Calonge City Council signs up for urban traffic control in the cloud with bcSistemas

The IT professional services integrator, bcSistemas, has provided the town of Calonge (Girona) with the new 'cloud' version’ of its Argos system, a modular solution for traffic control in municipal environments that addresses different traffic control scenarios, such as access to pedestrian zones, restricted traffic areas or red lights.

The Girona town of Calonge has reaffirmed its commitment to energy efficiency by deciding to implement the solution for bcSistemas managing Argos traffic, in its new 'cloud' version. The new 'cloud' version’ The system developed by bcSistemas aims to help town councils and municipalities deepen their sustainability and increase their competitiveness by avoiding costly infrastructure to deploy the necessary cameras, eliminate application servers and their energy consumption, helping to reduce CO2 emissions by significantly improving traffic flow, improving the quality of life of their residents.

The Calonge Town Council has begun to implement, thanks to its extensive multi-service municipal IP network, the Argos application for managing traffic in restricted areas. The comprehensive Argos system for municipal traffic control 'in the cloud'’ allows coverage of different scenarios through fixed cameras, Mobile or installed on municipal police vehicles. La interconexión de las cámaras se puede llegar a realizar a través de soluciones 3G facilitando enormemente su implantación en cualquier punto del municipio y permitiendo su movilidad en diferentes épocas del año permitiendo obtener un mayor rendimiento de las inversiones municipales.

Eficaz sistema de control de tráfico

Con Argos ‘in the cloud’ se abren las posibilidades de implantar este sistema de gestión del tráfico en “zonas especiales” a cualquier tamaño de municipio, obviando inversiones y gastos de servidores y pudiendo obtener rápidamente el importante rendimiento que estos sistemas ofrecen. Santi Solà Peracaula, responsable del Área de Informática, Comunicaciones y Gestión Territorial en el Ayuntamiento de Calonge, has pointed: “Una vez más, bcSistemas ha respondido con rotundidad y eficacia al reto de lograr el máximo ahorro y eficiencia sin renunciar a la mejora en la atención y seguridad de los ciudadanos mediante la tecnología más avanzada y totalmente probada”.

While, el Jefe de Policía del Ayuntamiento de Calonge, Carles Roselló, ha declarado: “Estudiamos diferentes aplicaciones para cubrir nuestras necesidades en este ámbito del control y vigilancia del tráfico en “zonas especiales” de nuestros dos núcleos de población y después de visitar Ayuntamiento que llevaban años de experiencia, decidimos implantar Argos en nuestra red. El rendimiento esta siendo altamente satisfactorio”.

For your part, José Antonio Illarregui, director general de bcSistemas, has pointed out: Efficiency in municipal systems is the greatest concern of IT departments in City Halls and Provincial Councils. These organizations demand autonomous solutions, easily manageable and reasonably priced that successfully respond to any situation. With Argos on the cloud we have taken a giant step toward this goal. Our solutions should never be considered an expense, but an investment. Today more than ever, aware of the economic difficulties of city councils, we design thinking that the solution must work and be maintained in a stable and profitable way for years.