Startup receives funding from Indian government for real-time biometric and thermal scanning solution | Biometric Update
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A funding body with India’s government has announced a loan for biometric facial recognition provider Cocoslabs Innovations to develop a low-cost system for identifying people with fever amongst a crowd in real-time, along with a range of other technologies for combating the spread of COVID-19 in the country. In addition to backing the thermal scanners with video analytics from Cocoslabs and another company, Advance Mechanical Services Private, TDB announced support for a portable X-ray machine, 3D printing anti-viral agents onto masks, and rapid diagnostic kits. “The time of COVID-19 has shown us many paths to commercialization of indigenous technologies and products by seamlessly connecting the push of knowledge from academia and research labs to the pull of market with a clear purpose, relevance, need, ease of support, transparency, dedication, cooperation and accountability. The speed and scale of TDB support are some of the compelling examples of our new normal that would continue to serve in the Mission Swavalamban– Self-sufficient India,” states DST Secretary Professor Ashutosh Sharma in the government announcement. He said facial data has been collected from open source platforms on Google, but not social media, as those images tend to be compressed beyond optimal usefulness for training AI.
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