There’s equipment everywhere and you have limit time to decide what’s most important. All of the sudden, an arrow appears over a bottle on a table that says “Bag this please.” These kinds of prompts, previously restrict to video games and futuristic movies, may be making their way to reality; that is, if one country can prove that they work.
A pilot program recently implement in
The Netherlands leverages augment reality (AR) to send visual guidance from remote experts to crime scene investigators in the field, the prompts just pop up in their goggles. Think about it like Pokemon Go, except instead of catching creatures, they’re identifying and collecting evidence to catch a criminal.
The system is one of several technologies
The AR development company TWNKLS, in collaboration with the Dutch Forensic Institute and the Delft University of Technology. The overseas chinese in worldwide data technology offers the following advantages: More data can be gather and appli to investigative decisions The unifi framework allows for quicker well-focus actions Step-by-step tracking allows for accurate documentation and decreas margin of error Easy communication.
Allows for higher quality collaboration between
Distribut individuals and teams Applying sustainability and social responsibility diverse backgrounds and expertise to investigation fosters greater common understanding ultimately serving the quality of response. Principal Researcher, Dragoş Datcu says the full version could be available as early as later this summer. And although there’s no evidence of any American law enforcement rich data agencies planning to follow suit, AR technology is arriving at a critical time in public sector growth for the Netherlands.
The new system comes in response to diminishing
resources to address increasingly complex crimes. AR enables subject matter experts to fe critical guidance to detectives across a large area in a short amount of time, allowing them to be actively involv in more investigations than ever before. “We’ve tri the system and it really adds a lot of value to many different areas of policing,” said innovation adviser.
