Chennai: Giving a boost to the city’s smart city project, Chennai corporation would soon be setting up an Integrated Command and Control Centre (CCC), a centre to access the real-time data from all the government departments and beef up the emergency response system.
The draft detailed project report for CCC is under preparation, said Raj Cherubal, CEO, Chennai Smart City Limited, adding that the centre, which is a hub of information would be a change maker in the city’s infrastructure needs.
In a workshop conducted on Monday, officials from various government departments including city police and metro water put forth the current challenges and the necessary mitigation ways.
“Chennai will undergo transformation and become a world-class city in terms of infrastructure, transport network, promenades, pathways for cycles soon,” the minister for municipal administration S.P. Velumani said, while inaugurating a collaborative workshop on creating a Command and Control Centre for Smart City mission. He said the centre has allotted about '500 crore for each smart city project while the state will also provide funds for the 12 projects selected for Tamil Nadu.
City police commissioner A.K. Viswanathan, transport secretary PWC Davidar, TUFIDCO chairman B. Chandrakant Kamble and Metro Water MD Arun Roy were among the others who took part in the workshop.
The Command and Control centre could tackle many urban civic issues including flooding, overflowing garbage and water scarcity effectively. But how does CCC work? When the roads of T Nagar, which is allotted for the smart city project are flooded, the sensors would detect the issue and send the communication to the Command and Control Centres, which uses water levels, rainfall prediction and past data to generate an alert for flooding at a specific area. Post that, messages would be displayed at the lead up roads to T Nagar and activate the storm water drain pumping system.
While few initiatives are implemented at T Nagar, some of them including the disaster management system and city surveillance system would be implemented in pan city level.
Remarking the workshop as a red-letter day in the corporation’s history, corporation commissioner D. Karthikeyan requested the state government to grant funds to the tune of Rs 100-150 crore for making CCC a reality. Meanwhile, Velumani, in a positive note assured that the smart city project would be completed by 2020.
