International. A public transport company in the Scandinavian countries became the latest example of using advanced technologies to ensure the safety of passengers on buses.
The company Nabina equipped 2,000 buses that circulate in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark with more than 7,000 video surveillance cameras whose images are transmitted live to a central. In the event of any incident, the images are shared with the police immediately to respond to the problems at the time they occur.
That instant monitoring with HDTV resolution even allows to identify the people or other vehicles involved in the event. Previously, the old analog system they had required extracting the images from the camera and analyzing them by an engineer, a slow and impractical process.
Nabina has installed AXIS M31 and AXIS P39 camera, cameras that operate in conditions such as vibrations, shocks and impacts. Some of the cameras have alarms that are activated in case someone blocks them or damages them, for example, with spray paint.
The live transmission of data from vehicles, including buses and trains, to a power station is the newest trend in vehicle safety. In the case of Latin America, a pilot test has recently been carried out in Peru with the same camera models, and it has also been satisfactory.
A global survey of organizations linked to public transport, conducted by the International Public Transport Association (AITP) and Axis Communications, noted that currently only 28% of respondents view the cameras live. For 72% of respondents, the ability to detect in real time those incidents involving passengers and service personnel is recognized as a new market trend.
"The world's big cities require more and more people to use public transport. For this reason, it is essential to generate safer environments through flexible surveillance solutions, which can respond to the large flow of vehicles that travel daily with a real and sustainable solution, "explains Alessandra Faria, director of Axis Communications.
