SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Fire Agency has announced the official launch of the “Smart CCTV Integration Platform” in three areas— the cities of Busan and Daejeon as well as Gangwon Province—starting this month. The platform integrates CCTV footage from local governments and related organizations with the 119 emergency control center’s system, allowing [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Hospitals will be required to install surveillance cameras in operating rooms and record surgery procedures at the request of patients starting next week, the health ministry said Friday. The revised Medical Service Act, set to take effect Monday, also calls for storing recorded videos for at least 30 days, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Doctors’ associations filed a constitutional appeal on Tuesday over a revised medical law requiring hospitals to place surveillance cameras in operating rooms, claiming it violates the personal rights of physicians. The Korea Medical Association (KMA) and the Korean Hospital Association filed the petition with the Constitutional Court, ahead of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government will increase the number of surveillance cameras in public parks and hiking trails throughout the capital to reduce crime blind spots, Mayor Oh Se-hoon said Wednesday, responding to a recent spike in violent crimes in public places. Recently, knife rampages and other violent crimes have [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top wireless carrier, said Tuesday it has launched a video control solution utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) technology for video recognition to monitor various accidents. Developed in collaboration with local software development company Innodep, the solution utilizes video recognition AI technology to analyze individuals, vehicles, [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The top court has ruled that if a company installs CCTV cameras to monitor work scenes without the consent of employees, workers covering the cameras cannot be penalized. The Supreme Court overturned the initial sentence of a 700,000 won (US$553) fine imposed on three officials of a labor union [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The University of Science and Technology said Thursday that its two PhD students have developed artificial intelligence (AI)-based CCTV technology that can sense and judge a variety of complex abnormal situations. The technology passed the Korea Internet and Security Agency’s seven intelligent CCTV certification categories, including loitering, intrusion, falling, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a new technology that uses artificial intelligence (AI) deep learning to clearly recognize and identify the key features of human faces such as eyes, nose and lips, even in low-resolution images. The Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) said Monday that [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Police Agency said Wednesday it will introduce intelligent CCTV cameras to prevent unlawful intrusion by outsiders in October. The intelligent CCTV cameras will send notices of outsiders’ unlawful intrusion to the smartphones of the victims or emergency dispatch centers in real time. The cameras will recognize outsiders [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, said Thursday it had developed a new technology to prevent the hacking of intelligent CCTV systems in collaboration with Internet of Things (IoT) security specialist ICTK Holdings. Intelligent CCTV refers to an artificial intelligence (AI) service that analyzes video images [...]