Gangnam is the first district in Seoul to install CCTV cameras. In emergency situations, the CCTV for parking control can be converted into crime surveillance cameras, enhancing the district’s security even further.
Gangnam District Office have also introduced a feature called “intelligent image analysis” to the 30 elementary schools in the district as a proactive step to prevent and respond to crimes involving children. The Office also added other features including “smart search” with increases search efficiency for large volume image data; “cast net surveillance”, enabling simultaneous observation of different peripheral areas when a case is notified; and a high-precision 3D GIS map.
“We are planning to develop the u-Gangnam City Control Centre as a focal point of a smart city by providing a variety of information for the future-oriented information age”, says Ms Shin Yeon-hee, Mayor of Gangnam. - “We will use it to improve security of the residents based on such data as traffic, collected from the sensors on CCTV, and broadband. The development of various initiatives including child protector, u-facility management and u-health and welfare will be part of the ubiquitous city surveillance.”
The Centre has an operating personnel of 68 people which includes 47 CCTV operators, four policemen, five city control personnel and 12 maintenance staff.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Gosia Klimowicz
Quelle/Source: futureGov, 22.05.2012
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