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Five ways the IMC can reduce crime

The Incident Management System (IMC) is a national monitoring facility in Pretoria that provides intelligent insights and proactive, instant alerts to customers based on event metadata collected from thousands of independent CCTV cameras around the country.

It uses smart and safe city concepts that enable detailed and thorough monitoring and analytics, advanced facial recognition and licence plate identification technology which not only results in the detection and prevention of crime and other incidents, but also gathers the data around that event which allows businesses to identify ways to sell smarter and make our country a safer place for all.

The IMC reduces crime in the following five ways:

1. It helps you prepare for possible breaches. If you can predict breaches, you can prepare for them. The following are some ways the IMC helps you do this:

• The deep learning video analytics tools and artificial intelligence also works in the background to help prevent and mitigate unnecessary risks.

2. It helps you respond immediately. In most cases, watching an incident on CCTV after the fact is too little, too late and the chance of catching the criminals is slim. But the IMC helps you respond when it matters through an immediate incident response system, allowing businesses and cities to stop crime in its tracks.

3. It integrates with the relevant authorities. Not only does the IMC help you respond to crime quicker, it gets the relevant authorities involved ASAP. For example, on the opening day of Ballito Junction mall, protestors threatened to cause problems. However, thanks to AxxonSoft technology, the mall security forces and local police service were on high alert, and they could report and handle any issues on the day.

4. It integrates with existing CCTV products. The IMC helps reduce crime because it doesn’t restrict you to the limited detection tools available on existing rudimentary CCTV cameras and devices. The IMC supports almost 10 000 IP devices and 3 000 models of network devices, so you can benefit by cutting-edge technology without spending hundreds and thousands of Rands.

5. It tracks down offenders and aids arrests. It can track offenders across multiple video surveillance cameras to aid arrests. The system automatically picks out faces from the video camera feed, compares them to the central database and sends an alert to security personnel or any relevant people.

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