New Safe City Project in Israel’s Ramat HaSharon
The Israeli city of Ramat HaSharon decided to expand and upgrade its safe city and smart city projects, conducted in cooperation with Magal Security...
Police Forces’ Newest Recruits – Drones
Amazon was recently granted a patent for miniature police shoulder drones. The device is officialy called an “unmanned aerial vehicle assistant,” aimed at use...
Police Body Camera Automatically Sends “Officer Down” Emergency Alerts
New body cameras embedded into police officers’ uniform offer automatic, policy-based recording functionality, helping police officers automatically capture, offload and view media evidence.
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Israeli Innovation Helps Protect Large Scale Events
Recently there's a growing demand by security forces and decision makers to achieve real time, continuous intelligence imagery covering a wide area in high...
Israeli Safe-City Tech in Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third largest in the UK with over 600,000 people. This commercial center will also soon play...
Highly Sensitive Camera will Identify Explosives at Airports
A new technology that claims to be able to identify weapons hidden under people’s clothing as they walk through checkpoints, is currently under trial...
Economic and Perceptual Change: Forecasts For The Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) trend is becoming more central in our lives and surrounds us everywhere. In everyday life this means the smart...
Towards African Network of Safe and Smart Cities?
An information and communication (ICT) company has been meeting with several government leaders in Africa to detail how its safe city solution could be...
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...
A new HLS division at IMI
Robots, Less Lethal Weapons and more: the Israeli Military Industry is expanding into the Homeland Security area
Nobody at IMI is waiting for the company’s...
Big Data Is Crucial For Smart Cities
By now, Smart Cities seem almost an inevitability. With more and more cities implementing city projects to modernise interactions between governments, citizens, and the...
New Berlin Airport Aquires High Level Security
Many new security systems are developed for airports over the backdrop of the U.S. Safety Act which encourages companies to develop anti-terrorism technology. One...
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...
Video Analytics – Innovative Technology with Civilian and Security Uses
Video analytics is a technology that is used to identify, record, and analyze video streams via electronic media. Intelligent video analytics (IVA) helps end-users...
The Growing Use of Taser Guns
Development of different non-lethal weapons for handling recalcitrant citizens is an vital aspect of law enforcement agencies in a country. The need for an...
New Uses for Video Analytics
Video analytics is the process of extracting information, meaning, and insights from video footage. Whereas image analytics looks at a still image and seeks...
New Video Monitoring and Security Solutions for Smart Cities
Three new Video Management Platform (VMP) models for video security and monitoring purposes were introduced by Hitachi Insight Group. The models combine virtualized compute...
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...
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,...
Police Seeks Mass Vehicle Attack Solution
A remote ‘kill switch’ to immobilise HGVs is being secretly developed by UK government scientists who fear a Nice-style ISIS massacre in the UK....
Great Interest in IHLS Big Data for Homeland Security Conference
iHLS fifth annual conference on Big Data for Homeland Security attracted many technology experts, investors, entrepreneurs and representatives of the high-tech industries, defense industries,...
Securing US Protests – How Could Israeli iHLS Accelerator Help?
Anti-Trump protests erupted in major cities across the United States following the Presidential inauguration. Some of the rallies escalated into violence, and the police...
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Metal That Behaves Like a Gel Could Redefine High-Temperature Systems
A research team at Texas A&M University has developed the world’s first metallic gel — a new class of material that combines the strength...
