SONDA Innovation Enhances Uruguayan Security Standards

Uruguay's Department of Interior decided to modernize its security and public order platforms and systems, due to the growing need to strengthen its general security plan. Technological factors play a huge role in preventing and responding to different and increasingly complex types of crime.

This SONDA project began in 2013 and continues today. As a result of its positive results, it's rolled out nationwide.

This project includes installing and setting up all devices, control and monitoring stations, software, and applications. The system provides support services and a data center, dramatically improving security. Due to the value of the data it provides for efficient response, protocol coordination has become a cornerstone of public security policy.

Several components of the project are interconnected with a centralized emergency response system using 911. It allows security and order institutions, including police, firefighters, and ambulances, to be automated, streamlining monitoring and efficient management. Today, this system has also evolved positively, incorporating a hotline for gender violence, with impressive results.

This project uses several technologies, including:

•  +4,000 security cameras on public roads.

• +300 fixed license plate reading systems in radio patrol vehicles.

• 2 fully equipped Control and Monitoring Centers.

• +180 monitoring and operation posts distributed throughout the country.

• High-resolution audio and video analytics solutions for analysis and incident management.

• Server service, storage, and backup of high-resolution images and networking.

• The public and law enforcement agencies communicate through mobile command centers and 911 services.

Through SONDA's solutions and the Department of the Interior of Uruguay's public security strategy, we have reduced crime by half in the monitored areas.

SONDA aims to develop technological solutions that address the challenges facing cities in the region by putting all our experience and innovation at the service of citizens.