Wintics’ purpose and background 

Artificial intelligence-assisted video analysis is a relatively new and rapidly growing discipline.  Its emergence makes it possible to provide concrete answers to the many problems faced by cities and large public hosting infrastructures : flow mobility management, safety, cleanliness, streamlining operational processes, etc. In this regard, the technology utilized by Wintics is a real asset for improving the living environment and promoting more sustainable cities.

However, the development of video analysis raises some legitimate questions in terms of protecting citizens’ privacy.

Aware of these issues and having a vested interest in a societal project of general interest, Wintics pays particular attention to these aspects and promotes ethical development of this technology in order to make the most of it, while safeguarding against possible abuses.

Wintics produces 100% anonymized data, without recording images or videos.

Cityvision software produces exclusively anonymized data and uses no personal identification techniques. Particularly, Cityvision features no face recognition or license plate reading technology.

The data produced by the software belong exclusively to Wintics’ customers and is never reused by Wintics.

Moreover, the analysis of video streams by Cityvision is exclusively performed in real time without any video or image recording.

Finally, Wintics implements strict internal procedures aimed at guaranteeing respect for individual liberties and personal data protection (particularly in terms of training and contracting).

Wintics includes features that ensure the minimization of the amount of data analyzed and the proportionality of data processing. 

Wintics respects the major principles of “privacy by design and by default” in its Cityvision development. Thus, a certain number of functionalities allows to minimize data processing. For example:

• All active analyses can be easily disabled
• Analysis can be automatically disabled over certain time periods during which they are not of particular interest.
• Cityvision allows video operators to apply privacy masks over video images, thus ensuring that associated areas are not analyzed by the software (the pixels are irreversibly deleted in these areas).

Cityvision is developed to guarantee a high level of information security.

At the heart of our customers’ concerns, information security is a major challenge addressed by Wintics. Cityvision’s main security measures are summarized below:

• Software installed in a closed network: Cityvision is installed locally and requires no Internet connection for its operation
• Access to the Cityvision’s platform utilizing different configurations according to different profiles in order to separate the rights of each individual
• Secure connection to the software using a password associated with strict management (complex password and blocking of the account in case of repeated erroneous attempts)
• Automatically log out after a certain period of inactivity 
• All user logins and actions archived in a logbook
• Scrambled software code to prevent any unauthorized person’s access to modify it with malicious intent