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3 billion rubles are selected for video surveillance with face recognition in Nova Moskve

Customers: Moscow Department of Information Technology (DIT)

Moscow; State and social structures

Product: Complex projects of video surveillance

Project date: 2021/01
Project's budget: 2.917 billion руб.


On January 25, 2021 it became known of state procurement of the Department of Information Technologies (DIT) of Moscow within which department is ready to pay till 2025 2.917 billion rubles for development of a video surveillance system with a possibility of face recognition in the Novomoskovsk and Troitsk administrative districts.

According to Kommersant with reference to tender materials, his winner will have to "approve installation sites" 1.7 thousand video cameras in the yards and 292 cameras in "places of mass accumulation of people". Also the contractor will need to provide video transmission in the Uniform center of storage and data processing (ETsHD) and integration of cameras with the IT system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the analysis of a criminogenic situation. By the end of January, 2021 in the Novomoskovsk and Troitsk districts there are 2.55 thousand cameras mounted at entrances of houses.

3 billion rubles are selected for video surveillance with face recognition in Nova Moskve

The edition notes that the cost of this contract in terms of one month more than twice exceeds the price of the contract signed in 2019. Then the Government of Moscow paid Rostelecom about 500 million rubles.

Despite the growing budgets on video surveillance, in a system there are vulnerabilities which threaten with date leaks of Muscovites. Not to do without defects and in infrastructure which will be unrolled in Nova Moskve, the director of QRator Labs Artem Gavrichenkov is sure. According to him, information will be transferred through closed channels, however access to cameras can be got according to the same scheme as it was with the system of the Russian Railway recently. Vulnerability of a video surveillance system of the Russian Railway was connected with not replaced passwords set by default on routers of MikroTik company.

The director of business development of Softline Sergey Soshnikov in a conversation with the edition noted that the Moscow systems of video analytics and data collection in Moscow will need expansion in the next years, including because of a pandemic of COVID-19 at which the authorities use video surveillance in social monitoring, tracking of spread of a virus and for security.[1]

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