Municipalities expand surveillance technology to enhance public security

Various municipalities and regional governments in Argentina, Spain, and Peru are implementing new technological measures to enhance public security and traffic management.

In Argentina, Comodoro Rivadavia has launched the Atalaya I monitoring center, a project costing over 500 million pesos that utilizes approximately 702 cameras to provide 24-hour surveillance across three strategic rings of coverage. In Neuquén, the Ministry of Security has installed permanent police booths in Parque Norte to improve response times. Additionally, Santa Isabel has invested nearly 30 million pesos in automatic license plate recognition cameras to monitor city entrances.

In Spain, the town of Brihuega has installed 16 new cameras to improve traffic management and citizen security, utilizing 4G communications and cloud-based storage to monitor urban mobility and detect traffic violations.

In Peru, the Callao Regional Government is inaugurating a major security center in Bellavista with an investment of 24.5 million soles. This facility features 1,100 cameras equipped with artificial intelligence, drones, and license plate readers. Similarly, in El Porvenir, Trujillo, a project has been launched to install 100 high-tech cameras with facial recognition and AI to strengthen crime prevention.