Providing citizens and businesses with a safe and secure environment while maintaining their convenience has become a major challenge for public safety organizations. City authorities face a wide variety of threats such as crime, vandalism, loitering, and terrorism, as well as extraordinary events such as natural disasters, pipe bursts and demonstrations. Moreover, they must also manage routine operations such as rush-hour traffic.

Each region within a city is equipped with numerous sensors, systems and devices that provide valuable information. And with technology constantly evolving, the volume of such information available to operators and decision makers will only continue to grow. As a result, operators and first responders need to be able to control and manage all existing safety and security devices, while receiving only the essential information required for maintaining public safety.

SimGuard's Safe City is an advanced multi-site incident management system that provides situational awareness and a decision-support tool for ensuring operational continuity by holistically handling safety and security. The system's open architecture allows integration with all of the city's key safety and security functionalities (e.g. alert management, video management and surveillance, reporting and information distribution) in a single unified platform that contains 3D virtual reality for optimal situational awareness.

SimGuard's Safe City solution assists in managing the city's routine operation and emergency situations in order to provide citizens and businesses with a safe and secure environment. Operators and first responders receive a complete, coherent situational awareness picture of events throughout the entire city, thereby enabling advanced monitoring and control capabilities.

SimGuard is also the only solution that covers all phases of incident management including planning, training, real-time monitoring and debriefing.

• Use of advanced simulations such as blast mitigation, crowd behavior, and gas and fire propagation for pre-planning ad-hoc events (e.g. large-scale gatherings, fairs, VIP visits). Pre-planning includes emergency plans, crowd evacuation plans or other security- and safety-related issues
• Analysis of results of potential scenarios, via advanced simulations, for evaluating safety and security measures
• Display of the location of safety and security field operatives on a 3D GIS model of the city via a GPS or RFID system to ensure fast and effective resource deployment
• Smart information distribution for enabling constant and accurate updates to managers at all levels and at any location
• Integration with multiple city-wide safety and security measures such as CCTV cameras, alarm systems, License Plate Recognition (LPRs) and fire detectors
• Unique Tracking capabilities (Rontal's patent pending) allows superimposing suspect's track (both indoor and outdoor and in crowded environments) on 3D situational awareness screens for interception and pattern recognition purposes
• Smart CCTV management for eliminating the need to continuously monitor banks of screens by prioritizing and presenting, on a unified 3D GIS-based virtual-reality display, only the most immediate, relevant information needed for managing emergency situations and events
• Achieving of a high level of commonality by overlaying common language maps and infrastructure layers (e.g. pipes, streets, electricity) on a 3D geospatial model of the site
• Initiation of automated and semi-automated predefined responses, via context-based rules engine, for various routine and emergency situations

SimGuard's Safe City solution provides centralized control of multiple sites. Information from all sensors and devices across the city's regions are gathered and fused into a single unified platform. The implementation of SimGuard enables the city's central command-and-control center to be constantly aware of any events or incidents taking place throughout the city, and are managed by a local SimGuard station. As such, SimGuard provides users with a full situational awareness picture of what is transpiring throughout the city.

• City-wide, real-time situational awareness for rapid understanding of unfolding events and their implication on the city's public safety
• Comprehensive incident management life cycle coverage including planning, training, real-time monitoring and debriefing
• Integration with all sensor, device and system types
• Improved response times to emergency situations
• Effective decision-making cycle
• Public safety support for both citizens and businesses
• Routine and ad-hoc management of city events such as large-scale gatherings and VIP visits
• Management of emergency events such as demonstrations, vandalism, crime and terrorism

To learn more about SimGuard's solution for safe cities, please contact: info@rontal.com