Russia is working on a national video surveillance system, all the details
According to sources in the Kommersant newspaper taken by the Tass agency, Russia is considering the development of a national video surveillance system to analyze the videos of all the cameras scattered in the country's cities.
Moscow is evaluating plans for the development of a "national video surveillance platform". That is a computer system to analyze the videos of all the surveillance cameras scattered in the cities of the country.
This was reported by sources in the Kommersant newspaper taken by the Tass agency, according to which an expenditure of 250 billion rubles (about 2.8 billion euros) is expected for the development of the platform and the installation of cameras over five years. .
Russia therefore intends to tighten the links of its video surveillance network.
As Foreing Policy recently recalled, the 200,000-camera facial recognition system in Moscow is considered to be one of the largest networks in the world outside of China .
THE RUSSIAN NATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES
The "National Video Surveillance Platform" assumes the installation of "smart cameras" that will independently recognize incidents and send footage to the data processing center, according to Kommersant sources close to the project.
The company that should develop this system will be National Technologies, 49% owned by the telecommunications operator Rostelecom and 51% by Rostec, a conglomerate of state-owned companies active mainly in the defense and security sectors.
At the moment, the companies declined to comment. However, the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade told the daily that the initiative was put forward by the industry.
WHAT ROSTEC AND ROSTELECOM WILL DO
Rostec will take care of the hardware component of the project and Rostelecom, on the other hand, will take care of the software.
WHAT CHANGES FOR CCTV SYSTEMS
Currently, CCTV systems send video to data processing centers in a continuous stream. “This is a dead end technology that requires too many data centers, which is why the cameras installed within the project will be equipped with IT modules,” said an expert from the newspaper Kommersant .
The national video surveillance platform provides for the installation of smart cameras with the primary analysis function.
Therefore, the system will independently recognize some incidents, such as crimes, and only then will it send the information to the data center.
A 100% RUSSIAN NETWORK
This new video surveillance platform will be 100% Russian. Unlike the aforementioned Moscow camera network, largely powered by an algorithm created by NtechLab.
Although Russian-made, NtechLab's powerful algorithm has the seal of approval of the US intelligence community. And Russia is increasingly trying to break free from Western technology, particularly when it comes to sensitive systems involved in national security.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/la-russia-lavora-a-un-sistema-nazionale-di-videosorveglianza-tutti-i-dettagli/ on Wed, 16 Jun 2021 13:50:17 +0000.