Text | Intelligent relativity

Author | Chen Bocheng

"The fourth uncle in the village left, and he was found by the neighbor's seventh aunt in the evening of the next day."

That night, on the phone with my parents at home, they suddenly brought up the incident.

Although the fourth uncle is his father's cousin, he is only of the same generation, and he is much older than his father in terms of age. And I left home since I was a child, and I only knew each other a few words during the New Year's holidays, and I didn't know much about him, I only knew that the fourth aunt left early, and he also had a son who worked in Guangdong, and he rarely went home.

The parents continued to talk about the fourth uncle, "At night, he got up to go to the toilet, accidentally stepped on the air, fell to the ground, no one found it, lay down all night, and it is said that he left at 4 or 5 o'clock the next day." ”

"Fourth brother, he usually speaks quietly, but he didn't expect to leave, and he couldn't shout a louder word, call someone." The father added.

Perhaps, Si Bo He could have been rescued. It's just that in such a calm night, and in the countryside, no one can find out that a living person is quietly being "swallowed" in the dark.

The countryside is full of "fragile" individuals

When I was a child, I rarely wandered around and played alone in and around the village. My mother always told me, "The rural environment is very friendly to children and the elderly." ”

I still remember when I returned to school after the summer vacation in the second grade of primary school, there was one less classmate in the class, who was from the next village. It is said that during the summer vacation, a man went swimming in a reservoir outside the village, but had an accident and left.

It was noon, and the people in the village either went to cool off or have lunch, and no one noticed. When the people were salvaged, their faces had already turned white.

To this day, such tragedies continue to play out in rural areas. In June this year, a tragedy occurred in the Daoren Reservoir in Daoren Village, Maotian Town, Yueyang County, Yueyang City, Hunan Province, where a pair of brothers drowned, the elder brother was only 10 years old, and the younger brother was only 6 years old.

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The drowning of children, especially in rural areas, is a long-standing social pain point that needs to be solved urgently. According to the 2023 China Youth Drowning Prevention Big Data Report, about 57,000 people die from drowning in China every year, of which adolescents and children account for 56% of the drowning deaths, and children in rural areas account for 88.4% of all drowning children.

Why do children in rural areas have such a big chance of accidents? Anyone who has lived in the countryside knows that the rural areas are vast and sparsely populated, and the range of human activities is relatively limited, so it is difficult to maintain a high level of attention at all times.

"In the city, if you do something out of the ordinary, someone will immediately find out, and even make a small video and post it on the Internet, full of people, everywhere cameras. But in the countryside, there used to be a child in my hometown who was abducted by human traffickers, and when it was dark and the person did not go home for dinner, he was discovered, and the traffickers had already run away in a car......"

In rural areas, vulnerable groups such as the elderly and children are prone to accidents. It is not only that there is little human attention and their own self-help ability is weak, but also that there are many undeveloped environments in rural areas, and it is easy to fall into dangerous situations.

In July this year, Uncle Liu from Qingshang Village, Miaoyu Town, Wushan County, Chongqing City, went into the mountains to collect fungi, accidentally stepped on the air, fell into a deep pit, and broke two ribs. He lay in the pit for three days, almost in despair.

Fortunately, the fire and rescue team, the police, the township cadres in the village, and the enthusiastic villagers of the whole village never gave up, and launched a carpet search and rescue for more than 60 hours, and finally rescued Uncle Liu from the deep pit.

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The countryside is no more lively than the city, and the other side of the calm is like a "black hole", brutally devouring any vulnerable group in a dangerous situation. Children drowned, elderly people fell..... These accidents, which often occur in rural areas, need to be noticed as soon as possible and urgent measures can be taken to make the peace of the countryside beautiful.

When AI intelligent monitoring penetrates deep into rural areas

Parents often lamented that if their cousin (the son of the fourth uncle's family) had been at home at that time and had not gone out to work, perhaps the tragedy would have been avoided.

However, if you don't go to Guangdong, my cousin won't be able to find a good job in his hometown, the whole family will have to eat, and the two children will have to go to school - these can't be realized, so isn't it a new tragedy?

In the face of tragedy, it is not necessary to pursue people's hindsight. If we really want to think of a feasible way, perhaps the progress of technology can bring us a way to avoid tragedy - if the fourth uncle's house had been equipped with an AI intelligent surveillance, the tragedy might not have come.

Different from traditional surveillance, in addition to basic monitoring functions, AI intelligent monitoring can also use artificial intelligence technologies such as computer vision and deep learning to achieve higher-level functions, such as object recognition (face, license plate, etc.), behavior analysis, anomaly detection, etc., and can automatically warn.

In the past, such AI intelligent monitoring was mostly used in cities to deal with various complex events in high-population density scenarios in cities, such as snapping illegal behaviors such as running red lights and illegal parking in the traffic field, and monitoring abnormal behaviors such as fights, brawls, and thefts in the field of public safety.

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Today, in Yiyang, Hunan Province, Hunan Telecom has deployed AI cameras at important intersections, forest checkpoints, dangerous waters and other areas in the city to achieve AI intelligent monitoring in multiple scenarios.

At the same time, all kinds of AI alarms are automatically pushed to the large screen of the township (community) command center, with sound and light pop-up prompts, and AI alarms can also be automatically pushed to the WeChat and text messages of grassroots cadres, including time, place, on-site screen, alarm type, alarm level, etc., so as to avoid accidents such as wildfires and drowning.

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At the same time, through the combination with the cloud platform, it can be easily integrated with other systems and services to achieve richer functions, such as access to the public security system, medical system, etc., when different types of accidents occur, it can be urgently fed back to the professional department, and the response measures can be taken as quickly as possible.

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"In the countryside, there is either nothing to do, and once there is something, it is designated as a big thing. I've lived in the village for so long and seen a lot, if I could have found out earlier, there might not have been so many bad things......" The neighbor's seventh aunt later muttered to her mother.

Speaking of which, she was also careful, and when she saw that the fourth uncle hadn't gone out for a day, she thought that something might have happened, so she went to the door to take a look.

But, after all, it was a little late.

Use AI intelligent monitoring to protect vulnerable groups

Grandma Liu from a community in Yiyang City, Hunan Province, is now full of praise for the newly built Tianyi Smart Community, "Since there is surveillance, the faces of people entering and leaving the community are recognized one by one, and thieves dare not come, and we live more at ease!" ”

For Grandma Liu, she may not even understand smartphones, let alone data security, but she knows that with Tianyi Smart Community and AI monitoring, her life is safer.

To some extent, rural areas seem to be more suitable for the popularization of AI intelligent monitoring than urban areas.

"People in cities will pay more attention to issues such as privacy, and they will be more sensitive, and too much of this kind of surveillance, there will be a sense of offense......" has become a controversial social issue.

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However, in rural areas, especially for vulnerable groups such as the elderly and children, AI intelligent monitoring has indeed saved their lives at critical moments. When the society generally discusses the security and privacy issues of AI applications, vulnerable groups such as the elderly and children may only need a real security guarantee.

What they need is more for a good result, and the process doesn't matter. In the face of life safety, whether it is technical principles or data privacy, these are not the directions they care about.

Here, AI intelligent monitoring is the most fundamental value and application vision of artificial intelligence technology.

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