Mission Control, Built for Cities
I.B.M. Takes ‘Smarter Cities’ Concept to Rio de Janeiro
Andre Vieira for The New York Times
The I.B.M. executive Guru Banavar in the command center that the company designed for the city of Rio de Janeiro. The center gathers data from 30 agencies, helping the city coordinate their work.
By NATASHA SINGER
Published: March 3, 2012
NOT far from Copacabana Beach here is a control room that looks straight out of NASA.
City employees in white jumpsuits work quietly in front of a giant wall of screens — a sort of virtual Rio, rendered in real time. Video streams in from subway stations and major intersections. A sophisticated weather program predicts rainfall across the city. A map glows with the locations of car accidents, power failures and other problems/.../
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