Logan City Council AI Tracking
Logan City Council AI Tracking People And Vehicles.
Logan City Council AI Tracking – When Logan City Council announced the installation of new cameras and local papers showed images of a high-end i-Pro bullet camera it was clear to the SEN team council intended to use video content analysis to assist council and police operators respond to events faster.
Logan City Council is one of the largest and longest running public surveillance installations in Australia. There are 1400 cameras in the Logan City Council system monitored by Queensland Police Service and council staff.
The new smart cameras are i-PRO WV-X1551LN AI bullets, which feature 5MP resolution, a fast F1.3 motorised varifocal lens with a focal range between 2.9–9 mm, minimum illumination of .07 lux in colour, .04 lux in monochrome and 0 lux with IR activated. This camera impressed us as robust and capable when we tested it a couple of years ago.
The WV-X1551LN also features adaptive black stretch, backlight compensation (BLC), fog compensation, highlight compensation (HLC), digital noise reduction, auto back focus, integrated IR, image stabilisation and most importantly, AI functions, including the ability to detect suspicious changes in captured scenes, as well as LPR.
According to council, the new smart 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).

Logan Mayor Jon Raven said recently the new AI software now allows council staff and police to undertake specific searches for details like car number plates or conduct searches using search phrases like ‘people wearing backpacks’.
Mayor Raven said the new software worked by searching for certain descriptions and then condensing all relevant footage from a 24-hour period into a 3-minute clip.
“If there was a white Holden in a certain area at a certain time, operators can actually track its movements through the city,” he said.
While the AI doesn’t identify faces, it can identify movement and personal descriptions like types of clothing and clothing colour. Council is also using the system to identify dumped cars, illegal dumping, graffiti and abandoned shopping trolleys.
“Often we rely on residents to report for us,” Mayor Raven said. “But the camera network can now spot a trolley, report it to the appropriate people, and we can either go and collect it or get the shopping centres to do it for us.”
The new cameras were funded through an $A800,000 grant from the Australian Government’s ‘Investing in our Communities’ program. On average, police use the Logan City Council CCTV network about 1000 times a month to help in their inquiries.
You can find a distributor of the i-PRO WV-X1551LN AI bullet camera here, there’s an in-depth review here and more SEN news here.
“Logan City Council AI Tracking People And Vehicles.”
