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Seeing the bigger picture The latest software makes it possible for city transportation and police departments to use – with ease – the enhanced camera and sensing technology found in smart cities Words | José Antonio Illarregui Sanchez, BC Sistemas, Spain
Cities have many devices that can provide relevant information to traffic managers, for different applications. Among these are video-surveillance and traffic-control systems, supported by video analysis. Cameras in cities are today capable of submitting sophisticated metadata such as vehicle license plates, vehicle color, make and model, vehicle counts, people counts and facial recognition data. The challenge that city managers now face is to use all the data retrieved from
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a huge variety of devices to help organize traffic, while also alerting police officers about dangerous or anomalous situations.
Janus solution The Janus software that BC Sistemas presented at Intertraffic Amsterdam 2016 has become an even more powerful solution. This is partly due to experience working with local police departments in different countries, as they adapt to the new security challenges that cities are facing.
Janus stores metadata from cameras, sensors and other devices, at the location and moment that they occur. The application, by means of a learning process, arrives at conclusions about the behavioral patterns of traffic in a particular area, which will then be used to determine if a situation is anomalous. The new Janus suite allows access to functions that were already available before, such as managed access to different, defined areas, but it also now allows total personalization, to meet the needs of
