SCR launches video-surveillance system in 17 stations
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An Integrated Video Surveillance System (VSS) Control Room for the primary 17 stations of South Central Railway (SCR), which will help in offering surveillance footage to be monitored at — station, divisional safety management and zonal safety management — was inaugurated by General Manager Gajanan Mallya on Monday.
The 17 stations coated are unfold throughout three States — Adilabad, Begumpet, Lingampalli, Mancheriyal and Warangal in Telangana; Guntur, Kadapa, Kurnool Town, Nellore, Ongole, Rajahmundry and Tuni, in Andhra Pradesh; Aurangabad, Dharmabad, Jalna, Nagarsol, and Parli Vaijnath in Maharashtra.
RailTel, a Miniratna PSU underneath Ministry of Railways, has supplied Internet Protocol (IP) primarily based VSS at 13 railway stations and built-in present CCTV at 4 stations (Aurangabad, Guntur, Rajahmundry and Warangal) to arrange the centralized management room. Here the sooner put in Internet Protocol (ONVIF) cameras have been built-in with the brand new VSS system.
The Railway Board has entrusted RailTel with the work of offering IP-based VSS with video analytics and facial recognition system in any respect railway stations, premium and EMU coaches. “The VSS will be extended to other stations and coaches soon. Two more stations (Bapatla and Purna) will have it in June-2021 and by the end of the year a total 76 stations of SCR will be covered with this high-tech security system,” stated RailTel Chairman and (*17*) Director Puneet Chawla.
Four various kinds of full HD cameras — dome sort, bullet sorts, pan tilt zoom sort and extremely HD-4k cameras — are being supplied. The recording of the video feeds from CCTV cameras will probably be saved for 30 days for playback, post-event evaluation and for investigation functions. Important movies will be saved for longer period primarily based on request from safety businesses.
“RailTel has connected 520 CCTV cameras of these 20 stations on optical fiber cable to send the video feeds to the centralized CCTV control room where it is being monitored 24X7,” stated Mr. Mallya, in keeping with a press launch.
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