How will facial recognition work in Smart Cities?
Digital transformation is the main innovation engine of contemporary cities , in an accelerated race to become what Smart Cities or smart cities will be , guided by the values of sustainability, mobility and connectivity.
And, ultimately, to achieve this goal, the key is in the development of data-driven technologies , including facial recognition.
This technology is essential in security systems, but also to improve and streamline city management.
At ActionsDATA we are experts in data management and storage and we consider it essential to know the latest data-based technologies in detail. Therefore, today in our blog we analyze how facial recognition will be used in Smart Cities .
How will facial recognition work in Smart Cities?
Face recognition in the Smart Cities will be key in three areas: preserving public safety , the application of the law and to optimize the productivity of the government s home is .
Next, we analyze some of the applications that will be more frequent.
Search for missing persons
The technologies related to facial recognition and allow you to create databases with the faces of people. This allows the data from these image banks to be crossed with the photographs obtained from security cameras installed on the streets or in buildings and thus find missing children, victims of human trafficking or sick individuals who have been lost.
To get an idea of how this technology would work, let’s think of a family in which one of its members disappears. They could hand over photos of the missing person to the police. The security agents in their systems and introduce pod laugh test this s photos with video images obtained from cameras in the city, with the help of you cnologías video analysis.
This would allow obtaining information on the latest movements of this person, which is key for this type of investigation. In addition, it would enable an alert system to be activated, which would indicate to the security forces if a camera captures images of the wanted individual.
Access control to secure areas
It is an application with which many people are already becoming familiar with their phones with facial recognition. And, in the same way that we have to show our face to the camera of our mobile phone so that it allows us to access our data, we would have to do it in building access cameras. In fact, it is a technology that is already being implemented in many places and will be key to protecting strategic buildings , such as water reservoirs, power plants or command centers.
Protection of public events
Unfortunately, we all have in mind several terrorist acts that have occurred at local parties, concerts or sporting events. Also accidents due to stampedes in places where the capacity limits had been far exceeded.
Facial recognition can help in Smart Cities to guarantee that only previously authorized people access this type of event. In this way, it will be controlled that there are no excessive capacity and that unknown people access without prior authorization.
Facial recognition is here
The facial recognition is already a very important part of our daily lives, in our mobile phones, as already mentioned, but we also see at some airports immigration management and access control in high security establishments.
And, although there are other biometric scanning technologies such as the iris scanner or the fingerprint scanner, these technologies work better for individual identification. However, for the identification of individuals in large groups of people, facial recognition is more functional.
In short, the road to the conversion of cities in Smart Cities has already started and a good example is the use of facial recognition, but in the future their implantac i ng will be much higher, so that will revolutionize the cities to limits we still can’t imagine.
