Seville celebrates safer Easter thanks to Bosch cameras

As part of your Smart City project, Seville City Council is using the video analytics of Bosch cameras during Easter. Its intelligent sensors allow you to collect real-time information about the influx of people, as well as detecting speed objects or heavy vehicles in pedestrian areas.

Easter in Seville concentrates thousands of visitors in the historic center of the city, as we pass the sororities that do penance from their temple to the Cathedral. This concentration of people, coupled with the architecture of the city in this area (narrow streets with nooks and crannies), and the terrorist threat, have generated in the population a sense of fear that makes it more vulnerable to false alarms generated by the fall of metal elements, shouting or running of groups of people, that on many occasions have been intentional.

This has provoked in recent years situations of collective panic that have led to stampedes and crushing of people, breaking of the procession, abandonment of images and numerous material damages, in addition to generating a negative image about this event that is a tourist attraction of the city.

This is why the Seville City Council you have decided to use tools that allow you to know, in real time, how are the flows of people accessing the center, the degree of occupation of the different sections of the route, possible agglomerations in evacuation routes, the start of races or stampedes, or the detection of heavy vehicles in pedestrian areas.

To respond to these challenges, the Consistory has signed an agreement with Bosch Security and Safety Systems to use the video analytics of your cameras during this Holy Week. Its intelligent sensors allow you to collect real-time information about the influx of people, as well as detecting speed objects or heavy vehicles in pedestrian areas.

Bosch's solution was selected for its video analytics embedded in the cameras, allowing them to be connected by weak connections such as 4G and offer people counting and occupancy rate detection; its Starlight technology for color vision with low lighting levels; extended dynamic range (Wdr), able to optimally manage light changes and backlights, both during the day, like at night; data security (Tmp) implemented in hardware-level cameras; low data consumption and video streaming storage; and for allowing redundant storage in the camera and in the Cecop.

As already published in Digital Security Magazine, Seville City Council has launched a pioneering Smart City project , of which this convention is a part, applied to Easter. This includes a adjustable lighting system and influx control mechanisms for people.

In addition to Bosch, other large innovation-related companies such as Telephone, Cisco And Ferrovial, who have developed different tools aimed at data processing and coordinated management of the city especially in the face of major events.

Information from Bosch cameras is collected by the Bosch IoT platform Axion, to process counting and occupancy data, and offer them in the appropriate protocol to the city platform, in this case implemented by Cisco, from which the rest of the subsystems such as public lighting are managed, public address or emergency messaging.

To achieve the greatest effectiveness in the counting of people, the cameras have been installed in height with overhead vision by the company Protelsur, in different strategic points of the city, such as the accesses to the center, main evacuation routes and public squares.

The cameras have been connected to Cecop (Emergency Coordination Centre) via fiber optic and 4G connections (Lte) implemented and secured IP-Sec.

With this information, the live viewing of the cameras and the permanent communication to the Police, those responsible for Cecop can send live messages to the population through public address, social media and Bluetooth beacons, act on public lighting, taking it to maximum intensity, or activate the intervention of the Police.

That's why, the ultimate purpose of this project is to obtain automatically and reliably the degree of occupation of different roads in the center, being able in real time to know how visitors behave to the city center and to be able to take preventive measures to avoid situations of risk for the population. With the influx statistics, new actions can be planned for future editions.

An armored city to maintain security

The health and safety device promoted by the City Council of Seville and the central government for these festivities contemplates the mobilization of more than 2.500 personnel belonging to various security and emergency bodies, as well as 143 security cameras on the roads, nine in the city center, two helicopters, a special urban cleaning plan and an increase in the supply of urban transport, among other aspects.

Device counts, In addition, With 143 traffic surveillance cameras installed on various roads on the outskirts of Seville and the accesses to the city, as well as 161 information panels also on the roads and nine surveillance cameras installed in the city center by the Consistory. The General Directorate of Traffic expects some 690.000 travel in the province of Seville, with special emphasis on the capital.

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