Sívar Seguro Citywide Camera Network
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San Salvador's camera network reads faces and licence plates across five districts — a fast-growing security build with no independent count of how well it actually works.
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The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ San Salvador city profile · 🛡️ Safety & security guide · 🏛️ Governance projects
San Salvador Centro's Sívar Seguro network, launched September 2023, runs 500+ facial-recognition and licence-plate cameras from its own municipal monitoring room, coordinated with police, fire and civil-protection units across the merged municipality's five districts, including Mejicanos and Ciudad Delgado. The city says it plans to add AI-based river-level monitoring for flood warnings.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Sívar Seguro Citywide Camera Network” — San Salvador, El Salvador. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/san-salvador-surveillance/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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