Safe / Smart City

A new report highlights the essential role of counter-terrorism technologies used by diverse partnerships formed across all levels of security services, from international agencies...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the new frontier, and this frontier is no longer small and uncharted. Devices are now more connected than...

It seems that no country in the world is safe of terrorism nowadays with radical and extremist organizations popping up at every continent...

In simpler times, policing was about maintaining presence in a community. A local cop could know everyone and everything in his neighbourhood. And that’s...

While each person might define it in different terms, Big Data is basically this: A collection of data from traditional and digital sources for...

By Arie Egozi “Big Brother” likes his information in large quantities, but neat so he won’t have any trouble seeing what is important. This is...

By now, Smart Cities seem almost an inevitability. With more and more cities implementing city projects to modernise interactions between governments, citizens, and the...

Tyco Innovation, a branch of that global leader in fire and security solutions, has snagged up some inventive Israeli startups that could help save...

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...

The city of Herzliya is now opening registration for batch 3 of HAC Vertical Accelerator for smart and safe cities. The accelerator, an initiative...

According to data from the ministry of national infrastructure, by 2030 the population in cities of the world is expected to grow to 5...

We sometimes tend to think of the internet as some ethereal thing. We connect to the WiFi, and it’s just there - Facebook, YouTube,...

US Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx revealed plans for a six month initiative to prepare for a world of autonomous vehicles, as well as...

Fires in skyscrapers are considered some of the most dangerous, as was depicted in the 1974 American disaster film “Towering Inferno.” To help firefighters,...

Security for the 2024 Olympics could cost $1 billion and more, if the games take place in Los Angeles, according to some estimates. In an...

Avi Yariv Different cities around the world face different security challenges. Those challenges are a outcome of many parameters: economy, poverty, the Culture, the attitude...

By Avi Yariv A few weeks ago I heard a presentation of CEO of a leading Israeli company, developing technologies for IoT – the new...

The amount of data floating around the world is huge. According to some estimates, 4.5 quintillion bytes of data are created daily around the...

  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...

New York has not recently suffered a devastating terror attack of the likes that struck London, Madrid, and Paris. An attack on such a...

Surveillance cameras are omnipresent on modern life. In a famous example, London, England has one camera for every fourteen residents. The big problem is...

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...