An IOT-Based Architecture for Crime Management in Nigeria
Crime and criminal activities have impacted negatively on the socioeconomic development of Nigeria over the years. As a result, life and property of citizens are threatened continually. Putting in place a secured and fear-free environment is thus a critic
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1 Introduction A crime is an act of wrongdoing that merit community condemnation and punishment usually by way of payment of fine or imprisonment [1]. There are numerous examples of crime, but this study is confined to rape, armed robbery, murder, kidnapping, and ritual killings, which are more prevalent in Nigeria [2]. Rate of crime is inversely proportional to the rate of economic development of any nation [3, 4]. This implies that no nation can experience any meaningful development with a high rate of crime. Hence, it is imperative for the government of any nation to curtail or eradicate this monster from society. The activities and the dastard effect of this menace on the socioeconomic development of any nation are worrisome [5]. With Nigeria being the case study, the criminal activities have been on the increase in recent times as a result of economic downturn and recession in the country. This has had negative effects on the socioeconomic development of the country. Billions of dollars have been lost by Nigeria as a result of this ugly trend [6]. The report on Nigeria watch [7] showed the most crime fatalities tending to occur in major cities of the country such as Lagos and Rivers. F. Adesola · S. Misra (B) · N. Omoregbe Center of ICT/ICE Research, CUCRID Building, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria e-mail: [email protected] F. Adesola e-mail: [email protected] N. Omoregbe e-mail: [email protected] R. Damasevicius · R. Maskeliunas Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania e-mail: [email protected] R. Maskeliunas e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019 R. K. Shukla et al. (eds.), Data, Engineering and Applications, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6351-1_19
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In addition, a graph showing the various incidence of armed robbery dwindled over the years, and the report concluded that the fatalities have remained high since then. To this end, our research question is “What are the steps to be taken to eradicate or reduce to barest minimum the growing rate of crime in Nigeria?” Application of Internet of Things and Big Data ICT technologies have shown great potentials from recent studies [8–12] and so we believe it can give us an optimal solution to this problem where criminals and criminal activities can be monitored, tracked, and detected real-time online [4]. This will go a long way to assist security agents to do their job efficiently and productively. Therefore, the aim of this work is to harness the current state of technology in the Internet of Things and Big Data technologies and develop a model that can be used to track and monitor crime real-time online.
2 Related Works According to IEEE IoT community, Internet of Things (IoT) can be described as a collective network of sensors and smart objects that are self-configuring and adaptive for the purpose of identification, communication, sensing, and data collection as well as interaction with humans [13].
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