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Internet-enabled surveillance

— Photo: Anand Parthasarathy

All-in-one seeing eye:

 eCon infotech’s integrated IP-camera-surveillance system.

The Olympic Games just ended, saw one of the largest deployments ofpublic video surveillance in recent times. Chinese Internetsolutions provider H3C Technologies worked with Beijing’sPublic Transportation Group to monitor the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)lines as well as the special Olympic stadia bus lines —10,000 monitoring points in all.

Back in India, many central and state agencies have begunharnessing video surveillance technology in the fight againstterrorism. Delhi Police has put out a global call for technologyharnessing Internet Protocol (IP) based video monitoring of key public places like markets and bus stations.

Bangalore which experienced a terrorist bomb episode recently hasalready created a TV camera-based monitoring system primarily fortraffic management. Now it will be beefed up with another 500cameras to keep track of suspicious activity at vulnerable publicplaces.