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January 24, 2008

NYC's Subway Camera System Delayed

[From NYC's Subway Spycam Network Stuck in the Station | Danger Room from Wired.com]

Noah Shachtman has an interesting post about NYC smart camera for its subway. He cites a government report which finds that the project has been delayed because the "contractor [Lockheed Martin I assume] has difficulty tailoring the software to the conditions in the MTA environment." It also noted that cost has growing from $265 million to $450 million—an increase of $185 million or 70 percent. (Nearly half of the increase is due to the inclusion of additional facilities). The timetable is now pushed back into 2009 and "while the MTA is proceeding with the intelligent video program, one particular element could not be advanced at this time due to difficulties tailoring the software to conditions in the MTA environment."

So the smart camera system is costing more because of the difficult conditions in the subway system. I wonder how well its performing? Clearly, at least one feature is not working. I wonder exactly what that feature is (could be facial recognition . . . they really couldn't think that would work . . .)

Posted by rshah at January 24, 2008 12:02 PM

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