City Government and IBM Partner to Make Rio de Janeiro a Smarter City

The city government and IBM (NYSE: IBM) signed an agreement to build a public information management center for Rio de Janeiro. The Rio Operations Center, which will be located in Cidade Nova, will integrate and interconnect information from multiple government departments and public agencies in the municipality to improve city safety and responsiveness to various types of incidents, such as flash floods and landslides. The mission of the Rio Operations Center -- which will be opened on December 31- is to consolidate data from various urban systems for real-time visualization, monitoring and analysis. The system was designed initially for forecasting floods and related emergencies, but it is extensible to any event occurring in the city -- be it the Réveillon Party at Copacabana beach, the exit of fans from a soccer match at the Maracanã or a traffic accident. The Center will enable city leaders to make decisions in emergency situations based on real-time information.
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