Madrid prepares an innovative video surveillance system for transport infrastructure

The Community of Madrid has experimentally launched, at the Moncloa Interchange, a project to improve security in large transport infrastructures that allows any risk situation for users to be identified in real time.

The Moncloa Interchange in Madrid has a new experimental security system, designed exclusively to cover large transport infrastructures, which will automatically identify possible risk situations for users, locating and notifying security personnel in real time. This is a pilot test based on artificial vision that allows each person to be identified., record your trajectory and classify it based on the objects you carry.

The Minister of Transport and Infrastructure of the Community of Madrid, Antonio Beteta, attended a pilot test of this innovative video analytics system based on “artificial vision”, with which it is possible to instantly analyze any area of ​​a transportation infrastructure under video surveillance that, due to its configuration, requires greater attention in security supervision and control tasks..

Beteta explained that the pilot test being carried out at the Moncloa Interchange consists of the development of an analytical video system that allows each person who appears on the scene to be individually identified., record your career, as well as carrying out a classification of it depending on whether or not it carries certain types of objects..

Image analysis triggers an alarm if it detects a potential risk situation such as an accumulation of people, risks of robbery or abandonment of suspicious packages and, through the incident manager, notifies the security personnel responsible for the exchanger. The Community remembers that all these tests are being carried out respecting at all times the privacy of the people who are captured by the cameras, and that these are simulated sequences to test the effectiveness of a system that allows user mobility to become safer every day..

Beteta explained that this R&D initiative is part of the European innovation project HNPS (Heterogeneous Network for European Public Safety), developed by 16 companies from countries like France, Luxembourg, Germany, Holland and Spain, where public-private collaboration of entities such as the Polytechnic University of Madrid is being essential, Telefónica R&D, Gowex and SICE (HNPS pilot technical coordinator). The analytical video system has been developed by the Visual Telecommunications Application Group of the E.T.S.I.. of Telecommunications at the UPM).

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