Wearing masks in sales and service companies will check with cameras.
Regional authorities in the course of gradual abolition imposed in connection with the coronavirus restrictions may require beauty salons, hairdressers and food stores install cameras with videoanalitiki that would track compliance with the requirements of the CPS. “Rostelecom” and NtechLab have already started to put such decisions in the Nizhny Novgorod region, where the cameras can subsidize power. Such decisions apply only in Kazan, they were interested in St. Petersburg, but there is not yet ready to allocate budget money.
to Monitor compliance with the requirements of Rospotrebnadzor to work sales and service enterprises small and medium business in a phased abolition of restrictions in some regions are prepared with the help of CCTV, found “Kommersant”. So, in the Nizhniy Novgorod region it is planned to implement a joint decision of JSC “Rostelecom” and NtechLab and local system Analytics “Optimist”, told “Kommersant” in the press service Governor of the region Gleb Nikitin. During the may holidays, these solutions have begun to test several companies, the installation of cameras connected to a single network video surveillance, will be one of the conditions for establishing enterprises in the region, said there. Nizhny Novgorod government is considering the possibility of granting subsidies for compensation of part costs to the interested enterprises, said the representative.
among the businesses that will be able to resume work in the region in the near future, the company servicing cars, Studio, Laundry and dry cleaning, beauty salons and hairdressers, stores, shops. On the recommendation of the CPS they need to be regularly disinfected premises, to measure the temperature of the employees who have to wear masks, to serve one client and to ensure the compliance distance of 1.5 m. the Algorithms NtechLab will be able to monitor the implementation of regulations through a system of recognition of silhouettes, told “Kommersant” representative of the company. Information in real time in depersonalized form will be supplied to the video Analytics system to generate reports on compliance. Access statements will be provided only to authorized regulatory authorities, emphasized in the company.
NtechLab discusses the implementation of such solutions with the authorities of several dozen regions, says a company representative. As reported by “Kommersant” on March 31, its solution is also used for enforcing isolation in Moscow. NtechLab 100% owned by the Cypriot parent, where, according to the latest data reflects for 2018, and 12.5% owned by rostec, 25% — Fund of Ruben Vardanyan, the rest — Artem Kukharenko and four founders.
In St. Petersburg, you may take into account the experience of the Nizhny Novgorod region, said a Kommersant source in the city administration. But at the government level, the introduction of such a system has not yet been discussed, and the budget money is definitely will not stand out, he said, “such obligations may be taken only by enterprises themselves”. A similar principle already applies to hairdressers in Kazan, opened at the end of April, reported in press service Tatarstan President, declined to specify which system controls the operation and purchased this authorities additional equipment. “Representatives of the industry themselves have offered to install cameras to monitor compliance with the conditions of Rospotrebnadzor”, — noted there.
In the Crimea, where since may 1, started beauty salons, auto shops, shops of building materials and household products, workshops on repair of boots, shoes, computers, and laundries, compliance checked by the staff of the CPS and prosecutors, the introduction of automated systems has not been discussed, reported at press service government of the Republic. In Sevastopol, where on may 11, will resume non-food retail, the introduction of such systems is also required.
Projects of video surveillance with facial recognition is also planned to implement in the far Eastern, Volga and Siberian Federal districts, said the General Director of the Systems (25% owned Sberbank) Dmitry Markov. The company’s solution is also used in the Moscow system of video surveillance and can recognize people in masks, he recalled. Biometric facial recognition system for control-isolation is used on Sakhalin, said the Director of business development biometric systems MDGs (controlled by Sberbank) Andrey Khrulev.
Tools in computer vision do allow you to calculate the distance between people and to define the masks on their faces, if the cameras provide a clear enough picture, confirms the Director of the counselling unit at the emerging technologies at KPMG in Russia and the CIS Sergei Vikharev. According to him, the hardware of such a complex could cost about 100 thousand rubles., and analysis on remote servers can cost up to several thousand rubles for the camera. The system can be useful after the end of the pandemic, according to the project Manager for the Analytics CROC Tatiana Pavlova, for example, they can assist companies in scheduling and accounting of staff time.
Julia Silence; Kirill Antonov, Kazan; Oleg Dilimbetova, St. Petersburg; Vadim Nikiforov, Simferopol
