Rail Network
This is a pilot scheme for South-Central Railways for use along the line that runs parallel to the coast. The system, which contains 25 servers, more than 250 cameras, and a 7.5 Terabyte distributed database, is accessible using a web browser or SQL queries. The video servers are connected by an ADSL/satellite uplink network. The control and facilities management system, which is located at Brighton, remotely monitors live video, configures alarms, searches for events, and downloads data. The typical time taken to search the entire video database for an object is less than one minute.
The surveillance system offers the following key features:
Improved Safety
- Detection of platform crowding, dangerous behaviour, trespassing on tracks
Terrorism and Emergency Prevention and Detection
- Detection of left luggage on platforms
- Remote monitoring in real time
- Automatic historical searches
Passenger Security
- Interface to public help-points on platform
- Long line PA
- Detection of loitering, groups, and violence
Revenue Protection
- Integration with ticket barriers
- Ability to track journey of passengers
High Operational Performance
- Monitoring of train arrivals and departures
- Remote surveillance by the management team
- Load adjustment through monitoring of platform crowding
Better Facilities Management
- Remote control of heating and lighting
- Control of access
- Detection of equipment faults and automatic reporting
- Diagnostic testing of Cameras