New IoT devices considered to prevent crime, make roads safer

By The Nation

 

 

The Royal Thai Police is cooperating with the Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation Ministry to create an IoT (internet of things) GPS tracker and smart checkpoint to efficiently deliver public services and prevent crime.

 

Pol Major Phuritpach Nantasitangoon, a forensic scientist at Ang Thong’s Scientific Crime Detection Centre 7, said: “This cooperation will help boost national security and new technology created to help the society can also be sold to other countries and help generate revenue for the country.”

 

He was speaking at the “Police Role and Innovation Development on Social Service” seminar organised by the National Innovation Agency (NIA) as part of the “Innovation Thailand Expo”.

 

The police bureau and the ministry are cooperating on promoting safe driving with NB-IoT GPS tracker, an innovation to prevent the theft of vehicles, smart checkpoints and devices to track speed.

 

Pol Lt-Colonel Woraphat Sukthai, an inspector at Bang Sue Police Station, said his station is experimenting with NB-IoT GPS Trackers by initially installing them in 360 police motorcycles. The tracker shows real-time information on the location of the motorbikes.

 

“This helps the central-command centre to have police officers arrive at a crime scene quickly, thus boosting officers’ performance and ensuring the safety of people,” he said. “But these devices are too expensive for individuals to use in their cars, as they go for Bt7,500 apiece plus another Bt300 per month for internet service, so we have called on the National Science and Technology Development Agency [NSTDA] for cooperation.”

 

NSTDA’s National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (NECTEC) has come up with approximately 200 new devices that go for Bt1,500 per piece and require internet service that costs no more than Bt50 per month. Meanwhile, the NIA has set a budget of Bt1.3 million to develop the cheaper tracking system and is urging Bang Sue police officers to test the 200 devices on their vehicles.

 

These trackers can track the location of the vehicle and send real-time information to the Bang Sue Police Station, so they can immediately know if there is a crash, a breakdown or fire. It also tracks the speed at which the vehicle is being driven and can be used to track motorbike taxies in a move to protect passengers.

 

Meanwhile, Pol Major Narongrit Ngamchaeng, Highway Police Station 3 inspector, said the smart checkpoint system has a high-computing AI camera that captures images and data of every vehicle passing the checkpoint.

 

“When officers have to track a suspect car, the system can provide them with information about the time the car has passed the checkpoint, the number of passengers in the car and other pertinent information, so the car can be tracked quickly.

 

“The Highway Police plans to install this system by January 2020,” he said.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30377211

 

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Forget all the nonsense about police work and co-ordination of police vehicles, we currently know where they are, parked outside the police post, out for lunch or at home / girlfriends house - however, if they can be miniaturised to ankle bracelet size - they will be ideal for tracking all the criminal / terrorist foreigners currently infesting Thailand - negates the need for TM 28 / 30's. etc. 

 

Sure great, take a wild guess if somchai bothers to put baht to the sim card for the data connection it needs.

Regarding the installation on Police vehicles, how long before all the high-tech breaks down due to lack of maintenance ?

 

Or plainly due to careless use ?

 

or even who knows,  sabotage from some officers who do not want to show their whereabouts on duty and then have to share the bribes cake,  higher above.

Edited October 8, 20196 yr by observer90210

They expect to export these innovative devices? They sound just like things professional police forces have had in their standard kit for some time. Maybe investing in real training for officers and getting out and actually enforcing the existing laws would be a better investment in time and money.

Total incompetent dreamers. Any gimmick to avoid them doing the real job, just like Biometrics is the end all cure.

Hub of tracking..

Seems they have no problem finding money for nonsense, but still haven't supplied water and electricity to every village in the Kingdom..

3 minutes ago, Jeffrey346 said:

Seems they have no problem finding money for nonsense, but still haven't supplied water and electricity to every village in the Kingdom..

Priorities, please. 

 

9 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

NSTDA’s National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (NECTEC) has come up with approximately 200 new devices that go for Bt1,500 per piece and require internet service that costs no more than Bt50 per month.

OK, so which Generals has shares in NSTDA ? 

9 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

and new technology created to help the society can also be sold to other countries and help generate revenue for the country.”

Along with the cures for HIV and Ebola they've already discovered.

 

9 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

This cooperation will help boost national security

This seems to be a chief concern of the government - what is the perceived threat to 'national security'?  From whom?  Perhaps the concern is for internal strife caused by distrust of the self-appointed 'democratic' government.

The technique can in many cases help, but it is the officer who has to do the real work!

10 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Meanwhile, the NIA has set a budget of Bt1.3 million to develop the cheaper tracking system

Well that's going to buy a crack team of developers ????

Ah, the old National Security chestnut again. Incompetent Paranoid military scheming to graft more Baht from the taxpayer through hair-brained projects that will, once all the budgets have been "appropriated", fade into history.

Here is the best high tech motivator the RTP have come up with so far. Or rather it would be if anyone could stay awake long enough to be bothered to ring it.

