Digital transformation is the main driver of innovation in contemporary cities , in an accelerated race to become what Smart Cities will be , guided by the values of sustainability, mobility and connectivity.
And, ultimately, to achieve this goal, the key lies in the development of data-based technologies , including facial recognition.
This technology is essential in security systems, but also to improve and streamline the management of cities.
At Actions DATA we are experts in data management and storage and we consider it essential to know in detail the latest data-based technologies. For this reason, today in our blog we analyze how facial recognition will be used in Smart Cities.
How will facial recognition work in Smart Cities?
Facial recognition in Smart Cities will be key in three areas: preserving public safety , law enforcement , and optimizing the productivity of local governments .
Technologies related to facial recognition already allow the creation of databases with people’s faces. This allows the data of these image banks to be crossed with the photographs obtained from security cameras installed in the streets or in buildings and thus find missing children, victims of human trafficking or sick individuals who have been lost.
Facial recognition technology
To get an idea of how this technology would work, let’s think of a family in which one of its members disappears. These could deliver photos of the missing person to the police. Security agents would enter it into their systems and would be able to check these photos against video images obtained from cameras around the city, with the help of video analysis technologies.
This would allow obtaining information about the last movements of this person, which is key for this type of investigation. In addition, it would allow 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 through their mobile 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 access cameras to buildings. 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.
How will facial recognition work in Smart Cities?
Digital transformation is the main driver of innovation in contemporary cities , in an accelerated race to become what Smart Cities will be , guided by the values of sustainability, mobility and connectivity.
And, ultimately, to achieve this goal, the key lies in the development of data-based technologies , including facial recognition.
This technology is essential in security systems, but also to improve and streamline the management of cities.
At Actions DATA we are experts in data management and storage and we consider it essential to know in detail the latest data-based technologies. For this reason, today in our blog we analyze how facial recognition will be used in Smart Cities .
How will facial recognition work in Smart Cities?
Facial recognition in Smart Cities will be key in three areas: preserving public safety , law enforcement , and optimizing the productivity of local governments .
Next, we analyze some of the applications that will be more frequent.
Search for missing persons
Technologies related to facial recognition already allow the creation of databases with people’s faces. This allows the data of these image banks to be crossed with the photographs obtained from security cameras installed in 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. These could deliver photos of the missing person to the police. Security agents would enter it into their systems and would be able to check these photos against video images obtained from cameras around the city, with the help of video analysis technologies.
This would allow obtaining information about the last movements of this person, which is key for this type of investigation. In addition, it would allow 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 through their mobile 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 access cameras to buildings. 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 our memory various 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 will be able to 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 persons access without prior authorization.
Facial recognition is here
Facial recognition is already a very important part of our daily lives, in our mobile phones, as we already mentioned, but we also see it in some airports for immigration management and also for access control in high security establishments.
And it is that, 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 path towards the conversion of cities into Smart Cities has already begun and a good example is the use of facial recognition, but in the future its implementation will be much greater, so that it will revolutionize cities to limits that we still cannot imagine.
