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www.AmericanSecurityToday.com June 2019 - Edition 34 SWORD Mobile Based Security Platform provides an IoT level of situational awareness, detection and recognition by combining the latest in state-of-the-art technologies to identify concealed threats and known threat actors, soon to be incorporated in the Vuzix Blade AR smart glasses to provide a wearable smart display. SWORD Selects Vuzix Blade for Smart Glasses Threat Detect Rollout Eight time record-breaking 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Award Winner Royal Holdings, has selected Vuzix Blade Smart Glasses as the smart glasses roll- out hardware for SWORD™, a mobile based security solution providing an IoT level of situ- ational awareness, detection and recognition. Royal Holdings Technologies com- bined mobile platforms with IoT and AI into a single product called SWORD, to identify, manage and mitigate immediate threats. SWORD features an integrated, infra- red-object-detection HD camera and proprietary algorithms paired with the company’s facial recognition soft- ware, and all placed in what appears to be a regular case for an iPhone or iPad. 69