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1065740-‘golden-bell’-to-keep-thai-police-officers-awake-in-region-1/

 

Just checked Ali Baba, GPS Trackers 362 baht, job done. Why waste money reinventing a Thai wheel when the Chinese have already done it?

https://www.lazada.co.th/products/mini-global-locator-gps-tracker-gsmgprsgps-tracking-i6092931-s7572451.html?ef_id=CjwKCAjw5_DsBRBPEiwAIEDRW8TuCMybAtZt-R2_sOrVcvUqO-kChHyL5vIOgCFA9MSPk66dppBjsxoCGwoQAvD_BwE:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!3152!3!286179630377!!!u!296030489971!&exlaz=d_1:mm_150050845_51350205_2010350205::12:1498579383!58089999096!!!pla-296030489971!c!296030489971!7572451!136956210!286179630377&gclid=CjwKCAjw5_DsBRBPEiwAIEDRW8TuCMybAtZt-R2_sOrVcvUqO-kChHyL5vIOgCFA9MSPk66dppBjsxoCGwoQAvD_BwE

If only there was an organization of people whose job it was to prevent crime and make the roads safer. If I were to create an organization like that I think I would call it the police. But that's just crazy talk. It would never work.

Edited October 9, 20196 yr by bkkgriz
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No money!   by the time everyone gets their cut from these devices they will end up like all the others on the self just like all the useless idea's.

 

No education, no training leaders never been out of the country to get a better perspective as to what the world has to offer. Idea after idea when the answer has been at their finger tip.

 

Enforce the current driving laws revise the police responsibility and get them out on the roads out of the police boxes and ENFORCE violations instead of watching and doing nothing.

 

 

10 hours ago, observer90210 said:

Regarding the installation on Police vehicles, how long before all the high-tech breaks down due to lack of maintenance ?

 

Or plainly due to careless use ?

 

or even who knows,  sabotage from some officers who do not want to show their whereabouts on duty and then have to share the bribes cake,  higher above.

Do you doubt the integrity of the police. You are suggesting that they would not want to pass on the fair share of bribes they receive? I'm speechless.

10 hours ago, Artisi said:

however, if they can be miniaturised to ankle bracelet size - they will be ideal for tracking all the criminal

Are you suggesting the BIB wear them?? ????

Cant even get a simple App working and how many Hotline numbers? nobody answers

Got to love that in Thailand "For English Press 2" Sawat dee krap was the answer 

Such absurd comments. This improvement is also not appreciated.

THE ROADS are safe, it is the idiots who drive on them that NEED TO BE MORE EDUCATED ON HOW TO DRIVE.

The other day an idiot Thai driver just came out of side road in front of me causing me to virtually stop...do they NOT know that THEY should NOT impede a vehicle???

and when they do come out in front of a vehicle they proceed down the road at 20 kms....IDIOTS !!!!

Edited October 9, 20196 yr by essox essox
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My son used to install the DCU units almost 20 years ago in government agencies vehicles and police cars, here in Australia. Many off the shelf GPS logistics tracking systems out there, and relatively affordable. 

A few dollars a week is all they cost. 

This sounds like reinventing the wheel...

 

And then of course the units need to be in vehicles in motion,  plus a despatch centre, and a desire to actually work, are all required. 

 

No doubt some high flying relatives will tender for the business. 

And the customary brown envelopes will circulate. 

 

I sort of got lost as to what they were trying to achieve!!!

10 minutes ago, Thaifriends said:

Such absurd comments. This improvement is also not appreciated.

 

Why absurd ?

This is not with "apps" and ridiculous things that only work on the internet explorer with a Win XP hacker at best , that things will get better on the road.

It is with a total overhaul of the police so that his forces finally understand that being a police officer is totally different from what is currently practiced in Thailand.
It is the creation of a real police of the road;
police officers familiar with the Highway Code and enforcing it h24;
police officers who are not from the province in which they will have to do what they were trained to do;
policemen properly remunerated with materials paid by the state or the province.

I'm afraid it never happens in Thailand.

2 hours ago, legend49 said:

Total incompetent dreamers. Any gimmick to avoid them doing the real job, just like Biometrics is the end all cure.

Talking about biometrics.

Anyone notice the multitude of people in biometrics jackets at the airports know?

All playing with the smartphones.

 

Not being sure what they do?

I asked one the other day. 

The response was, we help if the passport information is not good..

 

Oh right...

 

The chip contains fingerprints and eye scan...

Not quite sure what the intent is?

6 minutes ago, Assurancetourix said:

 

Why absurd ?

This is not with "apps" and ridiculous things that only work on the internet explorer with a Win XP hacker at best , that things will get better on the road.

It is with a total overhaul of the police so that his forces finally understand that being a police officer is totally different from what is currently practiced in Thailand.
It is the creation of a real police of the road;
police officers familiar with the Highway Code and enforcing it h24;
police officers who are not from the province in which they will have to do what they were trained to do;
policemen properly remunerated with materials paid by the state or the province.

I'm afraid it never happens in Thailand.

Many people like Thailand just the way it is. If they wanted police oversight 24 hours a day they could stay at home.

can they track policemen doing rounds of collection money in businesses or they will just use another vehicle to secure their privacy while doing their extra income job

 

or let me guess, every farang has to buy such gps tracker at 50x - 100x the normal price

Edited October 9, 20196 yr by justin case

12 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

Many people like Thailand just the way it is. If they wanted police oversight 24 hours a day they could stay at home.

Remove all police , nobody notice any difference, will save Thailand billions.