CAM-116
A hole in the wing wall
The wing seen from above. On the ground floor there is a hole in the wall: a run of masonry blown out from top to bottom, the mesh inside bent and exposed, and rubble and dust spread across the floor. An officer is standing in front of the gap. Around it the wing carries on: the fixed tables with their stools, the upper landing with people leaning on the rail, and the cells open on both sides.
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What IRIS is
IRIS keeps an eye on the prison for you.
IRIS watches the cameras you already have in the prison and understands what it sees: a fight, a barricade, a crowd building up in a yard or a wing. When something like that happens, it alerts right away; and whatever can be counted, it counts in numbers. All day long, with no one needing to stare at a screen.
You tell it what you need to watch, and IRIS does it.
Here, for example, IRIS catches the moment the hole opens up in the wall and raises the alert right away, with the camera, the exact spot and the footage from just before it happened. That way nobody has to wait for someone to walk past on a round and spot it hours later. What happens with that alert is up to the facility; IRIS just says there's now a gap where a wall used to be.
Works with the cameras you already have. Nothing to replace.
A person replies, not a form.
- Your footage never leaves your premises.
- It doesn't identify people.
- Certifications →
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- hole in the wall
- exposed mesh
- rubble on the floor
- officer in the wing
- fixed tables in the wing
The rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
a hole, a break or a deformation appears where there used to be a wall, a grille or a mesh fence
Then
- alert the duty governor with the camera, the point on the wall and the time
- keep the video from before the damage appeared
- log it as a maintenance report, with its picture
The instruction that set it up«Tell me when damage appears on a wall, a grille or a mesh fence in this area, and tell me while it is happening, not on the night round.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the facility
The officer on the three o’clock round walks past the wall, sees the hole and reports it. Until that moment nobody knew it was there. Hours can pass between the wall breaking and somebody walking by, and anything fits in that gap: that it has been getting bigger, that nobody has the video, that the report ends up written from memory. With IRIS the alert arrives when the wall breaks, with the camera, the spot and the video from just before. It works the same for a forced grille or a panel somebody has been loosening for weeks. IRIS does not say who did it or why: it says there is a gap where there used to be a wall, while it is happening. What is done next is the facility’s decision.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS identify whoever broke the wall?
No. IRIS does not identify anyone: it does not recognise faces, it does not compare them against any database and it does not store who anyone is. It detects the situation — there is a hole where there used to be a wall — and reports it. Nor does it predict or classify anyone: it does not say who might do it and it does not single out any of the people held there. Who, how and why is an investigation for the facility, and that is what the video of the moment is for — which is exactly what nobody has today.
What about small damage, the kind that is done bit by bit?
Those are the hardest to spot on a round, because every day they look the same. The camera compares what it sees now with what it normally sees at that exact spot, so a plate that shifts a little each week or a mesh fence that keeps giving way does come out in the end. How big something has to be before it is reported is the facility's call: if the threshold is very fine, it will also flag a chipped edge, and that is not a failure either, it is a setting to be adjusted.
Can the same camera watch the wall and the wing's headcount?
Yes, and that is the advantage of the rule sitting on top of the camera that is already there: the same image carries several rules at once, each with its own hours and its own recipient. Here one watches the wall and another can count how many people are in the wing. You do not need a camera for every thing you want to know: you need to write another rule.
A different case every time
A camera looks. IRIS understands what it sees.
An extract of the real screen, no voice-over and hands-free. Each round poses another situation. What sits behind it is a good deal bigger than what you see.
- Checks the whole system
- Flags what is failing
- Puts it on one screen
See it somewhere else
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
You write the rule yourself, in your own words.Nobody has to program it for you.
“Tell me if a fire door is left open.” That is the whole rule. From then on it applies on every camera and at any hour, without ever touching it again.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.