Smart city spending climbs along with deep reservations by residents
Citizen protests and lawsuits notwithstanding, municipalities around the world are rushing to install surveillance systems marketed as smart city technology….
Surveillance
Surveillance is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people for the purpose of influencing, managing, directing, or protecting. It is sometimes done in a surreptitious manner and it most usually refers to observation of individuals or groups by government organizations. Find surveillance solutions here.
Global sales of video surveillance equipment projected to surpass $20 billion this year
Nothing is slowing the growth of video surveillance technology. Not spotty economic growth around the globe, or even the ongoing…
Autonomous robot uses facial recognition to track construction site progress
British company Casta Spes Technologies (CST) has created Ziva, an autonomous two-wheeled robot that uses biometric facial recognition technology for…
New York MTA sued over alleged use of biometric surveillance tech in subway
New York privacy watchdog the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP) filed a lawsuit against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) on…
Biometrics research notes: surveillance and security drive 3D sensors, image and facial recognition markets
Biometric facial recognition generated $4.51 billion in 2018, and will grow at a 12.5 percent CAGR to reach a market…
UK’s CCTV commissioner pleads for AI, biometric ethical legal guidance
Standard CCTV surveillance cameras in the U.K. now come equipped with facial recognition technology, implementation which has raised a number…
NtechLab to provide facial recognition for smart cities through Rostelecom subsidiary partnership
Rostelecom Group subsidiary Netris and NtechLab have agreed to a partnership to add face recognition to cameras deployed to Netris’…
Startup Sensing Feeling offers video emotion analysis without facial recognition
A UK startup is using computer vision with facial and body language analytics to assess the emotions of people and…
Academic research into biometrics included in Scottish Parliament investigation of policing
A criminologist from Northumbria University researching how biometric technologies are used in law enforcement and their impact on individuals has…
IPVM opens dedicated video testing facility to research facial recognition and other technologies
IPVM has opened a 12,000 square foot facility to expand its research and teaching capabilities with testing of video surveillance…
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