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FCC Industrial designs and implements the AvanzaCC system Success story: Management of the service galleries of an urban area The Control Systems unit of the Sys - tems Division of FCC Industrial has a history of more than 25 years leading the development, implementation and maintenance of management and control systems that initially fo - cused on the traffic area. Throughout all these years, the experiences and needs that arise in environments where monitoring and action on devi - ces in critical infrastructures and their management have been collected. In respond to all those environments in which the control and management of devices is required, providing some added value. With it FCC In - dustrial has wanted to offer its con - tribution to the world of Smart Cities. this way, ‘turnkey’ projects have been built and implemented which, to this day, have also been applied to envi - ronments other than the traffic area. Little by little, more sophisticated tools and systems have been develo - ped as technology has evolved. This is how Avanza Control Centre has emerged, hereinafter AvanzaCC. AvanzaCC is a general purpose re - mote control platform that aims to The city of Madrid has a network of about 160 kilometres of underground galleries where infrastructure of some gas, water, electricity and tele - communications companies are hou - sed, thanks to which they are provi - ding their services to citizens. The management of the service ga - lleries of the Madrid City Council is being carried out from a control cen - tre through the AvanzaCC platform, where the following subsystems are being controlled: fire control units, gas control units, SOS posts, CCTV, doors of access to the galleries, calls from / to the control centre, etc. The system features a specialized module for managing the licenses and authorizations granted by the City Council to the corresponding companies, which allow access to certain galleries and at specific times to carry out the installation and repair of the infrastructure by personnel of these companies, personnel of sub - contracted companies or employees of the maintenance company. It also makes it possible to register and con - trol the people who access the galle - ries, the licenses and access cards involved. The system thus managed allows us to offer a better service of the main - tenance company of the galleries, optimizing the tasks to be performed thanks to the planning of the work teams. The platform was implemen - ted under a virtualized scheme with high availability in case of failure, prepared to be erected in an existing backup control centre in another lo - cation to continue from there with the control of the galleries if necessary. I N N O V A T I O N 46 I N N O V A T I O N