Marauder’s Map

As if red light cameras and other traffic cams aren't bad enough, there is a new kind of software, called Marauder’s Map after Harry Potter’s magical map that analyses security camera footage, facial recognition, and color matching for clothes to track multiple individuals indoors and out. This software could be very useful for tracking people’s movements across a network of cameras in real time for finding intruders or just figuring out your whereabouts. It might one day be helpful in tracking dementia patients that might wander away from a nursing home and get lost, or people in large stores or malls. Right now the software has been used on small scale projects but some would like to see it developed for larger scale use in our nation’s airports tracking people flagged for monitoring by security. Looks like this is definitely one of the directions in which technology is moving these days.