nakujua wrote:Realtreaty wrote:nakujua wrote:There exists many app for that on the app stores (android, ios and windows), some are one click, others are triggered by shaking the phone ... the newer ones are making use of the wearable devices.
The biggest problem with insecurity in Kenya and especially with house break ins is with the response speed of cops - at times one gets the feeling the thugs know that hata ukiweka alarm no one will come to your aid.
Most of the time the alarm is disabled or the owner is warned of rising the alarm as the sounder and light comes on.
The best thing with a software is that a company such as safaricom can use your mobile signal to trace the nearest phones to one(Thugs in this case) and they can be traced and followed wherever they go. Your phone becomes a transmitter or reciever. Say for Instance, those who were nearest to the seconds Muchai was killed could be easily traced wherever they went and it was easier to catch them given that they were running away from scene of crime.(Thugs have phones for their communication.
sasa hapo umezidi, I think for a realistic workable solution. That would put innocent people at risk
Technically, what @real is saying is possible and very doable, if it were not for the expense and the legal questions. When your phone is on it does a location update, hooks up to a cell and is assigned a roaming code. This code is attached to your number and hence to the cell geographical information and so your movements can be traced to within meters accuracy using signal strength recorded by transmitting stations and topology arithmetic. Once movements are mapped it is just a matter of correlating that with other data such as location of recent criminal activities, who called who in the criminal event and time locale and which other cellphones are in proximity in the same window, in other words the business of data crunching, pattern recognition and matching....prolific criminals dumb about telecomms and phones would aggregate to the top, and those they communicate with enter the circle of people to watch.
But great solutions are defeated by the simplest and dumbest of hurdles; cost and legalese. Or a police force which doesn't know such facilities exist, or doesn't care.