WELCOME

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CITIZEN
Justin Kelly 2019-07-30
Founder, CEO 000000001
Control.Ottawa@gmail.com
613.617.8643
 WELCOME
Let me start by saying how excited we are to have you and your talents with us. We look forward to the
successes we will reach together as we break new ground for citizens of Canada. It will be a lot of work,
but people are thirsting for what we will provide. They just need innovators to go out and actually make
the product – and that’s us.

This document’s goal is to summarise your project and provide a bit of background on The Citizen
Information Group. It will do this first by breaking down key data about this project, like who is involved,
stakeholder information and current dependencies. Then follow up with project overview, status and
basic road map.

ABOUT THE CITIZEN INFORMATION GROUP

Citizen Information Group (Citizen IG) is a not for profit, civic technology, future city company, based out
of Bayshore, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Our mission is to address the host of common issues revolving around daily civic life. We develop human
solutions– not business solutions. Though harnessing the great equalizing and unifying power of
technology and education. We use technology and innovation to create partnerships, social services and
drive community development.

Community development and providing social services allows us to show that we are committed to the
value and power of each person. It allows us to help release that potential, doing what we can, where we
can, to remove roadblocks and burdens that hold them back in thier lives.

At Citizen we believe people must always come first. There is absolutely no need a purposely complicated
world manufactured for profit.
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Project Information
NAME SHORT: Private Policing
NAME FULL: Private Policing
TYPE: Optical Based Road Law Enforcement Tool
DESCRIPTION: An Advanced Optical Based Road Law Enforcement Tool
WEBSITE:
FB PAGE:
SUPPORT EMAIL: Control.Ottawa@gmail.com
FOUNDED: 2019

Project Personnel
Section Name Role
Citizen Operations Kelly, Justin Project Lead
Georgian College Rajan Tyagi Team Lead
Marketing research & analytics
• Enterprise Miner
• Data Visualization
• Story Telling
• Tableau
• Web Conversion
• Python and R

Georgian College Jigar Patel Data Analyst

Masters in Statistics
• Data Researcher
• Machine Learning and
Predictive Modeling
• R
• Miner
• Tableau
Georgian College Sushil Sharma Software Developer
• Python
• JAVA
• C#
• ASP.Net
• PHP
• Web Backend

Georgian College Chitresh Sharma Software Developer

Computer Engineering
 • Generalized
programming and
database

Current Project Stakeholders

Section Name Role
Citizen Operations Kelly, Justin Chief Project Stakeholder
City of Ottawa Fleury, Mathieu Chief Political Support
City of Ottawa, Bridge, Darrel Key Deployment Stakeholder
Service Transformation Department
City of Ottawa, Various Key Audience for Deployment
Community Associations and Sale
City of Ottawa, Safer Roads Ottawa Key Audience for Deployment
Safer Roads Ottawa and Sale
City of Ottawa Transportation and Roads Department Minor Stakeholder,
Minor Gatekeeper for road
projects and access
City of Ottawa Sudds, Jenna Minor Political Support,
Strong IT and Innovation
Stakeholder
City of Ottawa Open 311 / IT Services Department Minor Deployment Stakeholder,
Gatekeeper to City of Ottawa
Endpoint
City of Ottawa Leiper, Jeff Policy Maker for City IT Services,
Minor Political Stakeholder
Treasury Board Secretariat Open Data and Innovation Department Policy Maker for Federal
Government IT Services,
Political Stakeholder,
Minor Deployment Stakeholder
Georgian College Big Data Department Business Stakeholder

Project Resources
Type Name Location
Source Control GitHub https://github.com/Citizen-
Group/PrivatePolicing
Project Management GitHub https://github.com/Citizen-
Group/PrivatePolicing
Tasking and Tracking GitHub https://github.com/Citizen-
Group/PrivatePolicing
Hardware RasberryPI 3 B Device Citizen HQ
Hardware Nexus 5 Citizen HQ
Hardware 72 Inch Tripod Citizen HQ
Hardware 12v 7AH Battery with custom Citizen HQ
battery mount
Hardware RPI B Case with custom tripod Citizen HQ
mount
Hardware Raspberry PI Camera Citizen HQ
 Hardware Nikon D7100 Citizen HQ
Hardware GoPro 5 Citizen HQ
Hardware Various sensors and electronic Citizen HQ
parts
Lab Hardware Construction Lab Citizen HQ
Lab Laser Cutter 10W Local

