CAM-449
Half an hour of quay with not one crane move
Mid-morning at the berth. The ship is still moored and still loaded, but the crane is not working: the spreader hangs empty and still above the deck. Down on the quay, three trucks are waiting with nothing on their trailers. Nobody is moving in the working strip. IRIS does not raise an alarm about this: it measures it. It counts the minutes the quay spends without a move and how many trucks pile up meanwhile.
Turn on IRIS Vision
AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- spreader empty and still
- ship berthed and loaded
- stopped truck with the red container
- stopped truck with the blue container
- stopped truck with the yellow container
What this camera gives back
Nobody gets an alert here. Here you get numbers.
- 38 min+12 minQuay with no crane move
- 11-9Moves in the last hour
- 3Trucks waiting
- 26 minAverage truck wait
- 9 h 40 minTime the ship has been alongside
- 04:00 – 05:00Busiest hour for moves
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.
This is drawn, not asked for. On the image you trace one line across the lane the trucks come in and out by, and two zones: the strip of quay under the crane and the lane where they wait. Whatever crosses the line is counted; whatever stays inside a zone is timed. That is why the figure comes out the same every day and can be checked again: it depends on the line, not on who is looking.
- the truck lane line · Counting line
- strip of quay under the crane · Dwell zone
- truck waiting lane · Dwell zone
And also, one rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
the quay racks up more than twenty minutes in a row with no crane move
Then
- log the stopped stretch in the call record with its start time
- save the video of the minute the cycle stopped
- tell the terminal manager how many trucks are waiting
The instruction that set it up«Show me the minutes the quay spends with no crane move, by hour and by shift, and tell me if they go past twenty in a row.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the terminal
A port's performance is measured by the time ships spend waiting and alongside, and that time gets argued over in every meeting with the shipping line without anyone bringing the number. With this camera, whoever runs the terminal walks in with a table: minutes of quay stopped, the hour they stopped, and how many trucks were waiting in each stretch. The recorded move is confirmed by the terminal's own system; the camera adds what could be seen and the exact minute.
What people usually ask
Does the camera know why the crane stopped?
No. IRIS measures what can be seen: how many minutes the quay has gone without a move and how many trucks are waiting meanwhile. The cause — no truck, a shift change, paperwork that has not arrived, a breakdown — is supplied by whoever watches the video or reads the terminal system. What the camera adds is the exact minute it stopped, which is precisely what nobody writes down and nobody remembers later.
Does this number replace the terminal system?
No. The recorded move comes from the terminal system and should stay there. IRIS works alongside it: it adds the picture of what was happening on the quay, and the time. When the system says there was no movement for half an hour, the camera shows whether the quay was empty, whether trucks were waiting or whether the spreader was hanging still. They are two different records that back each other up.
Why is counting drawn instead of asked for in words?
Because asking is for searching and counting is for measuring, and they are not done the same way. A line cannot be described in a sentence: it has to be drawn on the image, because the number depends on exactly where it passes and in which direction. That is why a drawn figure is repeatable and can be audited, and why people counting could be certified by the Spanish Metrology Centre. This camera counts trucks and moves, not people, so that certification does not apply here.
Other cameras
- 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
See it for yourself
A new case each time. Always the same screen.
It plays by itself and shows one case from start to finish. It is a summary: the real screen has far more functions than fit in this box.
- Checks the whole system
- Flags what is failing
- Puts it on one screen
Next step
How long before somebody comes down that corridor at four in the morning?
13 cases: 12 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.
Who sees the child who has fallen at the far end of the playground?
13 cases: 12 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
The rule does not decide anything.It just never forgets, and it tells the person who decides.
You write once what needs watching, and it holds at three in the morning just as at noon. What to do with the alert is still a person’s decision.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.