Safe / Smart City
Public Wants Body Cameras For Police Officers – Do Officers?
The use of force and police behavior continue to be a prominent topic in the media. Several recent high-profile incidents involving police use of...
NYPD & Feds Conduct Active Shooter Exercise
New York has not recently suffered a devastating terror attack of the likes that struck London, Madrid, and Paris. An attack on such a...
Business Joins Academia For Large-Scale Face-Search To Fight Crime, Terrorism
Surveillance cameras are omnipresent on modern life. In a famous example, London, England has one camera for every fourteen residents. The big problem is...
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...
Effective Defending of Municipal Infrastructure Against Cyber Attacks
Daniel Ehrenreich
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) experts are well aware that there is no single measure ("no silver bullet") that provides absolute cyber...
Tesla’s Powerwall Is Soon Available For Purchase
In April this year Tesla announced another one of its revolutionary technologies - the Powerwall. The announcement immediately garnered much attention and in the...
Reporting Crime With Your Smartphone
If you live in the state of New York, reporting crimes and suspicious activity has just gotten a whole lot simpler. The New York...
Fighting Crime With Big Data
by Konstantin Bodragin
Computers predicting crime have become a staple of science fiction films, but it could soon be a reality. The way it works...
IoT Could Turn Our Cities Into Cyber Battlegrounds
The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing rapidly. The number of internet-connected devices is expected to hit 6.4 billion in 2016, and to surpass...
Security Technology Can Save The Euro 2016 Games
The UEFA European Football Championship is one of the world’s most prestigious football tournaments, second only to the World Cup. The competition is held...
Technology Can Rival Terror
Due to recent events - terror attacks in Europe, Africa and the Middle East and terror threats and alerts in most parts of the...
Autonomous Buses Are Finally (Almost) Here
Autonomous cars and trucks, we are told, are just around the corner. Now, autonomous buses are, as well.
In a world-first, the Swiss city of...
Monitoring Changes in Breath Rate Can Prevent Terror
Olga Grosman-Ezrahi
Will crime be abolished in 20 years? Is there a way we can know in advance about the next murder or crime? In...
Israeli Startup Offers Smarter Use Of Security Cameras
There are around 200 million security cameras all around the world broadcasting pieces of information in any given moment. A young new startup was...
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,...
Privacy vs. Technology
Would you agree giving up your privacy in exchange for a more comfortable life? Judging by the way our society looks today, it seems...
Policing Algorithm To Reduce Crime
Can math help keep our streets safer? A new study by a UCLA-led team of scholars and law enforcement officials suggests the answer is...
Want To Build An App For IoT?
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a groundbreaking and innovative field in today’s technological world. As technology advances and our lives become more Hi-Tec,...
City Video Surveillance Isn’t Effective Without Analytics
The modern age us flooding us with information on everything, which can cause great confusion among political and intelligence bodies. The important, relevant information...
The Middle East – The Kingdom of IoT
Who says the Middle East is all about bloody wars? A new report by Deloitte shows a slightly more positive picture. According to its...
The Dangers of IoT: Breaking-in Through The New Fridge
Everything around us is becoming “smarter”. Who of us hasn’t dreamt of turning on the boiler 15 minutes before we get home from a...
Video Analytics will make our “smart” roads safer
New, internet-connected car models and prototypes are making headlines and improving our lives, but what about connecting the roads themselves to the net?
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