Artificial intelligence for more security in the subway. It is the commitment of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York, the public company in charge of the public transport administration of the city. In fact, he is planning to use cameras with AI to predict crimes and other dangerous behaviors in the Metro, he explained at a meeting broadcast by the US media The Verge.
As the MTA security manager, Michael Kemper, said during this, the company “studies and tests a technology such as AI to detect possible problems or problematic behavior on our metropolitan docks.”
No facial recognition
At the moment, the MTA project is in its beginnings, the company that currently works with technology companies to study “that could work in the subway.” Information on how AI or the types of behavior that cameras will be responsible for detecting.
However, a MTA spokesman specified, with the Gothamist site, that the system used would not be based on facial recognition. “The technology studied by MTA is designed to identify behavior, not people,” he said.
Believing that “ai is the future,” as Michael Kemper said, the MTA already exploits this technology for other purposes. For example, use AI surveillance software to identify scammers in the subway. He also tried an AI to detect weapons in the subway last year. A test that was not a success.
The use of AI to predict dangerous behavior is also part of the objective of responding to the concerns of security users, after several assaults in the subway in recent years, with certain people who have even been pushed on the tracks.
Source: BFM TV
