Hyderabad : Rachakonda Police Commissioner Mahesh Bhagwat has initiated a series of measures to upgrade quality of life in Greater Hyderabad with an objective to transform the city into a global city.
In order to achieve the goal, the Rachakonda Police Commissionerate has started implementation of City wide Community CCTV Surveillance System with the help of Community support as well as public/private sectors companies under CSR initiative.
As a part of this, the Rachakonda police approached the Infosys seeking their helping hand in order to strengthen the women safety and prevention of crimes on NH-202 as well. The Infosys foundation came forward to take up the Community CCTV project along NH-202 and Infosys campus, Pocharam area.
The Community CCTV project has been taken with an aim to control crime against women, subversive activities of anti-social elements, crime prevention, road safety, disaster management and so on.
After a feasibility analysis, it was and decided to install 182 high end cameras, (46 Mobotix and 136 Axis cameras) from Uppal junction to Kepal on NH-202 covering a stretch of 23 KM with a 4400 sq.feet centralized Command Control Centre at Ghatkesar PS with an estimated cost of Rs 5 crore.
Cameras with latest technology such as 1080p resolution, 120 FPS to capture number plates up to 110 KMPH with Wide Dynamic Range of ~100dB and lenses range of 15-90 degrees, IR and H.265 compression are being installed under this project. The state-of-the-art network architecture with L2/L3 switches, VMS software has been designed by Infosys for the project.
The joint team of Infosys and IT cell of Rachakonda are jointly monitoring the work under the guidance of Commissioner of Police, Rachakonda. A new building has been built for CCC, which also accommodates SHE team office for its operations related to women security in Malkajgiri zone, especially in IT corridor. A 4×3 big video wall with four work stations and mini monitors have been installed for live monitoring of the CCTVs on 24×7 basis with latest technology.
The work of CCTVs installation was still undergoing and expected to be completed in a couple of months with full data connectivity. The CCC of Ghatkesar will be connected to Telangana State Integrated Command Control Centre cum Disaster Management Centre being built at Banjara Hills.
Speaking on this occasion, CP Mahesh Bhagwat states that one has to contribute his share towards the society in one or other way and made an appeal to corporates to take up installation of CCTVs as part their CSR activity. The crime rate has fallen drastically in CCTVs surveillance areas. The CP applauded the work of SHE Teams in preventing 54 child marriages till now. SHE team in-charge ADCP Salima and her team members were felicitated by Sudha Murthy and the CP.
Sudha Murthy said there was an urgent need to look into the problem of human trafficking and Infosys was ready for its contribution towards eradication of the menace. She also congratulated Bhagwat for his outstanding performance in the field of human trafficking. Sudha Murthy and Mahesh Bhagwat felicitated Aman Singh, Vikas of Infosys and Malkajgiri ACP Sandeep, IT cell Inspector M. Sridhar Reddy and Ghatkesar SHO Raghuveer Reddy, who did tremendous job in making the dream of having state-of-art command control centre into reality. (NSS)
