The new Hitachi Visualization Suite (HVS) (version 4.5) now includes Predictive Crime Analytics (PCA) and version 2.0 of the Video Management Platform (VMP). “We’re trying to provide tools for public safety so that [law enforcement is] armed with more information on who’s more likely to commit a crime…I can use data and intelligence and software to really augment what police are doing,” Lipscomb told FastCompany.
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Hitachi Visualisation Suite (HVS) is a hybrid cloud-based platform that integrates disparate data and video assets from public safety systems-911 computer-aided dispatch, license plate readers, gunshot sensors, and so on-in real time and presents them geospatially. That feature is available in a predictive crime analytics add-on module to the 4.5 software release of the visualization tool.
The system can specify potential crime scenes down to a 200-square-meter spot, and it assigns relative threat levels to every situation.
The predictive analytics capability uses spatial and temporal algorithms to combine real-time event data from public safety cameras and other sensors with historical and contextual crime data stored in databases. It uses natural language processing for topic intensity modelling and provides users with a better understanding of the underlying risk factors that generate or mitigate crime.
Mark Jules, another executive, said that police officers usually build crime-prediction models based on their personal or collective experience-but the Hitachi system doesn’t need anyone to fiddle around with correlations and variable weights.
VMP is a scalable storage which can be separated from computing to provide users on-demand access to and rapid deployment of video assets.
As for the second, Hitachi execs say the system may actually reduce the amount of biased police profiling, since it equips officers with enough thorough information that they won’t need to act on mere suspicions.
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The company has also introduced video management platform (VMP) which offers data integration, management and visualization for video applications that are powered by VMware software. Adding in data points from social media can increase the accuracy of predicting crime by as much as 15 percent. Public safety is a fundamental pillar of our vision for smart cities and societies.