Project Dependencies
Type Name
Database
Core Language Python
Analytics engine Tensor Flow
Templating Tool
Testing Language
Integrated Testing Tool
Base OS Rasbian Linux
API Standard GeoReports v2 API
Law Privacy and Data Storage Laws, Canada
Law Terms of use of Open311 Ottawa
Law Ontario Traffic Law and Standards

Requirements
Private Policing is a new project. It seeks to develop an speed and traffic enforcement tool that can be
deployed on low to medium grade cameras without too much special technology.

Our objective is to provide accessibility to sophisticated and generally expensive software and hardware.
This will enable community associations, community watches and other groups, to take action towards
self policing speed and traffic laws. This is great for things like:

• Speeding and failing to break in school zones

• Parking lot use/misuse enforcement
• Failure to give emergency vehicles right away
• Failing to give buses right away
• Aggressive highway driving
• Excessively loud vehicles
• Rude, unsafe and obnoxious behavior

By creating an ecosystem of automated and standardized data, software and hardware. The collection of
data becomes easy, sharable and violation information can automate away to the correct enforcement
agencies. Secondary, because our data is standardized via hardware and software, they know they can
trust the data. This makes the tool, trusted, useful and in demand, by community and law partners.

Road enforcement is a great subject as it affects everyone. It is not a subject that can be ignored and it is
something that must be resolved promptly. Failure to do so, can result in loss of life, permanent injuries,
extreme personal damage or fines from higher orders of government.
Speeding, lack of signaling, aggressive driving, road rudeness and actions that slow traffic and cause
problems - are common conversation topics. This makes for a perfect high visibility community project.
Combined with being a perfect proof of concept for “the ability of an advanced project to run on an
digital 311 system”. This project provides a great launching pad to attract community partners and show
value in funding small scale digital projects.

Our goal is to great a simple, unified and data rich automated road surveillance network. That’s
expandable, easy to maintain and operate. This plays a key role in that future.

This project in time may extend to automation on busses, car dash cams and freshly deployed city traffic
cameras. It may employ quad directional microphones in future builds for quiet city enforcement, violence
tracking (screaming, gun fire, car crashes).

For Private Policing to be successful it must meet the following basic stakeholder requirements:

• Pose no harm or safety risk to public and to any vehicles to which it is mounted
• It must produce little to no false positives.
o Human confirmation will be needed for confidence levels that are not near absolute.
• It must never directly submit a false positive to law enforcement agency’s
• It must never submit, assert or utilize false/corrupted data (misread licence plates)
• Produce a moderately high detection rate of trained violations
• Be able to transmit that data to the URT
• Be low cost when compared with other off the self products
• Be non intrusive and easy to deploy, repair and maintain
• Promote a positive issue of contributing to community safety

As this project is in the process of being developed the more advanced, up to date and detailed
breakdown of the stakeholder requirements can be found in this project’s issues page.

Corporate Requirements

Our mission is to promote the good, put people first and help people live better, easier, more fulfilling
lives.

Citizen knows to reach that goal, a fair deal of social infrastructure will need to be built, customized and
maintained. This transformation will require strong political and public will, money, talent, creativity and
determination.

It is the goal of the Citizen IG is to be an organization that is:

1. A leader in rapidly developing unique and innovative technology solutions for unprofitable
civic problems
2. A leader in promoting community wellbeing and civic participation
3. Self sustained and adequately profitable to be able encourage the growth of others
4. Highly resourceful, agile, responsive and opportunistic to sudden change and events
5. Forged around a desire of putting the interest of people first
6. Promote the good in society that goes unnoticed and unrewarded
7. Capitalize on the era interconnectivity
 8. Promotes Canadian values domestically and internationally

While Universal Reporting Tool provides the core to achieve these goals. Private Policing empowers the
Universal Reporting Tool to be relevant, important and reach public in their daily lives.

