City Hall inaugurates expansion of the Rio Operations Center (COR)

On the last day of the year, Rio's mayor, Eduardo Paes, inaugurated the expansion of the Rio Operations Center (COR), this Saturday (31/12), which will allow the capital of Rio de Janeiro to become an even smarter city. The expansion aims to implement a series of new technological resources. Some of them will already be in operation during the 2023 New Year's Eve celebrations.

– COR is one of the most modern intelligence and monitoring centers in the world. Now we have more technology, more space and more operators. I am sure that this is a great benefit for the city. These cameras here are more intelligent and this new technology allows any abnormalities that may be occurring in the city to be monitored more quickly – said Mayor Eduardo Paes.

With 1.582 m² and three floors, the new COR building will increase the size of the operations room to 446 m² and expand the existing screen to 104 m², with a video wall consisting of 125 55-inch screens, the largest in Latin America, compared to the current 60 m² and 100 46-inch screens. The workstations will increase from 75 positions to 115, all with new computers. Approximately 30 agencies, agencies and integrated concessionaires will now operate at the site.

– This is not just an expansion of cameras and video walls. We are expanding processes and protocols. We will increasingly receive information to act efficiently in procedures and communicate better with the population – stated COR’s chief executive, Alexandre Cardeman.

The expansion works, carried out by the Infrastructure Department, through Rio-Urbe and Rioluz, will also allow, for example, an increase in the number of new surveillance and monitoring cameras, equipped with high image resolution, from two thousand to ten thousand. The cameras will be used by various City departments for the purposes of controlling traffic, traffic light timing, identifying license plates of cars for violations or theft, monitoring rainfall intensity, among other purposes.

The city will also gain remote management services, with around 70% of the streetlights being connected and managed remotely and automatically. The system will make it possible to optimize electricity consumption and perform maintenance more efficiently.

With the expansion, the Operations Center will also receive a new Data Center, a vault room with 84 servers – with a storage capacity of close to 10 petabytes, the equivalent of a thousand terabytes, capable of processing a high volume of data to assist in urban monitoring of the city.

In addition to video monitoring, five thousand Wi-Fi points will be installed in the city, with the capacity to simultaneously connect one million Rio residents and tourists.

The expansion of the Operations Center was one of the results of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) for public lighting coordinated by Rioluz, in consortium with the company Smart Luz, through the Smart Rio program.

THE COLOR

The Rio Operations Center was designed and developed after a heavy rainstorm that highlighted the importance of integration between municipal agencies in solving problems affecting the city. Opened on December 31, 2010, as one of the legacy projects of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the COR coordinates an integrated operation 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with the goal of improving the lives of Rio residents.

COR's work includes both mobility, with traffic monitoring, and the preparation and organization of the city for major events. The Rio Operations Center, which will be 12 years old in 2022, has become a reference for other cities in Brazil.

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December 31, 2022

Appointments: Enlargement cameras COR Expansion Mayor Eduardo Paes City Hall of Rio