Kochi: One of the major surveillance projects of the Kerala Police – the Central Intrusion Monitoring System (CIMS) – will be set up in Kochi city to secure financial institutions like banks and treasuries, factories, establishments like jewelleries and also homes.
Under CIMS, which is first in India, these establishments can be directly linked to the police control rooms 24x7 and alert the police whenever any threat event occurs on their premises.
According to City Police Commissioner S. Surendran, the project will be launched in the city next month as part of providing maximum security to the houses and establishments. “The arrangements to set up the project are currently progressing,” he said.
Once a property is armed with CIMS, it is linked to the monitoring station which is located at the police control room or any other police office. This station is equipped with special hardware and network video management software to communicate with the intrusion alarm systems and camera systems installed on the client’s premises. Whenever any threat event occurs at the perimeter, the sensor triggers an alert to the control panel which then connects the event to the CIMS. At the same time it triggers an alarm within 3-10 seconds in the video management system where all the cameras are connected to the CIMS.
This allows the police to verify the event by monitoring the video of the intrusion live at the CIMS control room.
Since the alarm system is installed at different zones with special censors in each zone, the event can be easily tracked with the zone information. The relevant surveillance cameras can be monitored quickly to react to any type of event. The system will provide all types of reports like district, address and contact details of the client, map details, nearest police station, time and type of intrusion, video backups etc. The CIMS software will automatically keep the recording of the intrusion.
Mr Surendran said that a special feature that provides face recognition will also be included in the system. This feature can automatically detect wanted thieves or criminals and help the police identify and nab them, he said.
The public sector KELTRON is in charge of the advanced project. According to A. Gopakumar, head of marketing, KELTRON, any individual or entity that requires 24x7 police monitoring can approach the police department or KELTRON for registration. “A technical consultants’ team of CIMS experts will visit them to assess the type of device required such as control panel, sensors, camera etc. Then they will submit a budgetary proposal,” he said. “The monthly charge will start from Rs 400. Additional effort will be made to accommodate the existing devices on the premises as much as possible,” he said.
