Hyderabad: The city police are in the
process of laying underground cables for CCTV cameras to overcome the
problem of cables accidentally snapping during the rains, during the repair of
electric lines, or during tree-felling exercises, as well as cables
intentionally being cut by competing cable network operators.
Cops say that such obstacles will be avoided in the new
project, as part of which 10,000 new CCTV cameras will be
installed for improved crime prevention and detection, through the laying of
underground cables. However, the cost of setting up an underground cable
network is over double that of setting up an aerial cable network.
Cops investigating various cases often find that they are
unable to retrieve CCTV footage from the area in which a crime has occurred
because of the damaged cables.
In some cases, cctv cameras are temporarily
switched off and rendered useless due to the ongoing metro rail works.
Though the aim is for the entire city to be brought under
electronic cctv surveillance
system, non-functional cameras are a major problem. The maintenance of CCTV cameras requires the
cooperation of multiple agencies, for which a mechanism has been developed but
is not being implemented effectively.
All the CCTV cameras in the city are geo
tagged and monitored from the main control room.
The control room receives an alert whenever a cctv camera system becomes
dysfunctional so that it may be attended to. Though underground cabling is
quite expensive as compared to aerial cabling, the project has been taken up
keeping the future needs of the city in mind.
The 10,000 new CCTV cameras that are to be
installed in the city will be equipped with automatic number plate reader
(ANPR) systems and the ability to capture abnormal noises, identify suspicious
vehicles, and detect unusual crowd movements, all of which will be made
possible through the use of optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
These features will aid in the prevention and detection of crime.
The cctv cameras
hyderabad will be able to capture and track the movement of suspicious
vehicles. If the details of a vehicle known to be involved in an accident are
uploaded, the cctv cameras
will be able to capture its movement and alert the police.
The software will allow vehicles to be identified in terms of
colour and other visually distinguishing features if registration numbers are
not available.
The cctv cameras
will be capable of capturing images every two seconds, round the clock.
Cameras with crowd-capturing features are to be installed at
imp-ortant locations such as the Assembly, the Se-cretariat, etc., Alerts will
automatically be generated if cctv cameras
detect any unusual mo-vements in the crowd.
The cameras will also be able to capture abnormal sounds such
as screeches, explosion, collapses, and gunshots and immediately alert the
Command Control Centre.
Cameras equipped with missing object analytics are also being
installed at certain locations. A set of objects within the purview of each of
these cameras will be predefined, and an alert will be generated in the event
of any of them going missing. This will help in the prevention of theft of
public properties and in the identification of abandoned vehicles. In addition
to these uses, the new cameras will also serve to aid in the regulation of
traffic.
Reference: http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/071117/hyderabad-underground-cables-to-power-cctv-cameras-now.html
