Integrated Command and Control Centers (ICCCs)

  • April 27, 2022
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Integrated Command and Control Centers (ICCCs)

Subject: Polity

Section: Governance

Context:

Recently, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has announced that all 100 smart cities will have Integrated Command and Control Centers (ICCCs), under Smart Cities Mission (SCM).

Content:

The Integrated Command and Control Centers are envisaged to be the brain for city operation, exception handling, and disaster management.

The sensors and edge devices will capture and generate real time data from various utilities such as water, waste management, energy, mobility, the built environment, education, healthcare and safety.

ICCC as a platform through its different layers and components will act as a decision support system (DSS) for city administration to respond to the real time events by consuming data feeds from different data sources and by processing information out of the data sets

city operation center

ICCC has five basic pillars:

  1. Bandwidth
  2. sensors and edge devices which record and generate real-time data
  3. various analytics which are software that draw on data captured by end devices to generate “intelligence”
  4. data storage
  5. the ICCC software which may be described as, in MoHUA’swords, “a system of systems” — the anchor for all other application specific components and has been described as the “brain and nervous system” of the city

Smart City Mission:

  • Smart Cities Mission was launched by the Hon’ Prime Minister on 25 June, 2015.
  • The main objective of the Mission is to promote cities that provide core infrastructure, clean and sustainable environment and give a decent quality of life to their citizens through the application of ‘smart solutions’.
  • It is under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
  • The Mission is operated as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme.
    • Central Government will give financial support to the extent of Rs. 48,000 crores over 5 years i.e. on an average Rs.100 crore per city per year.
    • An equal amount on a matching basis is to be provided by the State/ULB.
    • Additional resources are to be raised through convergence, from ULBs’ own funds, grants under Finance Commission, innovative finance mechanisms such as Municipal Bonds, other government programs and borrowings.
  • Emphasis has been given on the participation of private sector through Public Private Partnerships (PPP)
  • There is no standard definition or template of a smart city.

In the context of our country, the six fundamental principles on which the concept of Smart Cities is based are:

  • Strategy:
    • Pan-city initiative in which at least one Smart Solution is applied city-wide.
    • Develop areas step-by-step with the help of these three models:
      • Retrofitting
      • Redevelopment
      • Greenfield
Integrated Command and Control Centers (ICCCs) Polity