Twelve years ago, IBM and Rio De Janeiro spent approximately US$14M on a futuristic-sounding 'operations centre' to centralize data collection for the city to help officials make faster, clearer decisions. As millions of people filled the streets of Rio de Janeiro in February to celebrate the first Carnival festival since loosening restrictions, they faced a new safety crisis: devastating downpours. And so a few dozen city officials hunkered down in a mid-rise, glass-walled building in the city’s Cidade Nova neighbourhood, trying to save lives.
Twelve years ago, IBM and Rio De Janeiro spent approximately US$14M on a futuristic-sounding ' operations centre ' to centralize data collection for the city to help officials make faster, clearer decisions.As millions of people filled the streets of Rio de Janeiro in February to celebrate the first Carnival festival since looseningrestrictions, they faced a new safety crisis: devastating downpours.
And so a few dozen city officials hunkered down in a mid-rise, glass-walled building in the city’s Cidade Nova neighbourhood, trying to save lives. Rain poured outside, as it had for much of the month – including six separate days in February when Rio saw more than 55 millimetres fall in a single hour. For the city officials in this building – dubbed the Centro de Operações, or Operations Centre – that amount of rain triggered their second-highest level of emergency respons
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