The Moscow metro will scan the faces of passengers and detect abnormalities in behavior
The head of the Moscow Metro, Dmitry Pegov, spoke about the future plans of the Moscow subway, which daily carries more than 8 million passengers. The biggest changes Muscovites wait until the end of this year, when they plan to launch a system of intelligent video surveillance. At the entrances to the stations and on all platforms, new special cameras will be installed.
“The current cameras are a signal to“ TV ”, that's all. The maximum that they can - keep a record of twelve hours - explains Dmitry Pegov. - This equipment is outdated, technical progress has since gone far ahead. The new cameras will scan the face of each passenger at the entrance, track it further, thereby helping both police officers and security inspectors in their responsible work. ”
In the future, scans of each person will be checked against the bases of law enforcement agencies. Now while face recognition is not performed, only tracking.
At the first stage, the system will identify the person by input-output. "Pay attention" to the long stay of a person on the platform or in some other area. People with non-standard behavior (for example, aggressively gesticulating), and those who try to hide voluminous objects under clothes will be tracked. All this is embedded in the program and is fixed automatically.
Another advantage of the cameras is the fight against free riders. Once caught in the lens, the “hare” will not be able to go through the turnstile again. “Already at his next approach, before the turnstile, we will calculate and present this photographic document to him as evidence of the previous stowaway pass,” said the previous head of the Moscow Metro Ivan Besedin.
About 20,000 new cameras will be installed at all metro stations. Funding from the state budget was provided by the Federal program for the safety of the population in transport, approved in 2007. The contractor of the FSUE “SVECO” program of the Federal Security Service of Russia was selected as a result of the competition, which was prepared for a very long time, says Pegov. The cost of the system is not advertised.
In addition to new cameras, the metro equipment is gradually being updated. Installed new devices for signaling systems (alarm, centralization and blocking). The relay is being upgraded - the metro is switching to microprocessor systems made in Russia. In general, a lot of equipment has to be replaced by Russian ones, including escalators that the Kryukovsky plant in Ukraine used to do.
About advertising when connecting to a free Wi-Fi Dmitry Pegov said that it can not be abandoned, because for the government of Moscow Wi-Fi service was not worth a penny. The operator MaksimaTelecom has invested more than 2 billion rubles in it, “therefore, it would be wrong to deprive them of advertising.”