The heart of the system. Images, alerts and data generated by thousands of sensors across the municipality converge here. Thanks to this centre, services that once worked in isolation now share the same view of the city and make decisions using information updated every second.
Start year
Launched in 2020, within the MiMurcia project begun in 2016. A comprehensive platform renewal is planned for 2026.
Target groups
Citizens, the local business community and municipal management, mobility and emergency services.
Scope
100% of the population, as well as commuters and visitors.
Funding
Mixed model: City Council, Red.es, ERDF, NextGenerationEU (PRTR) and public-private collaboration.
The challenge
A city managed in silos cannot anticipate what comes next
The City Council historically operated in silos: traffic, sewerage and police worked separately, resulting in purely reactive and inefficient management of critical challenges such as torrential rainfall or pollution episodes.
CEUS exists to break that logic: centralising thousands of sensors under open standards and moving from observation to prevention. Information that once remained trapped within each department now becomes proactive decisions that protect citizens.
+300
Municipal systems already integrated by 2023, forming the base on which the platform continues to grow.
1.250
Smart cameras with video analytics and number-plate recognition.
235
Sewerage sectors monitored in real time.
3-6 h
Advance warning for identifying critical flood points.
How it is built
High availability and open standards
A command centre is only useful if it never goes down and can integrate technologies that do not yet exist. CEUS's two core architectural decisions address exactly that.
Zero downtime
Two data centres and a dual ring
The two data centres are located at separate geographical sites and linked by two municipal fibre rings. If a physical link is cut, data always has an alternative route, while security, emergency services and the e-Government portal remain operational.
No vendor lock-in
FIWARE · UNE 178104
The core platform uses the European FIWARE standard and complies with Spain's UNE 178104 standard, which defines the technical rules for integrated city-management systems. Water, lighting and transport data can therefore be correlated with one another.
2026
Migration to NGSI-LD
Within SEGITTUR's Smart Destination Platform project, the platform is moving to native NGSI-LD operation, strengthening interoperability with future European data spaces.
Openness
APIs for third parties
Research groups and accredited companies connect their solutions to the platform and test them in a real urban environment. This is what makes CEUS the core of Murcia Living Lab.
What CEUS monitors
Mobility
850 new traffic nodes, 150 for Low Emission Zones, 50 from MiMurcia and 300 legacy cameras. They count vehicles, pedestrians, bicycles and scooters.
Environmental quality
Kunak stations measuring NO₂, O₃, SO₂, CO and PM1, PM2.5 and PM10 particles; solar radiation, pressure and dew point; plus more than 50 sound-level meters.
Water and green infrastructure
Moisture sensors, solenoid valves and weather stations in more than 100 parks and gardens: up to 35% lower consumption.
Energy
More than 100,000 lighting points with individual remote management, plus pilots involving more than 1,000 dimmable luminaires with presence sensors.
Waste
Volumetric fill-level sensors in waste containers enable routes to be optimised according to real need.
Sewerage
235 sectors with real-time water-level and flow data, forming the basis of the flood digital twin.
Predictive intelligence
Two digital twins within CEUS
Virtual replicas that simulate a scenario before it occurs in the physical world. This is the leap from observation to preventive action.
Flood digital twin
Developed with EMUASA. It combines advanced mathematical models with weather forecasts and live urban-drainage data: level sensors and rain gauges distributed across one of Spain's largest municipalities by area.
It identifies critical points 3 to 6 hours in advance, calculating the expected water depth on each street. The calculation is updated every ten minutes and classifies risk into four levels: no impact, minor, moderate and severe.
See the full sequence, step by step →Why it matters
Southeastern Spain has a long-standing vulnerability to DANA extreme-rain events. In September 2019, up to 200 litres per square metre fell in under twelve hours and more than 1,000 rescues were carried out across the region.
Knock-on effect
It feeds the traffic digital twin in real time, allowing it to calculate diversions and deploy teams before heavy rain begins.
Traffic and mobility digital twin
A virtual replica of the road network fed in real time by 850 smart cameras and 91 km of high-density fibre, together with gas and particulate sensors and analytics for pedestrians, bicycles and scooters.
It can assess the impact of closing a main artery or redesigning a road before any physical intervention takes place. During severe congestion or an emergency, it does more than issue an alert: it triggers coordinated workflows across Local Police, Transport and Maintenance.
Mobility and air quality
By correlating traffic and air-quality data, it identifies pollution hotspots and redistributes traffic to reduce the carbon footprint.
For citizens
Murcia al Instante and TuMurcia publish road saturation, density, incidents and multimodal-flow data to help people choose better routes.
From CEUS to the street
Intelligence does not stay inside the centre
Part of CEUS's value lies in being open: to citizens, companies and research. The same architecture that coordinates emergencies also powers open public services.
Murcia al Instante
Live open data on air quality, traffic and the status of public services.
TuMurcia
Citizen reports, ideas and alerts feed directly into the centre's operational dashboard.
NaviLens
The MiMurcia database feeds accessibility systems that guide people with visual disabilities.
Murcia Living Lab
Universities, companies and startups test pre-commercial solutions using CEUS open APIs.
Results and recognition
What has changed since 2020
Digital twins are reshaping crisis management and public safety: police and emergency services anticipate climate and mobility risks more accurately.
Stakeholders
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