Latin America. Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., announced further enhancements to its Hitachi Visualization Suite 4.5, now with Hitachi Predictive Visualization Crime Analytics (PCA) and Hitachi Video Management Platform (VMP) 2.0.
PCA is the first tool of its kind that, in real time, leverages information from social networks and Internet data, to perform a sophisticated analysis in order to have a more complete picture of the facts and improve public safety.
Hitachi Visualization software and hardware systems are designed to help public and private entities accelerate the extraction of information from different data sources. The solutions are part of Hitachi's portfolio of Social Innovation solutions focused on developing safer, healthier and more efficient smart societies, while delivering better outcomes for businesses and their customers.
"Protecting people, goods and infrastructure is the foundation for a smart city," says Ruthbea Yesner Clarke, global research director for Smart Cities at IDC. "Digital technologies, such as Hitachi Data Systems' real-time analytics, contribute to public safety initiatives to locate, mitigate and prevent crime, as well as make our cities safer places."
Hitachi Visualization Suite (HVS) is a hybrid cloud-based platform that integrates data captured by public safety systems and sensors, with historical data on crime and context, social networks and other sources, this powerful application of spatial and temporal prediction algorithms, helps to create response according to the threat level, in real time, and presents them in a geospatial way, including heat maps. Thus, HVS provides a tool to have a critical vision that improves research capabilities and increases operational efficiency.
Algorithms can be used to create predictions about where crimes are likely to occur or know where additional resources may be needed. PCA is unique in that it gives users a better understanding of the underlying risk factors that generate or mitigate crime.
Mark Jules, Vice President of Public Safety and Data Visualization at Hitachi Data Systems, comments, "Today we are offering the ability to take a proactive approach to crime and terrorism, as well as continuing to innovate around how data is captured, stored, transmitted and analyzed."
