Society realized by Network camera Business
A safer, more comfortable subway
system for tourists and citizens alike

Accommodating over 160 million passengers a year, including approximately 20 million tourists, Fukuoka City Subway is a major transportation hub. In advance of the subway's 40th anniversary in 2021, Fukuoka City Transportation Bureau embarked on a program to replace their analog surveillance cameras to provide an even safer and more comfortable transportation service.

On the Airport and Hakozaki lines, Canon's network camera system has been installed at the ticket gates, platforms, stairs, escalators, ticket vending machines and station entrances and exits.

The recorded images, which previously were handled at each station, are now centrally managed at a control room, allowing the video feeds from over 460 cameras to be reviewed any time. Furthermore, the new system yields a dramatic improvement in image quality, realizing Full HD images with resolution 24 times higher than the previous system and a 10-times-higher frame rate of 15 fps. The new video images are so sharp that it is possible to determine the type of bill used at a vending machine and so smooth that a person running will not disappear in the next frame. Previously, reviewing data required a visit to the station where it was recorded. Since this is no longer necessary, time and resources can be used more efficiently.

With Canon network cameras in action, each station can optimally allocate staff in response to the ever-changing congestion conditions on platforms and stairs. Thus, the cameras contribute not only to safety and security, but also to work efficiency.