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Rio Olympics: Inside the Technical Operations Centre

by Roberta Prescott
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With the Rio Olympics around the corner, information and communications technology infrastructure deployments are in the final stages. The Technology Operations Centre is the control room for the competition and noncompetition venues. From there, a team of more than 600 ICT professionals from all partners will monitor mission critical systems 24/7 during the Rio Olympics.
Until the opening ceremony begins, daily meetings are being held with all technology providers to guarantee the proper operation of the Games, the Rio 2016 Olympics CIO Elly Resende told RCR Wireless News.
At the city level, the Rio Operations Center integrates information from multiple government agencies and private sources. It monitors the city to forecast and manage, for example, weather conditions, traffic, floods, accidents and other situations.
There are 600 cameras currently installed throughout the city and 215 new cameras will be added prior to the Games. City images are shown in 104 big screens in this room to advise controllers, the police and other agents what is going on.
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Editor’s note: This story is part of a series focused on the technology deployments that support the Rio Olympics.

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Editor, [email protected] Roberta Prescott is responsible for Latin America reporting news and analysis, interviewing key stakeholders. Roberta has worked as an IT and telecommunication journalist since March 2005, when she started as a reporter with InformationWeek Brasil magazine and its website IT Web. In July 2006, Prescott was promoted to be the editor-in-chief, and, beyond the magazine and website, was in charge for all ICT products, such as IT events and CIO awards. In mid-2010, she was promoted to the position of executive editor, with responsibility for all the editorial products and content of IT Mídia. Prescott has worked as a journalist since 1998 and has three journalism prizes. In 2009, she won, along with InformationWeek Brasil team, the press prize 11th Prêmio Imprensa Embratel. In 2008, she won the 7th Unisys Journalism Prize and in 2006 was the editor-in-chief when InformationWeek Brasil won the 20th media award Prêmio Veículos de Comunicação. She graduated in Journalism by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, has done specialization in journalism at the Universidad de Navarra (Spain, 2003) and Master in Journalism at IICS – Universidad de Navarra (Brazil, 2010) and MBA – Executive Education at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.

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