Boston Buses Run with Video Surveillance Security

Boston’s bus system has embraced a video surveillance system with Wi-Fi and live video connections to both police patrol cars and to police control rooms in order to insure passenger safety throughout any point of a bus route.

In approaching the project, the solution provided had to be scalable, so buses could be easily and quickly equipped with routers.

It was also important that the bus environment required a rugged router due to the shocks, vibrations and extreme temperature range. Finally, the recorded videos of almost the entire fleet had to be uploaded via Wi-Fi each evening at the marshaling yards.

This involved a high data transfer in a limited space.

The solution proved to be a Teldat H1-Automotive+ router — a rugged in-vehicle router that is able to provide dual LTE/4G cellular modules, as well as 802.11n for Wi-Fi in both access and client modes.

Moreover the bus router is equipped with a dedicated GPS interface, which is able to provide tracking information and controls operation of the router based on location.

It is also integrated into the bus system’s advanced private cellular network to ensure passengers’ security. The software design has been modified to improve Wi-Fi performance, so that the video can be uploaded quickly at the marshaling yard using exclusively the 802.11n standard for Wi-Fi.

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