The Top 7 Benefits Of Building Situational Awareness In Safe Cities

By Eran Wachman, Vice President of Product Business Development, Verint

Safe city initiatives are rapidly becoming the best way to build an effective and proactive security posture while allowing increased collaboration between city officials, security leaders, law enforcement, and first responders. Close partnerships between these parties allow cities to effectively identify current threats while learning and analyzing data points to be best prepared to address future risks. Safe city initiatives help cities achieve true situational awareness — both in routine times and during emergency situations — by aggregating a large amount of data and turning it into actionable intelligence. The correlated information then enables officials to quickly and effectively identify threats, manage emergency situations and investigate incidents.

Here are seven benefits cities can tangibly observe in implementing a safe city project.

1. Citywide Data Analysis. Today’s IP-based systems and sensors can span large geographic areas and the ability to combine information from these once-siloed technologies allows cities to realize new levels of awareness while tapping into rich data sources to help ensure safety and optimize operations. For example, operators can send picture of a suspect from the surveillance video cameras in high-risk areas directly to a patrol officer’s mobile device, and the officer can then easily access the suspect footage on his or her smart devices. Operators can also leverage geospatial location data to pinpoint the location of security events and deliver this data to local agencies to optimize response and collaboration.

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