North has secured a £2.6m contract with the City of Edinburgh Council to upgrade security and surveillance across the capital. The contract will see the build and management of Edinburgh’s new CCTV Control Centre and will form part of the Council’s vision to create a Smart City Operation Facility, providing a holistic view of the city by utilising technology to drive operational efficiencies, improve security and analyse trends.
Set for completion in September 2022, the new Control Centre will see the provision of HD CCTV cameras, expanded security coverage, and the introduction of analytics and artificial intelligence that can provide situational awareness and predict and alert new and existing threats.
The project will see North integrate the security system with traffic and transportation platforms to enhance the management of city operations. It will quickly identify and address issues, provide simple and rapid retrieval of footage, and integrate with remote security systems that are currently not connected to the existing Control Room.
The City of Edinburgh Council Depute Leader, Cammy Day, said: “With this Smart City partnership with North we’re looking to make transformative differences to the way we manage our city – gathering real-time intelligence to improve safety on our streets, manage services more effectively and better serve the wellbeing of our residents.”
Scott McEwan, Chief Commercial Officer at North, said: “CCTV is not only vital for crime detection, but also for preventing offences from happening and through the implementation of these transformative systems, the City of Edinburgh Council will have the ability to access data which will bring together essential and critical services to create safer communities and allow better informed decisions to be made that improve services across Edinburgh.
“We are thrilled to be working with the City of Edinburgh Council to help them achieve their Smart City objectives.”
Find out more about the project here
