AMC installs 554 CCTV cameras across city

Ahmedabad, 30 January 2014

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation(AMC) has completed installation of 554 CCTV cameras at 62 different places including V.S.hospital, L.G. hospital, Shardaben hospital, Kankaria lake front, Vastrapur lake, Manek Chowk, Uttam Nagar garden, Prahladnagar garden, Law garden, Kalupur railway station, Maninagar railway station, Sabarmati railway station, river bridges, various bus-stops of AMTS and BRTS etc.

The tasks of installation was given to N.Code Solutions company on 17th May 2012 at an expected cost of Rs. 20 crore. N.Code has completed the task for Rs. 16.22 crore.

At present the process of setting up 8 control rooms is going on. The agency will do monitoring job round the closk through its manpower.

Technical details of system:

-IP based 430 fix and 124 pan-tilt-zoom cameras
-Direct connectivity to control room through optical fiber cable.
-H.264 compression technique used for 10 days storage of footage recording.
-Secured biometrics based access control mechanism at each control room.
-Limited access powers for security of footage data.

Connectivity to all cameras has also been provided to Police Commissioner office based control room through fiber optics network.

BRTS-63 cameras at 21 places-monitoring at BRTS control room

Hospitals-220 cameras at 5 places-monitoring at respective hospital

Gardens-79 cameras at 6 places, monitored at police commissioner office

Kankaria lake-20 cameras at 1 place, monitoring at same place.

River bridges-32 cameras on 8 river bridges, monitored at police commissioner office

Railway station: 22 cameras at 5 places, monitored at police commissioner office

AMTS: 73 cameras at 15 places, monitored at AMTS, Jamalpur depot

Kankaria Zoo: 45 cameras at 1 place, monitored at Zoo itself.