Cars are moving. Pedestrians walk along the sidewalk. And some businesses welcome customers. Street life is as banal as possible, similar to thousands of others. But the screen on which the daily life of this nameless artery appears lights up with colors. There are bicycles around here, running along the bike path. Next there is a sedan. Mostly green. But sometimes it’s red. “The system detected a fire there. And immediately a warning is sent to the operator in front of the cameras,” explains Quentin Barenne, pointing his finger at the corner of the image where the flames are raging.
For almost half an hour, the entrepreneur deciphered what was happening before our eyes, assisted in the demonstration by Mathias Houllier, one of the other co-founders of Wintics. The startup, located in this building, where other small and medium-sized businesses occupy neighboring premises, in the capital’s 18th arrondissement won two of four lots in tenders announced by the Ministry of the Interior in January to award security-related markets. Olympic Games in Paris. But in a particularly closely scrutinized subcategory: algorithmic video surveillance.
Source: Le Parisien
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