4 Apr 2019
From June
14 to July 15, 2018, the final part of the 21st FIFA World Cup took place in
Russia. For the first time in Russian history, Russia became the World Cup's
host nation and made tremendous efforts to put on a great tournament in every
aspect, including event security.
From June
14 to July 15, 2018, the final part of the 21st FIFA World Cup took place in
Russia. For the first time in Russian history, Russia became the World Cup's
host nation and made tremendous efforts to put on a great tournament in every
aspect, including event security.
32 teams
from around the world played 64 matches in 12 stadiums located in 11 Russian
cities. More than 3 million fans packed stadiums, while tens of millions more
followed the action in fan zones and other venues set up for the championship
games.
Members of
the international sporting community repeatedly noted the impeccable level of
organizing and hosting the World Cup. To wit, FIFA President Gianni Infantino
labelled the 2018 tournament as the best in history. The competition didn't
experience any incidents despite pre-tournament fears of hooligans while Russia
delivered a positive experience to travelers to the event.
AxxonSoft
made a significant technical contribution to providing security to World Cup
participants and fans. AxxonSoft software was widely used at stadiums, training
camps, fan zones, transportation infrastructure, and other sites where teams
and fans arrived to and moved around the country. Moreover, AxxonSoft software
was selected to create a network of operational headquarters for the Russian
Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) deployed specifically for the World Cup.
The
Intellect PSIM platform was employed in various areas of 10 out of the 12
stadiums where 49 World Cup matches were played. The Intellect PSIM software
managed more than 9000 surveillance cameras used to protect the over 2 million
fans who attended these games.
In addition
to video surveillance, Auto Intellect and Face Intellect software modules were
deployed to conduct automatic number plate recognition and face recognition at
stadiums' gates. Face recognition technology has already proven its
effectiveness and is being implemented at sports arenas around the world.
Andrey Khristoforov, AxxonSoft's commercial director in Russia, believes that
this technology has a promising future in the sports industry.
"Face
recognition can be applied in anti-terrorist security at mass events, to limit
access to sporting venues to fans prohibited by legal action, and to link
biometric data to seats in the stadium bowl (through tickets) should
information be needed to investigate incidents or riots,"
—
Khristoforov said.
The
Intellect PSIM was used as the basis for the integrated video surveillance
system designed to meet MIA's monitoring needs for World Cup sporting sites.
To that
end, the Intellect PSIM software was connected to existing video surveillance
systems at each of the 12 stadiums via a dedicated interface complex. Video
streams from interface complexes were transmitted to MIA operational
headquarters set up in each host city. MIA operational HQs also received video
from official city fan zones. In turn, information made its way from regional
HQs to the video walls at MIA's Main Situation Room in Moscow as well as the
Center for International Police Cooperation in Domodedovo.
In addition
to securing sporting arenas, AxxonSoft solutions are used throughout Russia in
energy infrastructure, public transportation, "Safe City" projects,
international airports, at customs terminals, and on high-speed railways.
AxxonSoft takes great pride in knowing that not a single serious incident took
place during the World Cup in Russia on its watch.
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Axxon
Intellect PSIM including the Auto Intellect and ACFA Intellect systems has been
installed in Serengeti Golf & Wildlife Estate. The Estate is a 10-minute
drive from OR Tambo International Airport (ORT).
At the end of 2017 in South Korea, the "Safe Yangsan" project,
powered by Axxon Next, the video management system of the next generation, was
completed. Yangsan is a large
city with a population of about 300,000 people and an area of 484.5 km².
Earlier attempts to introduce an urban security system faced a number of issues.
An early
fire notification system based on intelligent video technology successfully
passed comprehensive testing in Miloshevichi forestry station (Lelchits
district, Gomel region, Belarus). Based on the Axxon Intellect PSIM platform
with smoke detectors powered by deep learning, the sample system includes three
PTZ video/thermal combos located on 35 meter-high lookout towers. The customer,
Belgosles state enterprise, is completely satisfied with the test results.
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