The Salvador de Bahia Carnival is shielded with 220 Axis' new IP cameras

The security plan organized by the Secretariat of Public Security (SSP-BA) salvador's Carnival circuit has expanded from last year in 220 new networked devices from Swedish manufacturer, which means a total of 390 cameras installed in the city and 140 shipped in vehicles, in order to ensure maximum safety.

The 220 new IP cameras that are added to the already numerous video surveillance device installed in the Brazilian city of Salvador de Bahia on the occasion of the celebration of its famous Carnival responds to the security plan made for such an event by the Secretariat of Bahia de Seguridad Public (SSP-BA), who has relied on the manufacturer's systems Axis Communications, and which is a record figure for 340 video surveillance devices that were used last year.

The new IP video surveillance systems installed in the city allow you to read the license plate of a vehicle three hundred meters away and see the details of a person's face in a crowd. In total, the Salvador de Bahia Carnival will have more than 390 security cameras distributed throughout the city that will be controlled by the SSP-BA.

Specifically,, the largest armor will be carried out in the historic colonial quarter of Pelourinho, which is part of unesco's Historical Heritage, as well as in the accesses to the party, With 40 And 162 operating cameras of this Swedish manufacturer, Respectively.

Another novelty this year is the installation of video surveillance systems on the access doors to the premises, with twenty computers activated, in addition to metal detectors in order to inhibit the entry of firearms and the like into the Salvador Carnival circuit.

SSP-BA Lieutenant Colonel, Marcos Oliveira, noted that "these new cameras allow the adoption of a plan to optimize the use of police force in the most violent areas, with the use of images, both preventively and in the clarification of a crime".

Expanding security project

This new Axis video surveillance device is part of a broader project involving other cities in Brazil. In total, more than eight hundred Axis cameras are used by police for stadium security, Roads, tourist sites and natural spaces, as well as events like the World Cup (more information on Digital Security Magazine) or for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics held this year.

Specifically,, this great security project began in the year 2013, when the Bay Ministry of Public Safety began modernizing and expanding its video surveillance system, which was analog, to one based on the IP network, axis technology and the installation of the first cameras, at that moment, Q6032 235-E.

In a first phase, more than sixteen police centres (also the military) Salvador were the first to have such security devices, with an average each of eight to ten cameras from this manufacturer. In 2014 four hundred more cameras were acquired from that model, and then 165 axis Q6044-E; a device that has continued to expand to this day.

This large video surveillance device has helped police forces solve numerous cases of violence with the help of images recorded by cameras, which has also reduced the number of lethal violent crimes, as they point out from the SSP-BA.

This project has spread to other cities, like Porto Seguro, Candeias and Camasari, and some towns in Bahia. "Operators can monitor areas that have so far been conflicting thanks to the cameras, that have been strategic to police work during demonstrations and to prevent criminal and criminal conduct, anticipating problems. They are also used to identify vehicle plates up to three hundred meters away, allowing offenders to be controlled", explains Marcos Oliveira.

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