Data Science Day @ Columbia University

The rapid growth of commercial technologies made our environment and behavior change much faster than our body and natural skills. While thousands of years of evolution have trained us to cope with tasks that guaranteed our survival, our constant pursuit for a more confortable life introduced other unpredictable dangers in few decades. The increase in the number of automobiles together with the high demographic density of the modern cities, make the urban regions a hotspot for these hostile situations. As a solution we are introducing the SEUS (Sense Enhancement for Urban Safety), an embedded IoT system that uses multiple sensors, advance recognition algorithms, and cloud computing to scan the environment for potential treats and alert the user. The first SEUS prototype uses multiple MEMS microphones spread over the body to localize incoming vehicles.