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Automatic tracking system to monitor drunk passengers at Japanese train stations
The Japanese are a very hardworking people. Most Japanese employees work so hard during the week that near the end of the week, the only way to relieve the accumulated stress is to get drunk. Since the Japanese are actively using the trains and subway, often strong intoxication leads to accidents: poor people simply do not stay on their feet and fall from the platform directly under the train. To reduce the number of accidents, the railway company JR West has developed a special project.
Special automatic tracking systems will be installed at all stations owned by this operator. These cameras, using specially designed algorithms, will look for common signs of intoxication among the people present in the frame. For example, if a person sits on a bench for too long, skipping one train after another, or simply staggers aimlessly on the platform, the computer system will definitely pay attention to him and inform the station staff about it.
So far, the cameras have only been installed in one place – at the Kebashi station in Osaka, which is the closest to the business center of the city. In the near future, the management of JR West plans to install similar systems at other stations. And this is not the first such initiative from this railway operator. Earlier this year, the company published research that proves that in subway stations you can not place benches facing the edge of the platform: a drunk person, hearing that his train is approaching, abruptly gets off the bench, loses his balance and flies straight to the tracks.
This may sound ridiculous or even ridiculous, but unfortunately the reality is that 60% of train accidents are caused by drunk people. Against statistics, as they say, can not resist. Perhaps such an initiative, in fact, will help save lives. This means that the efforts of JR West engineers were not in vain. published
P.S. And remember, just changing our consumption – together we change the world!
Source: hi-news.ru/technology/avtomaticheskaya-sistema-slezheniya-budet-prismatrivat-za-pyanymi-passazhirami-na-yaponskix-vokzalax.html
Special automatic tracking systems will be installed at all stations owned by this operator. These cameras, using specially designed algorithms, will look for common signs of intoxication among the people present in the frame. For example, if a person sits on a bench for too long, skipping one train after another, or simply staggers aimlessly on the platform, the computer system will definitely pay attention to him and inform the station staff about it.
So far, the cameras have only been installed in one place – at the Kebashi station in Osaka, which is the closest to the business center of the city. In the near future, the management of JR West plans to install similar systems at other stations. And this is not the first such initiative from this railway operator. Earlier this year, the company published research that proves that in subway stations you can not place benches facing the edge of the platform: a drunk person, hearing that his train is approaching, abruptly gets off the bench, loses his balance and flies straight to the tracks.
This may sound ridiculous or even ridiculous, but unfortunately the reality is that 60% of train accidents are caused by drunk people. Against statistics, as they say, can not resist. Perhaps such an initiative, in fact, will help save lives. This means that the efforts of JR West engineers were not in vain. published
P.S. And remember, just changing our consumption – together we change the world!
Source: hi-news.ru/technology/avtomaticheskaya-sistema-slezheniya-budet-prismatrivat-za-pyanymi-passazhirami-na-yaponskix-vokzalax.html
