Embedded vision can literally save your life. But this sophisticated technology that marries embedded systems and computer vision is just beginning to scratch the surface of its true potential.
Embedded Vision Is Everywhere…If You Know Where To Look
Embedded vision can literally save your life. But this sophisticated technology that marries embedded systems and computer vision is just beginning to scratch the surface of its true potential.
In the algorithm-rich world of embedded vision, faces, gestures and behaviours can be detected and interpreted by electronic systems, and powerful microprocessors can combine with advanced machine vision to make sense of images. Endowed with the gift of embedded vision, newly sighted machines can perform astounding feats of visual interpretation.
True, the embedded vision space is still small at present. Even in the established markets of automotive, industrial automation, physical security and business intelligence, embedded vision last year attained a global penetration rate of just 11 percent of the total addressable market. And by 2018, levels will inch up to only 12 percent.
Why Safe Cities Are Not Necessarily Smart Cities
The terms “safe city” and “smart city” are often used interchangeably. However, the two concepts differ dramatically in their scope, and a safe city is not necessarily a smart city – and vice versa.
Smart cities cover broad topics such as transport, energy, physical infrastructure and many other smart terms, including smart metering, smart street lighting, as well as traffic management and air-quality monitoring, to name a few.
Safe cities, however, have a more concise focus, concerned only with the security, safety and operations of the city to protect its physical assets and citizens. The safe city concept revolves around multi-agency collaboration using a consolidated information technology (IT) platform that integrates public safety information obtained through sensors, such as video surveillance, physical access control, gunshot detection and CBRNE (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, explosive).