CAM-115
The tool board in the workshop
A workshop in mid-morning. On the wall, a board with every tool hanging in its own slot: spanners in size order, screwdrivers, pliers, hammers, files, a saw and a spirit level. Below it runs a bank of labelled drawers. An officer, seen from behind, is checking the board with the sheet in his hand, and three of the people held there are working at the wooden benches. In this picture every tool is present: none is missing, so there is nothing to attend to and the point shows in gold.
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What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- board complete
- labelled drawers
- officer checking the board
- person working at the bench
- counting procedure
The rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
at workshop closing time a tool is missing from the board, or a slot has been empty for longer than the facility has set
Then
- alert the workshop officer with the camera, the empty slot and the time
- open the video at the moment that slot lost its tool
- log the closing count, complete or not
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if any tool is missing from the board when the workshop closes, and tell me which slot and since what time it has been empty.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the facility
In a prison workshop, a tool missing at closing time is a serious problem, and today it is settled by counting them one by one by hand, every day, with the workshop still full and the shift ending. The camera watches the board and knows whether they are all there. If one is missing, it says which slot and since when it has been empty, so the video opens right there instead of being reviewed from end to end. It does not replace the workshop count: it goes alongside it and, above all, ahead of it, because the empty slot is seen when it appears and not two hours later. And when everything is in its place, which is nearly always, it says nothing: a full board is the good state, and that is exactly what this picture shows.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS know who took the tool?
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. What it sees is the board: a slot that was full and is now empty, and the time it went that way. That is enough to open the video at the exact minute, and the person who watches it and decides what to do is somebody at the facility, not the camera. Nor does it classify or predict anyone: it does not say who might take one.
Do we need a tag or a chip on every tool?
No. It looks at the board exactly as it already is: every tool has its slot and its painted outline, and that is precisely what makes a gap visible from across the room. The workshop already has that order; the only thing added is a camera watching it all the time instead of a person checking it twice a day. If the board changes — a tool is added, a row is rearranged — the reference is set again and that is it.
What about the tools that aren't on the board, the ones in the drawers?
The camera can only answer for what it sees. The board is in plain view and that is why it can be checked at a glance; what is inside a closed drawer is not seen, is not counted, and saying otherwise would be promising something we do not do. If the facility wants those included, the way to do it is to have them inside the frame at counting time: an open tray on the bench is counted just as well as the board.
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.
- The rule gets built
- It goes to every camera
- Published, it watches alone
- And then it fires
Next step
When does a bad review get decided?
15 cases: 11 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.
Who is watching a whole quay at three in the morning?
14 cases: 13 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
A whole afternoon in front of a screennow fits into one written sentence.
The video has not changed: it is all still there, in the same place. What has changed is that you can ask it questions, and the answer comes with its camera and its time.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.