Viação Santa Brígida, a prominent bus operator in São Paulo, Brazil, has teamed up with Dahua Technology to enhance the safety and efficiency of its fleet. This collaboration involves the integration of a mobile video surveillance and fleet management system that offers real-time monitoring, reduces blind spots, and aids in passenger counting and fare evasion control.
Operating over 650 buses in the bustling city of São Paulo, Viação Santa Brígida sought to improve supervision and ensure safety for passengers and drivers. The partnership with Dahua Technology involves deploying an intelligent solution featuring onboard cameras, passenger tallying, vehicle tracking, and centralised real-time monitoring to bolster operational visibility.
In a densely populated urban area, managing a large fleet poses significant challenges. Viação Santa Brígida needed a reliable system to monitor its buses continuously and respond efficiently to incidents. Limited visibility inside and around buses hindered event verification and driver support, especially during passenger boarding or manoeuvring through traffic.
The need for enhanced fare management tools led the company to seek accurate passenger counting and activity monitoring systems. Prior to this, determining vehicle occupancy and tracking potential revenue losses required extensive effort. Ensuring swift access to consolidated vehicle data would enable the operations team to make informed decisions quickly.
With Dahua Technology’s assistance, Viação Santa Brígida implemented a sophisticated mobile video surveillance setup. Onboard cameras facilitate continuous monitoring of passenger zones, allowing incident review and reliable evidence collection. The system also plays a crucial role in detecting fare evasion, thus safeguarding company revenue.
External cameras enhance driver visibility by eliminating blind spots, ensuring clearer vision of pedestrians and surrounding road users. This capability is vital during passenger boarding or alighting, reducing potential accidents and enhancing overall journey safety. Additionally, intelligent passenger-counting technology offers precise data on boarding activities, further improving operational control.
All data is centralised at Viação Santa Brígida’s Integrated Control Center, where live and recorded video feeds, along with vehicle data, are consolidated. This gives operators a comprehensive view of fleet operations and aids in swift incident assessment and response.
The introduction of Dahua’s surveillance system has significantly enhanced the operational efficiency of Viação Santa Brígida’s fleet. By providing continuous video monitoring, improving passenger counting accuracy, and strengthening fare-evasion controls, the company has achieved faster incident verification and safer bus operations. The consolidating of data at the Integrated Control Center allows for quicker event analysis, leading to informed decision-making.
According to a representative from Viação Santa Brígida, “Today, we can continuously monitor the cameras installed across our buses and provide our managers with more accurate operational information. Dahua’s technology helps us control fare evasion, improve safety for drivers and passengers, and manage our fleet with much greater efficiency and confidence.”
