In the near future, traffic cameras in Russia will be able to track vehicles carrying dangerous goods and find people on the wanted list. This was told socialbites.ca by Sergey Laskin, the general director of the Astralab company (which develops software for the traffic police and TsODD cameras).
“Looking at the European market, there will be a demand for tracking vehicles carrying dangerous goods in Russia. Laskin said that cars bearing the “dangerous goods” sign can be driven far from everywhere and cannot always be used, such as fuel trucks and other trucks.
According to the interlocutors, the development of cameras will also move towards facial recognition. However, this idea will not be easy to implement, as no institution has a complete biometric database containing tens of millions of drivers.
“I think cameras will soon come to identify wanted citizens. Now there are technologies that allow you to improve the image by photographing the car “from the head”. As we see on our cameras, faces are now highly recognizable. So you can add a face recognition module to the equipment,” he said.
This will no longer be done by the camera, which can only highlight the faces in the picture, but by the neural network – it will send the data to the server, which will reconcile databases of debtors, criminals, missing persons and others, the interlocutor explained.
“I think this will inevitably emerge in the next two or three years,” Laskin said.
Former developer of traffic police cameras saidthat modern traffic cameras that automatically detect traffic violations have hidden functions that are not yet used in Russia.