Street communications system promises a connected future

Recognition capabilities extend to number plate recognition and speed camera functionality, the ability to count pedestrians, identifying vehicles by size, colour and shape or counting the amount of people in the vehicle or identify. The image recognition software can also detect certain behaviour patterns associated with some crimes like "bag-snatching" and can record images (including drivers and passengers faces when in vehicles) for evidence or evaluation.

Another benefit would be that in the event of a stolen car being reported, police could immediately post an alert on NEXiposter's in the local area. This screen real estate would also be open to advertisers large and small (you could rent the space short term to advertise your garage sale at a cost of around $10 to buy a street for 30 seconds) when not being used for public purposes and Australia's outdoor advertising revenue (approximately $90 million a year) would fund the entire national system.

The system has the potential to enable one police officer to keep watch over up to 16 neighbourhoods and the benefits to crime prevention resources are obvious.

Dobbins also points out that the system is out in the open and not used covertly, so any "Big Brother" privacy concerns should not be an issue.

cityNEX pilot sites have been deployed in seven different countries - Indonesia,Saudi Arabia, South Africa, USA, UK, Czecholsovakia, Germany, Sri Lanka and the Phillipines - and a trial is to take place in the City of Stirling, Western Australia.

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