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🇧🇷 Recife

Centro de Operações do Recife (COP)

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✎ Corrected 27 Aug 2026 Publication date recorded for 5 sources. What changed →

More than 100 people died in and around Recife in May 2022. The city's answer was a room: 13 agencies, one ArcGIS dashboard, rain gauges and flood sensors — and not one of those readings moves anything on its own.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence📰 Mediagrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure
what does this mean?The strongest source is press reporting; no primary evaluation was located. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run byPrefeitura do Recife — Centro de Operações do Recife (COP)
Scale🏙️ City-wide
FundingCity of Recife (municipal budget)

Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ Recife city profile · 📡 Sensors & IoT guide · 📡 Data & IoT projects

Recife opened the COP in 2023, a year after the floods and landslides of May 2022 killed more than 100 people in and around the city. An ArcGIS dashboard pools traffic feeds, rain gauges, flood sensors and city cameras for 13 municipal agencies in one room; staff decide what to dispatch, and no reading triggers anything by itself. It moved to a larger site in March 2026.

Live 📅 since 2023

🎓 Lesson

A control room is a coordination instrument, not an actuator. Recife's gauges and flood sensors tell 13 agencies where water is rising, but every crew, pump and road closure still waits for a person in the room to order it — and the sensor network itself started at five gauges and five flood sensors, against a stated goal of fifty.

📡 Data & IoTSensors & IoTFlood resilienceSafety & security

Sources

↗ Diário de Pernambuco (independent press)Published 7 July 2023July 2023: first 5 rain gauges and 5 flood sensors, goal of 50; COP unites 13 secretariats; mayor frames the data as input to human decisions.
↗ Hoje Pernambuco (independent press)Published 5 October 20232023 founding; second place in the audience-choice award among 70 projects from 48 institutions at the 2023 Esri Brasil meeting.
↗ Folha de Pernambuco (independent press)Published 23 March 2026A report on the 2026 winter action plan and the opening of the centre's new premises.
↗ IMG / Esri Brasil (vendor case study)Published 28 March 2025A case study by the platform vendor describing the ArcGIS dashboard behind the centre.
↗ Al Jazeera / CBS News (May–June 2022 disaster)Published 31 May 2022Independent confirmation of the motivating event: at least 106 dead in north-east Brazil, concentrated in the Recife metropolitan region.

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Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: since 2023. 5 of 5 sources carry a publication date, from 31 May 2022 to 23 March 2026.

When the sources were published

  1. Al Jazeera · pressAl Jazeera / CBS News (May–June 2022 disaster)
  2. Diário de Pernambuco · pressDiário de Pernambuco (independent press)
  3. Hoje Pernambuco · pressHoje Pernambuco (independent press)
  4. Imagem (Esri Brasil) · vendorIMG / Esri Brasil (vendor case study)
  5. Folha de Pernambuco · pressFolha de Pernambuco (independent press)

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Claim 1 clm-934129c405ee192c quantitative
Recife opened the COP in 2023, a year after the floods and landslides of May 2022 killed more than 100 people in and around the city
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The May 2022 report gives the death toll of more than 100 from the torrential rains in north-east Brazil; the July 2023 report covers the centre and the instruments being installed for it.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Diário de Pernambuco (independent press)
  2. Al Jazeera / CBS News (May–June 2022 disaster)
Claim 2 clm-37e3712d0f48978f quantitative
An ArcGIS dashboard pools traffic feeds, rain gauges, flood sensors and city cameras for 13 municipal agencies in one room
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The vendor case study describes the ArcGIS dashboard bringing the city's feeds together for the agencies represented in the room; the award report describes the same centre.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. IMG / Esri Brasil (vendor case study)
  2. Hoje Pernambuco (independent press)
Claim 3 clm-07e22cd3b1ce850c descriptive
staff decide what to dispatch, and no reading triggers anything by itself
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Neither the vendor case study nor the press reporting describes any automatic actuation; both describe monitoring and coordinated dispatch by the agencies present.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. IMG / Esri Brasil (vendor case study)
  2. Diário de Pernambuco (independent press)
Claim 4 clm-9c460dfe0a9d3d24 quantitative
It moved to a larger site in March 2026
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The report on the 2026 winter action plan covers the inauguration of the centre's new, larger premises.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Folha de Pernambuco (independent press)
Claim 5 clm-505409fa19ea39e7 descriptive
the sensor network itself started at five gauges and five flood sensors, against a stated goal of fifty
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The July 2023 report announcing the installation gives the initial five rain gauges and five flood sensors and the stated target of fifty.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Diário de Pernambuco (independent press)
Claim 6 clm-ad40eab5cc38a350 quantitative
Recife's gauges and flood sensors tell 13 agencies where water is rising, but every crew, pump and road closure still waits for a person in the room to order it
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The sources describe the centre as a coordination and monitoring instrument for the agencies present; none describes an automatic response of any kind.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. IMG / Esri Brasil (vendor case study)
  2. Diário de Pernambuco (independent press)
  3. Folha de Pernambuco (independent press)
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unreviewed Revision 2026-08-27-source-dating effective 2026-08-06 · created 2026-08-27

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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Prefeitura do Recife — Centro de Operações do Recife (COP)
Actor types
city-government
Funding model
public
Funding description
City of Recife (municipal budget)
Cost
Not recorded
Ownership
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Decision rights
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Exit conditions
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5 source dossiers

Diário de Pernambuco (independent press) diariodepernambuco.com.br · 4 linked claims

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Publisher
Name not classified · diariodepernambuco.com.br
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2023-07-07
Updated
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Source last checked
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Record last verified
2026-08-06
Dossier created
2026-08-27
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No archived copy linked
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July 2023: first 5 rain gauges and 5 flood sensors, goal of 50; COP unites 13 secretariats; mayor frames the data as input to human decisions.

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Claims linked
Hoje Pernambuco (independent press) hojepe.com.br · 1 linked claim

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Publisher
Name not classified · hojepe.com.br
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2023-10-05
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Record last verified
2026-08-06
Dossier created
2026-08-27
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No local capture recorded
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No archived copy linked
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2023 founding; second place in the audience-choice award among 70 projects from 48 institutions at the 2023 Esri Brasil meeting.

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Claims linked
Folha de Pernambuco (independent press) folhape.com.br · 2 linked claims

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src-c69a89d884845d4e
Publisher
Name not classified · folhape.com.br
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2026-03-23
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-06
Dossier created
2026-08-27
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No local capture recorded
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No archived copy linked
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A report on the 2026 winter action plan and the opening of the centre's new premises.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
IMG / Esri Brasil (vendor case study) blog.img.com.br · 3 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-c513f9720812ac5b
Publisher
Name not classified · blog.img.com.br
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2025-03-28
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-06
Dossier created
2026-08-27
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No local capture recorded
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No archived copy linked
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A case study by the platform vendor describing the ArcGIS dashboard behind the centre.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Al Jazeera / CBS News (May–June 2022 disaster) aljazeera.com · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-184a5b8ceaf59829
Publisher
Name not classified · aljazeera.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2022-05-31
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-06
Dossier created
2026-08-27
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
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No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Independent confirmation of the motivating event: at least 106 dead in north-east Brazil, concentrated in the Recife metropolitan region.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
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  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Centro de Operações do Recife (COP)” — Recife, Brazil. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/recife-cop-operations-center/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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