Academics perception of public areas video surveillance in smart cities

Branko Markovic,Ivana Ilic,Dragan Milosevic,Dejan Ilic

doi:10.14254/jems.2021.6-2.2

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The growing trend of the urban population looks for the formation of the concept of Smart Cities, based on the principles of sustainable development, which will meet the needs of people who live in them. The city must develop its public service infrastructure to provide all the requirements for the population. One of the requirements, people living in cities is the security of public areas managed by the city. The system of video surveillance, public areas should contribute to the personal safety of citizens, children and traffic, reducing the rate of crime and more efficient operation of public services. This research aims to examine academics' opinions (perceptions) about the impact of security cameras on increasing security within the concept of Smart Cities. The research had conducted on the territory of Serbia through an online survey. The obtained data were processed statistically by Chi-square and T-test, ANOVA method, multiple regression and correlation using SPSS application. The research indicates that academics much more believe in the contribution of video surveillance, reducing the crime rate, than studies of the effectiveness of the use of video surveillance shows. Video camera monitoring accelerates the reactions of competent services, but video camera recordings have not always been accepted as evidence in court.

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With the development of transport and new I.T., globalisation has influenced the world to connect more and more globally, in everyday activities, life and work throughout the entire human population
The authors of Welsh & Farrington (2004 state the following "where video surveillance systems (CCTV) are introduced, they cause a desirable effect in the form of crime rate reduction, as they contribute to an overall crime reduction of up to 21% compared to those parts of the city and public infrastructure where a video surveillance system does not cover public areas "
The long-term trend of increasing human population and their migration to urban settlements, combined with the growing lack of resources and climate change, leads to increased tensions among people need for urban settlements to develop following the concept of sustainable development has led to the need to develop the concept of Smart Cities

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With the development of transport and new I.T., globalisation has influenced the world to connect more and more globally, in everyday activities, life and work throughout the entire human population. In this integration process, national economies are becoming increasingly dependent on each other and several other factors. There is a global trend of increasing the number and size of urban settlements (primarily cities) at the expense of rural, which set special conditions in their further sustainable development of human civilisation. 2020), in 2016, 54% of the human population lived in urban settlements. By the year 2050, more than two-thirds of people will live in urban settlements. The same source states that the migration of the population from rural to urban settlements lies in the hope that people in urban settlements will be wealthier and have better living conditions

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