State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak, MP said the government is implementing smart security systems like that in the developed countries through utilization of modern technology, especially artificial intelligence (AI) in order to enhance security of the people’s lives.
“At this moment, we are ensuring the same services to our people which is being provided by the governments of the developed countries though their per capita income is much hier than ours,” he said.
The state minister said this view while visiting the IP Camera-based Monitoring Center at Kotwali Police Station in Sylhet. He mentioned that ‘this type of modern and trustworthy smart security system will play an important role to make a smart city and will ensure the security of people.”
Palak further said: ‘We should implement monitoring cameras containing artificial intelligence in every important roads, highways and places to facilitate 24x7 scanning from monitoring centers for ensuring the safety. Sylhet city will be built as a model town under this project. I am very pleased at the advancement of this project’.
The state minister recently visited Sylhet to see for himself the advancement of Digital Sylhet City Project taken by Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC), a project for transforming Sylhet into a smart city.
Under the project, for the first time in the country, Face Recognition and Automatic Number-plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras are being installed in Sylhet City Corporation.
A monitoring room has been constructed at Kotowali Model Police Station in Sylhet to control these special IP cameras. Sylhet Metropolitan Police will be in charge of controlling this latest security system. This robust technology will help police to identify the identification of suspected persons and vehicles to enrich the efficiency of their investigation, which would help to remove the prevailing feelings of insecurity. An MOU has been signed between Bangladesh Computer Council and Sylhet Metropolitan Police regarding this project.
The free Wi-Fi zone will be constructed very soon under this project at 62 locations in Sylhet with a total of 126 access points. It will help to improve citizen’s livelihood through the use of ICT. Here everyone, even those who can’t afford internet at home, can benefit from a free connection and use it to access public services and easily get services to get leading knowledge and government policy. This system will later be operated through Sylhet City Corporation. A separate Memorandum of Understanding signed between Bangladesh Computer Council and Sylhet City Corporation
Executive Director of BCC Parthapratim Deb, Project Director of a2i Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Project Director of Digital Sylhet City Project Mohammad Mohidur Rahman Khan, Deputy Project Director of Digital Sylhet City Project Madho Sudun Chanda, Additional Commissioner of Sylhet Metropolitan Police and other officials of main solution provider of Huawei technologies were also presented there.
