UniUni (official site) is a startup that tackles an issue that’s been largely ignored to date: private security in areas which have been excluded from surveillance, like public restrooms or retail dressing rooms. Whether or not it’s violent acts, drug use, voyeurism by way of hidden cameras, and extra. These have been places historically tough to video-monitor for apparent privateness causes. UniUni calls these locations “technological blind spots”.
Be aware that there’s a courier/delivery company with the same name, nevertheless it’s a completely completely different enterprise.
This startup believes it has the expertise that may lastly reply this problem, because of a mixture of {hardware} and software program. The {hardware} presents itself within the type of a small monitoring field, which you’ll be able to maintain in your hand.
Usually, it could be put in on the ceiling of every particular person bathroom seat, however fret not, there’s no digicam inside. As an alternative, there’s a lidar machine that acts extra like a radar, because it perceives depth as a substitute of colours. Identical to a radar, it might let you know there’s somebody (or one thing) however there’s no video or pictures that voyeurs would need.
We’ve seen one of these “radar” expertise earlier than, and we all know it really works for presence-detection purposes. Nonetheless, UniUni takes the expertise to the subsequent degree by including a layer of A.I (Synthetic Intelligence) on high of the uncooked information.
The corporate claims it might sense irregular conditions reminiscent of violence, drug use, or folks inserting hidden cameras in restrooms. If it really works as marketed, that might be a private security game-changer as it is extremely laborious to watch so many places with out severe automation.
Totally different locations may expertise completely different challenges. For instance, Korea had a hidden digicam problem just lately, however different international locations may expertise excessive drug utilization or bodily assaults in these places.
Hidden cameras are way more costly to search out and take away than stopping their set up within the first place, when attainable. There are additionally circumstances the place folks might expertise a fall or faint, through which UniUni’s product might alert personnel to assist.
Past private security, the corporate factors out that it’s also attainable to enhance services upkeep as nicely by estimating when the bathroom paper must be modified, how typically the cleanup needs to be executed, and so forth.
Usually, this might be deployed in comparatively massive buildings, and the constructing proprietor or their safety personnel would get the notification and entry to the information by way of a dashboard. All of the software program runs as a SaaS (service page) and by way of an area wi-fi community, which makes this very simple to put in. The monitoring machine prices about $350 and the SaaS service is about $100 monthly.
Thus far, this has been deployed to about 30 websites in Korea, and UniUni is searching for to promote it within the USA. The European Union can be a fascinating market, however the firm remains to be going by way of paperwork proper now.
UniUni’s monitoring resolution may be very attention-grabbing because it overcomes a number of the apparent points with video surveillance in one of these location. On the identical time, it does present a number of the identical benefits as video surveillance, with out affecting privateness as a lot.
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