The El Vendrell City Council has prepared the launch of a new video surveillance network with 47 cameras in different parts of the municipality, although the deployment is still awaiting authorization from the Generalitat. The projected system incorporates artificial intelligence and will centralize the images in Local Police facilities.
The municipal plan is to extend this control beyond the historic core and cover accesses, neighborhoods, and parking areas. Among the planned functions are facial identification and the issuance of alerts when a vehicle or a person with a warrant accesses any of the monitored spaces.
Control in accesses, neighborhoods and maritime zones
The map designed by the council distributes the cameras in several sectors of El Vendrell. There will be 5 devices at the entrance roundabouts to the municipality, in addition to 6 cameras in El Tancat and Mas d"en Gual. 3 have also been planned in El Oasis and El Edén, 2 in the core of the village of Sant Vicenç de Calders and other points in Mas Borrás and Mas Astor.
One of the areas with the most presence of this system will be the coastal strip. The maritime neighborhoods will concentrate 13 cameras, within a deployment that seeks to expand coverage in different areas of the municipal term.
More requests in parking lots
The City Council has also requested authorization from the Comissió de Control dels Dispositius de Videovigilància de Catalunya to install two more cameras in the car parks of Puig and Sardana Square. To that request is added another camera for the car park of the Club d"Esports Vendrell.
With these new requests, the council raises to 47 the video surveillance control points planned in the municipality.
Tracking of people and license plates
The proposed system allows identifying people, carrying out follow-ups, and launching an alert if it detects a license plate reported for a crime. It also offers the possibility of entering a person's description to try to locate them and reconstruct the route they have taken through controlled areas.
All the images will be sent to a central control of the Local Police and may be shared with the Mossos d'Esquadra, within a surveillance model that now remains awaiting administrative approval to come into operation.