Rio – will be hard to go unnoticed when the facial recognition system is deployed in public transport River State to combat misuse of the Single Ticket intermunicipal (BU) and gratuity cards. Cameras equipped with millimeter precise technology will be able to identify whether any person is or is not the owner of the card used to release the shipment, even if it is using cap or wig or has undergone plastic surgery. All users will be re-badged and win a digital signature
The prosecutor Luiz Claudio Carvalho de Almeida; Carlos Silveira, executive director of RioCard IT; and David Anthony, comptroller general of the Single Ticket
Photo: Maíra Rabbit / Agency Day
new technology tests have started on two bus lines of Transportation Pendotiba in Niteroi, which monitors the use of the cards since November. The volume of misuse of gratuities guaranteed by law is impressive. Responsible for adjustments to the system until it is perfect for deployment, RioCard IT recorded in 15 days, 8000 shipments of people who have no right to benefit traveling without paying the fare with the card of an elderly or student public. These lines will not be disclosed for strategic reasons.
The importance of combating fraud against the single ticket and gratuities was the subject of debate sponsored by the ‘Centre for Mobility’ on Thursday. Participated in the writing of the DIA newspaper, the comptroller general of the Single Ticket intermunicipal, David Anthony Gonçalves Alves, the prosecutor Luiz Claudio Carvalho de Almeida, coordinator of the Operational Support Center for the Protection of Justice Prosecutor for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities, and the executive director of RioCard iT, Carlos Silveira.
According to Carlos Silveira, cameras connected to validators RioCard in city and intercity buses, subways, trains and barges will produce 90,000 frames per second. At least three to seven images (the best) of each passenger will be stored and compared with the photos previously registered by the cardholder. It will be a bank of full evidence that will allow authorities to identify and punish those who defraud the Single Ticket, social benefits funded by the state government, and gratuities, borne by every citizen who pays passage
INFOGRAPHIC:. How does control by face recognition
“we process 12 million transactions with RioCard the various state transport every day, the equivalent of Visa credit card transactions in Brazil. To prevent misuse, we must take the same care that credit providers, “said the director of RioCard IT. According to him, the third party for gratuitous use weighs in tariff adjustments, since a portion of tariffs supports the benefit.
In 2015, the Rio state paid $ 602 million to transport companies to subsidize tariff discounts to passengers by BU. – amount equivalent to the difference between the actual price of the tariffs and the value of the Single Ticket Intermunicipal (R $ 6.50)
ahead of controllership created the Department of Transportation a year ago, to assist the police in the BU inspections, David Anthony explained that a common fraud is when someone passes a card to several people on the bus to get the passenger boarded a sum of money equal to or less than the rate. Who will generally board validates the card and returns the window. Biometrics identify misuse. As the BU is subsidized, the individual profits at state expense and burdens the population. specialized offices to buy the balance of BU cards are also on the route of the investigations. “The state can not waste resources funding fraud,” says David Anthony.
Government expects to generate R $ 50 million savings the new system
Proposed by governor Luiz Fernando Bigfoot, concerned about the high spending on the Single Ticket allowance (BU), the bill provides facial control in transport was approved in December by the Legislative Assembly (Alerj). According to the comptroller general of the BU, David Anthony, the government is awaiting the completion of tests by RioCard IT, technology company RioCard, operator of the cards, to implement the system.
When the passenger is not the holder of the benefit, is made a report with different photographs
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No deadline for completion of testing or for the installation of cameras in all modes of transport, said the executive director of RioCard IT, Carlos Silveira. The law, however, says that companies (which will fund technology) have 180 days from the sanctions, to install equipment in intercity buses.
Later, trains, ferries and local buses will also have the system, since the BU enables integrations with discount between an intercity transportation and a city.
to fully individualize the identification of BU user, the government is considering signing an agreement with the Traffic Department and the IRS. The goal is to be able to cross the images taken on camera with the ID and the user CPF. Currently, it is carried out the beating of data RioCard, informed at registration with the IRS, through the State Department of Finance. “The difficulty is because this process is not instantaneous,” added David Anthony.
The Department of Transport prepares the draft decree to regulate the law, which will define rules such as recadastramento.São cogitated some hypotheses such as attendance record in office of the company, where the images would be captured, and even an automatic process that would make the pictures in the first shipment after the start of the system.
the comptroller general of the Single Ticket, He declined to estimate the volume of fraud in the program. However, the state Department of Transportation, had reported that the biometric can generate savings of up to R $ 50 million a year in subsidies. To send the draft law, the government said it fixed the ceiling of R $ 600 million for the program. From there, the government will have to reduce the value of the portion that pays for each pass. The BU the fraudster will be subject, in addition to criminal liability, the application of the grant suspension for up to one year.
To RioCard 30% of gratuities are suspected
While the weather in Brasilia, on social networks and in the whole country streets heats up, inflamed by corruption, participants in the debate underscore many people do not realize that the misuse of a gratuity or other person of the Single Ticket are also unethical actions that harm society and the other passengers.
“the national scene does not help much, because when people harm the public treasury, think they are not harming anyone. Ethics is a difficult value introjecting in the short term individual. This transgression usual unnoticed ethics is common, as lender health insurance card, “the prosecutor Luiz Claudio Carvalho de Almeida, coordinator of the Operational Support Center for the Protection of Justice Prosecutor for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities.
“people see the scandals, crises in general, but not seen corrupt from day to day and that corruption is factual. Comrade adopts small behaviors that you know are not legal, but think you have no problem. I think it also goes through education. “, Stressed the general controller- the Single Ticket, David Anthony
the validator model with the camera attached, already was presented
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According to him, until last year, there was a campaign to guide the user that it contributes to to a chain of irregularities by, for example, sell the balance of BU.
“And contributes. That amount deposited on the card may be his, but when he delivers and an office to recover what they paid in credits, with a discount, do not realize that that difference will cost the state, “added the driver.
according to RioCard are carried out 40 million free trips per month throughout the state, and approximately 30% of these transactions are considered suspicious.
by mapping the use of the card, the RioCard found that 18% the gratuities elderly are used on average six times a day in Rio. for the company, this may indicate that the benefit is being used by other people who have no right.
for promoter, technology is better than digital
for the prosecutor Luiz Claudio Carvalho de Almeida, the facial recognition system is more suitable than the identification by digital, which was deployed in Niterói and he was eventually suspended by the Court after action of the prosecution. On occasion, the MP received hundreds of complaints from elderly people who were struggling to make the recognition of digital and felt constrained boarding. Just so the model will not be repeated in the rest of the state.
Another positive aspect of the project, he said, is that the passenger will be denied boarding if the camera does not recognize. When the system detects the misuse, the person will be informed later and will have seven days to seek a post of RioCard and clarify the problem. In Niterói, roulette was not released in case of suspicion. “It is necessary to combat fraud, but that can not prevent access to a guaranteed by law benefit,” said the prosecutor, adding that any elderly, by law, can board showing only the identity card.
The system tests creates a digital signature for each user from distances between points of the face of the person, a true mathematical biometrics. For each person is assigned a number. According to Carlos Silveira, the RioCard IT, this digital signature does not change after the 16-year-old passenger and recognition independent of differences in lighting, if the person had plastic surgery or is wearing sunglasses, for example.
to increase recognition rates, can recognize a face even in 30 degree angles of inclination relative to the camera. With this, people from 1.20 meters up to 2.10 meters in height have captured facial images. Are being tested, the two companies technology systems.
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