Integrated Command and Control Centres (ICCCs): Smart Cities Mission

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• Recently, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has announced that all 100 smart cities will have Integrated Command and Control Centers (ICCCs), under Smart Cities Mission (SCM).
  • These ICCCs are spread across various states that have been developing Smart Cities, with states such as Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat leading in terms of the total number of ICCCs set up.

What is an Integrated Command and Control Centre?

• The Smart Cities Mission includes setting up ICCCs for each such city as a vital step. 
• These ICCCs are designed to enable authorities to monitor the status of various amenities in real time. 
• The ICCCs are now also linked to the CCTNS (Crime and Criminal Tracking Networks and Systems) network under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
• The ICCC acts as a smart city and acts as a “nerve centre” for operations management. 
• It processes a complex and large pool of data sets at an aggregated level. 
  • For example, it is now the go-to source for integrated traffic management monitoring.
• It is the nodal point of availability of all online data and information relating to smart services included in a smart city, such as like LED street lighting, CCTV surveillance cameras, air quality sensors, smart parking system, WiFi, electricity and water supply and billing, GIS, e-hospitals, property tax management, estate management, engineering systems, asset management systems, and other services.
• Role in management of Covid-19

• The government used the ICCCs as war-rooms for managing the outbreak, with real-time surveillance and monitoring of districts across the country that were affected by the coronavirus disease.
• It provided information about the status of Covid-positive cases in various administrative zones of these cities.

Source:IE