Description
The development of cities continues to accelerate with the galloping urbanization of the world's surface. In addition to the growing population, cities have to face increasing threats, both from natural hazards - of which climate change is an increasingly important component - and from man-made hazards, including crime and terrorism, which is on the rise in all regions of the world. At the same time, the development of technology is giving cities access to new means of achieving the status of smart cities.
Objectifs
ISEN is involved in the batch 6 of the project.
- Secure and reinforced access to the school
- Security management system with a modular architecture based on jointly defined interfaces, definition and implementation of protocols and standards for secure data analysis and exchange,
- Definition and implementation of intelligent portable communicating objects for each category of individuals accessing the school (students, teachers, police officers, maintenance staff, parents, etc.), objects able to interact with the modular architecture set up,
- Realization of an Intelligent Portal allowing the identification of people entering the school and informing the system in real time for a specific management of each case considered (professional staff of the establishment, student, authorized person, unknown person).
- Realization of an intelligent door for the classes capable of determining in real time the number and quality of the people present (students, teachers, speakers...). This counting system will be doubled in the demonstrator of the classic manual counting (call), and anonymized video counting
- Implementation of all school monitoring steps
- Implementation of an automated behavioral analysis tool (falls, carrying a weapon, panic runs, etc.) within the institution by type of individual,
- Implementation of an interactive pseudo-anonymous effective geolocation system that respects the rights of everyone in normal times but switches to non-anonymous mode when alerts are confirmed,
- Realization of a tool for the detection and analysis of perceived sounds according to a relevant classification (gunshot, bomb, screams, children's games, etc.),
- Intelligent management of pre-alerts and alerts to avoid false alerts while anticipating possible risks,
- Definition of intelligent alert buttons with appropriate alert activation and two-way group or personal messaging between school staff and police,
- Increased security around the school
- Implementation of a video detection system offering face masking or blurring capabilities with automated analysis of the video stream and alert and pre-alert feedback,
- Implementation of a behavioral analysis system outside the institution to anticipate potential risks.
- Based on innovative technological tools that improve safety and quality of use
- Advances in several technologies (biometrics in the invisible spectrum, image analysis, signal processing, cryptography, etc.),
- Data security (storage, transmission, access) in order to preserve everyone's privacy and to offer a modular solution compatible with regulatory and legal requirements.
- Ergonomics of the interfaces exposed to users with a particular emphasis on use within the school.
Project partners
Main teacher-researchers involved
Project Director
Stéphane VERA
Director of strategic projects and holder of the Yncréa IoT Chair
Thibaut DELERUYELLE
Co-director of R&D and Business Manager
Ghislain OUDINET
Co-director of R&D and Business Manager
Amaury AUGUSTE
Teacher-researcher
Benjamin CHALANT
Teacher-researcher
Benoît SOLOCH
Teacher-researcher
Éric SERRE
Fablab Manager
Researchers from Yncréa Ouest are also involved in this project, including :
- Ayman AL FALOU
- Marwa EL BOUZ
- Wissam KADDAH
- Ehsan SEDGH GOOYA
More details
Faced with the development of risks and threats, the security industry sector, COFIS, has identified the development of new ways to ensure the security of smart cities. One of the points is to improve the cooperation of all security actors by developing their collaboration - this is the Waze of security. In order to better assess each situation and to be able to anticipate incidents and crises, it is also necessary to collect as much existing data as possible and to look for correlations and weak signals - this is the big data of security, while guaranteeing the security of these data.
The Safe City project is fully in line with the priorities identified by COFIS, accelerating the development of solutions to enhance the security of smart cities, and in particular the following priorities:
- Data: beyond the massive collection of data and their management, the project aims to develop new analysis and correlation algorithms to better understand a situation and develop predictive capabilities. The project will also allow to clearly represent the useful information at the right time to make the decision more efficient. These representations will be developed in KPIs on dashboards, or new graphic representations adapted to security data. Some of these data will be used in a crowd simulator to allow their extrapolation in a predictive analysis vision. Finally, the Safe City project will integrate new sources of data, such as open sources from social networks, information from citizens and data from the analysis of video streams, in particular those from traffic lanes.
- The shared situation view: the map view has always been a basic element for command applications. In the context of the Safe City solution, this component will be the object of particular developments to integrate new technologies allowing in particular a fluid and efficient management of 3D, and the display and animation of a very large amount of information. The integration of a video view in the cartographic representation will also be studied to give the user a much better understanding of what is happening on the ground. Finally, in connection with the "data" axis, representations will be developed to include the results of data analysis on the map view (for example heat maps).
- Collaboration: a key issue for Waze security, the collaboration of security actors requires first of all an exchange of data. These data are critical and their sharing cannot be done without guaranteeing security on the access to these data: the position of security forces must not be disclosed to terrorists. The project will put in place solutions that allow this secure data sharing, with levels of visibility that can evolve according to the level of crisis being managed. In addition to data sharing, the Safe City solution will also look at how this data can be shared with teams in the field, in mobile command centers and with connected patrols.
- Competitiveness of the solutions: in addition to the operational aspects described above, the Safe City project will aim to ensure that the solutions developed are competitive. This is important both to guarantee cities an effective and affordable solution, and to enable the industry to export these solutions internationally. One of the points of attention is in particular the standards and norms that facilitate interoperability. Other points of attention include modularity, deployability, maintainability and scalability.
In terms of implementation, the consortium plans to develop a first version of the system, called a demonstrator in the following. The demonstrator will be implemented over 3 years in the business district of La Défense and in an urban environment in Nice. Three experiments will be carried out on each site during the project, one per year, and will progressively integrate all the functions envisaged, taking into account the feedback from operational staff.
On the La Défense site, the experiments will be an opportunity to set up and test a new business model with a platform made available to players in SaaS mode (private cloud). In this business model, the stakeholders in the activity zone subscribe to the platform in order to have extended services allowing them to be more efficient in security management, in particular by anticipating incidents in their zone of responsibility by taking cognizance of information coming from outside this zone. The controlled sharing of information benefits all stakeholders.
In Nice, the implementation of the three stages of the demonstrator allows us to benefit from a very important operational feedback for the orientation of the developments, and also to benefit from a great international exposure: Paris, Marseille, Nice and Cannes are the most famous French cities in the world. The possibility of showing the Safe City solution implemented in Nice is a very important commercial support in the marketing of the offer on the international scene.
