Pilot project installed in the county of Caraguatatuba/SP will be in full operation until March 20 with 10 high-resolution cameras.

Pilot project installed in the county of Caraguatatuba/SP will be in full operation until March 20 with 10 high-resolution cameras.

The partnership between the Japanese NEC Corporation, one of the largest in the world on video monitoring and Grupo CONASA Infrastrutura is implementing, for the first time in Brazil, in the county of Caraguatatuba/SP, a public safety monitoring system through high-resolution cameras installed in light poles.

The city established with Urbeluz Energética, from Grupo CONASA Infraestrutura, one of the first Private-Public partnerships for street lighting in Brazil and the first in the State of São Paulo, giving origin to Caraguá Luz, which will administrate and maintain the city’s public lighting system until 2018.

The Company, through investments in the installation of more than 20 thousand lamps with LED technology, has already reduced by 6% the consumption of electric power, with savings estimated in R$350 thousand/ month. 

Of that amount, around 10 thousand lamps are already being monitored by a remote management system and the total number of lamps will be reached until June of the current year. As for the pilot project, which brings to Caraguatatuba Japanese technology, it will be unique in public safety monitoring through lighting.

The Consortium installed ten high-resolution cameras in light poles at points around the county with greater concentration of people and vehicles with the objective to help the county with public safety issues, traffic, vehicles monitoring, facial recognition and analytical data.   

“Through the pilot project we will be able to identify a series of services that can be provided to the county and population such as broadband network, high resolution monitoring, noise sensors and car plates reading, for instance. However, right now, we are focused on becoming a safe city before becoming a smart city”, affirmed Pedro Vicente Iacovino, Caraguá Luz diretor.

Zoom in cameras of up to 400 meters will make the identification of people through biometrics and of vehicles through license plates reading in real time. In the case of vehicles, the objective is to identify cars under irregular conditions such as stolen vehicles, for instance, and not to apply traffic fines due to speeding or irregular parking.