KUALA LUMPUR, April 19 — In an effort to monitor policemen and detainees at detention centres, police officially launched the Self-Monitoring Analytics Reporting Technology (Smart) lockup system at Putra World Trade Centre yesterday.
Costing RM3.5 million, the system has so far been installed in 58 of the 704 lockups nationwide.
Bukit Aman Strategic Resources and Technology director Datuk Zaleha Abdul Rahman said the system would be able to recognise and detect any movement or suspicious behaviour by inmates or policemen.
“Aggressions, climbing up fences and loitering are among the system’s identifiable actions that it is able to recognise,” she said.
Zaleha said this would provide evidence based forensics for maximum productivity within detention centres.
“We hope this system will improve the security and monitoring systems of lockups to prevent any untoward incident,” she said.
Zaleha said the Smart system replaced conventional surveillance cameras.
“With the implementation of Smart, the police are embracing the Internet of Things (Iot) and Big Data,” she said.
Big Data and Iot are data harvesting systems integrated within the Smart system. The harvested information is then made accessible remotely, while also being able to be used for detailed analysis.
The Smart system was launched by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak at the four-day Defence Services Asia Exhibition and Conference.
The system was conceived by the police, in collaboration with the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, through its research arm, the Malaysia Institute of Microelectronic Systems and the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia.
The Smart lockup, along with the Profiling System Psychometric and Resource Management System, were initiatives launched by the police at the conference.
