Smart City Crime Prevention Services: The Incheon Free Economic Zone Case

Abstract

This study explores ways to improve the security systems of emerging smart cities by conducting a case study of the smart crime prevention service of the Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ) in South Korea. Data from the IFEZ were collected between January 2017 and December 2018 across the smart system’s four functional areas (intelligent video surveillance, suspicious vehicle surveillance, emergency alerts, and abnormal sound sources) and 10 types of situations (emergency, violence, civil complaints, intrusion, kidnapping, loitering, throwing, suspicious vehicle, collision explosion, and sudden event). Descriptive statistics were analyzed to show the limitation of the smart crime prevention service. The results revealed three significant insights into the best practices for smart crime prevention services in smart cities: first, smart crime prevention services are required to verify the accuracy and consistency of collected data; second, the government must establish a consistent process to link all crime prevention services and to secure data linkages; and third, the government must urgently foster and secure experts in specialized institutions to carry out these advised functions. Ultimately, these findings suggest that in-depth discussions of data collection and sharing are required to ensure the optimal development of smart city security services.

How Do People View Various Kinds of Smart City Services? Focus on the Acquisition of Personal Information

“…The automatic vehicles vignette depicted a service to curb labor costs by automating buses and cabs. The content of each vignette was adapted from the actual or planned projects described above [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. The full texts of the vignettes were posted on the OSF.…”

“…One of the most typical aspects of smart cities is the acquisition of personal information, such as citizens' income level, travel routes, health checkup results, lifestyle habits, and cell phone browsing history [14,15]. Examples include services to assign social credit scores to individuals based on their credit information, such as income and tax delinquency, and to apply preferential treatment based on these scores [16]; services to use AI cameras to collect information on pedestrian behavior for early detection of criminal activity and wandering elderly [17][18][19]; and services to manage citizens' health care based on the results of health checkups [20][21][22], are being planned and implemented. On the contrary, there are services where the amount of acquired personal information seems to be relatively small.…”

The Security of the Local Community and Tourists Resulting from the Implementation of ICT in Cities: The Case of Poland

“…This solution can be applied to the four functional areas of the intelligent system, such as intelligent video surveillance, surveillance of suspicious vehicles, hazard warnings, and unusual noise sources. This crime prevention service may be used, inter alia, in the prevention of sudden threats, violence, kidnappings, and the use of suspicious vehicles, explosions, collisions, and sudden events (Park and Lee, 2020). City security architecture is often considered in terms of situational crime prevention and defense space.…”

A Smart City Service Business Model: Focusing on Transportation Services

“…Smart city services are major solutions for reducing costs and solving urban problems [1] by using information technology (IT) [2,3] for housing matters [4], traffic problems [5], and crime prevention [6] caused by rapid urbanization [7,8]. For this reason, the Smart city is becoming one of the most compelling tools for local governments who are seeking to meet sustainable development goals, achieve a higher quality of life for residents, improve government efficiency, and bring about collaborative governance [9].…”

“…For this reason, the Smart city is becoming one of the most compelling tools for local governments who are seeking to meet sustainable development goals, achieve a higher quality of life for residents, improve government efficiency, and bring about collaborative governance [9]. In addition, smart cities can improve quality of life, save time, increase economic benefit, and consequentially maximize value by applying advanced technologies to cities [6]. With the development of smart cities, the services that are being provided in cities are also diversifying, and as many smart technologies are developed to provide services, the smart city-related industries and markets are also growing significantly [10].…”