Day one of the invite-only Security & Policing exhibition, this year online instead of at Farnborough, saw AR Live Systems win the 16th annual Security Innovation Award by the defence and security trade association ADS.
The winner was announced by Angela Essel, Head of the Home Office’s Joint Security and Resilience Centre (JSaRC), and ADS Chief Executive Paul Everitt out of six short-listed nominees. Bangor, Northern Ireland-based AR Live Systems won for its Galahad facial detection and recognition software, that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to address legal and privacy challenges of use of facial recognition for law enforcement.
Mike Eisen, CEO of AR Systems Live hailed the accolade. He said: “To receive this award for our GALAHAD software product at our first time exhibiting with such a prestigious show, makes it all the better and rewards our dedicated team of software innovators led by Andor who has steered the development of the first truly ethical AI, working closely with Brian Lovell and his researchers. Like all innovative businesses, this is the culmination of considerable sweat and tears behind the scenes, of a great team which has now delivered us a truly ground breaking package that can deliver accurate and fast results, that will meet the toughest and tightest of standards world-wide, able to be used in court and justify the support of Francis Howard who has also shown great faith in this enterprise from the start.”
Paul Everitt, ADS Chief Executive congratulated AR Live Systems on the software. “This innovation has the potential to play a major role in supporting the security services as they look to harness the use of AI without compromising important boundaries. The ADS Security Innovation awards celebrate the dedication, determination and hard work of UK companies across the security industry.
“Companies in the UK security sector are skilled in delivering high quality products and services make a vital contribution to our national prosperity and security. Congratulations to all of the shortlisted companies who have been recognised this year for their outstanding innovation and thank you to all those helping to make a difference.”
Judges were also Mike Clayforth-Carr, Vice President; Security and Resilience at ADS; Andy Caldwell, Head of the Defence and Security Accelerator; and Simon Harwood, Chairman of Academic at the umbrella body RiSC.
Issured were highly commended for Mea: Connexus, a secure blockchain-enabled video interview and engagement product.
Also shortlisted were:
– Chorus Intelligence for Chorus Search, software that accesses online data for police investigations;
– FlareBright of London for Snapshot, a rugged nano-UAV; and
– SeeQuestor for its Big Database lLookup facility that reinforces the SeeQuestor video analytics platform by broadening its searching to large databases.
