Smart Glasses for Smarter Cops in China

The police in Beijing have a new advantage, aka smart glasses. The cops are using these smart glasses that can identify car numbers and run facial recognition on the passengers in real time. If the technology finds either in a black list, the smart glasses display a warning including a red box and sign. The entire process takes just a few milliseconds and gives the police a huge advantage against criminals and known offenders.

China is dealing with it’s own set of rising crime and using technology to deal with the issue is not a new idea. What is new is the implementation of smart glasses to use that technology. Surveillance and facial recognition make it much easier for the Chinese cops to do their work. Helping keep the streets of Beijing safe from the criminal elements that would otherwise cause them harm.

If the idea works well enough, China may be implementing the smart glasses in other large cities. It is already something that police in other countries have been thinking about implementing. Soon there will not be any where left for known offenders, however the system does have a few weaknesses. These issues in the science experiment need to be sorted out before the system is copied the world over.