It all went down like this: A group of children had arrived at the state Capitol building in Austin, TX for a field trip. Like hundreds of other kids who make the trip each week, they had all been pre-screened to avoid going through security.
On this particular trip, though, something was amiss. An adult who was not a teacher entered the picture. The video picked him up trying to blend in with the group.
However, the smart software crunched through the patterns of dozens of people in the frame and recognized that he didn’t fit in with the crowd. It then sent out an alert preventing a potential crime in the process.
It is no wonder San Francisco’s transit agency went with AISight last March. The $2.2 million contract covers 12 train stations. No big deal, right? Think again.
Solving the math alone shows the type of challenges the BRS technology can handle. San Francisco needs all 22 cameras at each location to track 150 objects “continuously” at the same time.
And this is the part that just blows my mind…
The contract actually says the system must “process the video imagery data similar to the cognitive process” of the human brain.
No problem, BRS execs say. AISight learns much the way people do.
How does it work? The system starts with video streams from standard security cameras. Within days, it learns what is ‘normal’ within its field of view.
It does so by seeing and tracking subjects. It defines appearances and other details, then classifies them. AIsight then learns and can quickly recall what behavior is “normal” and what is not.
When something doesn’t fit, the system sends an alert for a person to check it out.
Shades of 1984?…. Not Exactly
But let me clear up one key point. This is not “spy” software. BRS doesn’t look for license plates or try to identify people’s faces.
That’s important because many people in this country worry about the implications of Big Brother watching them.
BRS Labs says it doesn’t invade people’s privacy and has clients sign statements saying they won’t do so, either.
Then again, AIsight doesn’t look for people; it scans for patterns of behavior.
To date, the firm has raised some $16 million in private funding, though none has so far come from venture capital. It has a number of deals in the works in the United States and Latin America.
And CEO Ray Davis has just the background I like to see at a startup.
He launched his first venture at the ripe old age of 17 and got ink in Money magazine. He has founded eight companies with at least one going public and has written 20 books on high tech.
In my mind, it’s firms like BRS Labs that give us a good reason to be optimistic about America’s future. This unique, cutting-edge tech was grown right here in the good old USA.
BRS has several patents to its credit. That not only gives the firm barriers to entry; it also shows that great ideas remain in our nation’s DNA.
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