Back to Case studyGujarat Police Improves its CCTV-based Traffic Surveillance with TTBS Fibre Network using Smart VPN Solution
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The usage of advanced digital technologies in government departments has been increased to make administrative services more efficient. In line with the same trend, the state government of Gujarat decided to deploy Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV)-based Surveillance & Intelligent Traffic Management System (CSITMS) in big cities such as Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad and Vadodara among others. The main aim of the CSITMS project was to build a real-time surveillance system that could integrate digital maps and videos in high-resolution to keep an authentic record of traffic rule violations and other offences. This was necessary to initiate challan and court proceedings if required.
The always-on CCTV network had to capture incidents of over-speeding, red light jumps, wrong lane driving, and any other criminal activity that may have occurred in the area. The cameras also had to capture the number plates of involved vehicles. The CCTV systems were to be deployed by Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and Tata Tele Business Services (TTBS) was chosen as the company’s partner in building a fibre-optic network to connect the cameras and link them to traffic police control rooms.
TTBS had earlier managed other projects for Gujarat government. Our team’s strong focus on quality and quick turnaround times with successful outcomes impressed the administrative agencies. Encouraged by such service, they chose us to handle a critical task for the CSITMS project.
Business Challenges
The traffic police department in Gujarat was required to upgrade its CCTV surveillance to a more detailed and reliable network. It had to ensure that the cameras could efficiently transfer images and videos to officers in the control room in real-time.
With more accurate monitoring, the traffic police aimed to reduce incidents of traffic violation. To issue challans, the team needed evidence-based reports containing vehicle details. Failure to impose them on culprits not only resulted in revenue loss for the government but also encouraged irresponsible driving behaviour.
For the company that had to assist L&T in building the CCTV network, the main tasks were to:
- Connect the multiple work sites on a secure and private network for seamless collaboration and access to apps used by the department
- Ensure that the transfer of data throughout the network was not impacted by excessive latency
- Keep the network scalable so that more sites could be added to it when necessary
The traffic police department wanted to keep the network administration centralised and expected to see performance statistics on a simple-to-use dashboard.
TTBS Solution
We used our MPLS-based Smart VPN to build the network for CCTV cameras and delivered the solution using underground fibre optic cabling. For a surveillance system that spans large areas in cities, this was a first-in-India solution deployed by TTBS.
Our solution architects connected 110 sites on the fibre network. We also give due credit to L&T – our partner in this project – for its engineers’ support in building the connectivity. There were three Integrated Command and Control Centres (ICCCs) at the police headquarters that monitored the CCTV systems and prepared reports. With the network built by TTBS, all of them were linked seamlessly to the cameras located at different sites.
We took care of all the factors that were essential for the success of the project:
- Our solution came with low latency and high throughput performance to ensure that the videos captured by the cameras could be viewed in high resolution without getting bogged down by network congestion.
- In addition to high uptime backed by a Service-Level Agreement (SLA), we made the network highly redundant with a data centre-disaster recovery (DC-DR) setup so that backup links could support data transmission even if the primary line went down for a few minutes.
- The network was guarded by strong security features that kept it safe from the cyber threats looming in public internet service domains.
- There was optimum bandwidth on the network, making it easy to use any application without the issues of undue latency, jitter and packet loss.
- The network was also readily scalable, allowing the government to merge the CCITMS project with new aspects of smart city development in future.
The IT personnel in the traffic police department could monitor the network performance and even raise new service requests from a central portal whenever required.
TTBS built a large fibre-optic network for the customer and ensured high standards of quality. The customer now has fast access to the details they need daily. We also helped them collaborate across sites round-the-clock, by ensuring efficient uptime.”
Benefits
- Real-time and more accurate traffic monitoring with uninterrupted access to visuals captured by the cameras
- Stronger team collaboration with seamless connectivity between work locations
- Better on-road compliance enabled by a tech-rich system that prompts people to follow rules
- Scalable architecture to cover more sites for traffic monitoring when required
- Robust security on the network ensuring that the data transmission is not disrupted by threat actors
