Security Firm Proposes Making Dubai The World’s Safest Smart City Using Ground-Breaking AI technology At Future Cities Show

A security organisation will present futuristic artificial intelligence camera and sensor technology that sees, smells and listens for potential problems, at the Future Cities Show in Dubai on April 10, 2018 in a push to make Dubai the world’s safest smart city.

The advanced and adaptable technology of Brazil-headquartered, Polsec, which is already operating in some Brazilian locations and is currently being tested by India in Mumbai, Delhi and Agra, uses tiny micro sensor units placed throughout public areas.

Polsec’s bio-behaviour metrics can identify and track even fully-covered people by the way they walk and can also be used to identify unusual human behaviour. For example, the movement sensors can perform tasks such as learning how many people cross a street every day at a particular hour in order to then detect and report if this figure suddenly surges. It can also be used to detect and report unusual traffic situations and even parking violations.

The ‘bionic-ear’ voice recognition facility can be programmed to listen for specific words, such as ‘help’ or ‘police’ and send an immediate report. In addition, the sensors can listen for and pinpoint an individual’s voice and are capable of searching for the attributes of any unknown person, such as gender, ethnicity and even accents and dialects.

The ‘smell’ sensors have a variety of uses, such as the ability to effectively monitor the air for pollution or other potentially dangerous environmental factors over a wide area.

Polsec’s Iris 360-degree lens can even blink to clean dust from the lens, which is particularly useful in desert conditions. In environmental terms, the ‘digital eyes’ can also be used to capture the presence of people and increase or reduce the brightness according to necessity, saving electricity and bulb lifetime.

Renato Werner, Polsec’s CEO, explained why the organisation sees Dubai as the ideal city to embrace the technology on a large scale: “The Dubai Government has been focused on ensuring the city is a regional leader when it comes to implementing Smart City technology.

“Synonymous globally with being a trailblazing city in many engineering and technological fields, this is a chance for the Dubai to ensure no crimes go unpunished and it can easily claim to be the smartest safe city, even as it continues to expand and its population increases.