Gyeonggi Province Fire Department Monitors Municipal CCTV in Single View...Faster Disaster Response

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Park No-hun] Public safety CCTV cameras managed by each municipality and county can now be monitored in real-time at the 119 control room, enabling efficient disaster situation management and response when large-scale disasters occur.

The Gyeonggi Province Fire and Disaster Management Headquarters announced on the 13th that it has completed and begun operations of the "Integrated Disaster Video Control Center Construction Project," which was launched in August of last year as the first initiative among fire departments nationwide to strengthen command and control capabilities at the 119 control room.

The integrated disaster video control center of the Fire and Disaster Management Headquarters is a comprehensive situation display for command and operations that integrates various video information and fire-related information using a Geographic Information System (GIS). By linking public safety CCTV cameras from municipal and county smart city centers to this system, the 119 control room's integrated situation display now enables collective verification of municipal and county CCTV feeds.

This has resolved the previous inconvenience of having to access municipal and county CCTV systems individually and log in for each disaster type, significantly reducing the time required.

In particular, when a disaster occurs, 5 CCTV feeds from areas near the disaster site are displayed, allowing firefighters to assess damage scale from fires and other incidents in advance and respond quickly. Additionally, surrounding local governments can be requested to address issues such as illegal parking near disaster sites.

Currently, CCTV from the Gyeonggi Province Government's Disaster Monitoring and Traffic Information Center and CCTVs from 7 municipalities within the province, including Suwon and Yongin, are integrated and can be monitored in a single view.

The provincial Fire and Disaster Management Headquarters plans to add CCTV systems from 5 additional municipalities including Paju in September, and aims to integrate 8 more municipalities such as Anyang by the first half of next year, enabling monitoring of CCTV from all 20 municipalities and counties in the province.

The province plans to additionally link CCTV systems with relevant agencies including the National Police Agency, Korea Expressway Corporation, and the Traffic Information Center.

Previously, on the 29th of last month, the provincial Fire and Disaster Management Headquarters held a project completion report meeting attended by headquarters bureau chiefs, project managers, and working-level staff, sharing and discussing project details and plans.

An official from the Gyeonggi Province Fire and Disaster Management Headquarters stated, "The project was launched with the idea of expanding local government CCTV, which had been used solely for public safety purposes, to disaster management applications as well," and added, "There is great significance in establishing a collaborative foundation for disaster prevention and response operations between Gyeonggi Province Fire Department and municipalities and counties through CCTV system integration and disaster information sharing."