CAM-134

A child in a marked-off area

The school's plant and store room, in half-light: the pipes overhead, the boiler unit at the back, the cleaners' mop bucket and a rack full of footballs, cones and hoops. The corridor door is open. In the middle of the room, wearing his school bag, is a child on his own. IRIS sees two things: where the area the school drew is, and that somebody is inside it.

CAM-134 · PLANT & STORE ROOM · CHILD IN MARKED ZONE

What IRIS understands

What it recognises in this scene

child inside the area
boiler unit
door left open
equipment store
cleaners' bucket

What this camera measures

An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.

1 min 20 sinside the area for
1people inside
0allowed at this hour
0adults in view
1doors standing open
10:47time 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.

somebody enters one of the areas the school has marked as «nobody in here alone» and stays inside

Then

alert the caretaker and the teacher on duty with the camera and the area
say how many people are inside and since when
log the time, so the school can see whether that door is often left open

The instruction that set it up«Tell me if anyone goes into the boiler room or the equipment store — nobody is in there on their own.»

What changes

What changes for the school team

Every school has places that are not dangerous for any exotic reason: they are dangerous because a child has no business being in there alone. The boiler room, the equipment store, a service stairwell, the gap behind the building. The school draws the area on the image and no clever sentence is needed: there is an area and there is somebody in it. The alert arrives while the child is there, not when someone notices he is missing from class. And often what it really shows is something else: that this door is left open far more than it should be.

What people usually ask

Who decides which areas these are?

The school, always. You draw the area on the image and set the hours: it can be closed all day, only during break, or only outside teaching hours. We do not decide which part of a school is a marked area, because every building is different and the school's own team knows it. A line and a time band, and that is it. And there are places where no area is drawn because there is no camera and there never will be: classrooms, toilets and changing rooms.

Does the alert identify the child who went in?

No. IRIS does not identify any minor: it does not recognise faces, it does not compare them against any database and it does not store who anyone is. The alert says there is a person inside that area and for how long, and that is already enough to go and look. It cannot be used — and must not be used — to open a disciplinary report on a child: whoever arrives sees who it is and decides what to do.

What if it is the caretaker or someone from maintenance?

Then the alert is closed as soon as somebody looks at it, which is what happens most of the time in these areas. It can be tuned by schedule — the store closed during break and open in the afternoon — so the rule does not fire while the people who are meant to be working are working. What we do not do is tell people apart by who they are: the rule is the area and the hour, and the rest is checked by whoever gets there.

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The real interface, step by step

You set the rule once. IRIS applies it every time.

You will see a summary of the interface, played step by step and hands-free. Each round starts with another case. The complete tool does not fit in a demo.