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Public safety
How do you make public safety more effective?
Reducing crime, responding effectively to a disaster, and protecting citizens and public assets are significant challenges facing governments. How your citizens perceive their safety has a direct impact on where they choose to live, work and play. Public safety solutions from IBM can help governments, public safety agencies, first responders and schools address threats and respond effectively when situations arise.
Faster, more precise emergency response
Public safety solutions use a range of smart surveillance capabilities for capturing important data, such as autonomic sense-and-respond, digital video, analytics, visualization and computational modeling, that enable an instrumented view of public safety. Enhanced forensic capabilities allow unique indexing and attribute-based search of video events to classify objects into categories such as people and cars. Real-time alerts can help anticipate incidents by identifying suspicious behaviors.
The solutions allow your organization to take a more integrated approach to public safety by linking information, people, processes and systems to enable better coordination and situational awareness for first responders. For example, a data warehouse can give firefighters access to the layout of a burning building and other critical information before they arrive at the scene of a blaze.
Overall, the solutions offer an intelligent, real-time view of incidents, giving first responders a wide overview, enabling them to more rapidly and effectively assess and respond to incidents, and thus better protect the public. A case in point—when a man walked into a Manhattan pizzeria, pulled a gun on the owner and robbed him, real-time data helped solve the crime. With only a tattoo on his neck as an identifying characteristic, a search of the data repository, including scars and tattoos, parking tickets, citations, court and prison information, social services and abuse reports, quickly provided an identity and address.
Capture data, improve security
Public safety solutions help clients generate insight by providing a comprehensive, real-time view of events that can help emergency managers better assess needs, prioritize and coordinate actions, and proactively deploy assets to address—and potentially prevent—complex incidents. The solutions can help you:
- Shift from responding to events to anticipating and preventing them.
- Harness digital video surveillance to provide remote video viewing with less manpower.
- Minimize fraud and transform the way you gather, analyze and use information.
- Enable first responders to operate effectively during emergencies.
- Improve your IT defenses with preemptive technologies to fight e-crime
Enhance physical security with analytic capabilities
The public safety solutions can include:
- IBM® DB2® Everyplace®—features a small-footprint relational database and high-performance data synchronization solution that enables enterprise applications and data to be extended securely to mobile devices such as PDAs, smart phones and other embedded mobile devices.
- IBM Tivoli® Directory Integrator—helps enhance the security and integrity of user identity data, while maximizing the accuracy of that data across the infrastructure.
- IBM WebSphere® Integration Developer—simplifies integration and accelerates the adoption of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) by rendering current IT assets as service components to enable reuse and improved efficiency.
- IBM Smart Surveillance Analytics—provides an open framework for event integration and correlation, and highly specialized searches based on multiple object attributes and advanced real-time alerts.
- IBM WebSphere Process Server—provides a high-performance business process automation engine to help form processes that meet your business goals.
