Smart in-Car Video System for Law Enforcers

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Law enforcers often need real-time data while they patrol the streets in the police vehicle. A new dashcam designed to use artificial intelligence to identify everything from people and vehicles to guns was unveiled recently. COBAN Technologies, which specializes in body-worn cameras and in-car video solutions for law enforcement, announced that its FOCUS H1 police dash cams are using the NVIDIA Metropolis intelligent video analytics platform to identify vehicles and other objects in real time.

Metropolis uses deep learning to transform how video is captured, inspected and analyzed to enhance public safety, traffic, city services and more.

An NVIDIA Jetson AI supercomputer on a module powers the police dash cam system for low-latency inferencing for law enforcement tasks. This includes finding vehicles, automatically identifying vehicle makes and models, reading license plates and driver’s licenses for officers, and monitoring the health and safety of those taken into custody, according to Coban’s announcement in prenewswire.com.

Various applications capable of vehicle and object identification, special monitoring and behavioral analysis will support the new in-car video system.

“The FOCUS H1 provides intelligence to the mobile video capture platform, which translates into safer communities and enhanced law enforcement efficiencies. The combination of COBAN and NVIDIA technologies creates simplicity and agility through today’s latest deep learning, GPU computing and graphics technologies. Now police vehicles can perform targeted tasks without the need for mass data collection or a reliance on constrained mobile data networks,” said Brian Chang, founder of COBAN Technologies.