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Sívar Seguro Citywide Camera Network

San Salvador Centro's Sívar Seguro network, launched September 2023, runs 500+ facial-recognition and licence-plate cameras from its own municipal monitoring room, coordinated with police, fire and civil-protection units across the merged municipality's five districts, including Mejicanos and Ciudad Delgado. The city says it plans to add AI-based river-level monitoring for flood warnings.

Live 📅 since 2023

🤖 AI-generated summary of the sources below — how this works · 🔎 Last verified

🏛️ GovernanceSafety & security
Scale🏙️ City-wide

📖 Terms in this entry: ANPR (automatic number-plate recognition) · CBTC (communications-based train control) · Grades of Automation (GoA)

Sources

↗ Alcaldía de San Salvador (authority)Official announcements hub tracing administrative safety updates.
↗ Alcaldia de San Salvador (authority)Official page by the city or public authority behind the project.
↗ PNC El Salvador (authority)Official page by the city or public authority behind 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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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Sívar Seguro Citywide Camera Network” — San Salvador, El Salvador. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/san-salvador-surveillance/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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