CAM-452
A reefer with its doors open and the cable on the ground
Early afternoon in the reefer row. One of the containers has both doors open, with the empty interior in plain view. In front of it, a power cable is lying loose on the ground, out of its socket. A technician in a helmet and hi-vis vest stands beside it with a tablet. The limit is worth stating right here: the temperature comes from the container’s own unit, not from the camera. IRIS sees the open door, the cable on the ground and how long it has been like that.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- open doors of the reefer
- door leaf swung open against the row
- power cable loose on the ground
- power socket for the row
- technician with a tablet beside the container
- cooling unit of the next container
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 18 minTime with the door open
- 1Cables out of their socket
- 7Reefers in the row
- 1People in the row
- 13:40Time of the alert
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
a reefer goes past five minutes with a door open or with its power cable out of its socket
Then
- alert the reefer supervisor with the camera, the slot in the row and the time
- save the video from the moment the door was opened
- leave the alert in the shift log with the time the door opened
The instruction that set it up«Tell me when a reefer has been more than five minutes with a door open or with its cable out of the socket.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the terminal
For the reefer supervisor, a door left open for twenty minutes can cost the whole load, and the insurer will ask about it. Today he finds out when the unit logs the temperature rise, which is always later. With the camera he has the minute the door was opened, the minute the cable ended up on the ground and the video of what was being done there. That is what turns a claim into a file that holds up.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS measure the temperature inside the container?
No. The temperature comes from the reefer’s own system, which has its probe inside, and that reading does not come from a camera. IRIS sees what shows from the outside: the open door, the cable on the ground and how long it has been like that. The two are read together: the unit says how far it rose, and the camera says from what minute and with which door open.
And with a thermal camera?
A thermal camera reads the heat you can see from outside: a housing warming up, a cooling unit that has stopped and is no longer venting. It is still not the temperature of the cargo, which sits inside a closed, insulated box. Where you need the exact figure for the goods, you need the container’s probe or a measurement at destination. The camera supplies the alert and the time.
Can it tell whether the technician had a work order?
Not on its own, and it does not identify anyone either. IRIS sees that a door is open at a particular time. If the terminal cross-checks that alert against its list of work orders, the question answers itself: there was an order or there was not. That cross-check is done by the terminal’s system; IRIS supplies the image and the exact minute.
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- 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
Simulation · how IRIS works
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.
- Cameras on the map
- You draw an area
- What passed shows up
Next step
What does an airport see before the queue forms?
14 cases: 7 raise an alert when something happens and 7 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
What can a camera see without pointing at anyone?
13 cases: 9 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
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.