Case Study: City of Buenos Aires prevents flooding and improves city services with SAP

Staying Dry with Help from SAP Solutions

The City of Buenos Aires, a major public sector organization, faced significant challenges with annual flooding due to its aging infrastructure and torrential rains. The city needed to manage over 700,000 public assets, quickly respond to service requests, and, most critically, predict and prevent dangerous flooding and property damage. To address this, they turned to vendor SAP for a solution.

SAP implemented a solution utilizing the SAP HANA platform to analyze real-time sensor data from storm drains and weather reports. The city also used the SAP Mobile Platform to monitor contractor performance and maintenance tasks. This allowed SAP to help the city streamline its operations and infrastructure management. The results were significant, including zero floods after three days of torrential rain, 30,000 storm drains kept clear, and an increase in the response rate to infrastructure issues from 1% to 80%.

Ciudad de Buenos Aires

Rodrigo Silvosa

Undersecretary of Maintenance of Public Spaces