| Customers: Moscow Department of Information Technology (DIT) Moscow; State and social structures Contractors: DEPO Computers (Depot Electronics) Project date: 2017/11
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The project of modernization of the hardware platform of the state information system "Unified Data Storage and Processing Center" of the city of Moscow within the framework of the "Smart City" concept.
GIS ECCD is a video surveillance system designed to increase the level of safety of Moscow residents, whose users are the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, city administration services, as well as residents of the capital. All users of the ECCD GIS get access to the archive of video recordings and to video information coming from Moscow surveillance cameras in real time. For 2017, the system has over 160 thousand video cameras.
Read more about the video surveillance and face recognition system in Moscow in the article: How is the city video surveillance and face recognition system arranged in Moscow.
- The solution is built on a modular principle in the form of specialized converged platforms based on depot equipment.
- The architecture of each module provides high fault tolerance and flexible scaling of the ECCD GIS.
- Converged DEPO platforms with high node density have reduced data center space and power consumption.
Solution features:
- More than 160 thousand video cameras, 28 PB video archives.
- 19 server racks with high compute and DSS density.
- N + 1 fault tolerance.
- Low power consumption with automatic power control at the level of solution components.
Face Authentication Subsystem
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Automatic recording subsystem of video information indexing scripts (PARSIV)
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2022
Moscow will spend another 23.3 billion rubles on video surveillance
At the end of October 2022, it became known that Moscow would spend another 23.3 billion rubles on video surveillance. Kommersant drew attention to the relevant tenders.
We are talking about the provision of services for the provision of information on video surveillance facilities to a single data storage and processing center (ECCD) for five years.
The Moscow Department of Information Technology (DIT) explained to the newspaper that the purchases are carried out in connection with the expiration of contracts concluded more than four years ago.
 | Within the framework of these contracts, video surveillance will be provided at the entrances, in courtyards and in public areas, - added to the capital's DIT. |  |
According to the official data of the mayor's office, by the end of October 2022, there are 213 thousand video surveillance cameras in Moscow, to which, among other things, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs have access.
The budget of the Moscow mayor's office for 2022 included an item of expenses for maintaining work and developing the city video surveillance system in the amount of 9.8 billion rubles, said Pavel Dityatev, deputy head of the Moscow finance department. According to him, this amount will be spent, among other things, on the functioning of 214,000 cameras and the transfer of video images from them to a single data storage center.
According to the source of the publication, by the end of October 2022, the interest of law enforcement agencies in search technologies using video surveillance cameras is growing "including due to the difficult political situation and the course of hostilities in Ukraine," one of the interlocutors emphasizes. Recognition is necessary to ensure security, the source added. So, on October 8, 2022, a terrorist attack took place in Russia on the Crimean bridge, and on October 12, 2022, representatives of law enforcement agencies also reported that they had prevented terrorist attacks in the Moscow region and in the Bryansk region.[1]
Moscow data storage center connects regions to search for criminals throughout Russia
At the end of September 2022, the Department of Information Technologies (DIT) of Moscow announced a tender for the revision of a single data storage center (ECCD, the main data center of the capital's mayor's office, at the facilities of which a facial recognition system operates) to connect regions to it. The contract value is 43.3 million rubles.
Integration involves exclusively viewing video streams from cameras, the Kommersant department said. According to a source close to DIT, by mid-October 2022, none of the regions has money, nor a large enough data center for storing video, nor a centralized solution for video analytics, but Moscow has. The interlocutor added that it is only necessary to develop uniform data transfer standards, as well as agree on them with equipment suppliers outside Moscow.
According to the source of the newspaper, such centralization will reduce the burden on the criminal search system, since in this way every regional system will not need to contact the database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It is assumed that the combined network will have high-quality data transmission at each of the points, and the quality of the Internet, the number of cameras and the presence of other technological infrastructure, including servers, varies greatly from region to region.
Technically, it is also possible to implement reverse data exchange - from Moscow to the regions, says Oksana Yakimyuk, general designer of the Safe City system.
| | However, it is not clear under what conditions information will be stored on Moscow servers, how long the regions will have to store this information. It is also unclear who will pay for the data transfer, he added. | |
According to one of the newspaper's sources, by October 2022, the interest of law enforcement agencies in search technologies is growing "including due to the difficult political situation and the course of hostilities in Ukraine."[2]
Moscow Mayor's Office obliged nightclubs to connect to a single video surveillance system
The Moscow mayor's office obliged the city's nightclubs to connect to a single video surveillance system, which became known in early May 2022. Video streaming from cameras must be transmitted to the city's data center and can be used for facial recognition.
According to Kommersant, in April 2022, part of the entertainment establishments were obliged to ensure the connection of their video cameras to the Unified Data Storage Center of the Mayor's Office (ECCD, the data processing center on the basis of which the Moscow facial recognition system operates, is managed by the Moscow Information Technology Department).
One of the interlocutors of the publication said that the installation of cameras is supervised by the prefecture of the Central Administrative District. The owners of the establishments are required to sign a letter of guarantee, which indicates the timing of the installation of the equipment. According to another interlocutor, this is primarily about connecting cameras to the ECCD at the entrance to the institution. To connect, cameras must meet technical parameters, so this cannot be done quickly, he said.
