The Catalan police has presented this Monday at the Gran Via venue in L'Hospitalet, during the Mobile World Congress, a new Police Coordination Room that incorporates artificial intelligence and real-time monitoring to respond to incidents and emergencies throughout Catalonia.
A room oriented to emergencies and citizen security
Commissioner Miquel Àngel Garcia Alvira, head of the General Commissariat of Information and Communication Technology of the Mossos d"Esquadra, has explained that the new room is designed to offer a more effective, agile, and technological response to new security and emergency challenges. The system will allow coordinating both usual incidents and large-scale emergency situations, expanding the traditional approach of coordination rooms.
"We bring to Mobile the room that we envision for the future, which not only has to coordinate the management of incidents, which is what we were used to doing, but also emergencies" - Miquel Àngel Garcia Alvira, Mossos d"Esquadra
The future Mossos room will feature images captured by video surveillance systems, cameras installed in police buildings, patrol cars, and agents equipped with recording devices. In addition, images sent from mobile phones that may end up in the cloud or on social networks will be integrated, which will allow expanding real-time information sources.
Artificial intelligence and information verification
The prototype presented has been developed internally by the Mossos d"Esquadra. It uses artificial intelligence to monitor in real time incidents, alerts and relevant content shared on social networks and other digital platforms. The objective is to detect any emergency early and improve the precision and speed of the police response.
"The first information of some incident we see on social media, it is an open source and for us it is a gateway to know what is happening" - Miquel Àngel Garcia Alvira, Mossos d"Esquadra
The commissioner has stressed the importance of screening all the information collected, since there is a high volume of false or inaccurate data. For this reason, the Mossos contrast the information obtained through social networks and other open sources with other official channels before mobilizing resources. Open sources are considered an additional alert channel, at the same level as emergency calls or direct reports to officers.
Live images and coordination from any CECOR
The new system guarantees that any Coordination Center (CECOR) from where an emergency is managed can receive live images of what is happening on the ground. This represents an advance compared to traditional coordination rooms, which until recently were primarily oriented to the management of citizen security and public order incidents.
The current reality, according to the Mossos corps, demands a broader approach that also includes the management of large-scale emergencies. The deployment of this technology seeks to improve the reaction capacity in the face of complex situations at any point in Catalonia.
Airport protection against unauthorized drones
In the framework of the Mobile World Congress, the Mossos d"Esquadra have also presented the Kuppel system, a technological solution designed to protect Catalan airports against the risk of unauthorized drone flights. This system offers a comprehensive response based on detection and selective neutralization when a drone may illegally interfere with an airport.
During the days of the congress, daily simulations will be carried out to show the action protocol in the event of an aerial incursion, with the objective of testing and perfecting the functioning of this new system in real scenarios.