When disasters strike, cities face immense coordination challenges. Traditional infrastructure and siloed operations often prove inadequate amid catastrophes like hurricanes, wildfires and flooding. As climate change intensifies extreme weather, the need for intelligent emergency systems becomes even more critical.
Many cities still rely on outdated, disparate systems for monitoring, managing and responding to these incidents and events. Collaboration and information sharing is critical to ensure timely and efficient risk mitigation, response and recovery. Traditional standalone closed-circuit camera systems, sensor networks and data sets that are not interconnected create a fractured approach and significantly hinder situational awareness and multi-agency collaboration during a crisis.