Surveillance Towers set up along US-Mexico border
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creating an invisible border wall.
The high-tech watch poles known as Autonomous Surveillance Towers are powered by solar energy and use artificial intelligence to detect movement along a two-mile radius, sending the information in real-time to agents patrolling the area.
And they’re now being installed at different points along the nearly 2,000 miles of the US-Mexico border.
... The ASTs were developed by Palmer Luckey, the 28-year-old founder and designer of Oculus VR and Oculus Rift.
... “Most of our [recent] apprehensions have come from this tower,” said Freeland, pointing at El Paso Sector’s newest AST, which sits on a high remote patch of scrub where the borders of Texas, New Mexico and the Mexican state of Chihuahua meet. The camera has been in operation for only the last two weeks.
... US Customs and Border Patrol, which plans to deploy 140 of the cameras to create a virtual wall along the border.
... Luckey, a supporter of former President Donald Trump, is marketing the towers that use a network of interconnected cameras and sensors through Anduril Industries, the defense technology startup he founded in 2017.
Anduril did not respond to messages seeking comment.
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