Police bodycams are an essential piece of equipment for modern law enforcement. But there is a problem. Videos can be faked. Blockchain technology ...
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A really cool idea. Thanks for the write-up.
I'd be interested in your thoughts on whether it would be an option to run this concept on a cell phone in the first place. Given cell phones have the processing power, battery, charging hardware, and the necessary wireless radios, could they be an option?
I'm think rooted devices so that power hungry features could be controlled (e.g. the screen) without turning off the camera.
Yes, I'm sure all of this could run just fine on a cell phone as well.
I think the main considerations are cost and power consumption. Something like a full-blown Android device still has a lot of overhead in both hardware and software that could be trimmed off.
If a Raspberry Pi was sufficient with only 15% CPU utilization then there is a lot of room to reduce hardware costs and improve battery life.
This is a great project and write-up; just the fact you got this thing processing video and images and transmitting and syncing them with a blockchain is a feat. I think this is ahead of its time and this idea needs to be promoted and worked on. We shouldn't have the Judge Dredd, RoboCop, or Minority Report dystopian models complete our future of autonomous policing. Instead we should be working on exactly this type of distributed trust for when the state interacts with the citizenry.