Russia began testing systems for recognizing people with weapons at schools

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The company NtechLab, which is co-owned by Rostec, is developing a project to protect schools from people with weapons, Kommersant reported with reference to the director of the consulting company Gleb Dyakonov. According to him, six large customers, including local authorities, have shown interest in the technology, and a pilot project is underway in one of the regions. The source of the publication said that we are talking about one of the Samara schools.

According to Dyakonov, in the area of ​​the city where the school is located, video cameras will be installed that will be able to identify people with weapons. When the camera detects a potential shooter, it will send a signal to the control panel of the school guard. If he does not respond to the message, the system will automatically block the entrances to the school, signal an alarm inside it and report a possible threat to the police.

The company noted that the technology is capable of recognizing specific types of weapons, such as shotguns and rifles in daylight, but there is no system that can detect a small pistol in your pocket at night.

According to experts, it is difficult to implement such a system, but it is realistic. The difficulty lies in the fact that it is not a person’s face that needs to be recognized, but the weapon that they are trying to hide. Perhaps it would be more correct to identify people who behave uncharacteristically: they are nervous, turn around and carry heavy bags.

The head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Alexander Khinshtein, told the publication that a pilot project of access control with a face recognition system at a school was successfully carried out in the Samara region. The data from the cameras are integrated with the Safe City complex, which allows you to monitor the situation on the school grounds.

Over the past six months, there have been three high-profile cases of armed attacks by students on educational institutions in Russia. In May in Kazan, 19-year-old Ilnaz Galyaviev came to his former school with a gun and opened fire on people. Nine people died, including seven children. On September 20, a first-year student, 18-year-old Timur Bekmansurov, opened fire from a hunting rifle at the Perm State National Research University. As a result, six people died, more than 40 were injured.

The last high-profile case occurred on October 18 in the Perm Territory. A sixth grader came to school in the village of Sars with a carbine and fired two shots – at the ceiling and at the door. In all three cases, the attackers used officially registered weapons.

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