Seoul plans to increase the number of surveillance cameras that use artificial intelligence to detect danger, reports The Korea Herald. The cameras are planned to be installed in public parks and along hiking trails throughout the capital to reduce the number of blind spots where crimes often occur.
Such cameras use AI to recognize people’s movements and detect people who have gotten lost, fallen, or been attacked by criminals. The footage of such situations is then immediately transmitted to police and fire departments and city security departments.
In total, by 2026, there are plans to install another 10,657 cameras in blind spots where crimes often occur, but there is still no means to record these crimes. By the end of 2024, they plan to install 4 748.
The city is also planning to replace outdated video surveillance cameras with new AI cameras. Old surveillance cameras with a resolution of less than 1.3 million pixels will be replaced first. In 2024, they plan to replace 15 thousand.
Over the next 3 years, a total of 85,000 cameras not equipped with AI technology are planned to be replaced. The total budget for this replacement is 126.5 billion won ($98.1 million).
