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Government Security

Indian cities deploy smart surveillance

By Rahul Joshi | 20 May 2010

New Delhi State Police and Uttarkhand State Traffic Police have deployed an intelligent Security Operations Center (iSOC) in four of their cities in order to better monitor traffic. IP fixed and Pan, Tilt and Zoom (PTZ) cameras have been installed at a total of 40 locations across New Delhi, Dehradun, Kashipur, and Rudrapur.

The intention is twofold: to survey traffic, and to quickly respond to potential terrorist threats. Sanjay Agrawal, the Chief Information Officer of The National Highway Authority of India, told FutureGov: “The fundamental purpose of these cameras is to monitor the traffic condition on the road and to have a zoom-in view of any incident happening on the road directly from the control room. As part of highway traffic management system, there is a plan to place cameras at every two kilometres on National Highways in the future.”

The cameras include multiple redundancies to prevent data loss and incorporate intelligent analytics, such as the ability to automatically detect illegal parking and traffic violations.

Delhi has 31,000 km of roads and 4.8 million registered vehicles and now has cameras deployed in nine locations around the city. The cameras are monitored and controlled by the central command station of the Delhi Police Force.

Mumbai became the first Indian city to install CCTV cameras when it deployed 100 of them at key traffic junctions in 2007. An ambitious plan to install a total of 5000 cameras in the city was put on hold last year because of delays in procurement.

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