The use of APIs and SDKs has history and for those who work with technology, these are familiar and commonly used words. In parallel, the technology of 5G Telecom networks and Artificial Intelligence (AI for friends) are more recent and perhaps, in the current context, are being used more frequently.
*By Jose Larrucea
As we have all seen, 2020 was a year in which technology played a fundamental role in helping to control the pandemic and reduce the risks of contamination, through the development of applications and processes that eliminated the need for contact, video analysis detecting the approach and agglomeration of people, generating alarms when people did not wear masks, thus maintaining public and private environments operating within the standards required by the WHO.
He also showed that it is more necessary than ever to develop live, agile and open software and systems so that they can deliver excellence, even with a small infrastructure. For this reason, in several parts of the world, the race to adapt the systems, adding functionalities capable of managing the protocols for the operation of essential services was only possible, in addition to the collective effort of people and processes, thanks to the existence of APIs and SDKs.
Every day trillions of gigabytes of data are developed that must be compatible with different technologies, servers, devices and that can be shared, safely and quickly, with each other. Flexible technologies that allow you to unlock a wide variety of resources and add intelligence to existing systems.
In 2020, APIs and SDKs were behind-the-scenes protagonists in the technology world: they reduced the time to launch essential functions and turned data into actions capable of increasing security and mitigating the spread of Covid-19.
APIs and SDKs, with the help of artificial intelligence, enabled rapid adaptation and development of complex systems and solutions. It was possible to add functionalities to other software, adapting them in the most convenient way for its users. Some sectors, for example, managed to manage people by avoiding crowds, in addition to reducing the bureaucracy of operations, making them work faster and without queues. Others have managed to keep employees working in factories and offices with entry and exit without the use of hands and without any contact. There were also those who managed to have a greater awareness of the public that used the common spaces, detecting who wore masks and who did not, and identifying the percentage of people who were part of the age group corresponding to the risk groups.
The complex, adverse and unprecedented scenario of the pandemic necessarily left us with a rich legacy of learning. We need to be agile and flexible in both the physical and digital worlds. These two worlds must even work in unison creating this phygital environment. Bringing the experience of the digital ecosystem to the physical is totally possible, after all, technology is there for the benefit of social welfare, the development of the economy and the generation of positive impacts on society. And the race never stops. All these functionalities, launched quickly, left the world of codes and programming thanks to the integration of systems and commands collected in what today is summarized in simple acronyms: APIs and SDKs.
What you get using APIs, SDKs and 5G
In Japan, where 5G is already a reality, the country's leading cell phone company gave a beautiful example of how to add one more ingredient to this conversation: it created an employee authentication solution that allows access control through a smartphone.
The technology uses 5G and the SAFR SDK - a facial recognition system, without contact, compatible with the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) for the prevention and control of the Covid-19 pandemic. It features high-precision authentication, enabling high-resolution, high-speed data processing, providing excellence in masked employee recognition, with high levels of accuracy and low-latency communication.
In other words, just like in Japan, when 5G arrives in Brazil, it will allow us to take computer vision to levels never before explored. With the use of APIs and SDKs, the possibilities are endless, from the creation of highly efficient digital points for KYC (Know Your Customer) services to the guidance of multiple flows such as entrances to hospitals, schools, transportation; retail payments and use in various IoTs and wearables.
In fact, 5G will open doors to bring our reality closer to increasingly faster applications. In addition, with the use of APIs, SDKs and AI, we will have convenient, much faster and smarter applications.
To learn more about SAFR and the Docomo case, visit https://es.safr.com/
