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UW: How many tie-ups has Gaia done so far? How will these allianc-es contribute towards making cities smart? SC: Gaia has done more than 6 tie-ups with software, hardware, research & development and consulting organizations. These organi-zations bring lot of insight on specific areas where Gaia does not have expertise yet. We are learning from these alliances and we bring local insight and qualified expertise in related areas that help the partners to scale up in India.

UW: What problems are you target-ing to solve through this ventureSC: We are trying to solve the problem of common data, common network, and com-mon and shared Information infrastructure across various Government and non-Govern-ment organizations so that we can achieve the goal of Smart Cities. We are building hardware, software and integration solutions for companies, cities and citizens so that there is better sharing of information and improvement in the quality of our lives. We are applying our minds to solve large scale urban problems that go beyond technology in-novation. It takes into account infrastructure, policy, deployment, behaviour change, and building capacity of cities to adopt and adapt to the change.

UW: What solutions is Gaia Smart City offering to the cities? SC: We are offering a) Program Management b) ICT Common Architecture and Develop-ment, c) Common Data, network and inte-gration platform, d) Low-power Wide-Area communication system for sensors and meters so that we can collect, transmit, store, analyse and act on small pieces of data across related infrastructure for cities. We have built Smart Water, Power, Gas Meters that can integrate the data and allow citizens to see their read-ings and control their usage. We are able to provide a single billing system for all utility services. We are also working on smart traffic sensing technologies for allowing congestion taxing, odd-even policing, parking manage-ment etc. We are providing Vehicle tracking and process management for all municipal bodies.

UW: Share some insights on Smart City development projects undertak-en by Gaia Smart cities. SC: We have helped 10 cities in putting together their proposals for Smart Cities Challenge that the MOUD had done last

year. We have helped one of the 23 Fast Track cities and will help one of the second round challenge cities as well. We have been working on the design and development of solutions for two other Smart Cities in Bhu-baneswar and Ujjain. This involves thinking thru all aspects of technology integration into the design phase of these cities. We are also working on the DPR of a Superhighway in Maharashtra. Apart from these, we are doing pilots for Smart meters in Delhi, Pune and Bangalore.

UW: What are the necessary prereq-uisites for a smart city to meet the goals of economic and environmen-tal sustainability?SC: The integration of various Government departments to work together for creating integrated development plans and execution projects is a prerequisite. This will be the one thing that will make or break the entire 100 Smart Cities initiatives. The integration of citizens into the process and taking their inputs and participation in keeping the city running smoothly is also a necessary prereq-uisite.

UW: What are the challenges in turning an Indian city into a smart city? SC: Getting Government silos to work together is one of the biggest challenges and the second challenge is the influence of big businesses in keeping innovation (and therefore start-ups like ours) out of tenders.

We will need serious relook at the tendering process and criterion so that newer players can participate. The apathy of people towards administration and not doing their own part to make and keep the city smart and efficient is also a major challenge.

UW: Security is an integral part of government’s vision of 100 smart cities. What solutions can make a smart city secure? Do you have any alliance in this vertical? SC: We are building some simple security and panic button solutions on our own and also creating solutions for asset tracking that secures high-value assets. However, our alliances with Advantech and also partners like Videonetics have CCTV Surveillance solutions that we can partner with in case end-to-end turn-key projects are required.

UW: Can you please elaborate on the future plans of Gaia Smart Cities?SC: Gaia is creating the platforms and solutions that will enable it to become a full-service IOT telecom company with integrated IOT solutions for Smart Cities. Our future plans are to keep expanding the city reach and the solution reach of the company and having an impact on larger populations of the country and then take the knowledge developed and acquired in India to other parts of the world.



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Cities have long been core hubs of human in-teraction and commerce. As our president and CEO Ajay Banga said at the China Develop-ment Forum earlier this year, “The promise of urban life is the promise of greater community and a higher standard of living.”More specif-ically, they bring the promise of better jobs, education and a better life.

Smart Cities: More Than Just A Fancy

By: Porush Singh, Country Corporate Officer, India & Division President, South Asia, MasterCard

ities have long been core hubs of human interac-tion and commerce. As our president and CEO Ajay Banga said at the China Development Forum earlier this year, “The promise of urban life is the promise of

greater community and a higher standard of living.”More specifically, they bring the prom-ise of better jobs, education and a better life.

Today, more than half of the world’s popu-lation live in cities with urban populations pro-jected to reach 70 percent by 2050. For more than 100 years, rapid urbanization has defined the world and more so in Asia Pacific where the region will be the second largest contrib-utor to future global population, adding 900 million people between 2015 and 2050.

Take India’s population growth for exam-ple. In 1951, India had only five cities with a population of more than one million. There are now at least 53 cities with a population of more than one million residents and three above 10million.

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More than just a fancy, it’s an imperative

Increased urbanization provides citizens with access to fundamental services such as healthcare and education, social and information networks, and a higher quality of life. In turn,it can also lead to new challenges including congestion, pollution and an increasing disparity of wealth. It is a growing struggle

among the major citiesof the developed and developing worlds to address these challenges, while, at the same time, unlock the potential of greater urbanization.

