Massachusetts (TDI): Using face recognition technology, a group of Harvard students altered a pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses that made headlines this week.
Security and data privacy concerns are becoming more pressing as cameras proliferate, particularly in light of ubiquitous connection and remote server dependence.
Companies like Ring’s parent, Amazon, and its partnerships with law enforcement only increase these worries.
Amazon increased its 24/7 monitoring fees, citing growing costs associated with increased processing requirements.
A different strategy is provided by London-based startup Plumerai.
The company was founded in 2017 and focuses on small AI technology, which removes the need for data to be transmitted to distant servers by allowing tasks like people detection and familiar face recognition to happen on the device.
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Tony Fadell, the man behind the iPod and an early backer of Plumerai, used his prior work at Nest to highlight the benefits of the company’s solution.
Fadell stated, as per a TechCrunch report, “Since we are capturing entire frames, we would have to worry about a great deal of storage and data transfer costs. We are recording a great deal of material, but not live. I was always burdened by this.”
Roeland Nusselder, CEO of Plumerai, thinks the company’s extremely effective, reasonably priced AI technology will upend the smart camera industry.
The parent company of LiftMaster and myQ, Chamberlain Group, plans to incorporate Plumerai’s AI into its outdoor cameras.
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“Running locally on the camera, Plumerai is the source of all AI characteristics,” according to Nusselder.
Although Plumerai is a small team, players who want to integrate advanced AI without worrying about privacy issues and data transfer costs are interested in its technology. Having previously worked at large software companies, Fadell emphasized the value of small, focused teams in creating disruptive products.
