The Moscow Metro has upgraded its existing non-coordinated analogue security system with the latest CellStack surveillance technology from Telindus surveillance Solutions.

Moscow Metro has over 200km of track, used by approximately nine million people every day, creating the largest surveillance installation to date in Russia, covering 170 stations and 10 control rooms.

Following the successful introduction of the video surveillance system, Moscow Metro now plans to use a similar Telindus Surveillance Solution-based system to drive video-based passenger help points. By the end of 2005, 250 help points will be positioned on every platform of the five main lines, and controlled by operators in the main control room.

The system was built around 60 CellStack Centauri video hubs – increasing to 81 by the end of the year – which is a modular system, consisting of a centralised control module responsible for all system activity, and video encoder modules using M-JPEG compression format.

The system allows Moscow Metro to integrate existing conventional CCTV equipment into an advanced Cisco digital network, incorporating up to 1000 cameras in the first phase alone. The next phase of the update was to install the CellStack Centinel networked video recorder to allow the compressed video to be recorded directly from the network in M-JPEG compression formats. This enables an authorised security guard to then playback/review the recorded digital video on the same analogue monitors as live images.

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Security Installer