Asia Pacific’s population surpassed 4.4 billion in 2015, and so governments are under increasing pres-sure to tackle these challenges of an unprecedented scale in a region that is home to nearly 60 percent of the world’s population. Thus, the spotlight has never shone brighter on cities becoming Smart Cities.Improved infrastructure through the use of smart solutions and technologies in ‘Smart Cities’ technology will provide citizens with better facilities, efficient urban mobility and public transport, e-governance, internet connectivity and more. The term ‘Smart Cities’ is not just a buzzword that governments and corpo-rations throw around to sound intellectual and current. ‘Smart Cities’ is not an ideal; it is not an aspiration, a Utopia or a figment of some science fiction enthusiast’s imagination. Instead, it is fast becoming a tangible reality in the near future with cities across Asia Pacific already making great strides.


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Making Cities More Intuitive and Efficient

More often than not, the first thought that comes to mind when people talk about Smart Cities is mobility and transit. In many cities however, mobility models cater to just one form of transport and lack integration across different modes,

making it difficult for locals and visitors alike to move around the city. There are many benefits to be reaped from having an open, interoperable system

for governments and consumers alike. Having cashless access through secure payment devices across trains, buses, ferries, and bike-shares, for example, reduces friction in the transit experience for consumers. To help millions of commuters around the world experience a faster and more convenient way to get around, we are working with partners such as Cubic, Masabi and Parkeon to combine our expertise, tapping into the power of a mobile device. The results we have seen in London, Greece, Chicago and other cities are excellent and governments and consumers in these cities can enjoy greater efficiencies.

For governments, there are significant cost savings when streamlining a ticketing operation, freeing up funds to be reinvested elsewhere. As Enrique Peñalosa, the recently re-elected Mayor of Bogota, once put it: “An advanced city is not one where ‘even the poor use cars’, but rather one where ‘even the rich use public transport’.”

However, embedding digital payments should not be limited to just transit. Governments can also use electronic payments to improve business management, accountability and budget planning. It also allows governments to distribute salaries, bonuses and social benefits quickly and efficiently, providing a reliable method to receive funds.

Making Cities Safer and More Inclusive

It is undeniable that eliminating cashboosts cities economically and socially. The cost alone to handle cash represents as much as 1.5 percent of a country’s GDP. Multi-functional cards are a powerful and effective way to combine receiving and

making payments, particularlyfor those who may not have bank accounts.Thisalso helps them form an ‘identity’with which they can then use to travel places, visit librar-ies as well as receive social benefits and salaries.

Despite the rapid progress we havemade in the last five years, there are still two billion adults around the world who are without a bank account. Providing electronic payment solutionscreates economic opportunity and growth, individual empowerment and dignity, and can help reduce poverty.

In South Africa, MasterCard partnered with the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) to deliver gov-ernment funds via 10 million debit cards with built-in biometrics. 1 in 3 adults in the country now carry a SASSA MasterCard, resulting in $375 million savings for the government in five years. Since the launch of the program, 850,000 illegal grants have been elimi-nated, saving another $300 million.

Making Cities Sustainable and Livable

The last and final tenet is sustainability through harnessing the power of data. Today, we are surrounded by a digital world, and there are a wealth of insights to be uncovered from all the data that is collected.

While data collection raises some privacy and securityflags among skeptics, a report from the Future Foundation commissioned by MasterCard revealed that over half of urban dwellers polled were happy to share their user data to improve urban mobility in their city, with citizens showing more intrest-

At MasterCard, our approach to building smarter cities that enhances people’s lives is based on three key tenets:

Increased urbanization provides citizens with ac-cess to fundamental services such as healthcare and education, social and information networks,

and a higher quality of life. In turn,it can also lead to new challenges including congestion, pollution and an increasing disparity of wealth. It is a growing struggle among the major citiesof the developed and developing worlds to address these challenges, while, at the same time, unlock the potential of greater urbanization. Asia Pacific’s population surpassed 4.4 billion in 2015, and so governments are under increasing pressure to tackle these challenges of an unprecedented scale in a region that is home to nearly 60 percent of the world’s population. Thus, the spotlight has never shone brighter on cities becoming Smart Cities. Improved infrastructure through the use of smart solutions and technologies in ‘Smart Cities’ technology will provide citizens with better facilities, efficient urban mobility and public transport, e-governance, internet connectiv-ity and more. The term ‘Smart Cities’ is not just a buzzword that governments and corporations throw around to sound intellectual and current. ‘Smart Cities’ is not an ideal; it is not an aspiration, a Uto-pia or a figment of some science fiction enthusiast’s imagination. Instead, it is fast becoming a tangible reality in the near future with cities across Asia Pacific already making great strides.

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For example, by analyzing data governments can anticipate travel peaks and divert a small percentage of travelers to a less busy route during these rush hours, thereby enabling a more efficient and smoother flow of people around a city. For

example, in Singapore, the transport authorities offered free rides to those traveling before the morning rush hour which resulted in a change of behavior among 7 percent of customers who shifted out of the peak commute.

Using aggregated and anonymized data, MasterCard is able to identify and predict patterns of commercial activity. This, layered with transit insights provided by our partners at Cubic Transportation Systems, enables us to assist urban planners and com-mercial developers in better understanding the travel and spending patterns. This allows them to more accurately identify transport links and key commercial areas to ensure better use of scarce resources.

What are governments in Asia doing?

IGovernments across Asia Pacific have already recognized the need to address rapid urbanization and are taking action. Cities such as Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo and Hong Kong frequently feature high on global Smart Cities’ rankings.In developed markets like Singapore, the local government has committed to the

Smart Nation initiative, embarking on pilot projects such as the use of motion sensors to detect irregular behaviors among elderly folk to send alerts to their caregivers – a grow-ing concern in some markets in Asia with its rapidly aging population.

