Case study 2: Urban monitoring system at Vicente López, Argentina

The Vicente López district is one of the biggest urban agglomerations of Buenos Aires. It is located around  20 km north of Buenos Aires downtown. The district includes important neighborhoods, like Olivos, Florida, and La Lucila. The Government of Vicente López has developed and has been operating an Urban Monitoring system since 2015.

This system is considered as the main tool to prevent and predict traffic accidents, spills of hazardous waste on public roads, and other public incidents.
Other initiatives complement the system, such as anti-panic buttons, smart vests equipped with GPS used by police, and emergency phone lines serving on 24×7 modality.

Focusing mainly on the Urban Monitoring system, in this case, study, we discuss different aspects of such initiatives, like:

• Sustainability of the system, in terms of investments needed to maintain the equipment and
• Training for ensuring the availability of qualified human resources for operating the system and making quick and key decisions;
• Privacy of the information monitored and stored;
• Use of big data to improve transport or the developed infrastructure.

You can find more information regarding this case in this document and in the following web lecture.