Argentina. At the beginning of 2020, SoftGuard received in its offices in Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, Darío Monteros, Municipal Mayor of La Banda del Río Salí (province of Tucumán, Argentina), National Deputy Gladys Medina and Secretary of Security Marcelo Moreno to tell them about the rise of SmartCities and the "Safe Municipality" program.
At the meeting, all participants agreed that the Municipality of La Banda del Río Salí in the course of 2020 would become SmartCity, because in addition to adding the necessary technology, the government was getting involved with a vision about which city it wanted in terms of security adding value to its community.
After several months of working together, the municipality of La Banda del Río Salí is already a success story and SoftGuard gave special recognition to the municipality through its Mayor, Darío Monteros. After receiving the recognition, the Mayor commented: "Our municipality has made the political decision to innovate and see the issue of security as a matter of state. That is why with a lot of effort we have invested in what is a matter of technological innovation and this has led us to be the first municipality in northwestern Argentina to have these technological tools that are giving good results in terms of security. "
The cases of daily use and the direct benefit in the neighbors of the municipality, already begin to be known. How that neighbor who assisted a woman who had decompensated on the public road and thanks to the APP ALERTS BRS could ask for medical assistance that came immediately. The neighbor was walking down the street with her baby in her arms and suddenly collapsed on the floor. A neighbor who was previously trained by the Ministry of Security to use the App sent the alarm to the Monitoring Center and in a few minutes the ambulance arrived at the scene. Thanks to this App the neighbors have an active participation and help to improve the management of the municipality and most importantly in this case to save lives.
In the words of Darío Montero "If there is something that we did in these four years in the management of government, more this year that we have been re-elected is to continue working and innovating for the good of the neighbor in terms of security and above all things in technological matters that SoftGuard offers us"
Additionally with the APP ALERTS BRS, the Secretariat of Security of La Banda del Río Sali, was able to face a problem that worries its citizens and especially women that is gender violence: "The application is very important because it comes from the hand of technology and today our women who have problems with gender violence can receive this application so that they can be helped, safeguard with the help of course of the municipal lookouts of our city who are doing a very important job and complemented of course also with the Monitoring Center of this Secretariat", were the words of the National Deputy Gladys Medina who also highlighted the help of SoftGuard to be able to customize the application through different programs as is the case of the COVID-19 pandemic, where neighbors could follow the status of their relatives at a distance and that people who were hospitalized by Coronavirus could also access a digital entertainment channel for free.
It happens that the BRS ALERTS APP, in addition to its main functionalities focused on citizen security, also serves as a digital entertainment channel that can be accessed free of charge by people hospitalized for Coronavirus at the Eva Perón Hospital and the Modular Hospital. From the Municipality, they observed that patients only have access to information and entertainment, through their cell phones, so it was decided to activate a tool that could be used for a recreational activity.
From SoftGuard, the CEO Daniel Banda, has commented to feel very proud and satisfied with the fact that it matches reality with the entire communication policy of the company, in the sense that any city, large city or small town, can be a smart city or SmartCity. In the words of Mr. Daniel Banda, "The case of the Municipality of La Banda del Río Salí is something exceptional for the times in which the samples of success achieved were achieved. An unusual power was given to the implementation of these technologies and that is what makes them successful" in addition the CEO of SoftGuard commented that "technologies we see in many places, technologies successfully implemented, we see in very few places, and one of the most striking, a success story is the Municipality of La Banda de Río Salí in Tucumán"
The teamwork made it possible for the Municipality of La Banda del Río Salí to provide citizens with the necessary tools to achieve a transformation towards the modernization of security. The municipality understood that to grow it is important to invest in advanced technology and SoftGuard collaborated to make it possible. Ahead is coming "There are programs that will be in the year 2021, especially what has to do with the safe school corridor, in accompanying students with parents and teachers who go and leave school to give them a system of proximity and notice when there is drug sales" reported the CEO of SoftGuard "they are different programs but they all coexist in the same application."