Korea had made a bolder move to create a Smart City from scratch with the Songdo districtin Seoul,which features built-in sensors on streets and buildings to monitor and manage human traffic, and a waste management system connecting homes and offices.

India has also committed to a mission to develop 100 cities into Smart Cities, with 20 cities in the first phase.Building these Smart Cities is a challenge bigger than any one person or organization. Success will require a col-laborative effort between partners across industries and sectors. MasterCard is working with governments across the region and with other stakeholders in the ecosystem to help these gov-ernments achieve their vision through transformational programs.

It is easy to get caught up in the latest and great-est innovations for a smarter city, but ultimately everyone must not lose sight of the ultimate aim of Smart Cities – to make cities better for the people who call them home.

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SMART CITIES MISSION:

GOOD DESIGN = GOOD OUTCOMESSpeed + scale define many initiatives of the Modi government. India’s Smart Cities Mission (SCM) is a good example. From June 2015 to December 2015, 97 cities in India put together their ‘smart city proposals.’ 20 winners were declared in Janu-ary 2016, all in less than 200 days. The winners will start proj-ect implementation by June 2016, within one year. This piece reviews the experience thus far, the major criticisms that were largely imaginary, and the likely issues in implementation.

Shailesh Pathak, Executive Director.

Bhartiya Group


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minent commentators often talk about WHAT is to be done; the SCM is a good lesson on HOW to do it. A few well-in-tentioned critics had valid points. Sadly, many critics were uninformed and ideology-driven, and didn’t even bother to educate themselves about what the SCM entailed. The major points of criticism were-1. Why not new cities? Urban planning approaches2. What is a smart city? Definition3. Will a smart city be for only tech-company driven

solutions, while it should focus on citizen’s needs in-stead? Scope

4. Best practices and examples – London, Songdo, Mas-dar and so on - global models

5. How does a limited amount of Rs 500 crores over 5 years in a small area make a city smart? Limited fi-nancing and geographical coverage

6. Why not smart villages? Rural priorities7. Why only 100 smart cities, why not all Indian cities?

Intra-city coverage8. Why is union government getting into cities, which

are under state government remit? Jurisdiction issues9. Why a new fangled idea, hadn’t we seen the SEZ ex-

perience, Defeatism and cynicism10. Why did so many BJP ruled cities win; how about

states that were left out? Competition issues.On all the above points, a pragmatic team designing the Smart Cities Mission recalibrated the design and came up with a winning programme. The story thus farThe BJP Election manifesto of April 2014 had mentioned‘We will initiate building 100 new cities; enabled with the latest in technology and infrastructure - adhering to concepts like sustainability, walk to work etc, and focused on specialized domains’In June 2014’s Parliament session, the President’s inau-gural address said ‘Taking urbanization as an opportuni-ty rather than a challenge, the government will build 100 Cities focussed on specialized domains and equipped with world class amenities.’ The Union finance minister’s budget speech stated ‘The Prime Minister has a vision of develop-ing one hundred Smart Cities, as satellite towns of larger cities and by modernizing the existing mid-sized cities.’

The first ‘draft concept paper’ from the Ministry of Ur-ban Development (MoUD) came in December 2014. This had ‘Definitions for Smart Cities’ from UK Government’s BIS, the British Standards Institute, IBM, Cisco, Wikipe-dia and Accenture. At this time, there was much excitement, especially among technology companies wanting to make cities ‘smart’ and international governments who ‘adopted’ various cities. Everything was sought to be converted to smart – smart grids, smart mobility, smart water, smart san-itation, smart big data, smart homes, smart residents, smart Internet of Things and so on.

This was followed by a national workshop in end-Jan-uary 2015. There was no ‘competition among cities’ pro-posed. Yours truly had made a presentation in this work-shop on creating smart cities around transport hubs like railway stations. Dr. Krishan Kumar, Bhubaneswar’s Mu-nicipal Corporation Commissioner came up to me and said that they were already planning their proposal around their railway station.

In early 2015, there was a change in the team driving the SCM. The new Mission Director had a PhD in urban development, with long experience running one of India’s

largest cities. SCM entered into new partnerships, includ-ing with Bloomberg Philanthropies. Within six months, the SCM guidelines were prepared, with extensive stakeholder consultation and team work.

The Smart Cities Mission was launched on 28 June 2015 by Prime Minister Modi in VigyanBhavan, with all states and cities in attendance; your correspondent was in the audience. The SCM guidelines were much clearer and laid out a specific process of competition, highlighting cit-izen engagement. Thankfully, there was no ‘definition’ of a smart city. In the Stage 1 competition to finalize the list of 100 contenders for smart cities, each state was given the number of cities it would have in the competition, based on the urban population in the state as a percentage of total national urban population. On the basis on 13 parameters, each state had to rank its cities, and communicate its spe-cific cities participating in the SCM to MoUD. In the Stage 2 competition, each of the 100 chosen cities was to prepare its smart city plan after extensive citizen engagement. This plan would incorporate a pan-city solution, an area based project (retrofitting, redevelopment or greenfield), details of project cost & funding, and implementation structures. All plans had to be approved by the city government and en-dorsed by a state level committee. This smart city plan was to be submitted by 15 December 2015.

