Many years ago the Gotham City cameras were contracted and sourced to Wayne Enterprises... hundreds of employees have already attempted to identify <PERSON> and track his movements using this method. The the city contract for the cameras happens to be handled by Wayne Enterprises, but all cameras in the city have been infected by tech (provided by Cyborg of course) that loops a few seconds of buffered images when he is in optical range before the images ever enter the data stream.
So a different plan was required.
It is all about the surveillance tech, but it is not about trying to do facial recognition or anything else... instead it is a matter of identifying where the points of origin and identifying common patterns.
Ultimately the solution will be unknowingly be solved by a handful of data scientists pouring over terabytes of data: tracking the migratory patterns of the osprey.
There are several levels of subterfuge being used with multiple programs being setup with simple and altruistic goals.
The equipment is actually a dense mesh network of free WiFi routers. A few extra bits of hardware allow the standard modems to record data from resistance and interference to generate a low dispersal radar system that can be used to track the birds. Of course <PERSON> is aware of this system and has commissioned a digital deflector/reflector system in his suit that virtually eliminate 98.6% of the interference -- to the receivers he is nearly invisible. He cannot actually jam the equipment because every time he flies by a node, the network connection would drop... and we cannot interfere with people and their streaming services. Besides we know that <PERSON> would support a public works project such as free WiFi for all.
It is this micro radar mesh system that the data scientists use as their primary data source for tracking the osprey.
The tools are all there, and all it takes is one brilliant computer scientist who is already doing work on the osprey project that makes a break through in identifying the unnatural static generated by <PERSON>'s cloaking suit; tweak the parameters and funnel the results into a secret database.
Suddenly we have a full map of all of his movements over the past year like a jogger's workout map. 209
Before what seemed like random movements starts to show a pattern of over a dozen entry points throughout the city. Additional routers were installed near these points to get higher resolution data. Then robberies were commissioned (fully expecting to fail) to start to anticipate his behavior (only an average of 46.4% accuracy but, wow... the team was excited). There seemed to be a higher percentage of origin near Wayne Manor and Wayne Enterprise subsidiaries and the team started focusing their efforts on those parts of town.
All employees of Wayne Enterprise are tagged and tracked. Individuals are rated and systemically downgraded because of location data not matching the movements of <PERSON>. Of course <PERSON> knows about THIS program too, and is able to generate false positive data, but there is still margins of error while he is covering his tracks.
Eventually the data scientist team fully in the know of tracking <PERSON> are able to identify <PERSON> with an 62.7% degree of certainty that he is <PERSON> putting him pretty much at the "top of the class". (It was much easier to identify who it was NOT then who it was).
Results are in, and now it is time for the ops team to take over the operation.
But before they could begin the operation... one extremely lucky bank robber was able to pull trigger the exploding radioactive dye in the pile of cash right in <PERSON>'s face. The dye is easily tracked by the WiFi network and before <PERSON> can leave town he is arrested as an accessory. 861