Bantay Mandaue 161 - Mandaue City Initiative

[brutuz]

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BANTAY MANDAUE 161 INCIDENT COMMAND SYSTEM
Mandaue City lies in the mid-eastern part of Cebu. A 34 square kilometer stretch of mostly flat and plain lands on the precipice of the Mactan Channel . Located at the very heart of the island of Cebu, this City is part of Metro Cebu and is currently the passageway of all vehicle traffic in and out of the Cities of Lapu-Lapu and Cebu. Moreover, mandaue city is situated lower than its adjacent cities and municipalities and is consequently prone to flooding. Medical and Disaster emergency response in the city is mainly handled by the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), the Accident and Emergency Response Team (ACERT), the Emergency Rescue Unit Foundation (ERUF) Inc. and the Philippine National Police (PNP), Each of these rescue outfits operated independently and are scattered from each other. Because of this set-up, Response to emergency and disasters were dis-integrated and delayed.
As a highly urbanized city with a population close to 400,000, it became the top priority of the local government to make available a responsive and effective medical and emergency response system that would consolidate the resources of the different emergency and rescue outfits from both the public and the private sector. The birth of the Bantay Mandaue 161 Incident Command System was the beginning of a public private partnership between the City Government, ERUF, BFP, PNP and the City’s 27 Barangays to forge an insoluble partnership to contend with everyday emergencies, natural disasters and calamities.
While the Bantay Mandaue Incident Command System was undergoing physical set-up, Barangay Disaster Brigades made-up of volunteers from each barangay were trained in basic first-aid, disaster response and rescue training to qualify them as first responders in any emergency situation. After the Incident Command System became operational, the newly installed traffic control system was integrated into the incident command system thereby capacitating Bantay Mandaue to respond to traffic and police emergencies and observe the city’s main roads and intersections through the command center.
The City likewise acquired the 161 Emergency Hotline number for Mandauehanons to call in case medical, police, fire or traffic emergency. This communications system will significantly reduce the dispatching and response time of emergency medical first responders and bring life-saving help to those who need it the most, faster.
The nerve center of the Bantay Mandaue 161 Incident Command System being the Command Center, its limbs are the indispensable clusters from which emergency reports are forwarded and emergency response vehichles and teams are dispatched. There are five barangay clusters in Mandaue composed of barangays which are contiguous to each other and share similar geographical characteristics. They are the Centro Cluster, the Mahiga Cluster, the Kadagatan Cluster, the Butuanon Cluster and the Kabukiran Cluster. This clustering of the barangays ensures that response time to emergencies meet the international standards and therefore, becomes the difference between life and death. Currently 3 of the 5 barangay clusters are online and fully operational. These are the Centro Cluster where the Command Center is located, the Mahiga Cluster and the Kadagatan Cluster. Over and above these communication systems, each barangay is provided a failsafe VHF and UHF radio communication system.

[brutuz]

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[darsmith13]

wow.. biliba nakos mandaue ui

[crybaby_p]

@brutuz: pwede mo.apply dri sa controller?? asenso na mandaue dah...

[brutuz]

@brutuz: pwede mo.apply dri sa controller?? asenso na mandaue dah...

hehe...mangapply ta...

[brutuz]

The monitors on the table are where the traffic controllers will be controlled from the command center once they are operational. Traffic Department in Mandaue City is now discussing the possible pedestrian lanes painting and putting up of other signages but still needs to discuss with DPWH because we are dealing with National Highways. Hope everything turns out to be favorable for both of them.

[soundstreammsi]

nice mandaue. hope lang unta ang mga personnel ani sa ground mismo mission capable pud unta kay sayang tawn kaayo ang system.

[brutuz]

nice mandaue. hope lang unta ang mga personnel ani sa ground mismo mission capable pud unta kay sayang tawn kaayo ang system.

agree...so now they can also focus on the enforcement rather than controlling the traffic...

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I'd like to post some info from my post on other thread relating to this project:

To summarize the whole project, mao ni ang components:
1) new LED traffic lights for 9 major intersections with 9 traffic controllers...maybe major is not the right word, should i say problematic/busiest intersections.
2) 4 CCTV cameras for each intersection which is now working. a total of 36
3) 18 KM of fiber optics cable to transfer data to the command center
4) electronic board to be installed in the command center to simulate all the traffic lights in all intersections
5) 9 servers with rack
6) 9 55' colored flat displays
7) softwares and firmwares
Infrastructure components

To give you idea of the features, here are some;
MC traffic system has built in intelligence, as you can see in these intersections, there are sensors on the sides which look like cameras... the system detects absence or presence of vehicles in the particular lanes. If no vehicle detected for a certain time, system automatically cut's the time, but of course with extra care, i mean not immediately. This added feature is not present in any other traffic system in the philippines, even in Manila.
The traffic lights can be controlled from different locations: on site through a wireless remote control, from the controller itself, or from the command center located in cityhall.

The project costs 39M and for me its more than just a worthy project.
The project started im May 2013 and will be completed in 9 months but as of now, it's almost done since all traffic lights and cctv cameras are in place and working.

As Ive heard, the next phase is transforming Mandaue City Command Center into an intelligent command center. As we all know, Bantay Mandaue 161 Command Center is not just about traffic, but includes peace and order and emergency responses such as fire, road accidents, etc in partnership with ERUF, Fire and Police. Having more cameras does not mean we have to add people, the system must be intelligent enough to handle alerts, etc.

Hope you gain more idea of what Mayor Jonas Cortes' plan. This is just a start to transforming Mandaue City into a smarter city.

[cliff_drew]

@brutuz, do you already set-up twitter and facebook accounts for real-time updates and traffic advisories? same with MMDA in Metro Manila.

[brutuz]

as far as i know, not yet...but what i know is there is an fb and twitter account for Mandaue City: fb acct is PIO Mandaue
For twitter, it's piomandaue. They are all constantly updated by Mandaue Information office.