The SCM team did extensive handholding and support with the 100 contending cities. Four regional workshops with respective state governments and cities were orga-nized. Jammu and Kashmir, allotted 2 cities, did not send any names. Of the remaining 98 cities, Uttar Pradesh with an allotment of 12 cities sent only 11, leaving the 12th city’s choice hanging. The remaining 97 competing cities were supported all throughout the process by the SCM. A list of consultants for 9 regional groupings of states was shared online. An Ideas camp was organized by Bloomberg Philan-thropies in early October, where all 97 cities were invited (I had the privilege to attend). The methodology for ranking the competition was clearly explained at this Ideas camp, aimed at building capacity among city governments prepar-ing their plans. A weekly webcast for contending cities was useful to clarify doubts. Social media was used extensively, both for citizen engagement and for capacity building of the contending cities. In late November 2015, SCM hosted a Proposal Enhancement workshop for all competing cities.

All 97 cities except from Tamil Nadu submitted their smart city plans by the 15 December 2015 deadline, while the flood affected TN cities submitted a week later. Over the next 3 weeks, special teams of experts went through these plans, and assigned marks to the plans.

On 28 January 2016, union urban development minister Venkaiah Naidu announced the results of the competition, with the top 20 winners coming from 11 states and one union territory. In order to be fair to the remaining states and union territories that could not feature in the top 20, the Mission gave another opportunity to 23 cities for fast-track upgradation, to submit their revised smart city plans by 15 April 2016. However, even these 23 cities would have to make the cut in the challenge to be chosen. The remaining 54 cities would go into the next round of the smart cities challenge.

On 22-23 February 2015, a special workshop on Next Steps was organized by the SCM, with the 20 winning cities and the 23 fast-track cities, on how to rework their smart city plans and make them better. All the 20 winners were urged to launch their implementation before 28 June, 2016 – in less than one year from launch. For those who are inter-ested, all presentations in all these workshops are available at http://smartcities.gov.in/Presentations.htm.

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How did SCM resolve these issues? Urban planning approaches – new or expand existing?

Any city has an underlying economic driver that brings people into it to live, work and play. New cities typically take be-

tween 20-30 years to develop into sustainable communities. Most existing Indian cities have doubled in size over the last 30 years, and will likely double again in the next two decades. However, a new city like Naya Raipur has very few people actually living there, and few new job opportunities. Hence the pragmatic shift from ‘100 new cities’ to existing cities.Definition of a smart city

Instead of hi-tech definitions, the SCM guidelines specifically stated that there is no universally accepted definition of a smart

city. Indeed, a smart city would have a different connotation in In-dia than, say, Europe. To begin with, the ‘entire urban eco-system, which is represented by the four pillars of comprehensive develop-ment – institutional, physical, social and economic infrastructure’ would be a long term goal… The objective is to promote cities that provide core infrastructure and give a decent quality of life to its citizens, a clean and sustainable environment and application of ‘smart’ solutions.’ Scope – tech or people focus?

Perhaps the best thing about the SCM guidelines was the focus on a decent quality of life to its citizens, with smart solutions

as a secondary contributor. That is why extensive citizen consul-tation and engagement over two rounds was built into the smart city proposal. About 15.2 million urban citizens participated in the consultations across 97 cities. The first in the competition was Bhubaneswar, where 30% of the population participated in the consultation for area-based development and pan-city propos-al. Dehradun was placed 97th, partly since the citizen participa-tion angle was perceived to be missing. Happy to report that on 4 March 2016, I anchored a citizen engagement workshop in Dehra-dun, helping the city government in preparation for their fast-track revised application.Best practices and global examples

In the initial burst of enthusiasm, ICT (information & communi-cations technologies) led- ‘smartization’ of cities was much talk-

ed about. International models such as Masdar (Abu Dhabi, UAE), Songdo (Incheon, S. Korea), and similar global models were men-tioned. Cities that were cited included Seoul, Singapore, Yokoha-ma, Barcelona, London, New York etc. However, most global cities have reached maturity, unlike Indian cities that will have very high population growth rates over the next three decades. Thankfully, the tech focus was replaced by a focus on people, and doing what is right for urban Indian residents. Here, examples from fast ur-banizing areas over the last few decades, such as Korea, China and Singapore were more relevant.Limited financing and geographical coverage

Critics said that Rs 500 crores over 5 years (about USD 80 mn) would be insignificant for a large city, and in any case, taking

a small area was not significant enough. However, Bhubaneswar’s winning plan is for Rs 4537 crores, spread over 985 acres. The financing plan includes contributions from Government of India, Government of Odisha, convergence of other existing schemes, land monetization, PPP and other mechanisms. The initial area of 985 acres would serve as a ‘lighthouse’ for the rest of the city and other aspiring urban areas. SCM guidelines encouraged cities to take ‘compact areas, create a replicable model which will act like a light house to other aspiring cities.’ Hence most of the 20 winners chose retrofitting, implementable in the next four years, for their area-based development project.

In total, the 20 winning cities have a total investment plan of Rs 50802 crores, much higher than the union government’s contribu-tion of Rs 10000 crores. In effect, this seed funding from the union government leveraged a much larger amount.

Rural-urban priorities

Some critics said that instead of smart cities, India should devel-op smart villages. Now smart villages are desirable; the recent

union budget focuses its attention on rural India. That said, the ur-banization boom in India is an inevitability. India would probably double its urban population in the next 25 years. Hence smart cit-ies are not a day late. Cities and urban eco-systems are also much better than villages in increasing incomes and reducing poverty. ‘Make in India’ and other livelihood-enhancing opportunities will be generated in cities. The difference in per capita income is ev-ident between India’s most urbanized states, Tamil Nadu, Maha-rashtra, Gujarat and Karnataka compared to the least urbanized states, Bihar, Assam and Odisha. Why only 100 smart cities, why not all Indian cities - intra-city coverage.

