Fighting Volume Crime : an Intelligent, Scalable, and Low Cost Approach

Volume Crimes (aka petty crimes) take place on a daily basis affecting citizens, local communities, as well as business and infrastructure owners. In this paper, we present a novel intelligent surveillance solution (P-REACT) that integrates video and audio analytics both on-site (using an embedded platform connected to local sensors) and centrally on a cloud service. This intelligent surveillance system has been conceived and designed to anticipate volume crimes in areas where video surveillance is allowed by current legislation and more specifically in shops and public transportation systems; intended as a modular and low cost solution. The capability of dynamically adapting the analytic algorithms that are performed on-site provides a more accurate detection of crime evidences.