Real-time tracking management system

Abstract

Over the latest years many commercial Real-Time Tracking management systems (RTMS) were introduced into the market. The solutions started to be designed for single tracking purposes, but vendors soon realized that valuable tracking benefits would result by the appropriate design of a service layer. From the many RTMS solutions currently on market, it was not found a specific or suitable solution for general Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs). A list of requirements was gathered from one of the Portuguese LEAs, GNR (Guarda Nacional Republicana) to fully understand the generic daily challenges. Main requirements raised by GNR strive with that address issues like cost, data exchange security, bi-directional communication services, performance, network fault tolerance and user-friendly interfaces. This paper presents a RTMS solution and a service layer specifically conceived for LEAs. It will be shown that learning over risk assessment mappings may bring additional benefits to LEAs. Experimental tests were performed to quantitatively measure the solution behavior.