Public Safety Resource Allocation via Trust Score
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Solution Overview
Problem
Public safety agencies face challenges in accurately allocating resources due to different officers handling various information sources with varying reliability levels, leading to improper allocation of resources and potential errors in responding to incidents.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that use electronic processors to determine a trust score for received data feeds, identifying the most reliable information and allocating appropriate public safety resources based on this score, thereby ensuring systematic and efficient resource allocation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple public safety officers handle different information sources independently, then each officer can process information from their assigned sources, but the reliability of resource allocation decisions deteriorates due to varying information quality and lack of coordination
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple information sources and officer assessments into a single centralized system that aggregates data from emergency calls, non-emergency calls, tip lines, and social media. This consolidation allows for unified analysis and consistent resource allocation decisions across all sources, resolving the reliability issue while maintaining overall processing capacity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary trust score mechanism that objectively evaluates information reliability from different sources. This intermediary layer mediates between raw information inputs and final resource allocation decisions, preventing direct conflicts between officers handling different sources and ensuring consistent decision-making based on standardized reliability metrics.
2Reliability
If a centralized system evaluates all information sources to determine trust scores, then resource allocation reliability improves through systematic analysis, but system complexity increases due to the need to process and integrate multiple data feeds
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the complex qualitative assessment of information reliability into a quantitative parameter - the trust score. By converting subjective judgments about information quality from multiple sources into a standardized numerical metric, the system simplifies the integration process while maintaining high reliability in resource allocation decisions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the complex task of information evaluation into distinct modular components: data collection from various sources, individual source evaluation, trust score calculation, and resource allocation recommendation. This segmentation allows each component to be independently developed and maintained, reducing overall system complexity while achieving reliable centralized evaluation.
3Measurement precision
If trust scores are calculated based on multiple parameters including source reliability and incident details, then information assessment accuracy improves, but the time required to process each incident increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing reliability profiles for different information sources and pre-defining parameter weightings for trust score calculations. This preliminary configuration allows the system to rapidly compute trust scores during incident response by simply applying predefined parameters to new data, rather than conducting full analytical evaluations for each incident.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements partial evaluation by focusing trust score calculations on the most critical parameters for each incident type. Rather than uniformly applying all possible evaluation criteria to every incident, the system selectively applies relevant parameters based on incident characteristics, reducing processing time while maintaining assessment accuracy for the most important factors.
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AI summary
Recommending public safety resource allocation. An electronic computing device includes a network interface configured to receive a data feed from a network-connectable device. The data feed includes information related to a public safety incident. The electronic computing device further includes an electronic processor configured to determine an incident type of the public safety incident based on the information included in the data feed. The electronic processor is further configured to determine a trust score for the data feed as a function of one or more public safety parameters associated with the network-connectable device. The electronic processor is further configured to identify a public safety resource to respond to the public safety incident based on the trust score, the information included in the data feed, and the incident type. The electronic processor is further configured to provide a recommendation that the public safety resource respond to the public safety incident.