ARTESP announces center to monitor mobility on São Paulo's highways

Project was developed by IBM Brasil and Magna Sistemas 

In order to monitor and inspect the services provided by concessionaires on the state's highways, the São Paulo State Transport Agency (ARTESP) inaugurated the Information Control Center (CCI). With technology provided by IBM and consultancy and implementation by Magna Sistemas, the initiative will allow assessing the quality of service provided by local concessionaires, guaranteeing comfort and safety to users of the road network, which serves and benefits a population of around 20 million people, in 271 municipalities. 
 
Located at ARTESP's headquarters, in Itaim Bibi, in the city of São Paulo, the CCI will use technology to improve inspection, which was previously carried out only by inspectors who took turns between the more than 6,000 km of highways. The new space will capture and interconnect data from each of the Operational Control Centers (CCOs) – which unite information captured by cameras, sensors, weather stations, call-box, among others – from the 19 concessionaires that operate on almost 30 roads in the state. . Traffic and collection at toll plazas will also have their data centralized in the CCI. 
 
In addition to unifying data on traffic, services and incidents, which range from obstructions on the roads to the state of equipment such as radars, signs, message panels, eventual holes in the asphalt, among others, the center will also concentrate the information sent by inspectors, who will have their clipboards replaced by tablets.
"The CCI will inspect the São Paulo highways under concession in real time. Added to the high quality of the existing highways in São Paulo, this type of inspection will add more comfort and safety to all users and will further streamline the Regulatory Agency's action", he says. the general director of the Agency, Karla Bertocco Trindade.
Magna Sistemas developed the solution design in partnership with IBM, which provided the Máximo software for asset management and the IBM Intelligent Operations Center (IOC), responsible for integrating the system, providing a unified view and a quick response. Through data analysis, the IOC allows the generation of insights for decision making. 
 
The Director of Smart Cities at IBM Brazil, Antonio Carlos Dias, highlights that this is the first time that the IOC has been applied in the country in a mobility project. “It is an unprecedented project that results in an intelligent transport system. The number of challenges that Brazilian cities face is a great motivator for us to replicate projects here using this technology that can also be applied in public security, civil defense, coordination of social services and even to manage natural resources”, he concludes.