Almaty successfully uses video from surveillance cameras in real time using artificial intelligence. Thus, in 2023, the Akimat of Almaty for the first time in Kazakhstan introduced a comprehensive security system in public educational and preschool institutions.
Adopting the successful experience of Almaty, this technology has been used in other regions of the country. The project of a Unified video monitoring system was launched back in 2022 and today the system unites 45 thousand city cameras. By the end of next year, their number will grow to 70 thousand.
Thanks to this system, dozens of people suspected of committing serious crimes, as well as those who are wanted, have been found and detained over the past year. The system is integrated with law enforcement databases containing more than 13 thousand records of wanted persons.
"The system instantly notifies the situation center and police departments when a wanted person is found, sending the exact coordinates. This significantly reduces the response time and increases the efficiency of the police," the Almaty Digitalization Department said.
Artificial intelligence algorithms also allow you to: detect clusters of people and analyze their behavior, identify fights, suspicious objects, recognize images of weapons in public places, search for people /vehicles by image or photo, fix traffic violations, recognize fire and smoke.
Without stopping there, new types of video analytics are being tested and implemented in the city, which improve the work of local services: identifying places where garbage accumulates, overflowing bins and containers, detecting stray animals, studying video streams in public transport, audio analytics for recording loud sounds.
Today, the Integrated Security System project covers more than 400 public schools and kindergartens, all of them are equipped with digital video surveillance cameras, video intercoms, turnstiles with face recognition function, alarm buttons and fire alarm sensors connected to city emergency response services.
Now there is an active connection to the video camera system of private educational institutions. By the end of this year, it is planned to introduce a similar security system in all public medical institutions.

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/almaty/press/news/details/888648