Competitive federalism’ is being encouraged. Indian states have been competing amongst themselves for quite some time. This

is the first time that cities competed with each other. The Smart Cit-ies Challenge has indeed created a citizen-driven discourse on how India’s cities should compete with each other in offering a better space for live, work and play. While there are 53 million plus cities in India and 4041 statutory towns, a competition among 100 cities really excited public imagination and stimulated discussion. Prime Minister Modi stressed this aspect in a recent Parliament speech, describing how citizens are putting pressure on the leadership of cities and states that did not win to try harder next time. Varanasi, at no. 96 in the competition, is a good example of this, he said.Jurisdiction issues: union vs state & city government

Some said that urban development and local government is un-der the State list of the Indian Constitution’s 7th schedule, and

it was improper that the union government was getting into city Missions. In the SCM design, state governments decided their re-spective contending cities, and then approved the smart city plans of their cities before final submission. The special purpose vehicle (SPV) to implement the project has a 50-50 equity shareholding of the state government and the city government. MoUD’s SCM set up a competition with defined success parameters and extended good handholding support to cities. The Smart Cities Mission has certainly helped raise the level of discussion around how to make Indian cities better, while complying with constitutional realities.Why a new-fangled, half-baked idea – defeatism and cynicism

There were some doubting Thomases (and Janes) who referred to earlier experiences with very different programmes like Spe-

cial Economic Zones (SEZs). Such critics did not let reality get in the way of their perceptions. Indeed, a leading business paper’s columnist said that the SCM had ‘the makings of a classic flop’ in a piece published on 28 December 2015. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions but not to their own facts. It is true that our cities need much, much more capacity to cope with the inevitable urbanization to come. SCM, by encouraging SPVs, is helping build such capacity.Competition Issues – why were some states unable to feature in the top 20

All competitions have winners and losers; the question is, why did some cities and states not do well? It is instructive to see

the list of all 97 cities, with their respective scores. The topper, Bhubaneswar scored 79%, while the last city, Dehradun scored 38%. Varanasi was second last with 40%. Indeed, in terms of states, UP had the most competing cities at 11, out of which 7 were placed between rank 82 and 96, with scores of less than 44%. Its top city was Lucknow, with 53%. The cut-off for 20 winners was 55%. Madhya Pradesh had 3 out of 20 winning cities, and also had no. 21 and 22, Ujjain and Gwalior. This suggests that support and encouragement from state governments had a large impact in pre-paring good plans by the cities. One would sincerely hope that the 23 remaining states and union territories do a good job by 15 April 2016 and submit a winning smart city plan.

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There would be some scope for improvement in SCM, of course. First, implementation is the key; winning city governments did present a well-thought out imple-mentation plan. Second, the political conflict between

the SPV and the municipal corporation’s Mayor is likely to exacerbate as SPVs are incorporated. State governments would try to retain control via municipal commissioners appointed from the state capital. However, as I have suggested in an earli-er piece, 7 steps to better cities in India requires local political control and leadership. Minister Venkaiah Naidu repeatedly emphasis this need for smart local leadership. Third, every win-

ning city would do well to have a local academic institution as an NIUA (National Institute of Urban Affairs) counterpart as a knowledge partner, for continuing institutional memory. Fourth, winning cities could well take up additional areas for similar development, learning from their initial lighthouse area-based development. Fifth, enlightened state governments could run a state-level competition for all the 500 cities chosen under AM-RUT using similar parameters. And as we have seen from Bihar opting out of the SCM, or indecision in J&K and U.P. political imperatives are going to be speed-breakers.

The Smart Cities Mission has demonstrated that good de-sign leads to good outcomes. Other parts of governments, both union and states, could learn from this. In particular, the railway station modernisationprogramme of the Rail-ways needs to emulate best practices from here. India is a ‘reluctant urbanizer’ – let us make haste, even if slowly, in making our cities better.

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Smart Street Lighting as Catalyst for Smart City Transformation

Arif Hussain, Smart City Solutions Consultant at Fluentgrid Limited.

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SMART INFRAPublic street lighting was one of the key drivers to growth of urbanization in industrial world by creating safe streets for working population thus facilitating extended hours for work, shopping and entertainment. There are about 600 million street lights around the world of which 35 million are in India alone. It is estimated that one percent of all generated energy and 40% of a city’s energy bill goes toward public street lighting.

STREET LIGHTSOver 80% of street lights around the world use conventional bulbs that consume lot of en-ergy and need frequent replacement, driving up the cost of street lighting for urban local bodies. With the advent of LED lighting, cities around the world have begun LED replacement though it entails huge capital expenditure with about 7-8 year RoI, by way of saved energy cost and increase life of light bulbs.

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treet lights in India place a total demand of 3400 MW on the national electricity network. With LED replacement, this can be brought down to 1400 MW saving 9 billion kWh of electricity translating to about $850 million annually. To put it in the right perspective, power supply shortfall in India during 2014-15 was 7000 MW and 38 billion kWh.

However, with a little foresight and leveraging latest technology advancements, smart street light-ing can help save more energy, simplify control and monitoring, reduce maintenance costs, create new sources of revenue for cities, act as a vibrant digital network to the command center thereby catalysing the smart city transformation through a digital cen-tral nervous system.

Most of the city streets do not need to be lit throughout the night. It is enough that we have lighting on the streets when there are people or vehicles moving about, to ensure their safety.

After a set time, the street lights can be programmed to be tuned off or dimmed. We can use motion sensors or camera feeds to determine pres-ence and turn them back on or brighten them. When there is no move-ment, they can go back to their original state.

