Eye in the sky: Artificial intelligence keeping watch over Texas cities
by Marvin Hurst / KENS 5
Posted on May 17, 2013 at 10:15 PM
Updated today at 6:13 PM
SAN ANTONIO -- Video surveillance is paying off for the San Antonio Police Department. In fact, Chief William McManus is practically beaming about the Southwest Texas Fusion Center at the city's Public Safety Headquarters.
The state-of-the-art monitoring system allows law enforcement agencies across South Texas to share vital information to help fight crime. They have the ability to plug into the IP address of any surveillance system in the city.
"If there's an incident, it will actually allow us to work that incident from this place right here," McManus said.
However, they did not confirm having new security software called artificial intelligence sight. Houston based Behavioral Recognition Systems, BRS Labs, is behind the technology.
"It has the ability to recognize behavior, learn behavior, and, most importantly, identify instances where behavior deviates from normal patterns," said BRS Labs President John Frazzini.
Instead of requiring workers to watch monitors around the clock, AI sight learns the client's environment. It assigns characters to objects under its watchful eye, scanning for abnormalities.
AI sends a surveillance alert clip to the client if the software senses a problem. Frazzini said there are projects in Texas throughout various cities from San Antonio, Austin, Dallas and Houston. He said the software is used in transit systems, citywide surveillance, port environments, airports and to support law enforcement.
The Texas State Capitol is client.
"The application of advanced technology does make cities safer because it gets information into the hands of law enforcement personnel faster," he said.
The security has four recommendations for a safer city:
Deploy sophisticated artificial intelligence software for video surveillance
Having a top notch chemical bio detection capability
Covert human surveillance operations
Sharing intelligence with executive city management
Improving San Antonio's public safety is Chief McManus's priority. He's already looking into the future.
"We have to continue to advance, to improve, to advance," McManus said.
As for the probability of AI sight becoming a part of that future, the police chief remains open.
"There's a lot of technology out there and we look at all of it," he said.
"Based on what the city can afford, what it believes it can use most effectively, that's what we look at."
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