Bear Alert System Uses AI Cameras and TV Push Notifications
The project pairs AI camera detection with TV-based push alerts to solve two failures at once: slow resident reporting of bear sightings and poor indoor audibility of disaster radio, aiming for a five-minute warning window.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
Its Communications Inc. was selected for a Japanese government regional DX package project and will run a demonstration in Nanto City, Toyama Prefecture. The system combines AI cameras with Wi-Fi HaLow in the 850MHz band to detect bears remotely, then pushes alerts to televisions in residents' homes. The goal is to cut detection-to-notification time to about five minutes.
Bear encounters in Nanto City spiked to 176 sighting and trace reports in 2025, with two injuries. Current responses rely on residents phoning in sightings, and public address vehicles take about 30 minutes to reach the site and warn people.
The demonstration installs multiple PTZ cameras linked with thermal cameras and AI boxes for 24-hour automatic detection. Wi-Fi HaLow transmits video over roughly 1.5 km without communication costs, even where LTE signals are unstable. After city staff confirm a sighting remotely, the system pushes a warning to televisions in the target area. The plan targets a five-minute gap between detection and notification.
The project runs in Nanto City's Yamamoto, Koyama, and Shikanji districts, with full-scale local government adoption eyed from fiscal 2028.
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