Texas video surveillance company Eagle Eye Networks has completed a citywide surveillance project in Mexico City, deploying more than 13,000 cameras in four months.
 
The 13,720 cloud managed cameras were installed by Omnicloud in a cyber-secure citywide surveillance programme using 4G connectivity. This project contributes to Mexico City’s Citizen Safety mobile app that facilitates content sharing for neighbourhood watch and includes a panic SOS button.
 
“Effective citywide surveillance is more than installing cameras in a few key locations, it’s about creating a platform that meets the unique needs of each municipality, ” said Jaime Abad Valdenebro, CEO of Omnicloud. “In partnership with Eagle Eye Networks we leveraged the Eagle Eye video API and SDK to customise a unique web application that is designed to integrate fixed, mobile body worn and vehicle cameras into one interface, providing an unprecedented level of insight and awareness into our cities operations.”
 
The 4G connectivity with Eagle Eye Networks’ bandwidth optimisation was used to facilitate this quick deployment, installing approximately 250 cameras per day at its peak. The cameras are all operational and remotely monitored, and provide safety and security to citizens today.
 
This fast-paced install occurred amid the global supply chain problems caused by Covid-19, however, Eagle Eye Networks’ partnership with both the reseller, Omnicloud and suppliers provided alternatives to keep the project on schedule.
 
“More than half of the world’s population resides in cities, creating an increased demand for smart, accurate insights to help streamline everyday operations including public safety, traffic flow management, infrastructure and transportation,” said Jeff Kessler, managing director of Imperial Capital. “Enormous amounts of data collection, aggregation and storage are necessary to drive the deep analysis that is required to produce these smart insights. The only way to efficiently manage these data is to aggregate and analyse in the cloud.”
 
Eagle Eye Networks was chosen because its cloud video API platform provides an open system that allows integration of technologies such as AI, analytics, search and licence plate recognition. Future and cyber-security proofing the city’s investment and eliminating the headaches associated with managing large premise based data centres was crucial in the decision.
 
“When deploying a city-wide surveillance project, scalability, retention and cellular transmission must be considered,” said Dean Drako, CEO of Eagle Eye Networks. “Eagle Eye’s cloud video retention and massive on demand scalability make it ideal for large scale deployments. To operate your own large data centre system for video recording is expensive and challenging. With Eagle Eye’s subscription service, we provide a more robust and lower cost answer for large scale deployments. Furthermore, our open platform is future proof, integrating AI, video analytics and advanced search at the click of a mouse.”
 
Founded in 2012, Eagle Eye Networks addresses the needs of businesses, alarm companies, security integrators and individuals. Its products benefit from the developer friendly Restful API platform and big data video framework, which allow for indexing, search, retrieval and analysis of live and archived video.