Mirasys Expands Bangkok City Surveillance

Mirasys, a provider of open platform digital surveillance solutions, announced that the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has expanded their City Safe project into the second phase with Mirasys technology. In this new phase, 8,000 cameras will be installed throughout Bangkok City, and managed through Mirasys VMS from the centralized locations of Bangkok's 88 police stations. Offering intelligence in a scalable solution, this surveillance infrastructure allows Bangkok's police to access surveillance footage from the city's 50 districts, both on site and remotely, via a central control room. With each police station also equipped with a Mirasys workstation for monitoring purposes, this surveillance infrastructure allows staff to keep a close eye on key security issues throughout the city.

During the phase one of the City Safe implementation saw 3000 cameras installed throughout the Bangkok region and phase two has developed this into a city-wide increase of 5,000 cameras, simultaneously raising the number of users who will require access to the cameras and their footage from the hundreds to the thousand. This means that the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration have benefitted significantly from the virtually limitless scaling capabilities of the Mirasys VMS platform. In its final stage, the number of cameras implemented for City Safe which are supported by the Mirasys VMS will rise to 20,000.

Mirasys' VMS platform has allowed Bangkok Metropolitan Administration to take a targeted approach to surveillance monitoring by categorizing and grouping footage from each camera in line with the diverse surveillance requirements which range from traffic and flood monitoring and control to crime prevention. These diverse monitoring requirements of the project have required the implementation of a broad series of HD network and analog cameras from ten different manufacturers, which has been easily accommodated by the open and non-proprietary functionality of the VMS. Through algorithms that filter out non-relevant feeds and trigger real-time response alarms to critical incidents, the VMS allows the Bangkok city police force to have a greater level of control over their management of footage.

“In order to improve safety and security for all of Bangkok the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has used Mirasys VMS to create an intelligent and scalable surveillance infrastructure which will allow improved security across the city,” said Noppadol Sukhmol, Country Manager for Mirasys Thailand. “City Safe is a wide-reaching project with specific security demands. This project has been, and will continue to be, an excellent experience for Mirasys as the company gains momentum in the Asian markets”.

“Mirasys has experience in city monitoring implementations. Mirasys VMS offers the solution for high-input surveillance systems, such as those required for the scale of city surveillance required in the City Safe project, being intelligent and easily integratable. The City Safe project has been a perfect example of how scalability and flexibility at the implementation level can deliver great results, both with regards to ease of use at a user level, and providing security and the efficiency within the city,” said Jukka Riivari, CEO at Mirasys.