An Inventive Solution For Smart City Infrastructure
According to data from the ministry of national infrastructure, by 2030 the population in cities of the world is expected to grow to 5...
US Government pledges nearly $4 billion to kickstart self-driving cars
US Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx revealed plans for a six month initiative to prepare for a world of autonomous vehicles, as well as...
FAROS – The Wall Climbing, Flying, Firefighting Drone
Fires in skyscrapers are considered some of the most dangerous, as was depicted in the 1974 American disaster film “Towering Inferno.” To help firefighters,...
LA Olympic Games Security Could Cost As Much As $2 Billion
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...
Mobile Technology for The Family’s Safety
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...
Big Data Can Help Fight Crime
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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?
CCTV and...
Will China Become An IoT International Power?
The Internet of Things (IoT) is network of uniquely identifiable endpoints (or "things" that communicate without human interaction using IP (Internet Protocol) connectivity. The...
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A New Quantum Breakthrough Could Change Signal Detection on the Battlefield
Modern military and civilian communications environments are becoming increasingly crowded. Drones, radios, sensors, satellites, electronic warfare systems, and wireless networks all compete for space...
