QUEZON CITY, June 27 (PIA)--Mayor Herbert M. Bautista recently led the soft launch of QC government’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC), which boasts of an integrated surveillance and emergency response system designed to improve not only the city’s crime watch and prevention mechanism but also that of the city’s response capabilities during disasters and other emergency situations and vehicular traffic monitoring.
The city’s emergency operations center, housed at the newly constructed QC Disaster Risk Reduction Management building at QC Hall compound, is equipped with high-end servers, networking and communication equipment and an integrated video wall. The center also boasts of an advanced automatic telephone switching system.
The city government poured in nearly Php 300 million for the acquisition and installation of state-of-the art equipment and technologies for QC’s new emergency response system, which will be fully operation by next month.
“What the city is having is an integrated, seamless and end-to-end operation emergency system, making it one of the country’s most advanced systems to date,” said Gen. Elmo San Diego, action officer of the QC Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council.
Part of the city’s new emergency response system will be the setting of an emergency telephone hotline for QC: that is 122
According to Chris Ledesma, representative of project contractor Green Energy, QC’s emergency response system features an underground fiber optic cable deployment on national roads, back up wireless communication network, high-definition surveillance cameras, computer-aided dispatch application system, LED display boards erected on major roads of the city and a 36 kw solar hybrid system, which acts as an emergency power supply for the city’s emergency operations center in cases of prolonged power outage during calamities.
A total of 243 units of high definition IP surveillance cameras with video analytics of face recognition, vehicle and crowd counting, license plate recognition, flood monitoring, video image enhancement shall be deployed in major intersections and primary hotspots all over the city.
So far, San Diego said, around 50 surveillance cameras have already been installed along QC’s major thoroughfares, including Quezon Boulevard, Timog Avenue and Commonwealth Avenue. Installations were also made around the QC Hall complex.
San Diego said the number of cameras could further increase since plans to cover schools and banks are also underway.
Aside from the soft launch of the city’s emergency operations center, the QC DRRMC will also be conducting simulation exercises relative to the city’s disaster preparedness capability. (PAISO QC/RJb/SDL/PIA-NCR)
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