“Big Brother” on the regional train, the first in Italy with cameras … – The Republic

It ‘a high-traffic regional train, the party this afternoon from Rome Tiburtina and directed in Cesano, the leader in Italy for safety. For the first time on a convoy of Trenitalia have sprouted cameras and monitors ‘live’. The passengers in each car, can review themselves and their neighbors travel along the way and monitor the situation in person, luggage and any suspicious movements. The same technology will be extended to all 44 high-capacity trains from Lazio in 2016 and is already prepared to allow, in the future, travelers to see the monitors fixed in each car also what happens in all the other carriages. Following will be introduced in other regions.

In the train started, around 16.30, from Tiburtina station were installed as many as 22 monitors who spread the live images from 32 cameras, placed on board of trains. “An absolute novelty in Italy – claim by Trenitalia -, offering a journey most pleasant and comfortable on regional trains. This veritable technological revolution is accompanied by another novelty: the introduction of a particular device, ‘people counter’, which, thanks to special sensors placed at the doors of access, will allow you to calculate the exact number of passengers went up and got off the train during its entire run. and that will acquire useful for an ever better planning of ‘ offer of services. “

the new on-board devices are the result of the made in Italy, developed in collaboration with the company Almaviva. And Trenitalia has shown all the technological specificity: “For the implementation of all of these features has been created

an enabling technology: a network for high performance train (2Gbps), the telecommunication equipment (2 / 3/4 G) to the intranet WiFi train “. By December 2016, in New York will be about 300 daily runs with the new technological equipment and more than 150,000 passengers every day we can enjoy. The investment of the Lazio Regional Trenitalia is approximately 8.8 million euro, was added under the contract with the Lazio region.