PUBLIC SECURITY

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Public security is a growing problem for cities worldwide. Huawei’s LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology helps the police and emergency services with new technologies to fight crime and make cities safer.

The world’s cities are bursting at the seams, and crime is harder than ever to the police. Most video surveillance technology is inefficient. Police investigations are often hampered by blind spots in video networks and lowquality imagery. However, new technology is starting to become available to help the police combat crime more effectively.

Leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solution provider Huawei is a leader in the field of ‘smart city’ solutions, which make use of a web of interconnected devices, software and cloud storage systems to enable public and private services to work together more efficiently. Huawei is utilising this same network of connected devices to afford governments new tools to improve public services such as crime-fighting, and to keep an eye on what is going on generally.

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The Huawei solution, ‘enterprise’ ELT (eLTE), enables authorities to integrate a diverse range of information modules and communication methods across departments and regions. These departments and regions can combine their own video surveillance networks with other public and private security systems. In theory, it means zero blind spots in their surveillance network. In practice, it means police forces can have ‘eyes’ where they didn’t before. Incident reports can be filed on the spot, via a mobile app from the same handheld device. It also means the police can store and organise surveillance data in the cloud and access and share it with greater ease and accuracy.

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In Nairobi, Kenya, Huawei has put in place a new communications network that links 1,800 surveillance cameras with 195 police bureaus and 7,600 police officers. The new infrastructure, commissioned by President Uhuru Kenyatta, is of strategic importance in terms of both national and economic security. Kenya’s is the biggest economy in East Africa, due to its wildlife and white-sand beaches. However, recent terrorist strikes, as well as the ongoing civil wars in neighbouring Somalia and Sudan, have seen foreign governments issue warnings to stop their citizens from travelling to Kenya. Public security is high on the agenda, clearly. ‘Kenya wanted to improve security conditions, revive tourism and promote economic growth,’ says Huawei. The National Police

Service Commission now has a high-speed private broadband network. The new infrastructure links its command centres with over 1,500 high-definition cameras in downtown Nairobi, more than 200 cameras at city checkpoints and any number of wireless devices in the hands of officers in the field.

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Perhaps the best illustration of the capabilities of the Huawei solution is in Nanjing, a city of more than eight million in Eastern China. Nanjing was the host of the 2013 Asian Youth Games. For the event, Huawei enabled surveillance and protection of key areas, including all the 14 stadiums and the nearby roads. ‘Huawei’s solution enabled us to implement real-time coordination, with voice and multimedia services. It played an important role in dealing with emergencies and guaranteeing the security of the event,’ says Li Nan, member of the games’ organising committee. While eLTE technology has helped make Nanjing a smarter, safer city, it also offers a blueprint of how big data and analytics can be applied in major cities across the world.

(Adapted from the BBC website)