Herta Security Facial Recognition Deployment on Indian Railways and Prisons

operational

Herta Security operates facial recognition technology on an estimated 4,000 cameras across Indian railway stations, prison complexes, pilgrimage sites, and city surveillance systems. The system scans faces in real time against a watchlist database to identify persons of interest and dispatch alerts to law enforcement. The Eastern Railway contract was won in 2022 for €11.5 million, with 540 facial recognition systems operational at 143 stations as of early 2025, and plans to cover 392 stations and potentially extend to more than 1,500 cameras. The system also operates in three Delhi prison complexes under a government contract worth approximately €3.2 million.