Bhubaneswar, March 26 -- Researchers at National Institute of Technology Rourkela have secured a patent for an advanced surveillance system designed to detect unauthorised individuals within complex building environments using thermal imaging and gait recognition technology.

The patented innovation, titled "Unauthorized Person Detection using Thermal Imaging and Gait Recognition for Intra-Building Security" (Patent No. 580748), has been developed by Samit Ari, Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, along with research scholar Mohammad Iman Junaid and M.Tech graduates Narayan Prasad Sharma and Irshad Ali.

The system aims to overcome limitations of traditional CCTV-based monitoring, which often requires ...