City-Wide Video Surveillance System – Gilgit City

Transforming Urban Security in Gilgit City Through Integrated Video Surveillance

How CDigital Designed & Deployed a City-Wide, IP-Based Surveillance Ecosystem for 24/7 Situational Awareness and Proactive Policing

About The Client

The Government of Gilgit-Baltistan (GoGB) is responsible for governance, public safety, and socio-economic development across the Gilgit-Baltistan region. Owing to its strategic geographic location, complex terrain, and expanding urban centers, GoGB places strong emphasis on public security, surveillance, and situational awareness to safeguard citizens, protect critical infrastructure, and enable effective law-enforcement coordination. With increasing urban activity in Gilgit City, the Government recognized the need to transition from manpower-intensive monitoring toward a technology-driven, centrally managed surveillance framework to support modern policing and city governance.

Challenge

Prior to the project, Gilgit City lacked real-time visibility across key public spaces, entry and exit points, and sensitive locations, resulting in fragmented monitoring and delayed incident response. The absence of centralized surveillance and continuous recording limited proactive policing, evidence collection, and coordinated law-enforcement operations—particularly across geographically dispersed and terrain-challenged urban areas. Given the city’s sensitive security environment, the challenge was to deploy a reliable, scalable, and centrally managed surveillance system capable of continuous operation, rapid incident response, and long-term data retention while supporting multiple control rooms and future expansion.

Key Features:

• City-wide IP-based video surveillance coverage
• Fixed, PTZ, and panoramic CCTV camera deployment
• ≥30 days continuous video recording and storage
• Multi-control-room command and monitoring architecture
• 360-degree situational awareness at selected strategic points
• Secure networking and data transmission infrastructure
• First wireless surveillance system deployed in Gilgit-Baltistan
• 85 CCTV cameras installed across Gilgit City

Delivered Services:

• Detailed system design and engineering aligned with city topology
• Supply and installation of CCTV cameras and field equipment
• Deployment of recording, storage, and VMS infrastructure
• Integration of cameras, control rooms, and centralized monitoring
• Configuration of PTZ presets and panoramic monitoring zones
• Testing, commissioning, and system validation
• Operator training, SOPs, manuals, and maintenance planning