You probably recall American action movie scenes where the janitor who oversees eight monitors takes a nap while the burglars sneak between the dark corridors, right?
Well, we wanted to avoid this scenario in Kyotopia. The power plant consisted of many expensive components, and due to the project’s target location, which was supposed to be deep in an African desert, there was a high risk of theft or damage caused by wildlife.
Due to problematic logistics and potential theft risks, the classic security system would be too expensive and not secure enough.
We came up with a remote security mechanism instead. We designed and developed a dedicated image recognition system that caught moving objects like people, vehicles, or animals and sent security notifications in the web app. The tool cut out appropriate recording fragments and saved them, allowing full archivization of events.
More importantly, we created a fully functional and reliable prototype, ready to be shown to investors in less than a month. We relied on AWS services for sending the records for storage and streaming, while the image recognition was executed on a ready-made Nvidia microcomputer with our custom software.
Thanks to such a system, you can observe any number of objects from anywhere in the world. This is substantial financial savings and a convenient and effective way to protect an industrial site from unwanted visitors.
