The smart city traffic software automatically
optimises traffic lights, driving lanes and directions to enable the best traffic flow and least congestion. At one point, it stops you so a bus can pass by enabling quickest commute. The buses are very safe, with mobile CCTV monitoring the driver and triggering an alarm if he or she falls asleep, smokes and or doesn’t pay attention.
At the hospital, the CCTV system tells you where to park and automatically takes payment. The travellator takes you straight to the main entrance, where the receptionist records your name against the CCTV system photo of you and you ask for your wife’s location. You are told to follow the blue lights to the labour ward.
Once there, the hands-free access control pad recognises your face and allows you access since you are wearing a mask. You feel very confident your baby will be safe as only hospital staff have access to the wards where they work and the porters are wearing body- worn cameras with live feeds into the hospital control room, ensuring extra eyes for the hospital security team. Each baby’s wristband alarms if they are taken out of the ward. The behaviour analytics on the CCTV system check for any anti-social behaviour, and in the quiet hour check for slips and falls, keeping lone worker nurses safe.
Later, at home with your other children, you order a takeaway. Your virtual door man – with its connected video and audio system – allows entry to your regular delivery person and you settle in to eat your favourite pizza.
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know their system takes your temperature and, at times of high infection, checks if you are wearing a mask. Also, it has a people counting system to keep its occupancy levels in the right zone for people to maintain social distancing.
Once in the shop you find there are plenty of tills open as they have queue detection software on the CCTV which prompts to staff to open them as needed.
In the afternoon, at the prime time for you for exercise, according to your fitness monitoring system, you head to the company gym. All employees are having a personalised well- being and fitness programme. The heat mapping system advises the quietest areas to train. A small friendly robot accompanies you and makes sure you do all the reps.
Following this, you take part in a video conference with colleagues from around the world, collaborating on a shared planning proposal, that includes video, CAD documents, photographs and text. The conferencing facilities let you easily share ideas and agree on a way forward.
Just as you’re about to leave, you get a call from the hospital, your wife is in the first stages of labour, you need to get there. Your fitness app notes your sudden increase in heart rate and suggests a mindfulness tape, you click it off and head for your vehicle.
You decide to set the car on autopilot, knowing you might be tempted to take extra risks to get to the hospital. It gets you there safely, allowing you time to re-organise your work commitments and arrange for childcare.
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You show the children live footage of their new sibling on your TV from the hospital CCTV system. This allows your wife to push the live button securely to your own location. Your kids are then able to use the speaker system on the ward’s CCTV camera to have a conversation with their mum and hear all about their new sibling.
Of course, SmartCity is not a real place but much of this technology is available today, so perhaps the future is almost here.
Steve Emmins Hikvision
www.hikvision.com
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