How many bays are free right now?
The cameras are already up. You don't need a sensor in every bay.
We show fifteen cameras here: nine that raise an alert when something is happening and six that alert nobody, they just count. A thousand-bay car park already has cameras on the ramps, in the aisles, at the barrier and in the stairwells. IRIS watches them all at once, and out of that come the two things an operator needs: how many bays are free, and a warning when something goes wrong.
Without IRIS this is a car park where nobody knows how many bays are left.
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What is at stake in a car park
A car park lives off occupied bays and gets judged on the queue at the entrance. Both are found out too late. The sign at the door says FULL because somebody set it yesterday, and inside there are forty empty bays nobody can find: cars going round for four minutes down a full aisle. At the exit a queue builds because at one pay machine nobody is finishing, and nobody notices until the jam reaches the street.
IRIS watches for you. It analyses all the cameras the car park already has — the ramps, the aisles, the barrier, the charging bays, the exits — and only interrupts when a rule you wrote is met: a car coming up the ramp the wrong way, a vehicle stopped outside a bay on a level that should be empty, smoke at the foot of a plugged-in car at three in the morning. The alert arrives with the camera, the time and the video, while it is happening, to the person who can walk down to that level.
And where there is nothing to alert about, IRIS measures. How many bays are free, on which level and of which type. How many cars are waiting at the entrance and for how long. How long a car takes from coming up the ramp to parking. That is not set up by talking, it is set up by drawing: a line cannot be described in a sentence, it has to be traced onto the image. That is why the figure comes out the same every day and can be audited. And it comes from the cameras that are already up: no sensor over every bay, no digging up the tarmac, no rewiring.
The real scale
Fifteen cameras here. A thousand bays and one person in the booth.
This demo shows fifteen cameras because fifteen fit on a screen. A thousand-bay car park has many more, and has had them since the day it opened: on every ramp, in every aisle, at the barrier, in the stairwells and in the lobby. What it does not have is anyone watching them. There is one person in the booth, and that person is taking payments, raising barriers and answering the intercom; they cannot also keep an eye on eight levels. More screens do not fix it either. IRIS analyses however many cameras there are, day and night, and only interrupts when a rule you wrote is met. The rest of the time it counts: free bays, cars in the queue, minutes to park.
Examples
These fifteen are just examples.
Nine raise an alert when something is happening and six alert nobody: they just count. These are not the fifteen things IRIS can do in a car park; they are the ones that fit on a screen, and each operator writes them in their own words. Open any of them and you will see the image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
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.
- Checks the whole system
- Flags what is failing
- Puts it on one screen
Now think about your own car park
Imagine knowing it while it is happening, and not when somebody complains at the desk.
The forty free bays on level four that nobody knows are free. The car that has spent four minutes going round a full aisle. The sign at the entrance saying FULL when it is not. The six cars waiting at the barrier and the queue already spilling into the street. The exit machine where nobody is finishing. The two cars that crossed the barrier on a single opening. The one that has been three hours in a thirty-minute bay. The one that has been in the same spot for days and nobody remembers when it arrived. The car parked in the reserved bay, with somebody waiting in front of it. The one that finished charging an hour ago and is still on the charger. The one coming up the ramp the wrong way. The one that reaches the crossing just as somebody is on it. The door flung wide open against the car in the next bay. The vehicle stopped outside a bay on a level that should be empty. The smoke at the foot of a plugged-in car at three in the morning. And the emergency exit blocked by a car.
All of that is happening in front of cameras the car park already has, and today nobody knows until somebody complains or until someone sits down to review the recording. IRIS watches all those cameras at once and says it while it is happening, to the person who can walk down there. No sensor in every bay, no digging up the tarmac, no camera replaced.
Next step
Who sees the sales that never reach the till?
10 cases: 4 raise an alert when something happens and 6 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
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.
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.