The Ministry of Digital Development plans to launch a video processing service from surveillance cameras using artificial intelligence in 2025. The state plans to spend almost 3 billion rubles on the development and support of the service, as follows from the departmental digital transformation program for the period 2025-2027. Forbes drew attention to the document.
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Authorities have long intended to apply Moscow’s experience in implementing video surveillance in other regions, but the capital’s systems are too expensive, a source close to the Ministry of Digital Development told Forbes. This is especially true for the recognition of online video streams, which makes it possible to find missing people, recruits and wanted criminals.
“Therefore, at different times various ideas were expressed about how to implement smart video surveillance throughout the country without spending large amounts of money from regional budgets. As a result, a project to create a large-scale unified platform emerged, presented in the presentation. [главы Минцифры Максута] Shadayev at the end of 2023. However, the idea was abandoned in its pure form, as it requires very large expenses,” the source said.
Forbes’ interlocutor added that it is not yet known how the department’s current project will be implemented.
According to Nikita Utkin, chairman of technical committee 194 “Cyber-physical systems”, video surveillance systems equipped with systems for intelligent processing of video streams are used in all regions of Russia. However, their technical and functional differences, as well as the lack of uniformity in the supported formats, can affect the success of the use of intelligent systems in video surveillance.
“Therefore, the effectiveness of the implementation of intelligent systems in video surveillance depends on whether the compatibility of the data and the quality of the video stream is guaranteed. In practice, this is solved by establishing uniform industrial standards, which requires systematic work in this direction, including at the regional level,” said Utkin.
According to Leonid Konik, partner at Comnews Research, in almost all regions of the country there have long been situational centers that receive video feeds from CCTV cameras at their disposal for subsequent intelligent analysis. According to Konik, collecting “giant streams of data” in a single federal center is counterproductive, as it requires large-scale expenditures to rent backbone communication channels, which are often in short supply.
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