Smart cities deploy integrated data-dashboards to monitor COVID-19

Smart Cities of Pune, Surat, Bengaluru and Tumakuru are using the integrated data dashboards, developed by the data analysts and data experts working with their ICCCs (also functioning as COVID-19 War Rooms in many cities) to provide up-to-date information about the status of coronavirus in different administrative zones of their cities.

Pune: Pune Smart City Development Corporation Limited (PSCDCL) has collaborated with Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to develop an integrated data dashboard in the city’s efforts to fight the global pandemic of coronavirus.

Surat: Surat Municipal Corporation has published an online dashboard on its municipal website to provide regular updates to the citizens.  Spatial Mapping of the affected areas is made available to citizens on this page.

Bengaluru and Tumakuru

BBMP has set up a ‘war room’ to use technology to conduct surveillance on people within 8-km radius of a confirmed patient, so as to contain the spread of the virus.

Leveraging the COVID-19 dashboard, the war room of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) the Municipal Corporation of Bengaluru publishes a daily bulletin on trends in the spread of coronavirus. The date-wise, zone-wise, hospital-wise, age-wise and gender-wise details are maintained at the war room and published on a day to day basis.

Integrated Command and Control Centres (ICCC) as COVID-19 War Rooms

As COVID-19 War Rooms, the Integrated Command and Control Centres are implementing the initiatives such as CCTV surveillance of public places, GIS Mapping of COVID positive cases, GPS tracking of healthcare workers. Predictive Analytics (Heat Maps) for virus containment across different zones of the city, virtual training to doctors & healthcare professionals, real-time tracking of ambulances & disinfection services, medical services through video conferencing and tele-counseling and telemedicine.