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Lille Metro consigns pickpockets to history with UTCFS

Lille Located in northern France, Lille is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country after Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Situated on the Deûle River, near the Belgian border, Lille is the capital of the Nord-Pas de Calais region and the préfecture of the Nord department.

Transpole Lille Métropole has a mixed mode public transport system, comprising buses, trams and a driverless metro system, all operated under the Transpole name. The Lille metro is a VAL (light automated vehicle) system, opened on May 16, 1983 as the world’s first automatic metro. The metro system has two lines, with a total length of 45 km, serving 60 stations. The tram system consists of two interurban tram lines, connecting central Lille to the nearby communities of Roubaix and Tourcoing. 68 urban bus routes cover the metropolis, eight of which cross the border into Belgium. Pre-existing situation & UTCFS's role UTCFS's solution Across the entire Lille metro network there are UTCFS offered Transpole a complete video over 1,200 security cameras installed. surveillance solution. Data from the existing Transpole sought to modernise its 1,200 cameras that monitor stations and lines surveillance system to increase passenger is directly transmitted through 80 VisioWave security. It decided to upgrade the system to Evolution encoder/decoder devices. Analogue enable a complete digital grid overview of all data from cameras is converted into digital 60 stations. All camera data would need to be streams, enabling efficient transmission over storable and available for possible an IP network. Through this IP network, the consultation later. The solution also needed to data reaches a central control room equipped be adaptable to new requirements and with a vast storage capacity, equating to 96 extensions of the metropolitan network in the hours of storage for each camera. In total, future. Finally, Transpole sought a system that over 115,000 hours of video recording could be monitored from a single central capacity is in place for the system. This is a control room. critical element of the security at the Lille metro, making footage easily retrievable should an undesirable event occur. With this system, UTCFS is helping Transpole create a safe environment for passengers throughout the Lille metro network.