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IC3 Integrated Safe City Command Centre

Lahore's Punjab Safe Cities Authority feeds roughly 8,000 CCTV cameras — with automatic number-plate recognition and, per independent researchers who observed the control room, face-matching — into the IC3/PPIC3 command centre, where about 400 staff coordinate traffic, red-light enforcement and emergency response citywide.

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📊 Impact

Independent research documented roughly 1.98 million electronic traffic tickets (e-challans) issued in a single year (2020); the same research found nearly half the installed cameras non-functional that year due to vendor disputes, since partly repaired.

Evidence📰 Media

Scale🏙️ City-wide

Cost≈₨12bn (~US$100M) Huawei-led PPIC3 systems contract

📖 Terms in this entry: Adaptive traffic signals · ANPR (automatic number-plate recognition) · CBTC (communications-based train control)

Sources

⏳ Punjab Safe Cities Authority (operator) — link coming soonOfficial corporate infrastructure profile managing citywide analytics.

↗ Arup (contractor)Further information on the project.

↗ Wikipedia — Punjab Safe Cities AuthorityEncyclopedia article with the full story and timeline of the project.

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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🇵🇬 Port Moresby CCTV Command and Control Centre · Port Moresby Two new Safe-City camera hubs: Lahore's 8,000-camera IC3 has independent research on outages; Port Moresby's smaller network opened in 2025. 🇲🇦 Casablanca Urban Video Surveillance Network · Casablanca Same accountability gap: researchers found nearly half Lahore's cameras offline; Casablanca's numbers are self-reported too. 🇲🇾 KLCCC AI Surveillance & Command Network · Kuala Lumpur Two AI camera command centres: Lahore pairs ANPR with face-matching; KL's KLCCC wired 10,000 AI cameras with facial recognition in 2020.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “IC3 Integrated Safe City Command Centre” — Lahore, Pakistan. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/lahore-safe-city/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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