How robots can be used to augment security

From time to time, security can become quite mundane.

Doing routine work such as patrolling or doing rounds

at facilities can cause security guards to become tired or bored.

Using robotics to optimize an end user organization’s security workforce,

therefore, becomes a viable alternative.

robots can address problems associated with human-based security work.

“The biggest limitation humans have is the ability to focus on boring,

repetitive jobs.

If you backfill that with a machine that doesn't get bored,

doesn’t fall asleep and doesn't get distracted easily …

you give those boring jobs to the robot.

Then you allow the humans to do the strategic work, interpret data

and respond to something more effectively,” he said.

Hardware and software combination
For surveillance, the robots are equipped with cameras as well as

embedded intelligence.

“There are built-in analytics to recognize license plates.

Also I can tell there is a human figure there.

We can geo-fence a restricted area; that way,

if someone is in a specific area where they should not be,

it will send an alert back,”

“We actually wrote the algorithm that’s able to detect what an object is.

And we also have a feedback loop so it is able to look at the alerts

they get,

and if for some reason they get a false alert,

they can actually input that into the system

so it doesn’t make the mistake again.”
 
“For outdoor applications you are going to have a remote parking area

where the security guards either don't get to, or it's far removed

and they don't go to at all.

What they are doing is using this to supplement that.

In an indoor environment like a shopping center,

they are used to patrol inside the shopping center,”
 
While these robots can function as human security guards,

that these are not one-on-one replacements.

“This is augmentation. Where people are looking to replace people,

that’s not our deal.

But if you are looking to save money on hours,

and you can strip away the human component for just a moment,

put the robot where it is most efficient,

you backfill and reallocate the human asset into that,

then you’re augmenting it, and that's how you’re are saving money.