10 Railway Stations of Western Railway have Advanced Video Surveillance System (VSS) Installed by RailTel

24X7 CCTV Surveillance has been installed under Nirbhaya Fund

RailTel, a
Miniratna PSU under Ministry of Railways has installed advanced Internet
Protocol (IP) based Video Surveillance System (VSS) at 10 Railway stations
under Western Railway. The stations are Bhavnagar Terminus, Udhna, Valsad,
Veraval, Nagda, Navsari, Vapi, Viragam, Rajkot and Gandhidham.

Railway
Board has entrusted RailTel with the work of providing IP based VSS with video
analytics and facial recognition system at all the railway stations, premium
and EMU coaches. RailTel is providing Video Surveillance System at stations of
A1, A, B, C, D and E category, coaches of premium trains and suburban EMU
coaches.

According to
a press release issued by WR CPRO Ravinder Bhakar, to have a better coverage
and clearer image, four types of Full HD Cameras – Dome type (for indoor
areas), bullet types (for platforms),Pan Tilt Zoom type (for parking areas) and
Ultra HD- 4k cameras ( for crucial locations) are being provided. CCTV camera
live feeds are displayed on multiple screens at the Railway Protection Force
(RPF) control room for monitoring.

Soon, all
CCTV cameras provided in this railway station premises will be networked on
optical fiber cable and the video feed of the CCTV cameras will be brought to a
centralized CCTV control room from where the video feeds will be monitored by
RPF personnel, enhancing the security and safety of the passengers
tremendously.

Talking
about the project of providing Video Surveillance System, Puneet Chawla,
Chairman and Managing Director, RailTel said ‘In the first phase, RailTel is
installing VSS at 200 stations Pan India and as on date we have completed work
at 81 stations across India. The Video Surveillance System will be extended to
other stations and coaches soon. The work is being done utilizing the Nirbhaya
fund for ensuring better safety for women.’

Each HD
camera at the station consumes approximately 1TB of data and 4k camera consumes
4 TB data per month. The recording of the video feeds from CCTV cameras will be
stored for 30 days for playback, post event analysis and for investigation
purposes. Important videos can be stored for longer duration. This Video
Surveillance System is expected to ensure better security of passengers at
railway stations and railway property.