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The Comune di Bergamo, the provincial capital in Italy’s Lombardy region, is installing 10 new video surveillance points across three city parks under a €200,000 project co-financed with €100,000 from the Italian Ministry of the Interior, the first phase of an upgrade that will take the municipal camera network to 247 points and feed a Smart City Control Room the city says will be operational by the end of 2026. The works, reported on November 11, 2026, are being delivered through ATB Mobilità S.p.A., the city-owned mobility company that operates Bergamo’s urban video surveillance system.
The park project, titled “Tutela e sicurezza dei parchi urbani”, targets sites selected from analyses by the Polizia Locale and from reports of neglect and public-order problems in the three parks, and ATB has contracted the installation to F.G.S. S.r.l., with completion expected by the end of November 2026.
Ten Camera Points Across Parco Suardi, Parco Caprotti And Parco Marenzi
Five of the new points are going into Parco Suardi and the adjoining Orti di San Tommaso area, three into Parco Caprotti and two into Parco Marenzi, positioned to cover park entrances, playgrounds, footpaths, seating areas and the most heavily used spaces. Each point can carry one or more cameras depending on the area it covers.
The specification combines high-definition fixed cameras with 180-degree and 360-degree panoramic units and low-light imaging, and the system will include automated video analytics to support live monitoring and the reconstruction of incidents after the fact.
All new equipment connects over the city’s own connectivity network to the Sistema Tecnologico di Videosorveglianza Urbana di Bergamo (STVUB), the municipal platform whose feeds are shared with the operations rooms of the Polizia Locale, the Questura, which is the provincial headquarters of the State Police, and the Arma dei Carabinieri.
From 202 Legacy Points To A 247-Point Network
Bergamo’s network currently counts 202 active video surveillance points. The 10 park installations will be followed by a further 35 points once ATB completes its current procurement, a programme set out in the city’s 2026 Patto per la sicurezza urbana, the urban security pact approved with the Prefecture of Bergamo. These pacts, introduced by Decree-Law 14 of 2017, are the instrument through which Italian prefects and mayors agree joint security measures and through which municipalities access national co-funding for camera systems.
The 35 planned locations include Parco del Galgario, Parco Turani, the Bergamo-Gorle cycle path, the TEB tram stop on via Bezzecca and a series of junctions along via Milazzo, via Maj and via Casalino, alongside squares in the Redona district and the area around the Urban Center. A separate installation at the Cannoniera di San Giovanni on the city’s Venetian walls has been operating since spring 2026.
ATB’s Procurement For Centralised Video And Traffic Control Software
The ATB procurement now under way also covers new software to manage every video surveillance point in the city from a single platform, which will be run from the Polizia Locale headquarters and form the core of the new control room. The Smart City Control Room is designed to merge the operations centres historically run separately by the Polizia Locale and by ATB, and to add remote management of the city’s traffic signals through a second, dedicated software package.
On the traffic side, ATB published an open tender on the EU’s Tenders Electronic Daily on May 21, 2026 for the supply and installation of a new urban traffic control centre for the City of Bergamo, with an estimated value of €600,000 excluding VAT, a single lot, an eight-year contract term starting on September 10, 2026, and award on the most economically advantageous tender. The notice classifies the purchase under IT software packages with associated software maintenance and set a bid deadline of June 23, 2026.
“The new cameras, together with those arriving in the coming months and those already in place, will no longer be standalone entities, but will communicate within a single ecosystem,” said Giacomo Angeloni, Bergamo’s councillor for security, in a statement reported by BergamoNews on November 11, 2026.
How Bergamo Compares With Other Lombardy And Tuscan Deployments
The scale places Bergamo between two recent Italian reference points covered by Kurrantly. Monza, another Lombardy provincial capital, activated video analytics on a 283-camera network in October 2026 after more than €460,000 of investment over three years, while Florence opened a €2.5 million Smart City Control Room connected to 1,600 cameras and a municipal police operations centre.
The park phase works out at an average of €20,000 per video surveillance point, with half of the €200,000 covered by the Interior Ministry grant. Monza’s October 2026 platform upgrade followed the same pattern of layering analytics and centralised management onto an existing municipal camera estate rather than replacing it, the approach Bergamo is taking with its 202 legacy points.
Control Room Integration Sets The Pace For 2027
The operational test for Bergamo will come when the 247 points, the merged Polizia Locale and ATB operations centres and remote signal control run on one platform, because shared access for three police forces and a transport operator depends on the video management software ATB selects and on how quickly the 35 further points follow the tender award. Angeloni has said the city will present the control room project in detail shortly, with the year-end commissioning target as the next milestone against which the programme can be measured.
