Smart Cameras Blog

From Public Eye:

A nice article on the emerging role of smart cameras by transit agencies from the New York Times. It notes that the goal is to use smart cameras to help prevent crime, instead of the traditional use of cameras as an after the fact investigative tool. However:

The National Transit Institute, a federally funded training and research organization at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., has studied the new technologies, but Christopher A. Kozub, the associate director for safety and security programs, cautioned that few have been proved to be fail-safe. “The application of smart technology is only in its embryonic stages,” he said. “The potential is there, but variables like temperature conditions, the passenger environment and rush-hour influxes are all very hard to program into these systems.”

The article also provides the number of surveillance cameras in use for several transit agencies.

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