Rostec will supply smart metal detector frames for polling stations for 4.2 billion rubles

In early July 2021, it became known about the supply by the concern Automatic equipment"" of about 19 thousand smart metal detectors to polling stations for parliamentary elections in September. The purchase cost Ministry of Industry and Trade is about 4.2 billion, rubles they write "" Sheets with reference to public tender documentation.

According to the representative of "Automation," smart metal detectors will be delivered to 10 regions, in particular to the Moscow, Voronezh, Kaluga and Penza regions. About 70 such devices will be used in Moscow.

Rostec will use smart metal detector frames for polling stations worth 4.2 billion rubles

According to a source close to the Central Election Commission, voting takes only three days, in the future the equipment can be used to ensure the safety of schools.

Unlike ordinary frames, smart Automatics detectors can recognize potentially dangerous objects more selectively, for example, respond to knives and pistols, but ignore metal belt buckles, a representative of the concern explained to Vedomosti. The Ministry of Industry and Trade added that these frames can recognize explosives with metal elements. They should also be able to count the number of citizens coming to the site, follows from the procurement specification.

At the request of the customer, temperature measurement and face recognition systems can be introduced into the equipment, although "they are not yet provided for in the current batch," the concern said. In Russia, the leaders in facial recognition technologies are, in particular, NtechLab, Vision Labs and the Center for Speech Technologies (CST). The CST noted that their solution already works at more than 70 transport facilities in the country, but can be applied in other areas.

The director of Association of the enterprises computer and information technologiynikolay Komlev in a conversation with Kommersant called the sum of this contract for the industry essential and specified that the transaction can arouse mistrust from the market because of purchase at one supplier.^[1][2]

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