Intelligent CCTV to spot retail fraud

StopLift Inc are trialing a new system that claims to be able to mathematically spot the signs of "sweethearting". This is when the checkout person obscures the bar code of some of the items, passing them free of charge to their accomplice.

This sounds like quite a challenge for a piece of software and the accuracy of its decision making will be under great scrutiny but there can be no doubt that we will see more behaviour based CCTV systems.

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