Angeles City Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan on Wednesday inaugurates the state-of-the-art “Agyu Tamu Emergency Disaster Command Center.”
The “command center” which was built at the ground floor of Angeles City Hall, where the old session hall of the City Council was formerly located, houses the central monitoring team for the closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras and all 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 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 capabale 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,” Pamintuan added.
Built by Convege 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.
