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May 10, 2005

Baltimore's Camera Network

From The Washington Times:
A short overview of the camera system for Baltimore:

The new cameras, which are monitored at the City Watch Center, cover a 40-square-block area on the city's West Side, home to light-rail and Amtrak lines, government buildings and cultural attractions, such as the recently refurbished Hippodrome Theater.

Baltimore's West Side cameras are part of a comprehensive homeland-security plan paid for with $2.75 million of federal urban area security grants. The surveillance network is designed to thwart terrorists and coordinate emergency response to terrorist strikes, but Baltimore officials say the cameras also will deter crime in an often dangerous part of town now on the cusp of a renaissance.

The West Side cameras one day will be linked with ones already keeping an eye on Baltimore's Inner Harbor, Oriole Park at Camden Yards and the University of Maryland campus. Eventually, the cameras will be tied into a regional network also covering Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford and Howard counties and will include cameras monitoring highway traffic across the state.

Posted by rshah at May 10, 2005 04:10 PM

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