Last week on Smart City Sentinel, we covered a story involving Knightscope, a provider of self-driving, autonomous security robots (ASRs) and blue light emergency phones, towers and call boxes, among other Machine-as-a-Service (MaaS) solutions. Knightscope is being supported by Verizon Business; specifically, deployments of Knightscope’s K5 security robots and its K1 emergency communication devices are being powered by secure 5G connectivity from Verizon in order to elevate safety protocols in public spaces, commercial and government buildings, and certain healthcare facilities for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. (Read the full article here.)
Today, we have another Knightscope-centric story to share:
Knightscope has deployed additional ASRs — two of its mobile K5s and four of its stationary K1s — at a casino in Michigan as part of a previously announced master agreement with an operator of integrated entertainment venues, sports content, and casinos.
As noted in our Knightscope-Verizon story, this is excellent news for developers specializing in smart spaces and for the Internet of Things, in general; Knightscope’s K5s hold a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Moderate Impact Level Authority to Operate (ATO) designation sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and this is also a major green flag outside of VA-related use cases. It represents a broader achievement, signaling Knightscope’s organizational focus on robust cybersecurity and the trust being placed in its ASRs for a variety of applications.
So (for the above-mentioned casino location), these autonomously recharging K5s — enhanced by the Knightscope Security Operations Center (KSOC) — will prove highly versatile in providing a.) eye-level video streaming and HD recording, b.) thermal anomaly detection, c.) license plate recognition and more that this Michigan casino can take advantage of. (Plus, those stationary K1s are compact, they share many monitoring-focused features with the K5s, and they’re easily mountable so each K1’ss three-camera coverage can precisely survey the area it’s designated to.)
Learn more here.
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Greg Tavarez
