Cisco to Support Pilot Project Initiating Deployment of Smart and Safe Kazan City Solution Cisco and Its Partners, Supported by Kazan Mayors Office, Launches Pilot Project Being Part of Comprehensive Smart and Safe Kazan City Solution
Lev Levin, Cisco engagement manager in Russia, welcomes President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov
One of Ciscos IP-based cameras deployed in Kazan Central Park
MOSCOW - September 26, 2014 - Cisco today announced the deployment of a pilot project providing Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, Russias most innovative and ICT developed region, with residential Wi-Fi services and a Situational Surveillance System. The project was implemented in Central Park and in Old Tatar Settlement locations by Cisco, ICL-KME CS, a Cisco Premier Certified Partner in Russia; Step Logic, a Cisco Gold Certified Partner in Russia; and Tattelecom, Tatarstans leading service provider, with the Kazan mayors office support.
The Smart and Safe City pilot area was observed by President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and Kazan Mayor Ilsur Metshin on the City and the Republic of Tatarstan Day.
Establishment of pilot sites in the Central Park and Old Tatar Settlement was another step of the strategic partnership between Cisco and the Republic of Tatarstan, which is aimed at the development of Internet of Everything. As expected, the development of the Smart and Safe Kazan City solution will be completed by the end of 2014, and the result will be reviewed by the Republic of Tatarstan authorities. Implementation of Smart City solutions will enable various services for residents, businesses, and government agencies, such as intelligent transport systems, environmental monitoring, smart utilities, smart street lighting, smart parking, etc. on the basis of Ciscos network platform, unique domestic developments of ICL-KME CS and Step Logic, and Tattelecom communications networks. There are also plans to deploy an integrated video monitoring infrastructure for ensuring public safety in Kazan.
Implementation of the Smart and Safe Kazan City solutions will reduce the burden on the budget through the cost optimization and will create additional revenue sources for the city treasury. So, this technology is economically self-sufficient and is of considerable interest to the private investment and public-private partnerships. Such approach would fundamentally change the traditional funding of CapEx by the government; it is based on a service model, which gives the city an opportunity to use the infrastructure as a service under contracts with monthly payments.
A Cisco cutting-edge video surveillance system was deployed by ICL-KME CS, the Tatarstan system integrator with extensive expertise in Cisco equipment. ICL-KME CSs engineers installed 54 Cisco IP cameras within the Park central area along with the most advanced video analytics system capable to transmit high-resolution quality video stream and store video archives for up to 3 days.
HeadPoint Management system, designed by Step Logic, helps control emerging incidents (near memorial locations and in hazardous locations), and to recognize visitors faces using a recurrent database. Some cameras are remotely controlled, allowing changing the vision angle and direction. The solution also allows to:
Detect unauthorized intrusions on a territory and provide an alarm signal
Detect unattended items
Count the number of visitors to the Park
Cisco IP-based cameras deployment allows fulfilling the following objectives of the integrated Safe City solution:
Improve Park safety
Reduce number of incidents
Increase crime detection rate
Improve restricted-access zones safety
Prevent social unrest by increasing the amount of police officers during significant increase of visitors in the Park, etc.
Additionally, ICL-KME CSs experts installed in Central Park 24 Ciscos wireless access points that have been manufactured in Russia since May 2013. They are placed in special anti-vandal boxes to ensure their stable performance under various conditions. Internet access is provided by the Tattelecoms network.
As part of a comprehensive smart city solution, Ciscos access points allow administration to implement the following services:
Providing Park visitors with wireless Internet access
Estimation of the number of visitors
Targeted advertising
Transferring video from surveillance cameras
Other services, such as smart street lights, smart garbage collection, etc.
Supporting Quotes
Lev Levin, engagement manager, Cisco Russia:
Growing use of smart industrial and city solutions in Kazan can help the Republic Tatarstan reach their main objectives - implement economic transformations, diversification, innovations development, increased productivity, and improved quality of life. Cisco actively collaborates with Tatarstan Government and private companies creating unique technological solutions, platforms and business models that help solve challenges of the Government and businesses far beyond the area of information technologies.
Viktor Diachkov, CEO, ICL-KME CS:
One of the main Central Park reconstruction goals was to equip its territory with an up-to-date video surveillance system. As a result, the inhabitants have got additional more comfortable and safe recreational place. It should be noted that Central Park is a pilot area, and represents only a first stage of the large-scale Smart and Safe City project developed in cooperation with ICL-KME CS and Cisco engineers. Once the pilot confirms that the solution is a success, such systems will be deployed in other public areas of our city.
Key Facts:
For a long time, Cisco has actively participated in various activities related to the informational and communicational development in Tatarstan. Among the Cisco customers are the Office of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan,
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Cisco to Support Pilot Project Initiating Deployment of Smart and Safe Kazan City Solution Cisco and Its Partners, Supported by Kazan Mayors Office, Launches Pilot Project Being Part of Comprehensive Smart and Safe Kazan City Solution 
