The scene of a crime. A thousand details to analyze. What is the depth of that footprint? What distance is there between the hand and the knife? What is the direction of blood splashes? The specialized teams of police forces know that each element has, which is essential to leave nothing to review, that an ocular inspection can last hours or days. A company born in Badajoz has 3D scenarios generation that has been listening to the police for years to know what needs they have and be able to reproduce everything that an investigation requires with a simple mobile recording that allows you to calculate measures, addresses, distances and brands with simple commands. They have been doing it with the investigation of traffic accidents for some time, with cases that have already reached the courts.
This is Eyescloud3D. The company was founded in 2015 in Extremadura promoted by a group of topographs, scientists dedicated to studying the earth’s surface, which sought to create three -dimensional models applied to that field. Two years later he joined the Miguel González team, who today is the general director and turned the field to which he direct his platform. “We went to several security fairs and there we started talking to different police officers who explained how they work and what their needs were,” González points out. This is how they went from the topography a.
The first collaboration that was born at those fairs and came to set in something tangible was with Ertzaintza, the Basque Autonomic Police, specifically with the traffic accident investigation units. And it still lasts today. “When there is a accident and specialized researchers arrive at the scene, they have been able They can already have a precise idea of what there is, ”explains the general director. Over time, many other local police, and regional, such as Navarra’s, have been incorporated into this system.
González admits that in these years he has learned a lot in regard to police investigation. “In my life I imagined that I would know what deformation energy is, for example,” he jokes. That is the term that, in the field of road accidents, designates the power required to generate the damage produced in vehicles that have collided. The main trick of which Eyescloud3d presumes is that the user does not require extensive knowledge in programming, use of computer tools or management of 3D to take advantage of their platform. “We do not eliminate the expert work, which the researchers have to continue doing, but the recording of the image can be done by anyone and then learning to use the platform is very simple,” says González. This technology allows them to apply variables to the investigation of claims such as moisture, temperature and light conditions at the time of the accident, thanks to the crossing of data with weather applications.
One of the demands that Eyescloud3d technicians listened to most from the agents is that they needed a way to visual and clearly show the result of their investigations before a court. The police explained that, given the complexity of their calculations and measurements, sometimes it was difficult for them to convey their conclusions before a judge or a prosecutor and explain why they had reached that conclusion. There are already many cases in which the police have supported the visualizations of this platform in a trial.
After the traffic units, the company has taken another step and works with the National Police in a pilot project to use its platform when taking the photos and police reviews of the detainees. The project, which has not yet begun to be implemented and is two years old, plans to use this tool to record the biometric data of those arrested. Now, the way to take these samples of individuals is to take their footprints and take three photos, which remain in the databases.
The suspect police from images captured by video surveillance cameras. The biometric data that the eyescloud3d tool can provide give information that goes beyond facial features and can measure unique characteristics of each person, such as ways of moving their hands, the way of walking or even breathing.
But the possibilities in the world of criminal investigation are endless. Its tool could measure and visually capture the trajectory of the bullets in a crime scene, the depth of a footprint and also the direction of blood splashes. “The program calculates the trajectory of splashes and, where there is an ellipse, is where the impact has occurred,” says González.
The company was born in Extremadura and there it plans to stay, at least for now. Eyescloud3D has fifty workers from a dozen nationalities, among which there are Cubans, Spanish, Russians, Peruvians, Colombians and Uruguayans, among others. They are computer, mathematician, physical and also entitled engineers from the field of business. They have already begun with international expansion, especially with Latin American police. For example, they have collaborated to make a 3D reproduction of the scenario of the crime of an Ecuadorian prosecutor. The next goal is to make the jump to the United States. “There, the security sector is very powerful,” says González.
