The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) will soon install 10,000 CCTV cameras around the city at its various plots and establishments for monitoring purposes in order to protect its properties and deter people from encroaching on their unutilized plots.
The corporation hopes to improve security around its land properties as well as create digital fencing for surveillance purposes by doing so. The Smart City Ahmedabad Development Ltd (SCADL), an auxiliary unit of the AMC, will carry out the project.
According to the report, the work will be divided into two phases, with tenders for the first phase already out. A detailed survey of all AMC properties will be prepared in the first phase, followed by the logistical and administrative adjustments needed to install closed-circuit cameras.
“We will then start the installation of cameras and creation of a Land Encroachment Monitoring System dashboard,” an official with AMC said.
These CCTVs will be backed up by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based real-time land encroachment monitoring system (LEMS) to alert the zonal estate department via an integrated command centre upon sensing encroachment by people, vehicles or illegal construction.
“Cameras will be geo-tagged to allow the officials to know the real-time status of a government property,” an official with AMC said.
He added that apart from a web version, the dashboard will be made available to officials on Android and iOS phones as well, in order to ensure 24×7 uninterrupted monitoring. He stated that this will allow the concerned authority to be notified quickly and take appropriate action.
“There is a need to continuously protect and conduct surveillance of these plots,” said the official.
He further added that LEMS will be the city’s first geo-fencing project, allowing the civic body to create better city development plans.