States are using “smart” lighting systems to create a national biometric and vehicle database

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A company called Sensity Systems is using “smart” LED lighting called NetSense to set up a national surveillance network.

The name of the new national surveillance network is called SkyNet.

I’m joking, it’s called NetSense.  

“Sensity’s NetSense Partner Program is designed to accelerate a global ecosystem for the Industrial Internet of Things .”

“The company [Sensity] targets malls, universities and cities…”

According to the Daily Mail, “smart” lights are being touted as security devices that can assist with ‘Homeland Security’ measures by providing applications like video surveillance and motion sensors.

NetSense enables security solutions in environments such as parking lots and garages, college and corporate campuses, and city streets where there is a need for enhanced security, asset protection and perimeter detection. What they’re really saying is, they’re quietly installing a nationwide smart LED lighting surveillance system!

Sensity’s “smart” LED lights are being installed in airports across the country.

“Using an array of sensors and eight video cameras around the Newark Airport terminal, the Sensity light fixtures are part of a new wireless network that collects and feeds data into software that can spot long lines, recognize license plates and even identify suspicious activity, sending alerts to the appropriate staff.”

The airport has installed 171 “smart” LED lighting fixtures, attached to the ceiling, that peer down and record the movements of passengers and staff.

Las Vegas’s “smart” LED lights can record people’s conversations.

“This technology, you know is taking us to a place where, you know, you’ll essentially be monitored from the moment you leave your home till the moment you get home,” said Daphne Lee.

“At what point do we say this is the land of the free,” Lee said. “People have a right to a reasonable amount of privacy.”

Cisco and Sensity reveal “smart” lighting is really about revenue enhancement and spying.

“The solution gathers and delivers the data by combining the foundational Smart+Connected Wi-Fi infrastructure with IP cameras, sensors, and smartphone apps. It integrates with enforcement applications, pushing expiration notices to traffic officers for ticketing…”

“NetSense for Parking gives owners and operators the ability to increase parking revenues. Video analytics capabilities include, for example, the detection of loitering, entering forbidden areas, andlicense plate recognition.”

City Benefits

Retailers use Cisco & Sensity to track everyone’s smartphone Wi-Fi signal.

“Cisco FastRetail analytics solutions help enable information-gathering and assessment of data not only within the store, but across the entire chain, across all layers, using sensors based on the Internet of Everything. You can optimize checkout service levels, monitor out of stocks, track possible shoplifters in real time, and assess supply chain performance.”

Is Sensity another DHS front company? You be the judge.

  1. Sensity is backed by Cisco Systems which has close ties to DHS.
  2. Cisco has an entire page devoted to DHS security. Cicso’s SourceFire system is certified by DHS.
  3. Carl De Groote was Cisco’s senior director of U.S. sales with DHS.
  4. Since 2008, Cisco has been sponsoring ‘Community Policing Awards‘ .
  5. In 2014, Sensity was awarded DHS’s Safety Act Designation.
  6. Sensity hired former DHS first Secretary Tom Ridge and other DHS employees to work on their Strategic Advisory Board!

DHS employees working with/for corporations is not new, the controversy surrounding Global Security Intelligence Strategies (GSIS) is a perfect example.

GSIS was co-founded by the former director of the Secret Service Mark Sullivan just weeks after Mr. Sullivan retired from the service

“The parade of DHS officials who have left the agency to form a private firm with Mr. Sullivan. Those officials include Dennis K. Burke, a senior adviser to former Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano, and David Aguilar, former deputy commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.”

Genetec a company with close ties to DHS has partnered with Sensity to profit from “smart” lighting surveillance. Click here, here & here to read about Genetec’s close relationship with DHS.

City surveillance initiatives help drive Genetec innovation:

“Genetec President, CEO and founder Pierre Racz and his executive staff have become leaders inunified IP-based video surveillance, access control, and license plate recognition (LPR) platforms. But as the security environment evolves and clients’ needs become more diverse andfinancially driven…”

“Smart” LED companies hire cops to write codes to spy on citizens in each city!

Last month, Genetec hosted a pair of Kansas City police officers at one of their high-level programming workshops.  “These are gun-carrying police officers who write code that is specific to their city surveillance needs. But we are taking them through our methods so they will be able to write code that is more modular, more testable, and conforming to international standards.  I’m so excited about this relationship. This is the reality of convergence,” says Racz.

Philippe Ouimette Director of Strategic Alliances at Genetec. revealed their “smart” lights are being used in malls.

“Genetec and Sensity share a core strategy to develop and deliver innovative and sustainable solutions that can offer cities, airports, shopping malls and municipalities new ways to cooperate and pool security resources. Law enforcement and city organizations can become more productive and minimize operational costs by integrating the Genetec security platform with the Sensity light sensory network” Ouimette said.

Last month, I warned everyone that the Mall of America and universities are using license plate readers.

Genetec/Sensity’s cameras are also being used to spy on everyone attending public parades and much more.

Private companies with close ties to DHS and the police are turning America into a giant surveillance state!

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2 thoughts on “States are using “smart” lighting systems to create a national biometric and vehicle database”

  1. This is just the latest breakthrough in LEDs that’s being reported here, but street lights have been packed with surveillance devices for a long time now.

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  2. They’re trying to turn the country into a for-profit prison. But the thing is, prisoners can riot if they get angry enough. And prison riots are especially dangerous when the prisoners are armed.

    For now, though, surveillance doesn’t seem to be as effective as many believe. Look at Chicago, for example. It has a huge network of cameras, but that doesn’t seem to help the pigs there solve many homicides. The murder clearance rate there in 2015 was about 25%. (The national average is about 67% if memory serves.)

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