IIT Kanpur to develop AI-based search engine for predictive policing

The institution is incubating a Lucknow-based think tank, Future Crime Research Foundation (FCRF), which is developing an artificial intelligence-driven data search engine to help in policing. 

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur is using artificial intelligence (AI) to beef up policing. The institution is incubating a Lucknow-based think tank, Future Crime Research Foundation (FCRF), which is developing an artificial intelligence-driven data search engine to help in policing.  

FCRF is being incubated under IIT Kanpur’s Artificial Intelligence and Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship (AIIDE), Centre of Excellence, Noida. The search engine hopes to improve the investigation and policing process by using data from all relevant stakeholders to establish a data search engine. The search engine will help with predictive policing, crime mapping and analysis, the FCRF said. 

Frauds and crime are one of the main social issues, said Shashank Shekhar, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of FCRF, which is developing methods of predictive policing using AI. He said, “We will collect all necessary data from many sources and create a single platform that can execute data analysis utilising regression models, data mining, and artificial intelligence, as well as providing insights into the crime pattern that is unique to a given region." 

“Now we can understand crime better and solve them faster. We are committed to promoting AI startups in Uttar Pradesh,” said Dr Nikhil Agarwal, CEO, IIT Kanpur (FIRST, AIIDE and C3i Hub). 

Start-up aims to make data accessible to investigation agencies

FCRF’s search engine will be able to leverage data analysis and predictive analysis AI by building data banks. FCRF hopes to build a platform where all the available data -- one set which the government already uses as well as the banking, banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), ISP, telecom, transport data -- will be a click away from investigation agencies.

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