Already in the distant 2012, the "Safe City" project was born, aimed at improving security in the metropolis and that of citizens from crime, terrorism, attacks from strategic places and also natural disasters and other types of threats.
The project, carried out by a multidisciplinary team of professionals from different countries, has subsequently demonstrated the reliability and the ability to reduce the very high levels of violence that the Mexican city accused daily. Telmex then installed an integrated 8.080 camera system, to monitor the city and a connection to a main control center called C-4, five regional centers and two mobiles called C-2, based on the telecommunications network.
This new 2015 project that sees Thales and Telmex partners increases the scope of the operation, announced in April by 2014 by the Mexican authorities.
It is a network with more than 8000 video cameras that monitor the streets of Mexico City, for 24 hours a day, every day, connected with a hundred emergency call centers, plus a suite of drones. All the data is sent to the comandom centers, of the latest technology where from the start up of the project, more than a million incidents have been identified and recorded, about 100.000 arrests and above all, the reduction of a large number of crimes, about a 33% of those with big impact and 50% less than car theft.
So, once the whole project operation is over, Mexico City will have about 15000 video cameras, 10000 emergency call buttons with 10000 microphones, revealing itself to be one of the most complex urban security systems in the world.
Maria Grazia Labellarte
(photo: web / Thales)
