Cameroonian prime minister Joseph Dion Ngute has inaugurated the national command centre for video surveillance in the capital Yaounde, reports Agence Ecofin. The 800 square metre facility will enable police forces to process data from a security network that currently counts 2,000 cameras, with 7,000 planned in the near future.

The surveillance system has been delivered by Camtel (Cameroon Telecommunications) and its technical partner Huawei. Video surveillance is one of the applications enabled by Camtel’s National Broadband Network (NBN) project, which the operator has been deploying with Huawei and financial support from the Exim Bank of China.

Source: Telecompaper