India: Kanpur IIT working to develop big data search engine to help policing

IIT Kanpur

Kanpur: The IIT Centre of Excellence (CoE)  has developed the Lucknow-based Future Crime Research Foundation.

It is working to develop a first-of-its-kind AlI-powered big data search engine to aid policing.

The search engine, according to officials, intends to make the investigation and policing process more efficient.

It will integrate data from all the key stakeholders to create a search engine that will help in predictive policing, crime mapping and analysis apart from the other services, they said.

They are wakeful against the difficult task of predicting crime and law-and-order issues, officials said.

Future Crime Research Foundation (FRCF) is developing methods of predictive policing using Artificial Intelligence.

"Now, we can understand crime better and solve them faster," said Nikhil Agarwal, CEO, IIT Kanpur's Artificial Intelligence and Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship (AIIDE) Centre of Excellence.

The FCRF prepares a platform where data of all vital organisations and institutions are connected.

We will create a single platform that can execute data analysis utilising regression models, data mining, and artificial intelligence, as well as providing insights into the crime pattern, said Shashank Shekhar, the Co-Founder of FCRF.

He explained that this platform will help police to carry out more advanced analysis. 

FCRF had created India's first search engine for nodal officers and all India police station numbers.