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title: Product & Capabilities
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createdAt: 2025-04-29T14:29:54.322Z
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IRIS+™ is an innovative AI-powered video analytics platform that employs a highly accurate and comprehensive set of algorithms developed and tailored specifically to surveillance scenarios. These advanced algorithms, based on deep learning, allow IRIS+ to execute the automatic classification of objects with the highest precision.
The IRIS+ algorithms transform any video stream into a highly intelligent alarming device.
# Scalable IoT architecture
IRIS+™ is built for immense scaling. Start with just a few cameras. Easily scale to hundreds of thousands of cameras in one and the same system. Our cloud is just that — countless cameras connected in one high-security multi-tenant system.
The system is separated into two main parts, *Core *and *Edge*.
### IRIS+™ Edge
The *Edge* is the video analytics processing unit of the system, or "client" if you want. The *Edge *requires a high-bandwidth connection to every camera it processes. It is built to handle low-bandwidth connections to the *Core* and is also resilient to temporary connection outages. Each *Edge *device in the system attaches to the *Core* system, updating its configuration and sending alarms, health information, metadata, and other metrics continuously.
IRIS+™ Edge can be deployed flexibly and scaled both up (larger machines) or out (more machines) to handle any number of cameras. The main deployment options are:
- IRIS+* Edge Appliance* (e.g. Irisity Edge 10): A pre-configured compact hardware that processes a set number of video streams. This appliance is typically co-deployed with a camera system at the surveillance site. An IRIS+ Edge Appliance can typically process around 10 cameras.
- IRIS+* Custom Edge*: The IRIS+ Edge software installed on custom or virtualized hardware. The hardware is typically deployed either on-site or in a centralized location, such as a server room or a private data center.
### IRIS+™ Core
The *Core* is the central system, "server" if you want, where all configuration and information of the system is stored. IRIS+ Core performs all central management and higher-level processing of metadata and alarms for advanced video analysis.
IRIS+ Core can be run cloud-hosted by Irisity in a multi-tenant configuration or hosted by the customer.
- IRIS+* Cloud*: A centralized, multi-tenant, high-availability installation completely managed by Irisity. The deployment is run on top of Google cloud platform for optimal availability and security. Each *Edge* connected to the IRIS+ Cloud requires an internet connection.
### Architecture overview
Below the different deployment options are shown with IRIS+ Custom Core to the left and IRIS+ Cloud to the right. Note that the Custom Core option also supports both multiple Edges and multi-tenant configurations.
## IRIS+™ Packages and tiers
IRIS+ Central Monitoring is offered in one base package, with optional add-ons:
| **Summary** | ### IRIS+ CM |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------- |
| **Automatic calibration** | **✔** |
| **Perimeter intrusion detection - moving in an area** | **✔** |
| **Loitering** | **✔** |
| **Grouping** | **✔** |
| **Line crossing** | **✔** |
| **Statistics and exports** | **✔** |
| **Algorithm accuracy guarantee** | **✔** |
| **Anonymization** | Contact Sales |
| **Smoke & fire** | Contact Sales |
| **Stopped vehicle** | Contact Sales |
| **Unattended object** | Contact Sales |
| **Crowd analysis** | Contact Sales |
| **Statistics and metrics**
*People statistics*
*Traffic statistics* | Contact Sales |
# Automatic calibration
The automatic calibration functionality is part of the IRIS+ strategy to be able to deploy advanced video analytics with minimal configuration - "plug & play".
The functionality will automatically, by classifying people and vehicles in the view, correctly determine the correct pixels per meter metric for every pixel of the camera image. This, in turn, leads to very accurate classifications and alarming, as well as very low false alarm rates.
For the few cases where there is no movement to feed the automatic calibration, the user can provide a manual calibration.
# Real-time detections & alerts
### Motion and loitering
✔Included
Detects objects moving, loitering in specified zones
The IRIS+™ moving in an area rule triggers alarms when an object is detected moving in the rule zone.
**Crossing a line**
✔Included
Detects objects crossing a virtual fence in a set direction
The IRIS+™ Crossing a line rule triggers alarms when a virtual fence or line is crossed. It supports crossing in one or both directions as well as triggering only when the object is moving faster than a defined speed threshold.
### Stopped vehicle
Detects vehicles and motorcycles stopped in the rule zone for at least the defined amount of time.
### Grouping
✔Included
Detects a configurable number of people close to each other in a predefined area for longer than a set period of time
### Counterflow traffic
Detects traffic traveling against the normal flow of traffic.
IRIS+™ Counterflow traffic triggers alarms when a vehicle is detected crossing a line against the normal flow of traffic.
### Smoke & fire
Detection of smoke and fires using ordinary color cameras
Smoke and fire detection will detect flames or smoke visible in the view of the camera, based on a combination of techniques. It requires the use of an optical color camera, and will not work using grayscale or thermal video streams.
### Anonymization
Protects integrity by de-identifying people in live and recorded video
IRIS+™ Anonymization can complement any other IRIS+ algorithm and will securely anonymize any person in view of the camera, indoors and outdoors. It is built using Irisity’s unique, patented technology, and combines motion- and image-based human recognition techniques to make sure no person can be identified in the camera view. It offers multiple methods of de-identification including adaptive pixelization, blurring, and white masking.