City of
Madison

New Camera Testing

To improve safety and security on buses, Metro is testing a new video camera system on bus #140.

This new system features a monitor mounted near the driver that displays live footage occurring on the inside of the bus. Along with this live footage, real-time schedule information and Metro marketing messages may also appear on the screen.

Metro staff will be testing features of the system through the end of 2017.

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• Camera footage is only reviewed if there is an incident on the bus.
  
  
• Once an incident is identified, footage is used to verify what occurred.
  
  
• Video is used during Metro’s ongoing employee training programs.
  
  
• Madison Police Department and Madison Metropolitan Schools have credited Metro’s cameras as a way to reduce incidents.
  
  

• It has been proven in larger transit systems that a monitor with a live camera view helps reduce incidents even further.
  
  

• System switches from displaying live camera feed to passenger communication messages.
  
  
• System has an SD card back-up feature, meaning that if an issue occurs with the hard-drive, video will still be saved.
  
  
• Video clarity is greatly improved over Metro's current system.
  
  
• The system is integrated with GPS records which shows the vehicle's speed, location and time of day.
  
  
• The overall system monitors the health of hard-drives and cameras on the bus, and sends automatic system statuses when maintenance is needed.
  
  
• Memory storage is greatly increased.
  
  
• Video can be downloaded wirelessly. Currently, hard-drives need to be physically removed from buses for video review.