According to one of the sources of the publication, these plans were discussed for a long time, the project was developed during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. One of the managers introduced the newspaper to the methodology for connecting received from the mayor's office: it says that the resolution of the installed cameras should be at least 720p, the data transfer rate is 1-4 Mbps, the frame rate is from 15 to 25 k/s.
According to Sergey Matusevich, director of web technology development at Artezio, formally, nightclub owners can agree to the requirements of the mayor's office, but they will try not to lose customers. Law enforcement agencies have access to the ECCD, which may alienate some visitors; to maintain their privacy, owners can, for example, install cameras in dark rooms, the expert said.[3]
2021: Moscow City Hall obliges shopping centers to connect their cameras to the city video surveillance system
On October 20, 2021, it became known that the Moscow Mayor's Office obliged shopping centers (shopping centers) to connect their cameras to the city video surveillance system in order to monitor the observance of the mask regime of store visitors.
According to Kommersant, the owners of the shopping center were instructed to integrate video cameras with input groups of objects with a single data storage center (ECCD) of the city hall by October 20, 2021. The instructions say that the camera resolution should be at least HD, the frame rate is 15-25 k/s.
As the president of the Union of Shopping Centers Bulat Shakirov told the publication, back in 2020, the mayor's office announced the need to connect commercial cameras inside shopping centers to the ECCD, but half of the shopping centers did not fulfill the requirements.
In addition to controlling the wearing of masks in the shopping center, connecting to their cameras will give the authorities the opportunity to identify violators among Muscovites, Alexey Tsessarsky, general director of IVA Cognitive, told the newspaper. At the current stage, we are rather talking about obtaining statistical information about the number of people without masks, but in the future, cameras will help catch malicious violators, said Alexei Parfentiev, head of the SearchInform analytics department .
Alexander Rozhkov, director of products and technologies at T1 Group, believes that only a person whose biometrics are already in the database can be fined, since the database of persons does not exist. According to Cessarsky, there will be no threats from a security point of view when integrating cameras. At the same time, according to Rozhkov, it is simply impossible to exclude risks in network video surveillance systems.
The camera captures all incoming without masks, then the system can check the received images with persons from the mayor's office base, says Artem Romanov, an expert on security systems at the CROC IT company. However, only a person whose biometrics are already in the database can be fined. The relevant database of persons of all residents of the city by October 20, 2021 does not exist, he added.[4]
2020
Macroscop entered the register of the ECCD of Moscow
Software Macroscop is included in the register of compatible equipment with the Unified control systems. storage and processing center data Moscow The company announced this on November 19, 2020. More. here
The darknet sells access to all video surveillance cameras in Moscow
On July 7, 2020, on the Twitter blog of the information security company Shadow Intelligence, he said that an account with the nickname Zpoint offers to sell access to all video surveillance cameras in Moscow, which are installed at the entrances of houses, parking lots, parks, clinics and schools. Read more here.
2017: DEPO Computers introduces new infrastructure of Moscow Unified Data Storage and Processing Center
In November 2017, it became known that DEPO Computers will ensure the modernization of the State Information System "Unified Data Storage and Processing Center" (GIS ECCD) within the framework of fulfilling the conditions of the electronic auction "Supply of data storage, processing and transmission equipment for the needs of the Unified Data Storage and Processing Center of the city of Moscow."
With the increase in the number of registered users and CCTV cameras connected to the ECCD GIS, the requirements for performance, data storage size and energy efficiency have increased. DEPO Computers created a modular solution based on the experience of automating urban control systems within the framework of the Smart City concept. The architecture of the solution is based on the most modern innovative technologies for organizing large-scale information systems.
Unlike the traditional architecture, in which computing nodes, network infrastructure and storage system are implemented in separate modules, the DEPO Computers solution will offer a converged computing platform that combines the functions of processing, storing and transmitting information in one module. The platform configuration is optimized for processing and storing large amounts of video information. The architecture of each module provides a high density of compute nodes, storage systems and network equipment. This requires a minimum number of server racks to accommodate modules in the data center.
Special attention in the development of the solution is paid to ensuring energy efficiency. Converged DEPO platforms with high node density will significantly reduce electricity consumption. Also, the solution will implement automatic regulation of the energy consumption level depending on the current load of the ECCP GIS.
To ensure the fault tolerance of the ECXD GIS, the DEPOT solution is built with a high level of redundancy of computing, switching power and data storage systems. The solution architecture provides the ability to scale by adding typical modules that increase the performance and storage of ECCD GIS data. Installation of additional modules, routine maintenance, updating of hardware and software are possible without stopping the operation of the ECCP GIS.
The modular architecture of the solution, high energy efficiency, as well as support for "hot" replacement of computing nodes, disks and power supplies will significantly reduce the maintenance costs of the new hardware platform of the ECCD GIS.
"After completion of installation and commissioning works, specialists of DEPO Computers within 5 years will provide warranty support for the hardware platform of GIS ECKD. Moscow is rapidly developing, along with the growth of the capital, the requirements for the IT infrastructure, which ensures a high rhythm of life in the metropolis, are growing and changing. The DEPO solution is designed in such a way as to follow the development of the city, taking into account new emerging tasks and prospects, "said Dmitry Cherkasov, Deputy General Director of DEPO Computers.
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