In the US introduced a new type of firearm, designed using blokcheyn technology. This enables police to track every case of use of weapons of their employees in real time.
A prototype called Glockchain was developed by a team with the support of Ideo coLAB Liberty Mutual, Citi Ventures, Fidelity and Nasdaq. Work on the prototype of a new weapon began last year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and became the prototype of the famous gun Glok17.
"In contrast to the traditional" smart weapons ", this technology allows you to see who it is the weapon at the moment. This information is then combined with the video recording time ", - quotes Tech Insider Jing Ling, IT-project manager and member of the Liberty Mutual Glockchain team.
Despite the fact that the sample is a sample in the laboratory stage, the developers believe that in the near future he will be able to be put into production.
Works in this direction are carried out another American company Blocksafe. However, unlike Ideo coLAB he took as a basis not blokcheyn and SmartLock technology in which a weapon is simply integrated smart device that identifies the owner with the help of Bluetooth and storing data on it at a decentralized server.