Estate Living Magazine Invest SA - Issue 41 May 2019 | Page 48

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You use artificial intelligence (AI) every day, often
without knowing it. Shouldn’t your estate’s security
team have the same kind of data-driven support?
If you want to see what your future looks like, CES is a good place to
start. This year’s Consumer Electronics Show, held at the beginning
of the year in Las Vegas, showcased inventions and innovations like
super-high-resolution 8K television screens, robotic prosthetic legs,
and a vacuum cleaner with built-in Artificial Intelligence (AI) that
helps the machine identify – and avoid sucking up – socks that’ve
been left lying on the floor.
In among the next-gen smartphones, computers and other assorted
gadgets, CES’s tech junkie delegates also got a glimpse of the
future of residential security. It’s a future that uses AI to make homes
and estates safer than ever before, with machines working alongside
humans to create and maintain unimaginably tight security systems.
Take the SimCam, for example. A CES 2019 Innovation Awards
winner, this AI-powered security camera recognises familiar faces
and specific objects that you’ve designated, sending you photo
alerts within a second if a person enters your preselected activity
zone, or if a specific object goes missing. It uses built-in, trainable AI
to generate custom notifications, and cuts down on false alarms by
monitoring pets and letting you know if a family member or resident
takes a particular action in a specific time range or place. ‘For
years, home security hasn’t been truly smart,’ Shenzhen SimCam
Intelligent Technology CEO Aaron Zhang said in a statement. ‘False
alarms never rest. […] We believe the on-device AI technology that
SimCam is built on is the next evolution of home security.’
Key to it all is the idea that AI technology will work with – and not
replace – human security guards. A famous (or infamous, depending