CAM-89

Bikes and scooters through the gates

A bicycle and two scooters cross the line of ticket gates among the passengers walking in. One of the scooters goes through with its rider still on it.

CAM-89 · GATES · BIKES / SCOOTERS

What IRIS is

IRIS keeps watch over the platform for you.

IRIS looks at the cameras you already have on platforms, gates and entrances and understands what's happening: an overcrowded platform, someone falling onto the tracks, a fight or a forced gate. When something important happens, it alerts you; and whatever can be counted, it counts. All day long, with no one watching a screen.

You tell it what you need to watch, and IRIS does it.

Here, for example, IRIS spots the moment a bike or scooter crosses the gates, even with the rider still on it, and logs it with the time and the camera that caught it. That tells you how many times a day it happens and which gate sees the most. With that number you decide whether to add bike parking, mark the floor, or put someone on that gate, and next month you check if it dropped.

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What IRIS understands

What it recognises in this scene

bicycle
scooter
line of ticket gates

The rule

You decide once. IRIS applies it always.

a bicycle or a scooter crosses the line of ticket gates

And alsoit is a time band in which the station does not allow them

Then

alert the concourse staff, who are the ones who speak to the passenger
keep the clip in case there is a bump or a fall afterwards
add it to the day's count, by gate and by hour

The instruction that set it up«Tell me if bikes or scooters come in through the gates, and how many go through each day.»

What changes

What changes for whoever runs the station

Quarter to eight, rush hour in the concourse, and a scooter crosses the line of gates with its rider still on it. What collides here is not a scooter and a wall: it is a scooter and a person with a suitcase who has not seen it. The station manager knows it happens, but when he has to decide where to put a bike rack, where to paint the floor or whether that entrance needs somebody standing there, he has no number: he has the feeling that “a lot of them get through”. With IRIS, after a month, he has how many come in, through which gate and at what time. You can make a decision with that; with a feeling, you cannot.

What people usually ask

Can it tell a scooter from a wheeled suitcase or a trolley?

Yes, they are different objects and they look different: the suitcase trails behind a person at hand height, while the scooter is underneath, with bigger wheels and sometimes with someone standing on it. In a station this matters because suitcases are half of what comes through that door: if the rule got it wrong there, it would alert a hundred times a day and nobody would leave it on. It is checked against the camera itself before being signed off.

Who decides whether they are allowed in?

The station, with its own rules — and often with different hours: allowed outside the rush hour, not allowed during it. IRIS has no opinion on that; you tell it which time band applies and it detects inside that band. If the rule changes tomorrow, you change the band and that is it: nothing else has to be touched.

Is it for fining people who come in with a scooter?

No, and it could not: IRIS identifies nobody and recognises no faces, so there is nobody to fine. What it sees is an object — a bike, a scooter — crossing a place. It is good for two useful things: letting somebody in the concourse walk over and have a word at the time, and letting the station know, after a few weeks, where and when it happens, so decisions are made with data instead of arguments over anecdotes.

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