In response to the Boston marathon bombings of a year ago, the Boston Police Force is teaming up with a Texas- based firm, BRS Labs, who has their hands in behavioral recognition. The plan is to install CCTV systems that utilize smart technology to identify abnormalities. These differ from normal CCTV Systems in that the traditional approach is to merely record the landscape and occurrences whereas the new cameras will record the occurrences and analyze the data it records. After analyzing, the CCTV System can then alert its administrator to any abnormalities. This is a trend that we could see in New York City CCTV Systems and New York CCTV Systems in the near future.
The technology advanced by BRS Labs is set to revolutionize how we look at data sets. No longer will our cities need security guards to sit in a backroom and monitor television screens around the clock. We have the capabilities to be alerted when something goes awry rather than having to keep a keen eye on the screen 24/7. The technology is already being used in Boston and design plans are being drawn for Chicago, Washington and one can only assume it is a matter of time before New York City CCTV Systems and New York CCTV Systems have these features as well.
The CCTV Systems are completely autonomous and check for countless number of abnormalities in any given environment. It adapts to learn the environment and what is considered out of place. A few of the things that this CCTV System has the capabilities to check for include a car that is driving the wrong way in a parking garage, somebody poking around the back of the a building where there usually is no foot traffic or someone carrying a bag that is overweight and could be holding explosives. All of this takes place without human programming or analysis.
Of course this raises questions about privacy rights. Especially in the aftermath of the NSA’s repulsive disregard for human privacy in monitoring millions of Americans personal phone calls, one must wonder how far is too far. This system, however, is being justified on the grounds that CCTV systems are already ubiquitous and we might as well make them more functional. And the notion that it was CCTV systems that captured images of the Boston marathon bombers in the first place.
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http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/17/creepy-autonomous-surveillance-network-watches-all-of-boston/