Leading Safe Cities
Setting the Standard for Safe City Projects in the United States Edge360 is a provider of Safe City solutions to State & Local governments, helping our clients ensure they have a secure, prepared and resilient city capable of serving its citizens and meeting the challenges of a dynamic world. Edge360 s unique approach to Safe Cities has increases situational awareness, officer safety and enhances police response. Our approach gradually incorporates cutting edge technologies into a Video Integration Center (VIC), resulting in greater situational awareness and the more effective deployment of law enforcement resources.
The Ideal State: Information Driven Policing Innovative methods and technologies can help cities provide better and more cost efficient services while building and maintaining a good reputation for safety and security. Cities must move from a Response Mode to a Predictive or Preventative State the ability to forecast where resources are needed based on data correlation, analysis and predictive indicators.
Technology Fusion
Summary Edge360 Safe City integrations continuously increase situational awareness, public safety and enhanced law enforcement response. The gradual incorporation of cutting edge technologies into a Video Integration Center assists Police Commanders to deploy officers in zones with emerging crime trends, stop crime before it impacts the community, and issue orders based on analysis of crime patterns. This results in reduced crime rates and greater public safety for the citizens of a city.
Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) PSIM creates the perfect centralized control room, aiding operators with guided workflows to ensure compliance to regulatory requirements and auditability of actions. Its open architecture allows the integration of CCTV, alarms, access control systems, ANPR and video analysis. PSIM enables you to manage measure and minimize your exposure to security risk. It is designed to ensure security processes and policies are implemented without technical restrictions. It addresses the need to rapidly change and adapt these security process and policies, especially when managing disparate security systems, sensors and devices. By aggregating and analyzing intelligence data provided and managed by PSIM, enterprises can act immediately on security escalations, plan according to trends and continuously improve security operations.
OSINT & Social Media Analytics (SMA) Law enforcement can leverage Social Media Analytics and Open Source Intelligence capabilities to greatly increase situational awareness and crisis management to help prevent crime. Monitoring, analyzing and archiving social media feeds, from sources such as Twitter and Facebook, can be uploaded into a customizable police Dashboard and displayed in a command center to provide real time intelligence. Collected intelligence can be analyzed and continuously monitored. Also, information can be sent as alerts to officers Law enforcement can glean names, pictures, past history and detailed link analysis of criminal networks. This data can be uploaded into crime databases and used for post event analysis, crime prediction patterns and perpetrator identification.
Enterprise Search The installation of the a Google Search Appliance enables law enforcement to search information within an enterprise, both structured and unstructured data. The Enterprise Search indexes data and documents from a variety of sources such as: file systems, document management systems, and criminal databases. The Enterprise Search integrates structured and unstructured data in their collections and use access controls to enforce a security policy on their users. Structured (ie. databases) and unstructured data (ie. Social Media data) can be quickly accessed to find the necessary information to build a case or assist with an investigation.
Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) CAD provides police the ability to send messages to emergency or police vehicles en route to a location and can geo-spatially plot the location of an emergency call or incident. CAD involves not only the installation of computers and the CAD software, but connection to various other systems: alarm inputs, mobile data systems, time synchronization sources, records management systems, CAD systems of other agencies, and the local, county, state and federal network of criminal justice databases. Plot calls on a map that can be sent to emergency personnel en route to an incident. Automatic alerts Bi directional communication between the dispatcher and the dispatched
Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) is the instrumentation of vehicles with Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) technology so their locations can be tracked at all time. Provides real-time resource management and facilitates the appropriate deployment of police assets. Helps maintain situational awareness on the status and location of police or response units from a map interface. Monitors the status and safety of emergency response personnel deployed to incidents and sends back information on changing conditions.
Video Analytics (VA) Video Analytic software detects numerous surveillance situations and can differentiate between various subject patterns and adjust to changing situations. Video Analytic capabilities include: Facial Recognition Vehicle Monitoring Intrusion Detection Object Detection People Counting
License Plate Recognition (LPR) License Plate Reader (LPR) devices automatically identify stolen cars and build an extensive database of license plate numbers that can be managed through a command center. Give detectives and police officers location information on requested license plates and provide critical leads. Reveal vehicle locations and patterns for extended periods of time.
Data Visualization (DV) Data Visualization, utilizing Google Maps, provides rapid indexed search capabilities and easy to understand visualization. Commanders and Operators will be able to efficiently control daily operations as well as emergency management response situations. Once Data is visualized within the PSIM solution, each data point becomes an object within that system that can be referenced by any other object. Example: a data point referencing a 911 call can be visualized on a map and the nearest four cameras can be displayed based on the location of the call (object).
Predictive Policing The End State Predictive Policing facilitates surfacing robbery, burglary and other crime patterns in law enforcement databases. This capability performs the work of hundreds of crime analysts with a high-level of accuracy and effort 24 hours a day. Detects the MO of an incident from statements and actions in the narrative of reports. Patterns are detected and identified in real-time and can be sent to key personnel in the form of alerts.
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