Karachi Smart Safe City Project Boosting Security with Advanced Surveillance Technology
The approval of the agreement was made in a meeting held at CM House and was attended by Home Minister Zia Lanjar, Mayor Karachi Murtaza Wahab, Chief Secretary Asif Hyder Shah, IG Police Riffat Mukhtar, MD NRTC Brigadier Asim Ishaque, DG Sindh Safe Cities Authority asif Aijaz Shaikh, and others.
The smart safe city project would have the capability of facial recognition and a number plate recognition system.
The system will facilitate monitoring of hospitals for criminals/suspects, multiple camera tracking against suspects and response, database management of criminals, and integration with National, Criminal, and other databases.
The chief minister said that the project was much awaited and finally it was seeing the day of light and hoped that the project would achieve its purpose.
“I want NRTC to complete the first phase in one and a half years,” he said. The NRTC had given him two years to complete the first phase.
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The safety system is a safeguard of the city through Artificial Intelligence based digital transformation. The CM said that Karachi has more than 20.38 million population which would increase further by 20230.
Therefore, to control crime and critical incidents, public unrest, disaster management, and traffic safety were his top priorities and their solution lay in technological integration and cyber security.
The conceptual framework of the smart safe city Karachi includes swift delivery- response and services- digital forensics and analysis of incidents, situational awareness through one window operation, real-time monitoring of activities, systematized traffic & crowed examining and monitoring, timely action against the untoward incident and intelligent data co-relations from a database.
Murad Ali Shah termed the launching of the first phase as good news for the people of the City.