Usage of solar panels and micro wind mills can make the street lights self-sufficient and further reduce their carbon footprint. Adaptive street lighting coupled with renewable generation not

only ensure further reduction in energy bills but also reduce light pollution for clear skies thereby maintaining ecological balance.

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Motion based Street light brightness control

Street lit with conventional street lighting


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CITY WIDE DIGITAL CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

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We can leverage Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to make the street lights communicate with one another over RF mesh network and then with the centralized command and control center over wireless broadband or optical fibre or even both for redundancy. There are multiple technology options available to choose from depending on required level of automation, re-

dundancy, available communication, budget constraints and so on. But, we need to make prudent technology decisions by peering into the future so as to create an ubiquitous digital central nervous system across the city that can serve the communication, data acquisition, control and monitoring needs of all the meters, sensors, actuators, cameras, routers and other devices to be deployed in the city on its transformational journey to become a smart city.

A well-conceived smart street lighting system can connect all the intelligent devices in a smart city via a high bandwidth digital highway to the city command center. This is akin to our central nervous system through the spine with our brain as the command center.

With that kind of a communication infrastructure in place, it becomes very simple, fast and cost effective to roll out any smart initiative across the city with endless possibilities. A smart street light in such an eco-system is indeed the veritable Swiss army knife.• Monitoring & Surveillance• Air quality, noise levels, flooding, waste

bins, surveillance, etc.,• Metering• Parking, power, water, gas, etc.,• Display• Directions, advertisements, etc.,• Control• Sprinklers, drip systems, fire hydrants, etc.,

• Counting• Pedestrians, bikers, vehicles, police beats,

field service trucks, etc.,• Communicate• Push-to-talk, announcements, etc.,• Provide• Free wi-fi, vehicle charging, kiosk services,

etc.,

Depiction of a central nervous system with city streets (nerves) communicating through the digital highway (spine) to command center (brain)


A Centralized Control and Monitoring System like the mPowerTM CCMS from Fluentgrid Limited facilitates remote

monitoring of street lights with on screen alerts for malfunctions, luminosity, battery charging levels, solar intensity, wind speeds, etc., Alerts and noti-fications from other sensors like air quality, noise, flooding, etc., can also be integrated into the same system for realizing a centralized command and control center dashboard.

Sensorized street light asset management with condition monitoring facilitates periodic self-diag-nostics allowing us to predict failures in advance and take necessary preventive actions. Scheduled maintenance and incident resolution work orders are handled through a maintenance management system integrated with mobile workforce man-agement so as to optimize field force and vehicle deployment thus reducing downtime and mainte-nance expenditure as well.

ADDITIONAL REVENUE GENERATION

Widespread deployment of intelligent infrastructure across smart cit-ies entails huge investments and sustained expenditure to continue maintaining it. Banks, financial institutions and even the govern-

ments are willing to fund such projects provided there is demonstrable RoI.Urban local bodies can use smart street lighting deployments to generate

additional revenue by way of:• Advertising through digital displays with a centralized ad server

where business establishments compete for time slots on specific displays on a street.

• Charging a fee from other city departments or even private organiza-tion for mounting cameras, sensors, routers and the like and facilitat-ing communication via the command center.

• Electric vehicle charging, information/ payment kiosks attached to street light poles or by using specially designed street light poles

• Free wi-fi hotspots that charge a fee for accessing non-municipal websites and apps

There are numerous such possibilities once we can realize an omnipresent digital highway to the city command center. This would not only ensure faster RoI on capital expenditure for LED replacement but also ensure steady stream of revenues to take care of operational expenditure.

SIMPLIFIED MONITORING, CONTROL & MAINTENANCE

SMART KIRLAMPUDI PILOT PROJECT

F luentgrid Limited has deployed a smart street lighting system for demonstrating the benefits of such a system, under the Smart Kirlam-pudi Pilot Project funded by our CSR arm CITYZEN. The demonstra-

tion project at the beachfront community of Kirlampudi in Visakhapatnam was widely appreciated by the visitors attending the recent international events in the city like the International Fleet Review and Global Partnership Summit.

Smart Kirlampudi is a unique smart city demonstration project conceived by Fluentgrid Limited to showcase people centric smart city initiatives em-powered with technology. The pilot project has so far successfully demon-strated several progressive initiatives around clean, green, health, safety and digital aspects of a smart city.

CONCLUSION

Simple LED replacement projects definitely offer energy savings with decent RoI. But, urban local bodies

should think beyond that and envision a full-fledged smart street lighting system as a digital central nervous system for the smart city. This will ensure much faster RoI, sustained revenue stream to take care of operational expenses and also a future proof digital communication platform for a smart city

Typical Smart City IT Environ-ment with CCMS Components Highlighted

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RM : IBM is an end to end services and tech-nology solutions provider for Smart Cities. We provide strategy services, technology services and solutions and support services. Our Strategy services portfolio includes:• Smart City Strategy/Proposal Develop-ment: We help cities to identify the right set of smart city initiatives based on pain points/issues/need of stakeholders(citizens/ businesses/ visitors/ city management). Initia-tives are then short-listed based on economic, social, financial and technology assessments. We develop a detailed roadmap and invest-ment plan for 3-5 years depending on the city requirements.• Program Management Consulting Ser-vices: As a part of PMC/PMO services, we help cities in procurement, RFI/RFP develop-ment and program management of the entire smart city program.Our Technology Solutions & Services Portfolio :• Integrated City Command & Operations Center: Help cities to centrally monitor the health of key city functions and take coordinated actions. Efficient utilization and life-cycle management of city assets and other resources. Integrate data, analysis and coordination across city systems and multiple agencies. Transform city operations from reactive to proactive. Become an integration hub for key city functions like – utilities (Water/Energy/Waste), transportation, public safety.

