CHALLENGE
Cities of all sizes can be thought of as an ecosystem, with many different elements playing a critical role in how the community-at-large is impacted. Any breakdown in public services can have disastrous effects on a large number of people. City and government officials are continuously challenged with keeping their communities safe and healthy.
These leaders need to be conscious and proactively diligent in handling a variety of considerations – traffic and infrastructure, public safety, public works, and more.
City and urban parking is often difficult to find, leading to stressful environments for drivers. Continuously monitoring and enforcing the city’s parking rules and regulations is a financial and staffing burden for city governments.
Additionally, public safety has become a critical measure in keeping with CDC guidelines and state and local ordinances such as occupancy management, mask compliance, and thermal screening for contagion control.
The city of Riverbank, CA was in need of a solution that could help augment their law enforcement’s efforts in protecting the city’s downtown area which had been victimized by various criminal activities. Riverbank was investigating whether or not to bolster its law enforcement staff to meet demand or install cameras to act as another line of defense.
SOLUTION
The City of Riverbank started working with EPIC iO to complement their police department, recognizing that EPIC iO’s AI-enabled SCaaS solution for Public Safety would enable their security force to run more efficiently and effectively by providing intelligent data and tools.
EPIC iO’s SCaaS solution was positioned in strategic downtown locations that were known to be threats to public safety. Through 24/7 monitoring, many crimes were either proactively stopped or made it easier for officers to follow-up on after the fact. The initial project was so successful that Riverbank expanded its downtown solution to incorporate video monitoring to parking locations in its Riverwalk shopping section to decrease the amount of crime and car break-ins that had been reported.
We’ve already made a difference, and we look forward to keeping Riverbank safe and secure.
We’ve installed 32 cameras around the city.
We developed an alert system to notify first-responders within seconds.
Over the last three years, our system has helped solve numerous crimes and even helped locate a missing person.
We respect your privacy. No personal information or data is ever captured with these systems.
Eliminates costly overhead associated with dedicated IoT overlay networks.
Typically data is stored for less than 30 days.
Data is stored locally, and never shared with a third-party.
All data is encrypted.