Crowdsourcing crime prevention
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The company, based at the Pool Innovation Centre, has devised an ingenious way of crowdsourcing crime prevention and business is expanding.
The service provides live streaming of CCTV footage from stores and businesses throughout the UK and Europe to be watched by alert citizens in their homes.
If someone spots a thief or something suspicious, they press an alert that sends an email with a link to a video recording of the event to the business owner.
More than 8,000 subscribers each pay £1...
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