Security & Safety

Track

Focus within the safety track will be trends on innovation within the public safety domain. Public safety encompasses the prevention and protection against risk and damages caused by incidents that harm the safety of civilians and society in general. Within this theme contributions can be expected regarding (amongst others) terrorism, border control, social safety, cyber crime, vital infrastructure, systemic risks, intelligence and ‘IT in the street’, ‘field labs’ and reconstruction technologies.

Security & Safety is the domain of hundreds of technologies: voice, data and video communication, physical, network and biological sensors, as well as geospatial intelligence and analytical models. Incident command and operations center management and biometric access control. Not to mention hazard forecast and vulnerability analysis, handheld wireless data sharing, visualization and situational awareness. Computer-aided dispatch, collaboration and planning, surveillance and smart video analytics.

Read more about the track in the Security & Safety position paper.