Coverage in Five Major Cities Begins Today
Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc. (NASDAQ: HMNY) and RedZone,
creator of the RedZone Map™ app, announced that they have completed
beta testing and, starting today, have begun a national rollout
campaign with coverage first in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San
Francisco and Miami. The RedZone program utilizes the Twitter feed
to post worldwide, real-time crime data, in collaboration with the
India Institute of Technology (IIT).
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Abstract:
Further enhancing RedZone Map’s proprietary technology, RedZone
Map will now automatically source raw crime data from a major
Twitter feed with the potential for 80 million tweets daily, and
drop corresponding crime pins that display on RedZone’s map for the
cities of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and
Miami.
With the goal of using social listening to keep users aware of
their surroundings, RedZone plans to roll out this enhancement
beyond the initial cities. The enhanced RedZone Map application is
currently available free from Google Play. RedZone Map goes beyond
real-time crime reporting, offering safer navigation to steer users
away from riskier routes.
Twitter feeds come in from all over the world, many about
crime and terrorism. RedZone will be processing up to 80 million
tweets daily, with its technology displaying these threats on
RedZone Map in real-time – crime that is happening that very
moment. If news of a shooting in Chicago comes across the Twitter
feed, RedZone Map now drops a corresponding pin with that
information on the map, allowing users to be more aware of their
surroundings in real-time. If there is terrorist activity that
posts through the feed, users are immediately advised as well. A
prime example is the most recent terrorist attack that occurred in
London. During the beta test period, RedZone Map was able to
monitor real-time Twitter traffic, sourcing the Twitter raw data
and enabling the app to acquire current news and information live
from the scene.
“This is a game changer for RedZone,” said Ted Farnsworth,
founder of RedZone. “The combination of the Twitter feed and our
own internal proprietary social listening technology will enable us
to bring one of the most sophisticated crime databases to our
users, literally making it available at their fingertips.”
“This groundbreaking technology is now a part of RedZone Map,”
said Dharanipragada Janakiram, PhD, professor in the Department of
Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Madras, who is spearheading
this project. “I am very pleased with our findings and our ability
to source this Big Data efficiently and quickly creating a seamless
transaction for the RedZone Map user. This is extraordinary, and
next we plan to tie the RedZone Map platform with its artificial
intelligence technology in an effort to predict crime.”
About RedZone Map
RedZone (Zone Technologies, Inc.) is a state-of-the-art mapping
and spatial analysis company with operations in the U.S. and
Israel. It has created a community-based ecosystem that features a
socially empowered safety map app that enhances mobile GPS
navigation using advanced proprietary technology to guide travelers
to their destinations, giving them a choice of a safer route vs. a
riskier route. The app incorporates a social media component, which
allows for “it’s happening now” crime reporting coupled with
real-time crime data from more than 1,400 local, state, national
and global sources. RedZone Map is currently available to iOS and
Android users. More information is available on the RedZone
Map website. Zone Technologies, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Helios and Matheson Analytics, Inc. (NASDAQ: HMNY) is the creator
of RedZone Map.
About Helios and Matheson
Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc. (NASDAQ: HMNY) provides
information technology consulting, training services, software
products and an enhanced suite of services of predictive analytics.
With its client roster including Fortune 500 corporations and other
large organizations, HMNY focuses mainly on BFSI technology
verticals. HMNY’s solutions cover the entire spectrum of IT needs,
including applications, data, and infrastructure. HMNY is
headquartered in New York, NY and listed on the NASDAQ Capital
Market under the symbol HMNY. For more information, visit us
www.hmny.com.
TWITTER and TWEET are trademarks of Twitter, Inc.
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