CAM-461
Four minutes going round and not one free space
A blue car works its way down the aisle with its brake lights on and takes the right-hand turn, following the arrow painted on the floor. On both sides every bay is taken. Further down, another car brakes looking for the same thing. IRIS starts a clock when a vehicle comes onto the level and stops it when it parks. It follows the car by its image, inside the frame; it does not read the plate.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- car looking for a bay
- turn arrow painted on the aisle
- row of full bays on the left
- row of full bays on the right
- another car driving further down
What this camera gives back
Nobody gets an alert here. Here you get numbers.
- 3 min 40 sTime spent searching
- 2Laps counted
- 4 min 10 s+50 sAverage search this hour
- 11 minLongest search today
- 5Cars driving around the level
- 0Free bays in this aisle
The figures on this screen are an example from the illustration, not any client's measurement.
How the counting works
Counting is not something you ask for. You draw a line.
There is a line drawn right across the aisle and a zone painted over the whole run. When a vehicle crosses the line the count starts, and every time it crosses again another lap is logged. The clock stops when the car pulls into a bay. Asking is for finding; counting is for measuring, and the two are not done the same way. A line cannot be described in a sentence: it has to be drawn over the frame, and that is why the number is repeatable and auditable.
- lap line across the aisle · Counting line
- driving aisle zone · Dwell zone
And also, one rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
the average search on the level goes over five minutes
Then
- alert the manager with the level, the time and the laps counted
- save the video of one full lap as a sample
- send the figure to the guidance sign so traffic goes to another level
The instruction that set it up«Tell me how long it takes a driver to park on this level on average, by time of day.»
What changes
What changes for whoever runs the car park
A driver going round in circles is a bay that is not being sold and one more car clogging the aisle. The manager usually does not have that figure: he knows how many cars come in, not how long each one takes. With the clock running you can see at what time the search blows up, on which level it happens and whether the guidance sign is sending people to a full floor. That is fixed by changing the signage, not by buying more bays.
What people usually ask
How does IRIS follow a car if it does not read the plate?
By its image, and only inside the frame. IRIS sees a vehicle of a certain colour, shape and size and keeps track of it while it is in view of that camera or the next one. Once it leaves the frame, that is the end of it. There is no plate, no identity and nobody to follow across town: there is a stopwatch that starts on the ramp and stops in a bay.
Is the figure any use when the car park is nearly empty?
Yes, above all for comparison. With the level half empty the search is short, and that is precisely the number you compare Saturday afternoon against. A whole month of the curve shows at what time parking starts to get hard, and that decides where a sign goes, which level opens first and when the tariff should change.
Does IRIS predict when the level will fill up?
No. IRIS counts what is happening: how many cars are driving around, how long they have been searching and how many bays are free. The forecast is made by whoever runs the car park, with those numbers in front of them and the history of previous weeks. The camera supplies the measured figure and the exact time, not a prediction.
Other cameras
- CAM-460 · How many bays are left, and of what kind
- 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
- CAM-466 · Three hours in a thirty-minute bay
A different case every time
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.
- Cameras on the map
- You draw an area
- What passed shows up
Next step
What does a venue with twenty thousand people inside see?
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.
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.
And the best part
Sometimes you do not need an alarm:you need a number.
How many people came in, and when. You draw a line over the image and the camera counts. People counting is certified by the Centro Español de Metrología through NeuralPax.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.