The Moscow Centre for Transport Management (ЦОДД) will spend more than 155 million rubles on a system to monitor passenger flows via smartphones, writes «Ъ» with reference to documentation on the government procurement site.
In six months, Moscow authorities plan to install at bus stops and pedestrian stelae 220 hardware–software complexes to collect data on [simple_tooltip content=’a unique identifier assigned to each device during manufacture’]MAC-addresses[/simple_tooltip] via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi within a radius of 50 metres.
Reports on movement of people should be generated daily, weekly, monthly and yearly. The system will be connected to CCTV cameras, and the data obtained will be sent to a central data storage centre.
According to the press service of the Moscow Centre for Transport Management, the project has been designed based on practices in Singapore, London and Berlin, and the data collected will not be personally identifiable.
“The aim is to maximise the quality of pedestrian movements and the operation of city transport,” the press service added.
The auction was won by the company “Information Technologies of the Future,” but the procurement was suspended following a complaint about tender violations.
Earlier Moscow authorities explained the need to collect personal data of employees moved to remote work by evaluating passenger traffic.