Milan, November 2021 – NTT DATA, a Japanese multinational leader in the IT sector, and Eurolink Systems, a European company specializing in value-added distribution, services, and development of HW and SW solutions in the Embedded Electronics, Enhanced Robotics and E-mobility markets , have entered into an agreement to develop innovative Artificial Intelligence solutions to be used in the field of security and surveillance in public and work places.
In Venice, during the international Ethics and Artificial Intelligence conference, organized by Aspen Institute Italia, Noovle and Intesa Sanpaolo, the experts of NTT DATA and Eurolink, as technological partners of Noovle, presented a first demonstration of their cooperation.
Doberbot, the latest generation robot dog equipped with a high-definition camera, observed the faces of the participants, and among them recognized those that were inserted in a memory list and associated them with an alarm. In the same way Doberbot recognized among the moving objects framed by the camera, those registered in the memory as potentially dangerous, and issued an alarm sound signal when each event occurs.
What was detected by the AI algorithm installed on board of the robot was also showed on a monitor near the robot itself. In this way, visitors to the stand could see in real time both the alarm events associated with the identification of people or objects identified as “dangerous”, and the history of the reports. During the Demo, all the visual data collected were managed locally on the robot’s PC. In a real situation, the same data can be sent to the Noovle cloud via 5G connectivity.
The applications of this system are many and promising. Among the main ones is it possible to imagine the configuration of “swarm” operations (multiple robotic platforms that communicate with each other) for patrolling large areas, with the possibility of operating autonomously (unattended) or with remote piloting. It can also be imagined to integrate sensors of different nature on board the robot such as infrared cameras for video surveillance, search and rescue, fire prevention purposes, or finally on it can integrate LIDAR technology for reconstructions of 3D models from the ground. Artificial Intelligence algorithms are designed to be able to operate on different types of drones, land, air and sea, self-driving or not.
With the increasingly widespread development of 5G networks, it will be possible to guarantee an effective real-time transfer of the video stream to a Cloud environment, its processing and the return of decision support information to a remote command and control center. The potential of the Cloud can be exploited to run AI algorithms, especially when Edge Computing cannot be made available on the specific platform due to poor computational capacity.
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