Community installs Jiangsu's first facial recognition security system

After learning about residents' concerns, the police station cooperated with a tech company to upgrade the surveillance monitoring system and built a smart cloud platform with facial recognition technology.

The police have installed nine sets of artificial intelligence high-resolution surveillance cameras in the neighborhood as a trial.

By comparing images captured by cameras with those stored in the database, the platform can recognize strangers in the neighborhood and send an alert to the police, the first system of its kind to be installed in a community in Jiangsu province.

By comparing images captured by the camera with those stored in the database, the smart cloud-platform can recognize strangers in Xinfengyuan community in Xinwu district, Wuxi, and send an alert to the police. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Since it was put into trial, the platform has helped the police arrest three fugitives in a month.

Hua Shuhui, head of Fangqian police station, said they will continue to organize regular visits to places under their jurisdiction to find and address prominent issues concerning social security.