Robot to Disarm Suspects at Airports
The Chinese AnBot robot was introduced to a terminal in one of China’s busiest airports, Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport, to help with security checks...
New Video Analytics Technology for Challenging Conditions
A new video analytic technology launched recently is suitable for real-world scenarios where monitoring conditions are challenging.
Face Recognition video analytic is ideally suited...
Uber Uses Selfies for Enhancing Security
Uber ride-share services has been rolling out a new security measure tested in Atlanta and a few other cities in the US — using...
New Security Scanning Method under Development
Researchers from North Carolina State University have used computer models to demonstrate the possibility of a low-cost security imaging device that makes use of...
Growing Role of Video Analytics at the Security and Marketing Sectors
The role of video analytics in the security and law enforcement fields has been growing, and its functions have expanded to traffic control and...
National Policy on Biometric Applications Declared in Israel
The national policy on biometric applications was declared in Israel this week. The policy enables the balanced use of biometric applications and their advantages...
AUS&R 2016 – Great Interest in Autonomous Systems Field
AUS&R 2016 focused the attention to the unmanned systems role both in the battlefield and in the homeland security sphere.
The convention was a remarkable...
After Great Anticipation: The AUS&R 2016 Convention Has Begun
Two hours ago the AUS&R convention, hosted by iHLS has begun. The annual convention, the fourth and biggest of it’s kind, will focus on...
New Video Monitoring and Security Solutions for Smart Cities
Three new Video Management Platform (VMP) models for video security and monitoring purposes were introduced by Hitachi Insight Group. The models combine virtualized compute...
The Future of Tech Support and Deliveries
Art Pregler, head of AT&T’s drone program and serves as director of national mobility systems, told GeekWire in an interview: “AT&T is going to...
Nuclear Detection at a Competetive Price
A DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) program aimed at preventing nuclear threats was successfully demonstrated as part of DARPA’s SIGMA program. SIGMA was...
High Potential for Audio Analytics in the Security Field
Audio analytics capabilities are increasing right alongside the more commonly used video analytics. Integrators who ignore audio are missing an opportunity to create better...
The Future of Navigation Systems?
Drones offer the possibility of reaching the world’s less accessible corners. "What3words" makes mapping, inspecting and delivering to those corners easier by giving them...
Video Analytics to Manage Crowd Control in Train Stations
‘Intelligent video analytics’ were deployed by the Indian Railways in order to assess crowd density at major railway stations and initiate crowd control measures...
Security Risks in Smartphone-Vehicle Interface
Many of today’s automobiles leave the factory with secret passengers: prototype software features that are disabled but can be unlocked by clever drivers.
In what...
IoT Technologies Won the Olympic Games
The 2016 Olympics recently concluded were the most digitally connected Olympics ever. Numerous of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies were applied during the games...
Dozens of Sensors Are Installed in Urban Space
The City of Chicago is teaming up with the University of Chicago in a multi-million dollar effort to improve quality of life in the...
Gulls Flight Strategies to Help UAV Navigation?
Learning from gulls can inform us on UAV flight path planning.
Researches looked at how gulls use the rising air generated by buildings to fly...
What Privacy Implications for the New Drone Rules?
The US Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) new regulations, that went into effect on August 29 for routine non-recreational use of drones, deal mainly with...
The Future of Security, Robots?
Robots might be the next trend for private security. For the moment, the robots are essentially designed to patrol a certain area. They've got...
Drone’s Use to Regulate Back to School Traffic
Drones can supply real time information on routes traffic jams, providing a “bird's eye view” for surveillance and improving city traffic information and management.
The...
New Uses for Video Analytics
Video analytics is the process of extracting information, meaning, and insights from video footage. Whereas image analytics looks at a still image and seeks...
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Fighter Jet Without a Runway? X-BAT Makes It Real
A new unmanned vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) fighter platform has been revealed, designed to operate from ships, islands, and austere locations while carrying...
