This solution has made it easier to detect people who are prohibited from entering the stadium and has reduced the number of detainees per game.
By Security Sales
One of the most latent problems during sports events in the vast majority of Latin American cities is security. Robberies, fights and drug trafficking are inconveniences that occur inside stadiums and that become critical factors and difficult to control for both football clubs and security personnel.
Seeking to recover tranquility in these sporting events, with a view to attracting the family audience again, the Ministry of the Interior of Uruguay determined the installation of high-tech security cameras, covering accesses, stands and boxes, inside the Centenario Stadium, the most important in the country and recognized worldwide for having been the scene of the first match in the history of the World Cup.
With the implementation of this technological solution, it has been possible to prevent the entry of people with a recent history of violence in stadiums and the behavior of the spectators has been changed, since it went from an average of 200 detainees per football match, to only ten. "We thought it would take a long time to reduce the violence that occurred in each game. However, from the beginning the camera system worked perfectly, allowing to control in the accesses to those who were prohibited from entering. But the best thing is that the system works as a prevention tool, since knowing that it is observed, the public behaves correctly," explained Andrea Lanfranco, Executive Secretary General of the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF).
The successful project was developed and executed by the integrator H&O Tecnología Integrada and the Uruguayan Football Association in a record time of four months. "The period in which the camera system should be in operation was four months from the resolution issued by the Ministry of the Interior, which had to make very precise decisions at each stage for optimal implementation, and so it was," said Germán Ruíz of H&O Tecnología Integrada. The project includes a monitoring center that operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year; and 56 cameras.
The 15 Axis Q6055-E cameras located in popular grandstands, stalls and boxes, have allowed to reduce the number of police inside these spaces. For its part, the 41 Axis P1365-E cameras located in the accesses are integrated into the Herta Security software to make the recognition of 25 faces per second and thus issue automatic alerts generated by a cross-check of data from a database permanently updated by the AUF, the police and the Ministry of the Interior; to the security operation of the stadium, allowing to take the necessary measures at the right time.
This technological solution marks the beginning of a new era of IoT in smart cities that will be able to implement facial recognition cameras to make these sports scenarios, entertainment spaces and union away from violence.
