The Ministry of the Interior has awarded the public contract for algorithmic video surveillance for the Paris Olympic Games (July 26-August 11) to four companies, for a total amount of 8 million euros.
Identify risk events
Authorized by the 2023 Olympic law, the so-called “smart” cameras allow, in particular, to report “crowd movements”, suspicious “fire starts” or “the presence of a person in a prohibited area”. Algorithms are fed images from cameras and drones to identify these “potentially risky events.”
Each of the four lots awarded – each valued at a maximum amount of 2 million euros – consists of “the supply of an algorithmic solution”, its installation and disassembly, the training of “field players” and the support in its implementation, the award is required. Notice published on Friday.
Four companies affected
The marches ont été attribués à Wintics (based in Paris), Videtics (située dans la technopôle de Sophia-Antipolis près de Nice), Orange Business (Seine-Saint-Denis) et au groupe français Chapsvision, spécialiste de l’analyse de données (Upper Seine). Chapsvision is a French alternative solution to the American giant Palantir, which supplies its technologies to numerous intelligence services.
Events under surveillance must be detected without resorting to facial recognition or biometric techniques, a government commitment.
According to an investigation by the research site Disclose published in November, French law enforcement agencies “secretly” acquired, in 2015, video surveillance image analysis software from the Israeli company Briefcam, which specializes in the development of software intended for algorithmic video surveillance and today owned by the Japanese giant Canon.
Source: BFM TV
