Smart City Updates
Australian cities test world’s first city surveillance system
Australian cities are going to trial for the first time, the ‘next generation security’ systems having features like live video with advanced real-time analytics for a level of surveillance impossible with current technology. It is being claimed as a considerable improvement on current video surveillance and facial recognition system. It is being implemented by the ICT vendor NEC Australia in partnership with Silicon Valley vision analytics startup CrowdOptic. NEC mentioned the technology as a “ground-breaking intelligent live video streaming security system enabled by real-time analysis of footage captured from fixed cameras and mobile camera sensors in body cams, smartphones, and drones. ”It also states, “NEC’s facial recognition technology, when combined with CrowdOptic’s Intelligent Livestreaming and Engagement Geometry, ushers in a new era of public safety. Customers can configure systems to use cameras with CrowdOptic software that capture video streamed to servers running NEC’s facial recognition software.”
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