The company will be focusing on carrying freight, containers and passengers throughout the country.
The project connects three nerve centres in Johannesburg, Richard’s Bay and Cape Town, South Africa, with thousands of surveillance cameras, digital video recorders, access control systems, fire systems, and electrical fence sensors deployed across 34,000 kilometres of rails at more than 1,000 remote sites, including terminals, depots and office buildings.
Transnet’s national nerve centre in Johannesburg features a 19 metre Barco video wall system, while Richard’s Bay and Cape Town each have a seven metre system. Each section of the video wall displays a video matrix of a sector in the region that is under the responsibility of a specific operator. Additional information, representing a sector’s situation awareness map and incident response procedures, are displayed when a sector is in emergency operation. In addition, it is also possible to call up Barco pre-defined layouts automatically or on-demand directly from Situator. These layouts represent pre-defined scene setups that correspond to various emergency and routine situations.
The project is being implemented by two South African-based systems integrators, SSET and Multivid.
Situator reduces potentially costly human error, makes it easy to establish and maintain compliance with industry and government regulations and dramatically improves the speed and effectiveness of incident response and recovery while actually reducing operating costs.