CAM-136
The court with no adult in it
Break time in a big playground: the main court full of children playing, the tables and the play area at the back, the building on the right. It is an ordinary playground at an ordinary hour. Inside the court — the zone the school has marked — there is not one adult: the two people sitting down are on the bench at the far end, outside the zone. IRIS does not know who anyone is. It tells an adult from a child by size and clothing, counts how many are inside and reports that somebody is missing there.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- playground zone with no adult inside
- children playing in the zone
- game in play
- play area at the back
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 148Children inside the zone
- 0Adults inside the zone
- 2Adults the school's own rota asks for
- 5 minZone uncovered for
- 3 / 4Playground zones with somebody in them
- 11:12Time 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.
If
the playground zone the school has marked is left with no adult inside for longer than the school has set
Then
- alert the staff room and the deputy head, naming the zone that has been left uncovered
- say how many children are inside that zone at that moment
- log the time, to see whether the gap keeps happening at the same one
The instruction that set it up«Tell me when the playground court is left with no adult in it for more than two minutes.»
What changes
What changes for the school team
Nobody opens that gap on purpose. A shift that overlaps badly, someone who has to go in with a child who has fallen, a change of period: five minutes in which no adult is left in that part of the playground. Today nobody sees it until something happens, and then the awkward question — who was on duty? — arrives late and at the worst possible moment. IRIS looks at the zone, not at people: it looks at whether somebody is covering it and reports the gap while it lasts, which is when you can still close it by sending someone. This is a problem of how the rota is organised, and it is fixed with information, not with blame. Which is why you talk it through with the whole teaching staff before installing it, not afterwards.
What people usually ask
Is this a way of keeping tabs on the teachers?
No, and that deserves to be said plainly. IRIS identifies nobody: it tells an adult from a child by size and clothing, and that is where it stops. It does not know who that person is, it does not record who was on which shift, it does not count anybody's hours and it does not assess anybody's work. What it looks at is the zone: whether somebody is covering it or not. A playground with no adult is a fault in how the rota is organised, not in a person, and the conversation it opens is with the whole teaching staff, before anything is installed.
Does IRIS recognise the children in the playground?
No. IRIS does not identify any minor: it does not recognise faces, it does not compare them against any database, it does not store who anyone is and it keeps no record on any pupil. It counts bodies inside a zone and tells an adult's size from a child's; that is all it needs in order to know somebody is missing there. It cannot be used to write up a child, because it does not know who it would be talking about.
What if the adult is right then dealing with a child who has fallen over?
Then that is exactly what the alert is telling you: nobody is left in that zone because whoever was there had to deal with something else. The alert does not say anyone is doing a bad job; it says there is an uncovered zone right now. With that, the deputy head can send somebody else for those five minutes, which is all that was needed. And how long is too long, which zones are marked and who gets the alert is decided by the school, not by IRIS.
A different case every time
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.
- Four cameras at once
- Each understands its own view
- The numbers climb by themselves
Next step
Who is watching when the load swings over somebody?
11 cases: 9 raise an alert when something happens and 2 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
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.
And the best part
What happens in the small hoursdoes not have to wait for the morning report.
IRIS understands it there and then and tells whoever is on call, with the camera and the time. The next day there is nothing to reconstruct: it is already written down.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.