“Leveraging cutting-edge technology to find creative, cost effective solutions has been a top priority in my administration,” said Mayor C. Ray Nagin. “With this system in place, it will be like virtual police patrolling our streets, deterring and fighting crime.”
Serving as the eyes of the system, SNC-RZ30N cameras from Sony Electronics were configured into systems mounted high on power poles above the city streets with the ability to pan, tilt and zoom to read a license plate from hundreds of feet away. Many of the cameras were deployed to crime “hot spots” throughout the city’s 6th Police District. Images captured on the street are digitized and sent via the city’s network to a main server archive for Internet-based monitoring.