Road Maps
Corporate Roadmap

Below is the current corporate roadmap. This roadmap shows the logical flow where each part builds on
the next – reducing cost and time. Now that you exist as a team and two other teams are handling earlier
sections. The projects will work in concert to support one another.

Private policing is represented by the “Create unique input devices” section of this flowchart. This
demonstrates its importance and its non dependence on any of the projects that follow afterwards.

Universal Pothole
Reporting Tool
Automated Reporting
V1.0.0
Bike Sensors POC Done
Paired with
BumpTrax/URT

Gain Private Generic PotSnap

Clients Reporting Tool May 2019
Ongoing In Progress 20% v1.0.0
Complete

Gain Create Unique Input

Goverment/NGO Devices BumpTrax
Clients POC Done In Progress 30%
Ongoing Ongoing to v1.0.0
The Private Policing Project Roadmap

Start Alpha Beta v1.0.0 v2.0.0 v3.0.0

Feature Complete First public trials • First public release • Advanced Features • Advanced Tooling
• Minimum • City Requirements • Adminstration and
Stakeholder Met Deployment Control
Requirements • Digital Story Telling • Self Service Pages
• Data Improvments

As Private Policing is a project being built from the ground up. It will not be too dependant on the other
projects. Early development has analyzed and tested a few of the dependency to ensure the project can
launch to the public without roadblocks. The lingering major questions are:

• Hardware needs for public deployment

• Deployment issues for optical sensor
• Rules or issues that will be imposed on us by the city, Ontario government and laws

I expect other challenges to appear as this project is very young. But you’ll have the full weight of Citizen
behind you to resolve any roadblocks.

While your roadmap is generic representation of a growth of a project. It should be noted that there are
key times where this project will shine. There is benefit to lining up milestones with the back to school,
mid fall holidays, holiday rush and post winter summer travels.

From a business standpoint having something to demo (reaching v1.0.0 or greater) before the holidays
2019 would help give us days to prove the value of this project. Traffic infractions however are all the
time, every time. So, we don’t need to worry to much about deadlines.

As this project doesn’t have any paying attention stakeholders at the moment, negotiations and
requirement development will be ongoing during the duration of this project. As people become aware of
this project and its benefits.

The long-term goal for the Private Policing as it stands is to reach v1.0.0 by winter and v2.0.0 before
summer 2020. Development and testing will be local and the pitch is to have this product bought and
sold, licences and deployed by community groups wherever demand is needed. This will facilitating the
need for a subscription service to paid the need to maintain and grow the services.

These milestones which can be found here.

Synergic Roadmap

Universal Reporting tool

It will receive a “Traffic Violation Report” which will consist of:

•A lat, lon
•Detection type (Auto AI, Auto Aggerate, Human Reviewed, Other)
•Type of traffic violation
•A ms timestamp linux epoc in UTC timezone
•Author/Device Information
It will need to create custom data aggregation logic
•It must determine at what confidence level is it safe to report to that locations end point
(road services for that area) the suspected road defect
In cases of lower confidence it will need to provide system to allow a
reviewer to deal with data approval and rejection

One important part to note to understand in the bigger picture is that the URT is the heart of current
projects. Alongside you there is the URT team, that will count on your development and make products to
interact with you. Projects are setup so no team will derail another project, from setbacks and delays.
That being said, if no progress is ever made – the dependant projects will stall eventually. So, your work is
important 😊

There are also three minor projects

• A public URT frontend (Generic reporting tool/ReportIt!)

• A pothole reporting Facebook messenger application (PotSnap)
• A optical based road defect detection tool (BumpTrax)

These may cause minor tweaks to our data models. process flow or collection methods, as they
standardise collection methods between themselves. None of this will be showstopping or generally
major.