Case Study: State of Sinaloa achieves unified, scalable statewide surveillance and cost savings with Vicon’s Valerus

Sinaloa, Mexico, Sees Connected Cities as Safer Cities

The State of Sinaloa needed to unify disparate citywide surveillance systems into a single, statewide, single-seat platform while preserving much of the existing equipment, minimizing ongoing costs and labor, and enabling integration with other safety systems. To address this, the State of Sinaloa selected Vicon’s Valerus, a 100% web-based, open‑standards Video Management System.

Vicon deployed Valerus across municipalities, connecting thousands of cameras (about 1,800 in Culiacan today, including 1,000+ surveillance and 800+ LPR cameras) with full 30‑frame-per-second recording to large storage arrays (57 TB units) and a system health dashboard that identifies bottlenecks, bandwidth use and device issues. The Valerus thin‑client approach eliminated workstation upgrades and per‑client licenses, reduced maintenance and annual relicensing costs, enabled LPR and other integrations, kept the project within budget, improved incident response and evidence handling, and provides scalable support for the State of Sinaloa’s planned growth to roughly 4,800 cameras.

State of Sinaloa

M.C. Galvez

Secretary of Innovation