Dubai Police has developed its smart monitoring systems in the streets to be able to measure the temperature of pedestrians and ensure their commitment to social distance in public places through its cameras, which are managed according to the system of smart "eyes".
The Director of the General Department of Artificial Intelligence, Brigadier Khaled Nasser Al-Razouki, said during a remote seminar on the use of artificial intelligence in combating the Coruna virus, that Dubai Police is keen to harness the latest technologies in its work on the front lines to combat the Corona virus (Covid-19), including The thermal sensor to read the temperature of people quickly and accurately and to use this technology through the giant monitoring base developed and established by Dubai through the cameras spread throughout the city, and the integration of these technologies to benefit from them in reading the temperature of passers-by in addition to the basic "eyes" tasks.
He pointed out that the thermal sensing system depends on the use of artificial intelligence in feeding the surveillance cameras that are managed according to the “eyes” system to monitor the temperature of pedestrians, visitors of public places and commercial centers.
Al-Razouki explained that the “Ayoun” system was mainly developed to provide technical support to the criminal, traffic and tourism sectors, and provides the ability to identify the wanted through the feature of reading faces through cameras, as well as analyzing behaviors and reading body language, but in light of the spread of Corona virus, the system has been updated to play An auxiliary role in the fight.
He pointed to testing the ability of the smart system that controls the cameras to monitor violations of social divergence, by determining the distances between people in commercial centers and public places, by means of artificial intelligence.
He stressed that Dubai Police has a strategic road map until 2021, to provide all kinds of technical solutions, programs and applications to feed different sectors.