days since the last clear image
- 12:40Time 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
vegetation gets inside the yard or a branch comes close to live parts
Then
- alert maintenance with the camera, the time and the picture of the day
- save today’s image next to the one of the same framing with no vegetation
- mark the points where the branch touches the equipment
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if vegetation grows inside the yard or if a branch gets close to the busbar.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
Vegetation gives no warning: it grows slowly and gets noticed when the line trips or when the annual inspection comes round. With the camera, the maintenance manager sees the day the branch came inside and how it has advanced week by week. He can send the clearing crew to this site and not to the four that are clean. And once it is cut back, the same camera keeps the image of the clear yard, which becomes the new reference.
What people usually ask
Can a camera see vegetation getting close to the line?
Yes. The camera always looks at the same framing, so it compares today’s image with one from months ago and sees what has changed. A branch pushing into the yard, scrub climbing the wall or creepers over the equipment show up as a clear difference. The alert arrives with today’s picture and the picture of the same spot when it was clear, so the growth is obvious at a glance.
Does IRIS measure the exact distance between the branch and the conductor?
No. The camera sees that vegetation has come inside the yard and that it touches or brushes the equipment, and shows it with an image and a time. The electrical clearance is set by the regulations and checked by the maintenance crew on site. IRIS is there to tell you which site to visit first, not to replace that measurement.
Is it useful for planning the clearing work?
Yes. With a daily image of the same framing you can see which sites are getting overgrown and which are not. That lets you send the crew where it is needed instead of touring every site by calendar. After the cut-back, the same camera keeps the image of the clear yard, and that picture becomes the new reference for every comparison from then on.
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 draw the line
- It counts by itself
- A number comes out
Next step
Who is watching when the load swings over somebody?
11 cases: 9 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.
Who is watching the yard screen when the fight starts?
17 cases: 16 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
Ten cameras or four thousand:not one of them goes unwatched.
The day IRIS starts, they all start: the ten in a school or the four thousand in a whole network. And it only raises its hand when the thing you asked for happens.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.