Technological Platform to improve Citizen Security (SOTERIA)

A Technology Platform is proposed to improve Citizen Security (SOTERIA). Colima occupies the first national place in malicious homicides per 100 thousand inhabitants, while six years ago it occupied the fourteenth. In the last three years the figure has increased fivefold: 2014 record 13.92, in 2015 it increased to 23.08 and for 2016 it climbed to 71.22, according to the figures of the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System. The situation will not improve this year. Until August 1, 2017, the PGJ recorded 478 wrongful killings, 46 less than all of 2016. Manzanillo, Tecomán, and Colima capital concentrate more than 80 percent of executions.

Security

Description

The general population is increasingly exposed to criminal and antisocial behaviours. According to the National Urban Public Security Survey, conducted by INEGI (2017), the population 18 years of age and older, by type of criminal or antisocial behaviour that has witnessed in the surroundings of their home are:

– Alcohol is consumed in the street (63.3%).

– There are frequent robberies or assaults (47.5%).

– Drugs are used (45.6%).

– There is gang or violent gangs (31.3).

– Drugs are sold (30.3%).

Derived from the above, citizens have modified their lifestyle, incorporating behaviours fear of being a victim of a crime (INEGI, 2017).

– Allow their minor children to leave (70.5%).

– Wear jewellery (64.2%).

– Going out at night (51.0%).

– Bring cash (47.0%).

– Bring credit or debit card (38.2%).

– Go for a walk (33.5%).

The affectation is such that, although these incidents are in the last, penultimate, and last-second place, respectively, citizens have stopped carrying out activities such as going to school (7.5%) or frequenting shopping centres (16.8%) and even using public transport (20.2%).

Therefore, the fundamental idea of this proposal is the design and implementation of a comprehensive monitoring system to improve citizen security and the well-being of citizens, by detecting and alerting when their physical integrity is at risk.

SOTERIA includes the design and implementation of 4 subsystems:

The subsystem of audible alarms.
Video surveillance cameras subsystem.
Subsystem for monitoring physiological parameters, and;
WEB subsystem (which integrates the services of the three previous subsystems).

As proof of the concept for this project, SOTERIA will be installed in the Santa Bárbara Residential neighbourhood, which will be designed and developed under the TRL (Technology Readiness Level) methodology.

SOTERIA has among its objectives to create a solution based on the Internet of Things (IoT) technology to support citizens to identify whether or not to require an emergency response system and, therefore, to reduce the number of calls to emergency services that do not require urgent attention. Our proposal is aligned with the following technological structure:

a) Sensors. – the sensors will collect the physiological data of the users and measure data such as fall/position detection, respiratory rate, heart rate, temperature, and oxygen saturation.
b) Processes – will be defined to 1) transmit the data, 2) analyse and interpret the data and, 3) inform the user.
c) Data. – Physiological data will be collected by the sensors and stored in a secure database.