Moscow authorities are building a facial recognition system on Linux Ubuntu and DBMS Tarantool

Main article: GIS ECXD (Unified Data Storage and Processing Center of Moscow)

GIS ECXD (Moscow Unified Data Centre)

2021: Personal Authentication Subsystem Implementation Plan

On September 28, 2021, it became known that Moscow authorities they were going to introduce "Single Data Centre" (ECDC) authentications a face-to-face subsystem into GIS. The ECDC is a metropolitan InformSystem containing a collection of information objects that are monitored in video surveillance. From To Moscow 210 data thousand urban ones flock to the system. cameras

The modernization of the center will be carried out following a thematic tender, which was launched by order of the Department of Information Technology of the Moscow Government (DIT) on September 24, 2021 in the format of an open competition. The initial maximum contract price is set at 328.5 million rubles. Applications from applicants will be accepted until October 18, summing up is scheduled for October 28. The works shall be performed within 37 calendar days from the date of signing the agreement, but not later than December 13, 2021.

Also, within the framework of the work, it is envisaged to develop the existing functional capabilities of the ECXD to increase user convenience, optimize interaction with external systems and improve the performance of the system as a whole, - is indicated in the terms of reference.

The tender documentation states that the recognition subsystem will have to provide "an additional factor of user authentication within the framework of secure access; facial photo data should be used as an additional authentication factor. "

The development of a mobile client and the placement of a subsystem on mobile devices is not provided, the TA says.

Authentication by the person involved in the technical assignment to the contract will be introduced only for biometric verification of the entry into the ECDC itself, - CNewsDIT representatives assured. - This is a common method of two-factor authorization, the use of which will increase the security of user accounts and prevent unauthorized access to the ECDC.

The technical assignment for the modernization of the ECXD notes that the facial authentication subsystem as an OS will use Ubuntu - a Debian-based free distribution GNU/Linux, developed by the British company Canonical.

As for the DBMS, Tarantool was chosen as it for the facial recognition subsystem - an open system developed by российскойMail.ru Group, an in-memory computing platform with a hybrid data scheme.

It is worth noting that already existing ECXD subsystems use very different OS and DBMS. Among them, CentOS Microsoft Windows 2012 Standard, R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 , Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise,. MySQL Ubuntu is involved in two subsystems, Tarantool is not used in modernized subsystems for September 2021.

In the context of numerous recent projects on the use of Russian or open source software in the public sector, the choice of DIT in favor of these products may seem somewhat exotic, but officials themselves do not agree with this.

Ubuntu OS is one of the most common industrial open source Linux operating systems, DIT representatives emphasized. - It is used for the functioning of a number of ECDC subsystems, and it is incorrect to call it exotic. The specifics of the face authentication software module provide for storing data in a weakly structured format, in the so-called DBMS NoSQL. Tarantool is a DBMS of this class, which has proven itself in a number of highly loaded solutions in various sectors of the domestic industry[1].

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