AI missed fire alarms at VZ facility?

https://thebaynet.com/fire-rips-through-verizon-facility-in-waldorf-damages-27-vehicles-and-causes-3-8-million-in-losses/

One wonders if there were any fire alarms triggered to NOC/on-call folks as 'most' facilities would have systems designed to send an alert for something like this? Unless the system was never properly tested for alarm.

Cutting humans and 'replacing' or outsourcing to save money looks good on spreadsheet - how will explaining what happened and getting these vehicles replaced look on a spreadsheet? AI was supposed to be superior for most all job duties, including writing poems to everyone's wife.

#AI #Accountability #Automation #Cuts #Layoffs

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@b3 no cameras there

Many of our facilities are now unmanned and have AI tools monitoring the servers, switches, and cellular equipment. I've seen faults in the detection equipment which fails to alert the AI of an outage. VZ personnel have been cut in these locations and reduced to AI doing a call to the "oncall" to report the outage. When the detection equipment fails, the tech sadly never gets a call.

It was a out door structure area in a GWC. No alarms are in any outdoor structure. Unless the building close git a whiff of smoke. Rumor mill is the Camara feed was cut. So not sure what AI has to do with any of it.

We need to investigate this and put the findings into a deck.

Perhaps the fire alarm went off and went completely ignored because the NOC staff had been laid off or replaced by AI to secure a $3.8 million gain?

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