Glasgow won the UK Technology Strategy Board's £24m Future Cities Demonstrator competition in January 2013, beating a shortlist drawn from around thirty British cities, and spent close to half of it on an integrated control room that opened in time for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The branded programme ran only to 2015, and its website no longer resolves. What it built outlived it — though by 2023 the council was cutting the staff who watch the screens, and had not restored them three years later.

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Compare with other cities

• 🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro: Rio Operations Center (COR) The genre anchor: an integrated municipal control room, four years older.
• 🇹🇭 Bangkok: Bangkok's Municipal CCTV Network The sharpest contrast in the atlas: both cities' real story is how many cameras actually work, and both had to admit it publicly.
• 🇲🇽 Mexico City: C5 Camera, Panic-Button and Seismic-Alert Network Camera network plus command centre where the documented weakness is what happens after the recording, not the hardware.
• 🇬🇧 Manchester: CityVerve IoT Smart City Demonstrator Same funder and year: both won money from the UK's national Future Cities/smart-city demonstrator competitions.

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