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From Auckland Civil Defence and Auckland Council
Auckland Civil Defence and Emergency Management’s emergency coordination centre was activated early this morning to assist with managing the effects of the Penrose substation fire.
A number of Auckland suburbs are without power. Vector estimates it will take 24 to 48 hours to restore power to St Johns, Remuera, Sylvia Park and Mt Wellington.
Vector estimates the following areas could be restored this afternoon: Newmarket, Glen Innes, Onehunga and parts of Epsom.
Clive Manley, Civil Defence Controller says his priority is to provide assistance to those who are in most need and ensure that critical infrastructure continues to operate.
“We are in close contact with Vector, Transpower, Police and the Fire Service.”
“People who are medically dependent should have implemented their alternative arrangements. If they need additional help they should contact Vector 0508 VECTOR (0508 832 867) or if life-threatening, call 111.”
Civil Defence will provide updates through the day.
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Someone in Auckland Transport will be banging their heads on the desk after this rather large comms failure in regards to the new surveillance system due to be rolled out for an unknown sum of money.
From Stuff:
Sophisticated surveillance coming to Auckland
MICHAEL FIELD Last updated 15:52 01/10/2014
Surveillance technology that uses high definition cameras and software that puts names to faces and owners to cars is coming to Auckland.Surveillance will also include scanning social media and news websites.
Auckland Transport, the regional transport provider, has yet to announce the multi-million dollar deal, but California’s Hewlett-Packard Development Company said today it has the contract.
No dollar sum is given.
They call it a “visionary Big Data” project and in a statement said Auckland has selected HP “to drive groundbreaking future cities initiative”.
With over 2000 cameras deployed across Auckland, the system will use a “HP Intelligent Scene Analysis System” and licence plate recognition for accurate identification.
They will screen for dangerous activities and analyse safety threats across the city.
All the data gathered by the cameras will be processed by HP cloud servers based in Palo Alto, California.
Auckland Transport’s PR department has not confirmed the announcement, but Auckland Transport’s Chief Information Officer Roger Jones is quoted by HP.
“The safety and well-being of our citizens is always our top priority and the Future Cities initiative is a big step in the right direction,” he is quoted saying.
“Only HP could comprehensively deliver the custom solution, expertise and ecosystem at this scale to transform our vision into reality.”
The vast amount of data including text, images, audio and real-time video will be analysed by HP’s system.
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Full article, video, and source here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/10567293/Sophisticated-surveillance-coming-to-Auckland
Okay the part in bold either illustrates comms incompetence or someone not telling the full story.
However, check these line of Tweets out over the procurement of the system:
Credits to Transport Blog for pointing this out
I believe an investigation by Council, and the Auditor General might be very well needed into the procurement of this Big Brother system. As for Auckland Transport? Blessed and Special come to mind over this…
Auckland Transport replied on Twitter last night pointing us to the Herald article about scheme that was published in late July.
However, Transport Blog continues on the case this morning with this post: AT’s surveillance system
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Talking Southern Auckland 