Who is watching a whole quay at three in the morning?

A terminal is huge, it never stops and almost nobody is watching it. IRIS is.

We show fourteen cameras here: thirteen that raise an alert when something happens and one that alerts nobody, it just measures. And two things worth saying early. IRIS identifies nobody: it sees that someone has crossed the fence, it does not say who they are or what they came for. And it works with no internet, because on an isolated terminal the line drops and the operation does not stop.

Illustrated elevated view of a container terminal next to a city: two blue gantry cranes unloading a container ship moored at the quay, stacks of coloured containers, a red and white lighthouse on the breakwater and a tug coming in through the harbour mouth, flatbed trucks and heavy handlers moving around the yard, a block of refrigerated containers plugged in beside a warehouse, two white liquid tanks, the entrance gate with barriers and booths, a loaded freight train on the tracks, and in the distance the seafront, the buildings and the mountains.

CAM-440 · Somebody has come over the perimeter fence CAM-441 · Someone is swimming towards the quay CAM-442 · A car has sat eleven minutes where nobody ever stops CAM-443 · Two trucks, one single barrier opening CAM-444 · A container opened outside the working window CAM-445 · Someone has crawled under a trailer CAM-446 · He walks past the sign to the diesel tank with no helmet CAM-447 · A worker on foot between the machine and the truck CAM-448 · Someone is walking under the hanging load CAM-449 · Half an hour of quay with not one crane move CAM-450 · Someone is standing inside the snap-back zone CAM-451 · A container has ended up crooked on the stack CAM-452 · A reefer with its doors open and the cable on the ground CAM-453 · Black smoke over the yard and liquid spreading across the ground

14 cameras · 10 active incidents

Without IRIS this is a lot of cameras and almost nobody watching them.

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What is at stake on a terminal

A terminal is a lot of open ground, and it does not stop at night, or in rain, or in wind. There are cameras everywhere; in the control room there are two people, and those same people are running the operation. Whoever walks under a suspended load is down there for eight seconds. Whoever stands inside a cable snapback zone does not know they are in it. The container left leaning across the stack gets spotted by the next shift. And the reefer that lost its plug is found when the doors open, when there is nothing left to do about it.

IRIS watches for you. It analyses every camera the terminal already has, all at once, and only interrupts when a rule your own team set is met: somebody walking into the fall line of a load, a person standing in the mooring snapback zone, a pedestrian and a machine closing on the same blind corner, somebody who has crossed the fence, a small boat approaching from the water, a container left leaning across the stack, a reefer with its cable on the ground, a liquid spreading along the quay edge. The alert arrives with the camera, the time and the video, while it is happening, to whoever can call a stop on the radio. And it identifies nobody: it sees that someone has crossed the fence; it does not say who they are or what they came for.

And where there is nothing to alert about, IRIS measures. Half an hour of berth without a single crane move is money standing still, and until now that got counted by hand or not at all. Measuring is not set up by talking: it is set up by drawing a line or an area on the image, because a line cannot be described in a sentence, it has to be traced. That is why the number comes out the same way every day and can be audited. And all of this happens inside the terminal: the models live on the customer's own installation, so it works with no internet and the image goes to no third party. On a quay where the line drops, that is not a detail.

The real scale

Fourteen cameras here. A terminal that fits on no screen.

This demo shows fourteen cameras because fourteen fit on a screen. A terminal does not. Here the axis is not the kilometres of a road or the passengers of a station: it is the hectares and the shifts. Quay, container yard, reefer block, truck gate, rail siding, perimeter and waterline, all of it in the open and all of it running at night. There are plenty of cameras; there are very few people to watch them, and those same people are running the operation. That is the problem IRIS solves: it analyses however many cameras there are, all at once, around the clock, and only interrupts when a rule is met. And it does it inside the installation, without depending on an internet line that, on a quay, drops.

Examples

These fourteen are just examples.

Thirteen raise an alert when something happens and one alerts nobody: it only measures. There are the people where they should not be — under the load, in the cable snapback zone, between the machine and the truck —, the load and the stack, the reefers, the gate and the perimeter, the water and the quay edge. They are not the fourteen things IRIS can do in a port; they are the ones that fit on a screen. Open any of them and you will see the image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.

From the gate to the water

The real interface, step by step

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.

The alert fires
It lands in the tray
You open it
You confirm or dismiss

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Now think about your own terminal

Imagine knowing all of it while the shift is still on the quay.

The one who walked under the load at ten past four, when the crane driver could not see him. The one standing inside the snapback zone while the mooring line came tight. The container left leaning across the stack on Tuesday that nobody saw until Thursday. The reefer that had spent eleven hours with its cable on the ground. The pedestrian and the machine that met at the blind corner. The one who came over the fence on Sunday night. The boat that approached the quay before daybreak. And the half hour of idle berth that appears in no report.

All of that is happening in front of cameras the terminal already has up. And right now nobody knows: there are two people in the control room and far more cameras on the screens than there are eyes. IRIS watches them all at once and says it while it is happening, to whoever can stop the manoeuvre. Inside the terminal, without depending on the internet, and in front of cameras that already exist.

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