GovTech Business Watch: Startup Working on AI for Police Body Camera Video, Itron Seeks App Functionality for Smart Meters

GovTech Business Watch is a weekly roundup of news in the government technology market. Following the explosive popularity of body cameras at police departments across the country, a video analytics company is training up programs that could help automate some of the work it takes to get value out of the huge volume of visual data those cameras produce. Dextro, a New York-based company founded in 2013, has traditionally sold its services to the private sector. But now, according to an article from the Knight Foundation-backed news site Undark, the company is building up its artificial intelligence capacities to handle video from police departments. With companies such as Taser selling thousands upon thousands of cameras, many of them now producing high-definition video, police departments are beginning to compile terabyte-sized archives of data.