CAM-472
A car stopped outside a bay on a floor that should be empty
Almost four in the morning on level -3. Every bay in shot is empty. A grey car is stopped in the aisle, in front of the lifts, without pulling into any bay and with its rear lights on. A person is standing by the driver’s door. The metal shutter at the back is down. IRIS does not say what is going on: it says there is a vehicle stopped outside a bay and activity at an hour when the level should be empty.
Turn on IRIS Vision
AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- car stopped outside a bay
- person by the driver’s door
- empty bays on the level
- lifts and the metal shutter closed
- crossing outside the lift lobby
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 26 minTime stopped outside a bay
- 1People on the level
- 1Vehicles on the level
- 14Free bays in shot
- 03:41Time
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
there is a vehicle stopped outside a bay or a person on the level outside opening hours
Then
- alert the control desk with the level, the camera and the time
- save the video from the moment the vehicle stopped
- time how long it stays there and alert again if it passes the limit
The instruction that set it up«Alert me if there is anyone or any car stopped on the closed levels outside opening hours.»
What changes
What changes for whoever runs the car park
A closed car park has nobody watching at four in the morning, and next day nobody knows what happened down there. With IRIS the manager gets the alert while it is happening, with the level, the time and the video, and decides whether that is normal — a customer coming back late for their car — or whether to send someone. The same rule, with a far longer clock, flags cars that have not moved for days: bays that are not turning over and stays nobody has closed.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS say that somebody is up to no good?
No, and it must not. IRIS describes facts: there is a vehicle stopped outside a bay and there is a person on a level at an hour when there is usually nobody. Intentions are not visible to a camera. Whoever watches the video decides whether that is normal and what to do next. IRIS does not judge and does not identify anyone.
How does IRIS know a car has not moved for days?
By watching the bay, not the car. IRIS sees that the same-looking vehicle is in that bay hour after hour and times how long it has been there. Here it does not read number plates and does not follow any car around the city: it only knows that this patch of floor has been occupied far longer than expected, and since what day. Cross-checking that against the paid stay is the car park system’s job.
Does it work with the level almost in the dark?
Yes, with the right camera. Where the light drops a lot a low-light camera is fitted, and even then it is worth reviewing the level’s lighting: if a video cannot be seen, it is no use as evidence either. IRIS also raises an alert when an area that used to be lit stops being lit, which is a cheap warning that saves trouble.
Other cameras
- CAM-460 · How many bays are left, and of what kind
- CAM-461 · Four minutes going round and not one free space
- CAM-462 · The sign gets it right because the number comes from the bays themselves
- CAM-463 · Six cars waiting and the queue is already out on the street
- CAM-464 · There is a queue because nobody gets through that machine
- CAM-465 · Two cars crossed on a single opening
Demo · IRIS at work
You set the rule once. IRIS applies it every time.
You will see a summary of the interface, played step by step and hands-free. Each round starts with another case. The complete tool does not fit in a demo.
- The alert fires
- It lands in the tray
- You open it
- You confirm or dismiss
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
If the camera does not show it,IRIS does not see it. We say so up front, not afterwards.
No camera sees through a wall or in complete darkness. We would rather show you where the limit is, and place what you have well, than promise something that never appears on screen.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.