New Face Recognition solution aims to augment safety measures in schools

ShepHertz has rolled out an AI-based solution called SchoolProtect. Powered by ShepHertz Applied Artificial Intelligence and Geofencing services, the comprehensive security solution can elevate the current scenario in Indian schools by using the existing cameras and applying intelligence on them.

Ever since stories broke out on several tragic incidences in schools where a lot of students were put in harm’s ways, it has become extremely difficult for parents to have the same trust in the school management as they had earlier. Although UGC goes to lengths to ban ragging from all schools and colleges, statistics show a saddening trend. A total of 917 cases were registered in 2017 compared to 515 the previous year, and these do not include the incidents that went unreported. SchoolProtect aims to address and solve all these issues so that the schools can go back to be the safe and secure institutional places.

The facial recognition solution works by matching the faces in the camera footage against a registered database of photographs. The solution can fetch attributes of recognised faces such as the name of the students or faculty members, their division, their parents/spouse, and their age.

Along with the ability to detect known and unknown people on the TV monitor, its intelligent alarm system will be able to pro-actively trigger as soon as any incident begins to happen, including scenarios such as a person who is neither a student nor belongs to the faculty or the management is entering the school so that the security can validate if the person has authentic reasons of being inside the school premises. School buses, which have cameras installed, can be powered with this solution to ensure complete child safety during transit.

The solution will enable schools in analysing threats in a better way by recognising expelled students, local substance dealers, people who have posed threat in the past, unusual behaviour or any person entering prohibited areas.

"AI is not more a technology restricted to research labs. In the coming years from now, artificial intelligence will have a similar impact on our lives as the internet has. With SchoolProtect we aim to make schools and students in transit safer. This technology will allow parents and school management to monitor in a better way, have more control and increase the overall level of security," said Siddhartha Chandurkar, Founder and CEO, ShepHertz.

“This is our little contribution towards making the world better and safer through AI,” he added.

Besides security features, the solution also supports attendance management of students, teachers and staff and in future will support the ability to analyse classroom behaviour through gestures and emotions. Through an intuitive dashboard, SchoolProtect provides comprehensive descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics.

When it comes to security and safety in schools, every moment is precious and with SchoolProtect’s ability to add an additional and strong layer of protection, school security management can gain valuable information in real-time and save tragic incidences from happening.

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