Verint Security Systems in Public Transit: Operational scenarios, practicalities and positive impact

Meeting needs within public transportation - fixed and mobile.  Verint highlights concepts and offers the practical example of BOGESTRA in Germany, to show how these systems can achieve outstanding and measurable results.

Whilst Video security systems cannot prevent malicious defacements, aggressive vandalism or criminal behaviour by passengers, if integrated into comprehensive security strategies and partnerships, they can contribute toward improving employee and passenger safety and reducing costs from damages to property and bodily injury.  

There are unique demands made upon video security solutions in a mobile environment.  They must be able to handle fast changes in brightness; they must be able to process constantly changing backgrounds; they must cope with temperature change; they must be robust; they must be safe to be installed within close proximity to the public; they must be compact.

Intelligent analysis and management software is vital in allowing the control and processing of a huge mass of data.  This needs swiftly to analyse complex image views and locate images based on a variety of search criteria.  Automated transmission to central control is important, enabling those in charge to respond quickly and assign security personnel, emergency services, etc without delay. 

These and other issues make the public transportation environment a complex one, but one for which the Verint Nextiva platform is ideally suited - particularly Verint's new range of robust camera units, the Verint Nextiva mDVR mobile recorder (with either 6 or 12 channels) and Verint's new Mobile Video Manager software, for configuring, evaluating and specifying recording profiles, arranging monitor views and event management.  The Nextiva Transit video management platform can record, evaluate and transmit video, audio and data information from almost any stationary or mobile source, e.g. buses, trains, train stations, parking lots, trams.  

Verint's Nextiva solution is in use with BOGESTRA in Germany.  Carrier to 140 million passengers annually, BOGESTRA has already equipped 142 buses and 36 trams and light rail vehicles with Verint's video security equipment, with more to follow.  Video systems also monitor 30 underground railway stations, protecting escalators and lifts from vandalism.  

BOGESTRA has seen significant cost reductions associated with reduction in vandalism, defacements and thefts in buses equipped with video security.  The use of video security pays off in other ways too.  Most obvious is the increased sense of security and safety that passengers feel, encouraging them to make more use of the transit system, particularly at night-time.  Other applications not associated with security, include access control (such as when somebody climbs over a barrier) and passenger counting.