The multi-crore Integrated Security Surveillance System for Noida has received the green light from IIT-Delhi. Tenders for the project, which will help check crime and traffic rule violations in the city, will now be initiated for selection of an agency to put in place nearly 1,000 cameras including face readers and number plate readers. Work on the proposed project is expected to commence within two months and will be completed in a year.
The estimated budget cleared by the Department of Electronics, IIT-Delhi, has been set at Rs 114 crore. A request for proposal (RFP) for appointment of the agency has been approved by the department of computers. “We are likely to initiate the RFP this week for the project,” said Salil Yadav, Noida’s project engineer (E&M), handling the project.
According to officials, the Noida traffic cell has already worked out the modalities to implement the system on a pilot basis over a 25 sq km area of the city. Once implemented, Noida will be the first township in Uttar Pradesh to have such a hi-tech surveillance system. Besides keeping an eye on the city, the system will address traffic management issues, officials said, adding that about 800 CCTV cameras would be installed at strategic points across Noida. “We have identified 106 strategic locations across Noida,” Yadav said. “Of these, 21 points are located at entry/exits and 85 locations are intra-city at main crossroads and roundabouts,” he said.
According to officials, the surveillance cameras will be of three types: (i) fixed and pan tilt zoom (PTZ), (ii) automated number plate recognition (ANPR), and (iii) facial detection cameras. “As part of the system, we will install 20 public address systems and 25 LED display boards at several key crossings in the city. We will use the public address system to inform motorists about alternative traffic routes in case of gridlocks. The display boards will be used to inform motorists about road and weather conditions as well as accidents blocking roads,” Yadav said.
Yadav said the entire system would be monitored by a central command control centre located in Sector 94. “This four-floor control centre is under construction and is expected to be ready by mid-2016. Personnel posted here will monitor the CCTV surveillance system round-the-clock and also help in generating e-challans to violators caught via the cameras,” he said. “The cameras will be able to hold recordings for up to 45 days and will be high-resolution to capture images in the day and night,” he said. The surveillance system will be augmented by five fully equipped Innovas and hand-held machines for cops to carry out spot challans. Motorists jumping traffic lights, changing lanes, encroaching across zebra crossings, not wearing seat belts or those involved in a hit-and-run will no longer be able to go scot free, officials said.
