ash-strapped states are using COVID as an excuse to create AI-driven vehicle recognition or license plate reader surveillance programs.
As Rekor Systems president and CEO Robert Berman proudly boasts, “because our technology works so well for vehicle recognition, we do more, we identify the vehicle’s make, model, color, body type, bumper stickers or window decals, rust, dents and other things like speed of travel and vehicle direction.” (approximately 2.40 of the video.)
Berman revealed that fast-food restaurants are using Rekor’s vehicle surveillance program “because it helps the folks who are making the food to do it more efficiently” claiming that it helps companies like Starbucks, ID customers who order the same thing everyday.
Berman also admitted that Rekor’s vehicle surveillance program is tied to smart city surveillance, saying “this is where things are headed, this is where thing are going to converge.”
Rekor bills itself as an AI-driven vehicle recognition company, but all it really is; is a AI-driven license plate reader company that “operates in over 500 regions worldwide.”
A recent article in One Zero, revealed that Oklahoma is using COVID as an excuse to secretly create a statewide mass vehicle surveillance program using Rekor to help raise much-needed funds.
“Oklahoma, which has seen its tax revenue plummet alongside falling oil prices, announced a statewide rollout of Rekor One in November to track uninsured motorists.”
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