Safe / Smart City

A new platform aims to provide deep learning analytics to video streams produced from smart city applications. Nvidia’s platform, Metropolis, takes data captured by...

Amazon was recently granted a patent for miniature police shoulder drones. The device is officialy called an “unmanned aerial vehicle assistant,” aimed at use...

New body cameras embedded into police officers’ uniform offer automatic, policy-based recording functionality, helping police officers automatically capture, offload and view media evidence. Manufactured...

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...

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...

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...

An information and communication (ICT) company has been meeting with several government leaders in Africa to detail how its safe city solution could be...

The Internet of Things (IoT) trend is becoming more central in our lives and surrounds us everywhere. In everyday life this means the smart...

  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...

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...

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

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...

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 is a technology that is used to identify, record, and analyze video streams via electronic media. Intelligent video analytics (IVA) helps end-users...

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...

Video analytics is the process of extracting information, meaning, and insights from video footage. Whereas image analytics looks at a still image and seeks...

Three new Video Management Platform (VMP) models for video security and monitoring purposes were introduced by Hitachi Insight Group. The models combine virtualized compute...

Over the backdrop of the shootout attack carried out in a public domain, the city of New Orleans has been considering the use of...

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,...

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....

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...

Terrorists could soon bring a major city to a standstill with a click of a button, warns Robert Hannigan, director of the UK’s Government...