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 solutions center to develop multidimensional and intelligent security systems in cities, in order to help governments prevent crises, manage emergencies and reduce crime rates.

More and more public safety incidents are taking place, so guaranteeing maximum protection has become a priority for rulers. The development of security in cities has gone beyond an incubation period, based on video surveillance systems, to a stage of rapid growth, covering comprehensive management.

To help improve the safety of cities, Huawei has presented during MWC 2016, which yesterday closed its doors at Fira de Barcelona with record attendance, an innovative Safe City solution, taking advantage of the capacity of ICT that allows 'visualizing and collaborating', two fundamental elements to build safe cities.

Visual Convergent Command Solution

During MWC, Huawei has partnered with Hexagon to showcase the first visual converged command solution, that allows you to see 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 favors collaboration between different departments, through seamless video interconnection (video surveillance, video conference, mobile telephony and trunk terminals); audio (eLTE broadband backbone systems, Tetra narrowband and public network) and information (GIS and text messages).

For better performance of the solution, Huawei also has a multilevel and interregional cloud platform, which has become a reference in video sharing since, leveraging distributed cache technology, is capable of responding in a matter of seconds and supports up to 10.000 simultaneous viewings.

Broadband backbone systems are another key component to ensuring public safety. Huawei eLTE backbone broadband solution is coupled to a single eLTE network, which in turn is supported by a base station that can support uploads of up to twenty-seven video channels, as well as its distribution in real time. It also allows you to manage incidents on multiple mobile platforms, anytime, anywhere.

Huawei Safe City solutions have been deployed around the world. 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 of 2015 of the Kenya Police, The crime rate in regions that had these systems was reduced by 46%, compared to the same period of the previous year.

Open Safe City Ecosystem

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

This ecosystem is being promoted by Huawei and a multitude of partners, including consulting companies (BCG y Accenture), systems integrators (Safaricom, Tyco y NCS) and software providers (Hexagon, Milestone, SAP, iOmniscient, Promad y AgentVi).