As part of the constant effort towards public safety and regulation, law enforcement agencies are increasingly focusing on using technology to improve their capabilities. From monitoring city streets to responding quickly to incidents, police forces have a range of intelligent solutions designed to expand their reach and improve their efficiency at their disposal. These days, police forces around the world face great challenges, from protests and riots to terrorism and routine challenges such as organized crime, traffic offenses, violence against police officers, cyber warfare and more. We are constantly reminded of the vital role of the police and how much communication, control and synchronization between forces is critical in situation management.
Bearing in mind national security, we recruited the best minds in the field to build an end-to-end system of solutions that can be implemented immediately and will be available to the police to control current growing challenges. The holistic and comprehensive solution can be divided into subcategories that focus on different aspects of the challenges. In the next blog series, we will dive deeper into the revolutionary solutions and the benefits of their implementation.
In the first blog, we will focus on three innovative platforms that change the rules of the game regarding police work: the Smart-M command and control system, the Dispatch App for police officers, and advanced Traffic Enforcement Solutions.
Smart-M: a command and control platform for police command centers for prediction, prevention, and a proactive approach.
Smart-M is a powerful platform for authoritative, game-changing decision support in public security. The platform, which is based on receiving and managing data from IoT technologies and others, provides law enforcement and emergency agencies with real-time situational awareness and advanced analytics, in times of emergency and routine, by integrating and analyzing data from various sources.
The platform combines information from many video sources such as cameras, body cameras, thermal cameras and satellites, as well as data from sensors that detect extreme weather conditions and natural occurrences.
The platform’s ability to work in real time with a wide number of AI Analytics systems assists in intelligent identification, analysis of security events, natural disasters, and multi-participant events and other threats, while the geographic information system (GIS) provides analysis of complex map situations including 3D map integration capabilities. The ability to bind and analyze information from multiple sources and provide a complete picture of the situation in real time enables a quick and efficient response to changing situations and enables us to obtain an overview of all arenas.
One of the prominent benefits of Smart-M is improved efficiency and productivity. Process automation and data analysis not only save time and resources but also reduce the chance of human error and provide reliable information for informed decision-making.
The Smart-M platform’s ability to coordinate and synchronize various emergency agencies such as police, fire & rescue forces, hospitals, as well as first responders while providing expanded situational awareness, leads to optimal situation management and efficient and maximal event control. The Smart-M platform is implemented in various organizations around the world.
Another important system is an operational force management system integrated alongside the Smart-M platform.
The Dispatch Platform
The Dispatch platform is a powerful tool that can improve the safety and security of the community. The system can help emergency responders manage incidents more efficiently and respond optimally. The Dispatch platform enables end-to-end event management, from the report of the incident to the end of the response. The system includes many situation management functions such as:
- Receiving incident reports
- Event classification
- Resource allocation
- Incident response tracking
- Situation reports
The Dispatch App includes:
- Personnel management: The Dispenser platform enables effective personnel management, including monitoring personnel availability, assignment of tasks, and personnel activity.
- Communication: The Dispatch platform enables effective communication between emergency responders, through voice calls, chat, text messages, and document sharing, as well as two-way video transmission to/from first responders.
- Situational awareness: The Dispatch platform provides full situational awareness to emergency officials, including information about events, emergency forces and weather conditions occurring in the area.
- Collaboration: The Dispatch platform can facilitate cooperation between various emergency agencies, such as police, fire, hospitals, first responders and more. This cooperation will help improve the effectiveness of incident response.
- Information integration: Enables the collection and analysis of data from a variety of sources, providing a complete picture of the situation required for management.
- Real-time data availability: Data management enables quick and efficient response to rapidly changing situations.
- Decision support: Data processing and analysis provides critical information to decision makers, enabling more informed decisions based on reliable data.
- Improve efficiency and productivity: Process automation and data analysis can save time and resources and improve workflow effectiveness.
- Coordinating an emergency response.
- Video event analysis, characterization, and identification, driven by artificial intelligence.
- Synchronization of joint efforts between different services and municipal forces.
Traffic Management Platform
To meet the challenges of traffic in modern cities, mobile solutions for smart traffic management offer an advanced technological toolkit. These capabilities include:
- Automatic license plate and speed detection: Supports traffic law enforcement and accident prevention.
- Traffic Data Analysis: Enables improved transportation planning and more efficient traffic control.
- Monitoring air pollution caused by emissions from vehicles: provides data for environmental actions and urban planning.
- Offense reports: helps maintain order and safety on the roads.
- Identification of the age and gender of drivers: enables the provision of essential information for statistical studies and improved safety.
- Identification of vehicle types: Supports the management and planning of transportation infrastructure.
- License Plate Recognition (LPR): easily identifies vehicles in specific parking areas and ensures they are parked properly.
- Stationary parking management: Provides flexibility in parking management, whether the vehicle is in motion or parked.
- Parking enforcement: Support law enforcement against unregistered vehicles or illegal parking.
- Object Classification: The systems can accurately classify the types of objects in the urban environment, including the identification of vehicles, objects, and people, enabling an adapted and rapid response to changing situations and improving public safety.
- Analysis of traffic patterns and behaviors: The systems analyze traffic habits, the quantity and type of vehicles, points of high traffic density and rush hours, while enabling informed decisions to be made for transportation management and future planning of infrastructure.
In addition, an advanced system equipped with technologies that enable precise supervision and rapid response was integrated and is characterized as follows:
- Alerts of stopped vehicles or accidents: assistance in shortening the response timeframe of accidents and preventing traffic congestion.
- Vehicle counting and classification: collecting essential data for infrastructure planning and traffic management.
- Identification of illegal parking: enables immediate action by law enforcement authorities and evacuation of public space.
- Detect driving in the wrong direction or lane: warns and prevents potential accidents.
- Identification of traffic violations such as illegal U-turns and crossing red lights: improving road safety.
These capabilities support effective traffic flow management, minimize the risk of accidents, and help maintain road order and safety.
Summary: The integration of Smart-M, the Dispatch App and Traffic Enforcement Solutions for police work, reflects an innovative and advanced approach to law enforcement. These technologies enhance the ability of police forces to maintain public order, ensure road safety, and respond effectively to incidents. As these platforms evolve, they will provide even more advanced tools in the hands of law enforcement agencies that contribute to communities, and safer environments.
