Privacy-preserving area monitoring with 3D cameras
GNS Engineering Team 1 min read
Cameras in public spaces raise legitimate privacy concerns. GNS Technology developed a 3D camera monitoring solution that solves this problem by design: it captures depth maps using reflected light instead of recording optical images.
The technology
Using reflected light, the camera extracts a depth map of objects for analysis. Because no optical image is captured or recorded — only the depth map — the solution is privacy-clean while still enabling powerful analytics.
Key advantages
- Designed for outdoor environments
- No optical image captured or recorded; only depth maps, giving privacy-clean solutions
- Lower cost than radar-based solutions
- Distinguishes object types: vehicles, people counting, types of obstruction
- Covers over 60 × 60 square metres with less than 10% dimension error
- Measures the speed and size of small packages and moving objects such as vehicles and trolleys
- In measurement mode, accurately measures package dimensions from 10 cm to 900 cm and extracts a 3D model within one second
Applications
- City management
- Housing and population monitoring
- Transport and road traffic status monitoring
- Passenger counting in local facilities
Learn more
This solution is registered on the Smart LAB platform as reference S-0233: Area monitoring solution using 3D camera with privacy-preserving.