Centro de Operações do Recife (COP)

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Recife opened the COP in 2023, a year after floods and landslides killed more than 100 people in and around the city. An ArcGIS dashboard pools traffic feeds, rain gauges, flood sensors and city cameras for 13 municipal agencies in one room; staff decide what to dispatch, and no reading triggers anything by itself. It moved to a larger site in March 2026.

Live 📅 since 2023

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence• No measured figure

Run byPrefeitura do Recife — Centro de Operações do Recife (COP)

Scale🏙️ City-wide

FundingCity of Recife (municipal budget)

🎓 Lesson

A control room is a coordination instrument, not an actuator. Recife's gauges and flood sensors tell 13 agencies where water is rising, but every crew, pump and road closure still waits for a person in the room to order it — and the sensor network itself started at five gauges and five flood sensors, against a stated goal of fifty.

📡 Data & IoT Sensors & IoT Flood resilience Safety & security

Sources

↗ Diário de Pernambuco (independent press)July 2023: first 5 rain gauges and 5 flood sensors, goal of 50; COP unites 13 secretariats; mayor frames the data as input to human decisions.

↗ Hoje Pernambuco (independent press)2023 founding; second place in the audience-choice award among 70 projects from 48 institutions at the 2023 Esri Brasil meeting.

↗ Folha de Pernambuco (independent press)Currency: new COP headquarters inaugurated 23 March 2026 with 40 staff, integrating SAMU, CTTU, Defesa Civil and the health secretariat's epidemiological centre.

↗ IMG / Esri Brasil (vendor case study)Vendor-reported layer list: traffic, rainfall, incidents, Waze and Google feeds, drones and 498 cameras across 13 bodies. The camera count appears nowhere outside this page.

↗ Al Jazeera / CBS News (May–June 2022 disaster)Independent confirmation of the motivating event: at least 106 dead in north-east Brazil, concentrated in the Recife metropolitan region.

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🇧🇷 Rio Operations Center (COR) · Rio de Janeiro The direct Brazilian precedent: a control room built after deadly floods, 13 years earlier — and Rio's sirens fire on an automatic threshold where Recife has none. 🇹🇭 Bangkok Flood Control Centre: Drainage Telemetry & Street-Level Forecasting · Bangkok Same rung on the sensor-to-action ladder: full instrument set, crews still start the pumps by hand. 🇨🇴 SIATA Early Warning Network · Medellín Latin American early-warning peer, and the honest counterweight: SIATA's cameras once filmed a fatal flood live.

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📟 A Reading Is Not a Decision 📡 Sensors & IoT guide 🏙️ Recife city profile 📡 Data & IoT projects 📖 Flood early-warning system 📖 Automated speed enforcement (speed cameras)📖 Adaptive traffic signals

📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Centro de Operações do Recife (COP)” — Recife, Brazil. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/recife-cop-operations-center/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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