The Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) at Umsawli in New Shillong Township was inaugurated today by Chief Minister Conrad Sangma.
Speaking during the occasion, Sangma said that the ICCC is the brain of the entire Shillong smart city.
“This is a platform that can connect different activities in the Information Technology field and it being an open Application Programming Interface (API) makes it even special and the potential of the ICCC is immense and this center will be a mechanism and technology that can assist in making right and timely decisions,” he said.
Talking about the uses of the ICCC in surveillance, management of disasters, dissemination of information and management of daily city operations, the chief minister said, “Technology is only as good as it is applied and having this ICCC does not mean we will be free from challenges and issues but the information from this ICCC and its application in decision making and the action ensuing from it is what will make a difference.”
Sangma urged departments like IT, Urban, Police, Shillong Municipal Board to work out the SOPs, protocols and have the systems in place at the earliest so that the technology that is now available can be used for the improvement of Shillong city and actually make it a smart city.
Sangma informed that the next step is to create a massive data center at the ICCC. He also said that the government is putting up optical fiber connectivity to every block and every district will ultimately be connected to the ICCC.
“We are also working aggressively to ensure that we are able to land the submarine cables in Shillong and our goal is to connect every block and every district in a complete IT network,” he said.
Sangma added that the ICCC will empower for bringing in better governance in a smarter manner because it’s not only about a smart city but a smart governance.
The chief minister also said that cities like Tura and Jowai will be integrated into the ICCC in future.
The ICCC, Shillong is model driven and instead of a traditional API, the ICCI platform takes a declarative language approach to model devices, it is also vendor agnostic device model and any vendor can integrate into the ICCC digital platform irrespective of the communication protocol.
The ICCCI platform being an open API, it is available for integration with existing apps of the city or integration with upcoming applications. The key components of the ICCC Shillong are ICCC platforms.
The ICCC with monitoring workstation with video wall 30 seater operator capacity and 20 workstations, data center, collaboration solution and contact center and the city network and smart elements of the ICCC are City Surveillance System with Video Analytics.
Solid Waste Management System, Intelligent Traffic Management System, City Wi-Fi, Public Address System, Emergency Call Box with Public Address System, Variable Message Display, Smart Pole and Smart Street Lighting.
City Surveillance System has been set up at 96 locations, Smart Poles at 20 locations and Variable Message Display at 20 locations.
Also present during the inauguration were Deputy Chief Minister Sniawbhalang Dhar, Chief Secretary, Donald P. Wahlang, Director General of Police Idashisha Nongrang, Commissioner and Secretary (Urban Affairs) Vijay Kumar and Commissioner and Secretary (Information Technology) Pravin Bakshi, headmen of different locations of Shillong city and officials from police, urban and municipal departments.
