Angeles City mayor leads command center launching

• Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pampanga/local-news/2017/07/19/angeles-city-mayor-leads-command-center-launching-553843
• Saturday, July 22, 2017

By Reynaldo G. Navales

ANGELES CITY -- Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan Wednesday, July 19, led the formal opening of a state-of-the-art command center in line with local government’s drive against illegal drugs, criminality, and terrorism.

The “Agyu Tamu Emergency Disaster Command Center,” was built at the ground floor of the city hall where the old city council session hall is formerly located.

The command center houses the central monitoring team for the closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras including its hardware and software.

“The opening of the command center is only the first phase of our effort to make Angeles City a ‘smart city’ at par with the modern and highly-urbanized metropolis of the world. This will be used for emergency and disaster relief and mitigation as well as anti-criminality. It will also integrate the city’s vehicle traffic system,” Pamintuan said.

The command center employs modern fiber optic technology and all-weather cameras with digital and zoom lens capable of identifying the plate numbers of vehicles and taking clear shots of the faces of drivers even if the vehicles are heavily tinted.

“Phase 1 shall cover major areas of the city then the next phases will integrate all identified strategic points and roads, and will integrate the various aspects of the command center – from emergency and disaster response to anti-criminality to traffic system and others,” Pamintuan added.

Built by Converge ICT Solutions, Inc., the Angeles City Agyu Tamu Emergency Disaster Command Center was the first facility in the entire region to employ end-to-end pure fiber optic connections.