Huawei Hosts Safe City Summit in Africa

Leading New ICT, Making Cities Safer - Seite 2

In his keynote speech titled "Safe Cities: Driven by a Technology Revolution", Mr. Thomas Lynch, Director of Critical Communications for IHS Markit, shared insights into how public safety is a comprehensive system where traditional video surveillance, voice dispatching, Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD), Geographic Information System (GIS), and call-taking and dispatching systems are closely integrated to enable threat awareness, early warning, and incident management throughout the whole process. According to the latest research from IHS Markit, the market scale of public safety equipment is estimated to increase from US$13 billion in 2015 to US$20 billion in 2020.

Mr. Hong-Eng Koh, Huawei's Global Chief Public Safety Expert, said in his keynote speech that while intelligent video surveillance, broadband trunked radio and computer-aided dispatch are crucial, they are not enough to create a Safe City. There is a need for a policing cloud to link up the silos of different public safety agencies for better information sharing and user experience. With the exponential growth of data from traditional policing records, video surveillance, social networks and the Internet of Things, Big Data analytics are important too. Together these technologies can help in threat prevention, and if not preventable, early detection for faster response and recovery; with the aim of reducing loss of life and property, and bringing justice and normalcy to society.

Huawei Cooperates with Partners to Build a New Ecosystem

At the Summit, Huawei displayed its new smart Safe City solution, co-developed by Huawei and its partners. The solution consists of the world's first visualized and converged command system, the industry's first 4G professional trunking system, world-leading cross-region and cross-agency video cloud, and business-driven Safe City ICT infrastructure.

Additionally, Safaricom, the largest comprehensive telecommunications service provider of Kenya, shared its cooperation with Huawei in the development of the Kenya Safe City project. According to a speech from Shaka Kwach, who is the Head of Special Projects department form Safaricom Limited, the deployments of Huawei's Safe City solution in Nairobi and Mombasa has drastically improved criminal investigation, cross-agency collaboration, and emergency response efficiency for the National Police Service. This has resulted in tangible benefits to both the citizens of Kenya, as well as the officers using the solution.