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Utilizing Smart City Cyber-physical Infrastructure for Tracking and Monitoring Pandemics like COVID-19 with the ICCC as the Nerve Centre

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Managing the ongoing COVID-19 (aka Coronavirus) pandemic has presented both challenges and new opportunities for urban local body administrators. With the Indian government's Smart City mission taking firm roots in some of the Indian cities, the authors share their learnings and experiences of how a Smart City Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) can be extended to become the nerve centre of pandemic-related operations and management, leveraging the Smart City IoT infrastructure such as surveillance cameras for monitoring and enforcement. The authors are of the opinion that the lessons learned and experiences gained from these cities are extremely valuable and can easily be replicated in other cities in a relatively short time period, thus providing a standard and uniform method across the nation for handling epidemics in the future.

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    cover image Digital Government: Research and Practice
    Digital Government: Research and Practice  Volume 2, Issue 1
    COVID-19 Commentaries
    January 2021
    116 pages
    EISSN:2639-0175
    DOI:10.1145/3434277
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    Published: 17 November 2020
    Online AM: 13 November 2020
    Accepted: 01 October 2020
    Revised: 01 September 2020
    Received: 01 August 2020
    Published in DGOV Volume 2, Issue 1

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    1. ICCC – Integrated Command and Control Centre
    2. ICMR – Indian Council of Medical Research
    3. ICT – Information and Communication Technologies
    4. MIS – Management Information System
    5. SMS – Short Messaging Service
    6. SOP – Standard Operating Procedures
    7. VA – Video Analytics
    8. VMS – Video Management System

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