A single room that pools a city's camera feeds, sensors and agency dashboards — the standard deliverable of India's Smart Cities Mission, now a global genre.
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An integrated command and control centre (ICCC) is one room into which a city pipes what it already watches: CCTV, traffic signals, bus locations, water and street-light telemetry from its sensor network, emergency calls, and staff from the agencies that own them. The form was standardised by India's Smart Cities Mission, which made an ICCC a core deliverable and reported one running in all 100 selected cities by 2023. Ahmedabad's, in Paldi, has operated since 2018 and carries the cameras, the signals, the buses, the water network and the street lights on one video wall.
The genre is older and wider than that programme. Rio's Centro de Operações opened at the end of 2010, eight months after April floods killed nearly 70 people, and now pulls more than 60 agencies and over 2,500 cameras into one room — the case for it being coordination: flood forecast, closed street and ambulance visible at once.
The useful question is not how many screens a centre has, but whether anything follows from what it sees. Mexico City's C5 watched 113,814 cameras in March 2026. Peer-reviewed findings on whether that reduced crime are split; what is not in dispute is the gap Data Cívica and R3D documented — about 60% of crimes happen within 200 m of a camera, and police use the footage in under 1% of investigations. Almost every figure describing these rooms comes from the body that built them, and the figures wobble: Ahmedabad's own pages give 6,000, 7,000 and 7,200 cameras. Visibility is procurable; the capacity to act on it is not.
Added 2026-08-10 · Part of the growing Smart City Glossary