Argentina. The neighborhood of Chacarita, in the heart of the City of Buenos Aires, is home to a model Urban Monitoring Center, which at the public level is one of the most modern and integrating multiple technologies in Latin America.
The companies Briefing Security S.A. and Murata S.A, are service providers equipped with the comprehensive SoftGuard system and were the winners of various competitions to be responsible for providing the many dependencies and assets of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires with the security service and physical and electronic surveillance.
The main objective of the Urban Monitoring Center (CUM) is to prevent crimes and intervene, giving notice of events to the competent authorities in the area. At the same time, the functions as a support in police and judicial investigations. This unit supervises live the more than 7,300 surveillance cameras distributed in the urban ejido and also incorporates the 4,000 cameras installed in the public passenger transport units.
In terms of technology, the companies Briefing Security S.A. and Murata S.A provide the with the latest in technological innovation in alarm monitoring, with SoftGuard mounted on high-performance computers with the ability to process events and images at very high speed, on state-of-the-art 49-inch curved monitors. The Urban Monitoring Center also has a central videowall of 15 meters wide by 3 meters high composed of 48 screens of 55 inches each. SoftGuard leads in this ecosystem, the reception and processing of intrusion and panic alarm events, to then be dispatched to the public authority.
