Thermal Cameras – Will They Prevent Shootouts in Public Places?
Over the backdrop of the shootout attack carried out in a public domain, the city of New Orleans has been considering the use of...
Safe city: Ramat Hasharon, Israel – and Nanded, India
Two Israeli companies are in charge of Safe City project.
Ramat Hasharon (- northern suburb of Tel Aviv), Israel, has nearly 50 thousand residents. Nanded,...
US Border Security Contractors Await Bright Trump Future
The new president elect, Donald Trump, emphasized during his campaign a promise to upgrade border security and to deport as many as 3 million...
The Necessary Use of Terrain Dominance Technologies
In today’s world of terror threats and subversive elements operating within countries’ borders, intelligence has never been more crucial. With no opposing country to...
Israeli Breakthrough: Super-Speed Video Synopsis
By Joe Charlaff
Video cameras are popping up everywhere. On a typical day out in a big city a person could be filmed by hundreds...
Big Data Will Protect Megacities
Urban living is soon to become the dominant form of human habitation. In 2014, more than half the global population resided in cities. It’s...
AUS&R 2016 – Great Interest in Autonomous Systems Field
AUS&R 2016 focused the attention to the unmanned systems role both in the battlefield and in the homeland security sphere.
The convention was a remarkable...
Safe City Technologies Will Secure US Presidential Inauguration
Various measures will be involved in the securing of the upcoming US Presidential inauguration event, turning Washington, DC into a platform for Safe City...
Call For Proposals For Startups In Defense and HLS Fields
iHLS, the global media leader in security technology, is inviting entrepreneurships in this field to join the second cycle of the world first accelerator...
What Privacy Implications for the New Drone Rules?
The US Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) new regulations, that went into effect on August 29 for routine non-recreational use of drones, deal mainly with...
Israeli Startups And the Future of Firefighting
Tyco Innovation, a branch of that global leader in fire and security solutions, has snagged up some inventive Israeli startups that could help save...
Police Services Seek Face Recognition Technologies
Police services around the world use facial recognition databases in order to identify criminals. Nearly half of all American adults have been entered into...
Why Is Microsoft Drowning Its Servers?
We sometimes tend to think of the internet as some ethereal thing. We connect to the WiFi, and it’s just there - Facebook, YouTube,...
Uruguay: New Police UAVs Enter Service
In the framework of a local safe city program, which includes the installation of hundreds of security cameras especially in the downtown area of...
Gulls Flight Strategies to Help UAV Navigation?
Learning from gulls can inform us on UAV flight path planning.
Researches looked at how gulls use the rising air generated by buildings to fly...
New Surveillance Technology May Compromise Privacy
The growing threat of radical terrorism and organized crime in Sweden has sparked government-led homeland security initiatives to finance projects driven by advanced technology....
Without These Startups, Our City Would Look Completely Different
Olga Grosman-Ezrahi
Cities of the world, as they appear today, were completely different only a few dozens of years ago. Various inventions led by governments,...
New Player in The Sensor Tech Revolution
The American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics), a public-private partnership, recently announced a new Defense Department project. The AIM Photonics initiative will...
THE JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS (JINSA)
Another channel for the exchange of ideas about Homeland Security has added some experts to his membership list. The Jewish Institute for National Security...
Chicago: Facial Recognition Tech Convicts Robber
This is a major step in using the facial recognition tool for fighting crime and terror.
Pierre Martin became the first person in Chicago to...
Reducing false alarms in video sensors
MOBOTIX AG has begun equipping its video surveillance cameras with new motion-detection software that the company says can reduce false alarms by more than...
Cellphone Tracking Technology Causes Political Stir
According to a recent committee report by the US House of Representatives, clearer guidelines are needed for law enforcement's use of secretive and intrusive...












































