Huawei Safe City: smart ICT solutions to improve public safety

During the recent edition of MWC 2016, the company has presented together with its partners a Safe City solution center to develop multidimensional and intelligent security systems in cities, to help governments prevent crises, managing emergencies and reducing crime rates.

More and more incidents are going on in public safety, so ensuring maximum protection has become a priority for rulers. The development of security in cities has gone from an incubation period, based on video surveillance systems, to a fast-growing stage, encompassing comprehensive management.

To help improve the safety of cities, Huawei has filed during Mwc 2016, who yesterday closed his doors in Fira de Barcelona with record attendance, an innovative Safe City solution, leveraging the ICT capability that allows you to 'visualize and collaborate', two key elements for building safe cities.

Visual convergent command solution

During the MWC, Huawei has partnered with Hexagon to show the first visual convergent command solution, that allows you to view the scenario in the event of an accident and offers emergency management resources to unify commands based on a geographic information system (Gis).

This solution also promotes collaboration between different departments, through seamless video interconnection (Video surveillance, Videoconference, mobile telephony and trunk terminals); Audio (eLTE broadband trunk systems, Tetra narrowband and public network) and information (GIS and text messages).

For better solution operation, Huawei also has a multi-level, interregional cloud platform, that has become a benchmark in video sharing as, leveraging distributed cache technology, is able to respond in a matter of seconds and admits up to 10.000 simultaneous viewing.

Broadband trunk systems are another key component in ensuring public safety. Huawei's eLTE trunk broadband solution couples to a single eLTE network, which in turn relies on a base station that can withstand loads of up to twenty-seven video channels, as well as its real-time distribution. It also allows you to manage incidents on multiple mobile platforms, anytime, anywhere.

Huawei's Safe City solutions have been deployed worldwide. For example, the company helped improve public safety in Kenya, through security programs that included: computer-aided design systems (Cad); eLTE trunk broadband systems, video surveillance and intelligent analysis (license plate recognition and identification of traffic violations).

As reflected in the annual report 2015 Kenya Police, the crime rate in the regions with these systems was reduced by a 46%, compared to the same period last year.

Open Safe City Ecosystem

Huawei is committed to working with industry leaders to build an open Safe City ecosystem. As an ICT infrastructure provider, partnered with Hexagon, Safe City software provider, to provide users with complete solutions.

This ecosystem is being driven by Huawei and many partners, including consulting firms (BCG and Accenture), system integrators (Safaricom, Tyco and NCS) and software vendors (Hexagon, Milestone, Sap, iOmniscient, Promad and AgentVi).