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3 Days ago some people (6 or 7) steal a car, (90 kilometers from my home town and where they used it) and use it to steal in 2 phone shops in a mall at 3 a.m.

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It took them 5 minutes to achieve their goal, when the police arrived there was no one.

I think that IoT can help to by one side alert the owner of the car that it was stolen an by other side alert police and mall security about this kind of events, by using algorithms that take into account several characteristics from camera inputs like time of the day.

Also can record information about the own devices that the thieves carry with them that can help to identify them, I mean, for example, if the thieves have in their phone settings turned on to look for available wifi hotspots, maybe it could be posible to save info about their devices to identify unique devices, name of the hotspots that they are been in the past, etc.

I think that IoT could have a long run in the field of security.