Zerone Consulting

Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) is a multi-million dollar industry that has become increasingly ubiquitous in recent years. According to a recent study, the facial recognition market will grow to USD 7 billion by 2024. Companies across all industries, both in the private and government sector, are investing in the growth of facial recognition technology. While FRT solutions play a huge role in security and authentication, it is not limited to these realms. There are constant innovations in the field of facial recognition that have brought about several new applications in the business world. Retail FRT solutions can be used to keep track of shopping behavior and classify shoppers based on age, gender, and demographic. It can understand what section of people spend time in front of a particular product, for how long, and other typical retail habits. The data analysis from these sources can give sufficient inputs that can be used to curate advertisements targeted at specific sectio...

These days it will be hard-pressed to find people who have not used a map. Navigating to places with the help of maps have become an integral part of our daily lives. From day-to-day tasks like navigating to a new restaurant in town to tracking in military and research, maps have a wide variety of usages. One of the biggest hurdles of using maps is managing the underlying geographical and location data accurately. It is an arduous and expensive task that requires a lot of resources. Though there are many providers who source map data, they come with many restrictions on its usage. Premium map providers are costly and have strict licensing policies. To tackle this challenge and to make map data easily available, an entrepreneur named Steve Coast created the OpenStreetMap (OSM) in 2004. OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a free map of the world. The creation and growth of OSM have been motivated by restrictions on the use or availability of map data across much of the wor...