Integrated Surveillance Platform Helps Ecuadorian City Share Intelligence Across Agencies, Expedite Investigations and Mitigate Crime
As the nation’s principle commercial and manufacturing center and home to 3.74 million people, Guayaquil, Ecuador is the capital of the Ecuadorian province of Guayas. Security and safety initiatives are spearheaded by the Guayaquil Corporation for Public Safety (Corporación para la Seguridad Ciudadana de Guayaquil, or CSCG), a non-profit municipal corporation that coordinates public safety efforts throughout the area. Video surveillance plays a key role in helping the city of Guayaquil keep its citizens and tourists safe.
A critical component of the city’s proactive Safe City initiative was the Verint (Melville, NY) platform. As such, CSCG worked with systems integration firm Union Electrica Ecuador to expand its system by increasing the number of Verint IP cameras in its surveillance network to 475. The robust network now includes more than 800 IP cameras, all of which are driven by Verint video management software (VMS).