Palo Alto, CA, United States– On March 31 2015, GenioCode launched a crowdfunding campaign for iCaptura, a device that will allow users to recognize faces and alert authorities when a person of interest has been identified on camera.

“When US President Barack Obama visited India during Republic Day this year, over 15000 CCTV cameras were deployed in Delhi. If some incident had taken place, the amount of footage cops would have had to go through would have been really high and the time wasted doing that could also have been better utilized,” explains founder, Sunoj Antony, “We have developed a customized algorithm to identify a person perfectly from a crowd. Developing this kind of product is not easy but not impossible either. We have applied for a patent so other companies cannot replicate our product.”

Using iCaptura is fairly simple; all you have to do is input an image and once a CCTV camera locates it, an alert is raised and stakeholders are informed by MMS. iCaptura’s main purpose is to help locate known terrorists, criminals, and missing people by alerting concerned officials when their image is captured on camera.

This software also has a wide range of other potential uses, including monitoring attendance in schools and offices. This can save time and effort since iCaptura can also take care of notifying parents or concerned officials about absentees automatically. iCaptura can be also be used to manage reserved parking spaces or help detect and prevent illegal voting.

There are lots of attractive features for domestic users…by pressing a particular button/icon in the mobile device, home owners would be able to activate the alarm in iCaptura, which would then alert neighbours through email and MMS. It would also sound an alarm, forcing neighbours to pay attention immediately,” says the team, “At present, we have developed a prototype and are raising funds to build the associated hardware. In exchange for pledging to the project, backers can gain access to a variety of rewards including …

To learn more about GenioCode, check out the project here or contact the creator below.