• Smarter Emergency/Disaster Manage-ment: This solution provides comprehensive situational and organizational awareness to effectively manage emergency/disaster and crisis situations. The solution provides operational decision support for Interagency and Task Force Communication, Mission Readiness, Collaboration, Coordination and Critical Information Sharing. During non-emergency situations, solutions can be used for city command and operations. • Smarter Public Safety (Safe City & Surveillance): This solutions helps cities cre-ate a single public safety platform spanning multiple agencies like police, police control rooms, dial 100, fire, traffic, anti-terrorism agencies etc. Leverage IBM video analytics to improve effectiveness of surveillance by providing features like crowd detection, trip-wire crossing, abandoned object, facial recognition, illegal turns, illegal parking, vehicle classification and counting.• Smarter Water Management: This solu-tion provides real time visibility of water sup-ply in a city to ensure equitable water distri-bution. Solution capabilities includes network and asset management, metering, billing, leak detection (using hydraulic modeling), pressure management (using OR), NRW management, and demand management.• Smarter Waste Management: This solution sets up an Integrated Operations Center for Waste Management for end to end planning, monitoring and efficient operations.

City waste-management infrastructure and assets are mapped (key sites and locations, such as community/RWA collection points, infrastructure, personnel, as well as location of any citizen reported issues). The solution also captures all the stakeholders, and all operational elements including workflows, personnel, collection schedules, etc.• Smarter Transportation: IBM provides multiple solutions for Smarter Transportation which includes Integrated Fare management (Single Fare Card) for multimodal inte-gration, Smart Traffic Management, Smart Parking, tolling/road user charging, traveller information system etc.• Smarter Energy: IBM provides multiple solutions for the entire energy value chain which includes generation, transmission and distribution. IBM core solutions includes generation command centers, performance management solutions, smart grid, smart metering etc. • Other solutions includes citizen mobile apps, citizen portals, smart lighting, munici-pal ERP, etc.

IBM out support services includes inte-grated support services for application, infrastructure and instrumentation. We provide support services on managed, hy-brid and outsourcing models. IBM provides core solutions which helps cities improve the quality of life and bring efficiency to city operations.

UW : What solutions are being offered by IBM to build Smart Cities?

Interview With Rajul Mehrotra

Program Lead- 100 Smart Cities,

IBM India

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UW: What are the hosting model available for IBM Smarter Cities solutions?RM: IBM Smarter Cities solutions are available on On-Premises and Cloud platform. Cities can host the solutions on their own data centers. Cities which are not looking to set up their own data center can host the solutions on IBM Soft Layer cloud. States which are looking to maintain standardization across cities, can host IBM solutions on state data centers and make it available to cities within that particular state.

UW: What has been IBM’s experience in smart cit-ies globally and in India? What smart city projects is IBM currently working on in India?RM: We have delivered more than 2500 Smart Cities projects globally across various Smart Cities domains like water, public safe-ty, disaster/emergency management, transpor-tation, energy, integrated city operations etc.

In India, we have done multiple strategy and technology projects. Our experience in India includes Smarter City Proposal Devel-opment, Smarter Township Strategy, Smarter Port Strategy, City Command and Operations Center, Township Command and Operations Center, Safe City Surveillance, Smarter Water Management, Waste Management, Smarter Disaster Management, to name a few.

UW: How much is the Smarter Cities Market worth in India for IT Industry? What capa-bilities does the IT Industry need to develop to cater to smart cities market?RM: Smarter Cities is a new emerging growth opportunity for the IT Industry (and other industries like Telco/Infrastructure/Instrumentation/Real Estate/Consulting) in

the domestic market. As per industry body NASSCOM, the Government’s Smart Cities programme can create business opportunities to the tune of $30-40 billion for the IT sector over the next 5-10 years.

UW: Which life cycle stage is the Smart Cities Market at in India (Introduction/ Growth/ Maturity/ Decline)?RM: As of now in India, the Smart Cities market is between the introduction and growth phase. Smart Cities consulting and ICT opportunities exist in the Indian market for 6-7 years now. With 100 Smart Cities pro-gram moving from concept to execution, the business momentum will increase significant-ly in the next couple of quarters.

UW: How do you see the smart mobility/transportation market in India?RM: Our country has taken up massive transportation infrastructure development/modernization projects which includes metros, railways, BRT, highways, water ways, multi modal hubs, traffic management, traffic enforcement etc. This provides huge

opportunities for smart mobility solutions which includes integrated/single fare card, ticketing systems, traffic management, traveller information system, transportation safety, enforcement etc.

UW: Your opinion on the 100 Smart cities program (how realistic it is, what needs to be done, roadblocks ahead, etc.). What operational challenges are you facing in making these cities Smart?RM: Focus on urban infrastructure devel-opment based on the Smart Cities concept is the key need. This will not only help im-prove the quality of life of citizens but will also help improve location attractiveness of cities to attract businesses/investment to spur economic development.

Like any other infrastructure program, this is a complex program and the Govern-ment has done a commendable job in the conceptualization of the program. I am sure the structure and governance model that the Government has created will help us succeed.

UW: What is the value chain/ chain of events (and/ or vendors) for making cities Smart?RM: Considering the current situation, devel-oping Smart Cities in India needs a balanced focus on infrastructure development and ICT.

