CAM-441
Someone is swimming towards the quay
Midday in the basin. A person is swimming towards the quay wall, a few metres from the steel ladder set into it. A rigid inflatable comes in from the left. Up on the quay, a guard and a service vehicle; at the back, the berthed ship. To an ordinary camera all of this is just water moving. IRIS separates what advances like a person or a boat from the swell, the reflections and the birds.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- person swimming towards the quay wall
- rigid inflatable in the basin
- steel ladder in the quay wall
- guard on the quay
- service vehicle
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 12:05Time of entry into the water
- 02:10Time tracking the object
- 12 mDistance to the quay wall
- 1People in the water
- 1Boats in the basin
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 person or a small boat enters the restricted stretch of water at the quay
Then
- alert the control post with the camera, the point of the quay wall and the time
- save the video from the moment the object enters the water zone
- keep tracking it while it moves towards the wall
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if somebody swims into the basin or a small boat comes close to the quay.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the terminal
The waterside is the flank almost nobody watches, and the one that throws up the most useless alerts: every wave, every reflection and every seagull looks like movement. That is why water cameras end up switched off. If the only thing that arrives is this — someone swimming towards the quay, a small boat pushing into restricted water — the alert gets answered. And the guard knows which stretch of wall to look at before he gets there.
What people usually ask
How does IRIS tell a swimmer from a wave?
By shape and by path. A wave appears, breaks and goes nowhere; a person swimming keeps a silhouette and moves in one direction for seconds on end. IRIS looks at that difference, not at raw pixel change, which is what ends up getting water cameras switched off. Which stretch of water is watched, and when, is decided by the port.
Does it also detect small boats?
Yes. A rigid inflatable, a jet ski or a rowing boat entering the restricted water are all the same to the rule: something that should not be there is approaching the quay. IRIS alerts with the time and the video. What it does not do is read hull numbers or identify anybody on board.
Does it work at night?
It depends on the camera, not on IRIS. With a thermal camera, the heat of a person in the water shows up with no light at all. With an ordinary camera you need the quay lighting. IRIS works with the image it is given: if a human eye would see nothing on that screen, the camera is the wrong one for that spot, and that is settled before it goes up.
Other cameras
- CAM-440 · Somebody has come over the perimeter fence
- 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
See it for yourself
Watch what happens. Then watch what IRIS does with it.
Not a recorded video and not a drawing: it is a summary of the real tool, with a different case each time round. The whole tool does not fit in a box.
- You ask
- IRIS searches
- It shows you
Next step
Who is watching the yard screen when the fight starts?
17 cases: 16 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.
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.
And the best part
Nothing changes on the wall.On the screen, everything changes.
Same brackets, same cabling, same cameras. The only difference is that those images are now understood as they come in, instead of waiting for someone to open them.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.