Logan City Council Installs Smart Cameras, Expands System.
Logan City Council Installs Smart Cameras – Logan City Council has installed 8 new smart cameras, significantly enhancing the capability of its safety camera solution.
Logan City Council’s safety camera solution, which is managed by council with support from Queensland Police Service and with 1400 cameras in the network, is Australia’s largest council system.
In SEN’s opinion, the new smart cameras look like the i-PRO WV-X1551LN AI bullet camera, which features 5MP resolution, a fast F1.3 varifocal lens with a range of 2.9–9mm, minimum illumination of .07 lux colour .04 lux in monochrome and 0 lux with IR activated. The camera impressed us as robust and capable when we tested it a couple of years ago.
The WV-X1551LN also features adaptive black stretch, back light compensation (BLC), fog compensation, highlight compensation (HLC), digital noise reduction, auto backfocus, integrated IR, image stabilisation and most importantly, AI functions, including the ability to detect suspicious changes in captured scenes, as well as LPR.
The new cameras will be installed at locations including Rowan Park (Slacks Creek), Corner Arshad Drive and Wembley Road (Berrinba), Corner Browns Plains Road and Wembley Road (Browns Plains), Corner Nyanza Street and Compton Road (Woodridge), Marsden Park (Marsden), Corner Third Avenue and Browns Plains Road (Marsden), Corner Estramina Road and Vansittart Road (Regents Park), and Fleet Park (Browns Plains).
The new cameras are funded through an $A800,000 grant from the Australian Government’s ‘Investing in our Communities’ program and Federal Treasurer and the Member for Rankin, Jim Chalmers, said the delivery of the cameras was evidence of the close cooperation between the local council and federal government.
“These new cameras are an important and practical demonstration of working together to deliver for our local community,” Treasurer Chalmers said.
“This is all about making our local area safer and more secure and making our community an even better place to call home.”
Meanwhile, City of Logan Mayor Darren Power said the expanding safety camera network would help residents feel safer.
“Council’s close working relationship with police in the camera monitoring room has proven to be very effective in detecting and arresting offenders,” Councillor Power said.
“These 8 new hi-tech cameras will help to further crackdown on local crime, and it sends a strong message to offenders that you will be caught if you choose to break the law in Logan.”
You can learn more about i-Pro cameras here, see our review here, or read more SEN news here.
“Logan City Council Installs Smart Cameras, Expands System.”
