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Board hears state-funded AI camera pilot demo; questions focus on privacy, detection limits and long-term costs
Summary
Vendors Evident and Raptor presented a proposal to pilot an on-premise computer-vision AI system for campus detection and automated alerts at selected New Hanover schools. Board members asked about facial recognition, license-plate reads, false positives, cloud vs. edge processing, state funding duration and ongoing licensing costs.
Vendors Evident and Raptor demonstrated an on-premise computer-vision artificial intelligence system in a board meeting presentation, one of the items included for information and planned as a state-supported pilot. Jared Worthington, the district’s executive director of school support, introduced the restart- and pilot-related presentation; Evident and Raptor representatives described threat, smoke, slip-and-fall, loitering and weapon-detection use cases and how alerts would route to the Raptor emergency-management platform.
Presenters said the proposed design uses “edge” processing: a local server at…
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