CAM-466
Three hours in a thirty-minute bay
Midday in a short-stay area beside the entrance of an office building. The ground is painted blue and the bay signage sets the maximum at half an hour. A dark car has been there for over three hours. In the bay next to it another car has come and gone in the meantime. IRIS does not follow the car: it watches the bay. Each one has a zone drawn over it, and the clock starts when something occupies it.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- vehicle that has been in the bay for over three hours
- sign with the area’s maximum stay
- bay’s upright sign
- vehicle in the adjacent bay
- zone boundary painted on the ground
- car driving along the aisle
What this camera gives back
Nobody gets an alert here. Here you get numbers.
- 3 h 12 minTime the bay has been occupied
- 30 minMaximum stay for the bay
- 2Different vehicles in the bay today
- 7 h 40 minTime occupied today
- 2 / 6Bays over the limit right now
- 09:48Occupied since
The figures on this screen are an example from the illustration, not any client's measurement.
And also, one rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
a short-stay bay has been occupied for longer than the set time
Then
- time the occupancy of every bay from minute one
- count how many different vehicles use the bay each day
- deliver turnover per bay and per time band
The instruction that set it up«I want to know how long each short-stay bay is occupied and how many different cars pass through it in a day.»
What changes
What changes for whoever runs the car park
Turnover is what sets the price of a bay. If the half-hour area is holding three-hour cars, that bay yields less than the car park thinks, and the figure appears nowhere. By counting how many different vehicles pass through each bay and how long each one stays, the manager walks into the meeting with a repeatable number, bay by bay and hour by hour, instead of an impression.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS read the plate to know how long the car has been there?
No. IRIS does not read plates in a car park. It watches the bay, not the car: each bay has a zone drawn over it, and the clock starts when something occupies it and stops when it leaves. That is why the figure is the same whoever looks at it, and why you do not need to know whose vehicle it is to measure turnover.
Why is this drawn instead of asked for in a sentence?
Because asking is for finding and counting is for measuring, and they are not the same job. A sentence finds a car in a video. A figure that will set the price of a bay has to come out of the same place every time, and that place is a zone drawn on the image. A line cannot be described in a sentence: it has to be drawn, and that is what makes the number repeatable.
Is this an alarm?
No. This camera measures, it does not warn. It returns how long each bay has been occupied, how many different vehicles use it in a day and at what times. If the car park also wants an alert when the limit is passed, that is set up separately. The value of this camera is the repeatable figure you put on the table in a meeting, not the alert.
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
Every simulation
Queues that don’t move
Alert me when more than five people have been waiting over ten minutes, and tell me how many desks are open.
- The sentence
- Where it applies
- What it finds
- The same rule
Next step
When does a bad review get decided?
15 cases: 11 raise an alert when something happens and 4 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
Who is watching a whole quay at three in the morning?
14 cases: 13 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
You do not need to buy cameras:you need yours to understand what they see.
Nothing gets built, mounted or rewired. It plugs into what is already up and running, and the only thing that changes is what those cameras understand.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.