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benefit of allowing the local businesses that signed up to the programme to thrive, as staff and customers could work and shop in peace. At its inception, the project was only active in a few locations that were identified as crime hotspots, most of which were at petrol stations. However, there are now hundreds of different greenlight locations in central Detroit. At this scale, the power of communication between different organisations, and its powerful effect on crime, becomes a far more tangible prospect.
Data
In city security, the challenge doesn’t necessarily come from the volume, but the concentration of people. Managing large crowds in high footfall areas, like public transport hubs or tourist hotspots, presents a complex security challenge. An efficient way of curtailing these issues is analysing data from existing security assets. For example, surveillance systems primarily used to monitor
for threats can provide an enormous amount of operational value from existing security systems through video analytics.
A unified platform provides a single place for the large amounts of data to be consolidated, and from there organisations are able to make predictive changes, create new best practices, plan for the unexpected, identify weak spots and shore up defences. These types of solutions can also allow public organisations to work closely with law enforcement to develop an emergency response plan where video surveillance streams can be correlated, analysed and shared quickly with relevant parties – giving security teams a wealth of mission-critical information.
Cyber challenges and looking to the future
Aside from improving communications and data utilisation, an element of securing cities of the future that will be fundamental for city administrators is cybersecurity. The advent of
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IoT devices will provide an array of benefits across modern cities, with each device collecting data that can be shared and analysed to optimise infrastructure and public utilities.
However, these technological advances also come with vulnerabilities, and with each new device connected to a city’s network, it provides a fresh avenue for hackers. Despite the relative lack of adoption of smart devices, we’ve already seen hackers hold major cities like Johannesburg, Baltimore or Atlanta to ransom. As IoT proliferates, it’s vital that city administrators grasp the security implications posed by these powerful, yet vulnerable, connected technologies.
Nick Smith Regional Sales Manager, Genetec
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