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Under Vehicle Screening/Scanning System in Chennai Central

Posted on: 06/Mar/2015 11:00:04 AM
Everyday thousands of passengers throng to Central Station to go to other States and places. Apart from this, lots of people shuttle in connection with their business matters. For the sake of their security, the Railway Protection Force and Railway Police are taking lots of steps.
 
There are already luggage scanners to scan the luggage of passengers. There are bomb squads to detect bombs and sniffer dogs. Everyday thousands cars come to Central Station to drop the passengers. Now in order to scan these cars special scanners are to be installed in two places. One will be installed at Wall Tax Road entrance and other in More Market entrance.  These special scanners called Under Vehicle Screening/Scanning System (UVSS). 
 
Under Vehicle Screening/Scanning System (UVSS), which is used to scan and record images of the under-carriage and detect explosives, foreign objects and attached packages.
 
Specifically designed to be used at sensitive locations like airports and railway stations, the UVSS has three high resolution cameras attached on the floor at the entrance, a side camera to capture the face of the driver and a front end camera to record the number plate of the vehicle. Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel stationed at a separate booth near the UVSS installation monitors the images on a computer screen.
 
When a four-wheeler crosses a sensor loop at the zone, the driver camera, mounted on a pole near the booth, is triggered and clicks 10-15 frames of the driver window of the vehicle. A metal halide lamp is fitted above the camera to enable lighting after sunset.