The P-REACT project will design and develop a low-cost surveillance platform that will detect Petty Crime incidents. The solution will encompass intelligent video and audio sensors to detect petty crime incidents, a cloud-based monitoring, alert detection, and storage platform. Technology trends in computer vision, motion detection, video retrieval, semantic video analysis, and cloud technology will be exploited.

The solution will focus on connecting citizens, business owners, infrastructure owners, and security and law enforcement personnel so that Petty Crime incidents can be effectively dealt with and prevented in the future. The project will ensure that legal, ethical, and end-user needs are properly balanced and addressed ensuring a ‘Privacy-by-design’ solution approach.