The Project

The purpose of the Bad Area Detector (BAD) is two-fold. Its main purpose is to increase public safety by delivering valuable crime statistics to authorized Department of Transportation (DoT) workers as well as local public safety officers. This in-turn will help to reduce traffic congestion by quickly notifying DoT workers of areas that have been blocked due to illegal activity. The drivers can then change their driving route in real time to avoid running into those areas. The second purpose of the BAD is to assist the local police in analyzing crime data with machine learning. This information can help officers plan beat routes and help determine patterns of infraction committed by local crime organizations.

The application was originally built on General Electric’s “Industrial Internet of Things” (IIoT) platform called Predix.io. However, due to unforeseen circumstances we have migrated the application to run on IBM’s IIoT platform called IBM Cloud. The project will use a Raspberry Pi to simulate police dispatch data to be sent to the Watson Service in the IBM Cloud. Once in the cloud, the information is sent to a Cloud Object Storage Database where it can then be pulled by an analytical service provided by IBM which will be used to analyze the crime data. Next, the information will be sent to the web-application which will process the information and display it to a user-friendly interface running on IBM’s servers.

Web Application UI

IBM Cloud URL

https://badsystem.mybluemix.net

Team Information

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