- What are the latest developments in transport security segment in India?
Transport security has recently come to the limelight and has garnered government support to ensure citizen safety at all times. The delhi government has initiated the installment of cctv cameras in all DTC buses. Since the horrifying Nirbhaya incident, 200 buses have been equipped with surveillance systems and a 140 crores budget has been assigned to continue with the project.
District administrations have made it mandatory to install cctv cameras in buses. Delhi metro is under cctv supervision and the Indian railways has also started installing cameras on an experimental basis, with 2 camers in each lobby and 4 cameras on the entrance doors for each compartment.
- What are the prevailing challenges for security solutions in securing transport sector?
The most challenging part of transport security is that the current customer is not educated about the availability of solutions in the market. Most customers are not willing to invest in this arena of security and whatever progess has taken shape is only to satisfy government set regulations for transport security. Thus, it is yet to be seen if these installations ful ll the actual purpose of implementation of these projects.
Also, most cctv cameras in public transportation is only for recording purposes. Data collected cannot be accessed remotely; so vandalism and threat to the hardware system defeats the basic purpose of the set up.
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- What are the existing and emerging security threats in the transport sector?
The transport sector is exposed to threats in the form of women security , child abuse, terrorism and vandalism, that not only pose a threat to the individual, but to the society on the whole. The Nirbhaya incident brought to light how public transport is prone to security breach and its critical nature and the necessity for transport security in today’s time.
- What are the new tech trends and solutions in transport security?
CCTV cameras for transport surveillance are now GPS enabled and 3G, 4G and wi- enabled. Some solutions now include live tracking with the help of a mobile app, wherein HD resolution is also available. The picture quality has improved and the video output is high resolution. NVR and IP cameras are also available alongside the current DVR cameras.
- What are the latest innovative solutions and products o ered by your company?
Sparsh has been o ering full HD supported mobile DVR with HD-AVI cameras. Sparsh has launched an integrated, fully HD, IP camera system with inbuilt 3G/4G/LTE support, wi enabled and has features for GPS tracking with an external storage capacity of upto 128 GB. With this camera, one analog HD-AVI camera can be attached and the recording for both cameras can be stored in the IP camera.
Live video streaming for this product is available on mobile app and cloud. RFID reader can also be integrated with the camera. The recorded video is then uploaded to the server automatically when the camera is connected to home wi network.
- What are the new initiatives taken to secure transport sector?
The government is looking to make it mandatory for all pubic transport to have cctv recording and GPS tracking. Indian railways is also implementing projects on an experimental basis to ensure the best of public safety on board.
- How PPP model can bolster security for transport sector?
CSR activities are mandatory for all corporations. Hence the government can give special incentive to install cctv in public transport.
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