Key Highlights
- The glasses will then be used by the personnel on the ground to identify suspect individuals in crowded areas instantly.
- The devices will show a green box to the personnel if a person has no criminal history and a red box if there is a criminal record.
- Delhi Police Additional Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) Devesh Kumar Mahla, while speaking to PTI, said, "The wearable devices will connect to mobile phones used by police officers, giving them access to the criminal database." In a separate interaction with DD News, Mahla noted, “If wanted individuals are detected or spotted, even if they are wearing makeup, a mask, a cap, or have a beard, our algorithm will identify them.
- This database has been trained using different algorithms so that it can identify a person regardless of how they look, whether it’s a photo from 20 years ago or a recent one, whether they have a beard or long hair, or even a cut on their face.” Meanwhile, the DD News report states that facial recognition system cameras and wearable glasses will operate as standalone systems which are not connected to the internet.
- Each device is said to carry its own encrypted database, which is stored locally on the mobile phones of the personnel that will be linked to the glasses.
