Brazil 2014: the largest security operation with twelve integrated monitoring and control centres

The imminent celebration of the Football World Cup Brazil 2014 It has launched an unprecedented security and video surveillance operation. Twelve Integrated Command and Control Centers (CICC) In the host cities of the event, they are already working to guarantee the protection of the participating teams, visitors and facilities.

The 12 June, date on which the World Cup Brazil 2014 will begin, It will also be the moment in which the security operation deployed in the twelve venues where this sporting event is held, each of which has an Integrated Command and Control Center (CICC) are at the highest level of performance and monitoring.

These CICCs are in turn connected to the national centres, one located in Rio de Janeiro and the other in Brasilia, responsible for facilitating the exchange of information on the security operation and high-definition video surveillance of all the venues of the World Cup in Brazil.

The operation planned by the Brazilian government to guarantee the security of the World Cup 2014, the largest ever held in a FIFA championship, provides for the mobilization of 170.000 Police and soldiers, with an investment of more than 1.900 million reais (A 619 millions of euros).

All CICCs will monitor 24×7 the intelligent data security analysis system deployed at each World Cup venue 2014, in which video surveillance cameras and the public safety and mobility system are integrated.

In addition to the IP cameras deployed in the stadiums, Another of the cutting-edge technologies for access to them is fingerprint biometrics (Mainly designed for the fans of each national team or 'crooked', as it is called in Brazil), so that the CICC of each venue will instantly have detailed information on the person accessing the stadium.

In this sense, the so-called Consorcio Brasil Seguro has selected the specialist's network and IP communication equipment Extreme Networks for the management of the infrastructure of the twelve CICCs during the World Cup.

CICC of Porto Alegre

For the coverage of the Beira-Rio stadium, one of the venues of the World Cup in which five matches will be held, and the city of Porto Alegre, the CICC located in this locality will be responsible for monitoring the 2.100 cameras deployed throughout its streets and in the stadium, Connected in turn to the State Control Center.

From this control and monitoring environment, Inaugurated just a month ago, Public security actions will also be coordinated, Emergency and defense during this sporting event.

The operating room of the CICC in Porto Alegre has a video wall composed of 56 Monitors, each of which has a 55" screen, In addition, there are more than sixty workstations equipped with a computer with two screens so that technicians can reproduce and analyse 24×7 any of the images captured by video surveillance cameras distributed in four hundred different parts of the city.

The video wall is connected to the city's and stadium's video surveillance system, as well as communication tools and maps of the twelve World Cup venues, and to the training and lodging places of the teams participating in it; information received from each of the CICCs and 36 Observation decks at height.

Images recorded at the CICC in Porto Alegre will be stored for a period of sixty days, for which there are about 270 Servers & Storage Systems.

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