Integrated Command and Control Centre (Safe and Secure Ahmedabad)

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The municipal corporation's smart-city company SCADL runs an integrated command and control centre in Paldi, operating since 2018; the company's registered address is the building itself. By its own account the video walls carry live feeds from more than 7,000 cameras across the city, backed by 30,000-plus sensors and surveillance devices, an on-premise data centre, 126 variable message displays, a public address network, an adaptive traffic control layer that retimes signals, and a monsoon flood view of underpasses and junctions. The same centre hosts the bus fleet, water SCADA and street-light dashboards, which is what makes it the single point of failure for most of the city's instrumentation.

Live 📅 since 2018

🎓 Lesson

Integrated command centres are the standard product of India's Smart Cities Mission and are described in near-identical language from city to city. Ahmedabad's is demonstrably in use — but every figure describing what it achieves comes from the body that built it, and that body's own pages cannot agree on the camera count: 6,000 on one project page, 7,000 on another, 7,200 on the homepage counter. Treat the genre's numbers as procurement copy until someone outside counts.

Sources

↗ Smart City Ahmedabad Development Limited, ABD Projects (operator)Verbatim: 'The Integrated Command and Control Center located in Paldi Area ... with 24*7 live monitoring of more than 7000 Close Circuit Television (CCTV) Cameras spread across the city.' Also describes the flood use case: 'area-wise live monitoring in monsoon especially at under bridge and junctions in city'.
↗ Smart City Ahmedabad Development Limited, Pan City Projects (operator)Verbatim: 'Video walls for real-time monitoring of city functions through 6,000+ surveillance cameras'; 'Adaptive Traffic Control System (ATCS) monitor real time traffic conditions and use artificial intelligence as well as machine learning technology to improve signal timing'; 'Integrated System with over 30,000 sensors, surveillance devices, on-premise data centre and data analytic tools'. Note the 6,000+ here versus 'more than 7000' on the ABD page and a homepage counter reading 7,200 — the discrepancy is the operator's, not the atlas's.
↗ Smart City Ahmedabad Development Limited, homepage counters and Awards & Recognition (operator)Dates the centre: the awards list records '2018 Control Room of the year - SECONA sheild award', '2018 Safe City project of the year - SECONA sheild award' and '2019 Safe City award (Safe And Secure Ahmedabad) – Smart City Mission', so the centre was operating in 2018. The homepage counters give 7,200 cameras across 1,000+ locations, 24,000 smart street lights, 50 environmental sensors, 126 variable messaging displays, 179 Wi-Fi locations and 30 smart toilets. NOTE: news reports date the Paldi inauguration to 23 February 2018 and put the cost at ₹239 crore, but those pages (Businessworld, DeshGujarat) returned 403 to us and the figures are therefore NOT used in this entry.
📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Integrated Command and Control Centre (Safe and Secure Ahmedabad)” — Ahmedabad, India. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/ahmedabad-iccc/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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