More innocuous applications, like smart locks for homes and big data applications to reduce traffic congestion, also occupied large swathes. But the high-end devices on display highlighted the emphasis China has put on equipping its security forces with gear of the future
Daily Mail/AFP: Armed drones, iris scanners, and smart glasses that can spot suspects in a crowd: China shows off high-tech security gadgets at Beijing expo
* China has emphasis put on equipping its security forces with gear of the future
* The exhibition in Beijing highlighted surveillance and monitoring technology
* Multiple firms showed off iris scanners, which detect and match unique patterns
* Compared to fingerprinting and facial recognition, the error rate is also lower
From virtual reality police training programmes to gun-toting drones and iris scanners, a public security expo in China showed the range of increasingly high-tech tools available to the country's police.
The exhibition, which ran Tuesday to Friday in Beijing, emphasised surveillance and monitoring technology just as the Communist government's domestic security spending has skyrocketed.
Facial-recognition screens analysing candid shots of conference attendees were scattered around the exhibition hall, while other vendors packed their booths with security cameras.
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WNU Editor: The Chinese .... unencumbered by privacy issues .... are IMHO ahead of everyone in this field.
2 comments:
Yes, the Chinese Police State is second to none...
The sad thing is that we (our leaders) too want the best tech for controlling people, so they might buy surveillance equipment from China sooner or later, once their technology gap (combined with state sponsored pricing gap) makes it impossible to resist. And then we are in trouble..
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