Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect to protect Korean Border

Xbox Kinect is the one device that every household of a gamer has (or at least in the wish-list.) The Kinect sensor is supposedly one of them most efficient and convenient implemented technology that allows you to play hands-free. This movement-recognition software developed by Microsoft doesn’t seem to only attract the gamer’s world. In the recent, it has got attention from the last Cold War border.

Why? This seemingly domain-oriented sensor software’s potential in security has been uncovered. This software developed by Ko Jae-Kwan, founder-president of Saewan Co, can form the basis of a security device, it is found.

Where? He has been called by the military in Korea. The demilitarised zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea which is 4 kilometers wide and 248 kilometers long. It could easily come across as the most depopulated zone there is with just the air of war prevailing always, with the exception of a wildlife park there.

How? This software developed by Ko Jae-Kwan has the ability to differentiate between human and animal movements. The sound, direction, motion, and every other aspect of object attempting to cross the DMZ can be detected and can send out immediate alerts.

“Existing sensors, which had been in place along the border, were highly efficient, but could not tell the difference between humans and animals, sending wrong signals frequently,” Ko said.

“Such devices are established as part of our project to strengthen surveillance with scientific equipment, but we cannot provide details for security reasons,” a defence ministry official said.

Although the software of Ko had been modified by a Korean software engineer to meet the needs of the military, and placed in a few areas around the DMZ, there have been a few undetected crossings.

Recent version of the Xbox One has heart rate detections and body temperature determination, which Ko is planning to update into the Kinect-based sensors.