Posted on 04/08/2022 8:53:30 PM PDT by george76
DALLAS — Yes, those 7-foot-tall machines at Dallas Love Field are watching you. They want to make sure you’re wearing a mask if you’re boarding a flight or not parking too long at the curb if you’re picking up a returning traveler.
Love Field is testing out two Security Control Observation Towers at the airport, one near baggage claim and another near security checkpoints, to figure out whether robotic assistants can both help customers get around and warn passengers who are breaking rules. The robots can also contact airport security and operations in case more help is needed.
While not quite RoboCop, the machines, nicknamed SCOT, were installed a month ago to “determine if they are capable of efficiently supplementing current airport operations,” said Love Field spokeswoman Lauren Rounds.
The robots look like many other kiosks at the airport with a touch screen with wayfinding information, maps of parking garages and directions to ride-hailing and shuttle pickup. But SCOT is much smarter, capable of detecting what people are wearing and even whether they’ve got on a face mask.
Airports have been at the forefront of technology, including facial recognition and other biometrics, for years, a trend that worries privacy advocates who say there are few, if any, laws or guidelines about how emerging technology should be used. Amazon took criticism in 2019 after testing its Rekognition technology with police departments before deciding to ban law enforcement from using it two years later.
But private businesses and airports have been more aggressive, and the COVID-19 pandemic has spurred more emphasis on touchless interactions using computers. Fort Worth-based American Airlines uses facial recognition for some customers to check bags and airports such as DFW partner with the U.S. State Department for facial recognition technology for incoming passengers.
Surveillance technology hasn’t stopped progressing because the rest of the world was in the midst of a worldwide pandemic.
In fact, more and more institutions and companies are using artificial intelligence to monitor spaces, said Adam Schwartz, an attorney for digital privacy rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation.
“It raises a lot of questions about what that technology is doing,” Schwartz said.
Love Field is one of two airports to start using the technology from the company Robotic Assistance Devices, said the company’s CEO and founder Steve Reinharz. The other airport, which Reinharz said he was not able to disclose, uses a related technology from the company in parking lots to detour thefts and break-ins.
“This has more of a full-circle purpose to be a regular, physical deterrent,” he said. “That’s the direction the industry has to go because we have some significant labor issues.”
The robotic SCOT kiosks can detect passengers and behavior based on rules set by each user, such as the airport. For instance, people driving up to the curbside drop-off area late at night might get a series of verbal warnings that escalate in volume and severity. Finally, the machine can call police, notify on-site security or even allow someone to make an announcement remotely.
The machines can also detect flagged individuals based on what they are wearing, especially if they are in areas susceptible to crime, such as baggage claim, Reinharz said.
License plate-scanning cameras can issue warnings to suspicious vehicles or prompt cars to move along if they’ve been waiting too long in passenger pick-up lanes.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company said it also pushed a technology that can detect whether subjects are wearing face masks. Face masks have been a point of contention on airplanes but remain a federal mandate until at least April 18.
“The units currently make scheduled and detection-based announcements directed toward our passengers and visitors,” Rounds said. “Some of these focus on reducing vehicular congestion at our curb using license plate recognition and increasing federal mask compliance using facial recognition technology while others provide standard information.”
The airport isn’t paying for the kiosks now while they test the capabilities, but Dallas Love Field did pay about $4,000 to have them shipped to Texas.
There will be no place to hide
Will that be right hand?
Or forehead?
Watch “A Thief in the Night” where Patty goes from grocery store 🏪 to grocery store 🏪 to buy food.
Signs say only those with the economic mark allowed to buy groceries.
Replace “economic mark” with “fully vaccinated” and you see how the sheep 🐑🐑🐑 are being trained.
Nope. It was mostly filmed around Houston, Tx.
Is there something about the Sikhs with which we should be concerned? They’re some of the hardest working, loyal people I’ve ever met, and I know several military vets who speaking highly of their combat acumen and grit.
Did you mean to say Muslims? Sikhs are not Muslims, FWIW.
That's raciss. Roboraciss.
I don’t know friend, but it is not looking good.
They are making it happen
Some may even be unaware that they’re making it happen but it makes no difference
They think they’ve got it all under control
🙄😳😯😷
✝️🙏🛐
You think you hate it now, wait until you drive it!
🚐
(A van was all I had)
“...You have ten seconds to comply...”
In the top 20. Not bad, not bad at all!
Good job! Beat me to it!
“Gort, Klatu Berana Nicto .........”
I may not have said every exact syllable...
Do you have the screen shots of Patty going store 🏪 to store 🏪 for food from the first movie?
No,. I do not have that clip. But that is one part among others that is basically correspondent to what is foretold which I expect those of the body of Christ to face, for as said, by seeing the persecuted believers in such "rapture" movies as representing what believers now would face once the Great Trib begins, then "Thief in the night" and "Years of the Beast" are rather prescient in aspects of testing to come, if to a lesser degree. As is part of the theme song,
Life was filled with guns and war
And everyone got trampled on the floor
I wish we'd all been ready
Children died, the days grew cold
A piece of bread could buy a bag of gold
I wish we'd all been ready
The part where the preacher is on the pulpit before an empty church lamenting on how he did not take the bible seriously and did not warn his flock of what was to come is powerful. Meanwhile, every soul that walks by us is either serving the Lord God or is in the kingdom of the devil, and is headed to either Heaven or Hell, and we need to try to stand in their way and at least offer them a gospel tract, though very few will.
Yeah I noticed he was doing a “social gospel” of sorts.
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