Singapore SME fights crime with robots
'Humans should look at analytics and data to do preventive crime rather than reactive crime,' tech boss tells MARTIN LI
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CROOKS beware - there is a new crime buster on the block. Meet O-R3 - OTSAW Digital's proprietary crime fighting robot solution to the security industry's manpower crunch. Armed with data-collecting sensors to detect security abnormalities, the O-R3 is the watchdog that never sleeps.
"We don't want humans to do the repetitive work," said Ling Ting Ming, founding CEO of OTSAW Digital and - parent company - ActiV Technology. "Humans should look at analytics and data to do preventive crime rather than reactive crime."
Enter OTSAW Digital, which is Hebrew for "house of treasures" - Mr Ling's elite company of shock troops with a mission to channel cutting-edge technology to solve basic problems. Mobile apps, Internet of Things, and robotics - two years was all it took to dabble in it all.
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