Posted by terapr0 Yea I've certainly noticed an increased use of "smart" IP Camera based CCTV systems around here, especially in highrise towers. They're unmanned and send wireless alerts to a monitoring station when their analytics software detects activity. They're smart enough to tell the difference between human and non-human motion, and have definitely encouraged me to re-think attempts at more than several locations. They're also becoming cheaper all the time, and I fear will become the new norm. My friend has a system like this set up in his house and we've tried a bunch of ways of tricking it. The best we've come up with so far is crawling along the ground very slowly with a blanket covering your body. Not the most practical solution if you need to cover any meaningful distance, and I'm sure the more advanced systems could use thermal imaging to overcome that anyway. Sad.
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The heart of the smartcam is the computer/pragramming the cams are linked to.
Cams are always fixed position, but are easily completely concealable if that is their intent.
If so, you'll never know they're there until it's too late.
They can use high res cams with long telephoto lens to survey from thousands of feet away.
Cams often have overlapping fields of view. Disabling one cam does not disable the network.
Evading one cam is often not enough in a well designed smartcam network.
A skilled programmer can set parameters to trigger a alarm for slow moving objects breaching zones.
Advanced systems have and use facial recognition, vehicle color/model, plate number gleaning, even estimate the race of a person.
Zone breaches and/or parameter triggers will trigger anything from a real time alert to a log notation along with the recorded image throughout the network. Once it acquires you or your car, bike etc it will track you throughout its network of cams. Some systems can recognize you and reacquire if you leave and return, even days or weeks latter.
They can be programmed to 'look' for specific vehicles, faces, or actions.
Thermal cams could be used to detect motion, perhaps a human form verses animal although I'm not aware of any systems that do.
Facial recognition using FLIR is still in its infancy, a small blessing. However software is now available at least of a federal level for this very purpose.
Do wear a hat (bush hat or at least a baseball cap) that covers your eyes; pupil distance is a key parameter for facial recognition.
Remember your driver license pic that was digitally uploaded? In some (all?) states your image is searchable. The FBI, DOD, etc uses these databases.
Walking/running gait can ID you as well although not sure if this is in use.
Not a pretty picture.
The FBI does make house calls if you breach one of their smartcam networks and are/become a person of interest; I can verify this
Any federal/active military site or 911 hot spot be wary of the potential presence of a sophisticated smartcam network.
I warned UER members of this 10 years ago... who's laughing now?