Hitachi Visualization Suite uses analytics to build smart cities

28) its visualization tool along with its “predictive crime analytics” supports the company’s smart city efforts.

The suite will now use Hitachi Visualization Suite 4.5 and Hitachi Video Management Platform. The Hitachi package also includes a video management platform. The video platform provides police with analyses with the goal of improving intelligence, enhancing investigative capabilities and increasing operational efficiencies, the company claimed. Along with capturing real-time event data from sensors, HVS now offers the ability to provide geospatial visualizations for historical crime data in several forms, including heat maps.

PCA combines historical and contextual crime data from record management systems, social media and other sources with real-time event data captured from public safety systems. This feature is available in the Hitachi Visualization Predictive Crime Analytics (PCA) add-on module of the new Hitachi Visualization Suite 4.5 software release.

It may seem asinine but a lot of criminals air out their dirty laundry right in for all to see on social media, albeit often using code words and so on. The system also allocates relative threat levels to every situation.

The movie-turned-TV-show Minority Report imagines a future in which algorithms and data help law enforcement pick targets before they’ve ever committed a crime. Adding in data points from social media can increase the accuracy of predicting crime by as much as 15 percent.

It uses natural language processing for topic intensity modelling and provides users with a better understanding of the underlying risk factors that generate or mitigate crime. VMP supports every major video management software supplier to simplify storage and compute of all types of video data. Along with Hitachi’s visualization approach, other emerging companies like the big data analytics firm H2O are trying to leverage a machine learning technology known as “deep learning” as a way to improve community policing.

Hitachi hasn’t confirmed which cities will receive their trial software, but Washington, D.C., shows up on the screenshots of its program, and New York has shown interest in predictive technology in the past.

Japanese conglomerate Hitachi has devised a computer system called Hitachi Visualization Predictive Crime Analytics (PCA) that can absorb large amounts of data and learn behavior patterns that are unable to be detected by the human eye, allowing it to predict crime, according to Digital Trends.