Beyondsight Philippines Inc., the service provider of the Philippine Ports Authority for the Supply, Delivery, Installation, and Commissioning of Multi-Site Remote Surveillance Monitoring Equipment and Services activated its Intelligent Surveillance Center at the Terminal Management Office of Balingoan on 24 January 2022.

Since the start of the pandemic, approximately 2,000 passengers pass through the Port of Balingoan every week, most of them coming from or are on their way to the island of Camiguin. The number of passengers increases during peak seasons and with summer coming up, there is a need for a higher level of security to monitor activities within the port. Beyondsight has installed the Intelligent Surveillance Center (ISC), which is an advanced security system that can monitor and analyze surveillance data without the need for human intervention.

The security team of TMO Balingoan will now be able to monitor activities and incidents through the advanced surveillance cameras that can track people, vehicles, and even small objects. These can also detect belongings left at the port and perform face recognition and people counting, among others.  Through its monitoring system, the port’s security can intervene, prevent, and contain any port incident/accident real-time. Notifications for minor incidents will be sent to the onsite personnel through SMS and for major incidents they will receive both SMS and phone call. A weekly or monthly report of all the detected incidents will also be provided to the TMO.-BCAcedera