If you are looking for an alarm system that incorporates the latest in AI-enabled bear facial recognition technology, Japan’s Daiwa Tsushin has the thing for you. And, depending on risk appetite, for your portfolio.
Trained on 50,000 photos and videos of bears native to Japan and empowered by a dedicated server, Face Bear will trigger anti-bear sirens and alert the property owner to the threat of clawed rampage via smartphone, but completely ignore gentler wildlife.
It is a product forged in unsettling and revelatory times. Japan’s bears, in their emboldened advance on cowering towns, are interrogating the nation on global warming, demographics and industrial policy.