IndigoVision cameras to protect new Canada light rail system
$2 billion effort to protect Vancouver’s Canada Line will deploy 400 analog cameras; signals will be converted into MPEG-4 format for transmission to an eighty screen command center
Longtime readers know that the Canadian security market is booming these days, and here is another example. The country’s new light rail system for the Vancouver area, known as Canada Line and set to be unveiled in 2009, will be monitored by 400 analog cameras connected to transmitter modules manufactured by worldwide heavyweight IndigoVision. The camera feed will then be converted to the MPEG-4 format for transmission over the transportation system’s network, with the final stop at an eighty-screen video command center. As readers may have guessed, the feed conversion is neccesary to allow for advanced video analytic and manipulation features. All told, the intallation will cost $2 billion and cover nineteen kilometers. Consulting firm SNC-Lavalin is overseeing the installation.
-read more in Al Edwards’s Security Director News report
