By 2050, nearly three-quarters of our planet will live in cities. Public safety will be a key factor in determining which city they choose.
Public officials are turning to the same technology advances that businesses have been using -- autonomic sense-and-respond capabilities, analytics, visualization and computational modeling--to make our public safety systems smarter, and drive a fundamental shift from responding to events to anticipating and preventing them, when possible.
Evidence of a Smarter Planet - A Safety Problem or a Data Problem
Emergency Center for the City of Madrid
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The IBM Expert Video Series
Watch an interview with the Madrid Police Dept.'s Fernando Garcia Ruiz
The NYPD Case Study (PDF, 132KB)
Find out how the NYPD became connected
Fighting Crime with Ones and Zeros
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Evidence of a Smarter Planet - Connecting our First Responders
IBM Digital Video Surveillance
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Entity Analytics & Smart Surveillance
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Entity Analytics from IBM
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Crime Information Warehouse from IBM
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Evidence of a Smarter Planet – How to Build a Smarter City
Smarter Cities Widget
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IBM Security and Privacy Services
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Public Safety Solutions from IBM and Avaya
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Smarter Public Safety from IBM
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