Urban planning, engineering and man-agement consulting will help cities identify the right set of initiatives to be taken up. Infrastructure and core equipment (water/en-ergy etc) will play a major role in developing and extending the core infrastructure in cities. Instrumentation companies will provide sen-sors/cameras/scada etc. to monitor core infra-structure. The IT industry will play a key role integrating data, providing applications and analytics to improve efficiency and capacity of infrastructure to develop high quality and highly efficient smart infrastructure.

UW : Who are your target customers/ clients in the Smart

City industry?

RM: Smarter Cities customer segments include greenfield/brownfield cities, private

townships, ports, infrastructure, water authorities, transportation agencies, law enforcement (Police/Traffic) etc. Identify-

ing customer segments and devel-oping solutions to cater to each

segment is very strategic for organisations to scale.


A Platform To Control Water Usage And Waste Management

SMART CITY PROJECT IN CASTELLON

Castellón Smart City is a pilot project installed at the neighborhood of Pau Gumbau in Castellón de la Plana (Spain). The deployment takes place over an area that covers 222,000 square meters were near 8,000 citizens live and work on their daily basis together with gardens, parks, schools and private & public buildings.

Castellón, ComunidadValenciana, Spain

oTsense, a company owned by GrupoGimeno Holding, decided starting this project based in Libelium technology to show municipality and private companies the Smart City Platform working in real time.

Water, waste management and weather sensors Castellón Smart City project integrates 25 different kinds of sensors to measure and control data from different sources in order to obtain organized data from a global perspec-tive. Some of the most relevant sensors are “Watchmeter” IoTsens –Data Logger, Limnimeter, Waste level sensor, Meteorological station, soil moisture sensor or luminosity sensor. All of them are connected to Libelium’s Waspmote OEM platformwhich is focused on the implementation of low consumption modes.

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“There is no better way to show the potential of the sensor network platform than live, with real time data”.

- Ignacio Llopis, Head of Business Development


Waspmote OEM platform and Gases Board integrated in IOTSense platform

IOTSens installation diagram of functioning

Sensors like “Watchmeter” Data Logger or Limnimeter allow

a detailed water manage-ment. “Watchmeter” Data Logger records data by instruments and sensors that allow final user to discriminate between water users consumption using “flow patterns”, this way user may know how much water is using for different activities. Limnimeters allow re-mote control of facilities collecting data from water pipers like water height, flow, percentage fill, spill alarms or temperature. It indicates the exact evo-lution of the water level collecting information au-tomatically and detecting flood risks. The Libelium Smart Water platform al-lows to measure these and other parameters such as pH, ORP, Disolved Oxy-gen and many other water ions and chemicals such as Fluoride, Calcium, Nitrate, Chloride, etc.

Other examples of integrated sensors are waste level sensors or meteorological sta-tions. The first one allows managing the waste truck route by an ultrasound sensor capable of collects real time data about filled percentage, temperature and vibration of the bin. The second one, the meteorological station, allows real time control of weather parameters like wind speed and direction, temperature, relative humidity,

atmospheric pressure and precipitation rate. In this way the data of every sensor can be stored for further studies and decision making.

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Engineering team at IoTsens selected Libelium’s wide range of sensors for this project because of the quick & easy to install and deploy and for the versatility

of its components. “We could aggregate different kind of sensors and devices on the same gadget”, states Llopis referring to Waspmote OESM platform.

The Smart City project was developed to be scalable and adaptable with interoperability to different scenarios. It had to be secure, bidirec-tional, easy third-party integration and most spe-cially affordable platform for any kind of Smart City project. “Other solutions were not reusable, did not create synergies between IoT verticals, were not scalable, heterogeneous and had no integrated vision”, clears Llopis.

Libelium technology has enhanced IoTsens hardware & software developments to be a platform were customers can attach every single new IoT Solution development:

• Waste Management sensor is a device devel-oped by IoTsens with Libelium hardware. It is an ultrasound sensor attached to a Waspmote board capable of collecting real time data about filled percentage, temperature and vibration of the bin in order to optimize waste management.

• Another product developed with Libelium tech-nology is the Air Quality sensorable to analyze and monitor the characteristics of the air. It measures the content of a wide range of pa-rameters like temperature, humidity, dust, CO, CO2, O3, NO2, CH4 or H2S, in order to provide detailed information about pollutants.

Waste Management sensor

Global and horizontal Smart Cities solution

Smart City projects are normally medium-high size budgets werethe customer needs to spend a big amount of money and pay it in advance and most of times they don’t have the chance to try

the software, hardware and communications working to-gether under the same cloud platform. The added value for this project is to give the chance to use the platform before paying for it.

IoTsens joined with LibeliumWaspmote platform provides an horizontal Smart Cities solution allowing the collection, integration storage and information analysis about the city in a global perspective with the development of a versatile and complete product. IoTsense platform aim is to build a model of intelligent, innovative and open city to provide citizens with quality services to promote the economy of knowledge and to improve life quality of citizens and employees.IoTsens is Certified Libelium Cloud Partner so all future or existing Libelium customers of Waspmote and Mesh-lium can connect automatically to IoTsens Smart City Cloud Platform. In the near-term IoTsense will imple-ment new communication technologies like Sigfox and LoRaWAN for Smart Cities. They are also integrating new sensors and devices to different application sectors.

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STARTING THE SMART CITY JOURNEY

By David Jonas, Spatial Solutions Consultant, AAM Group

The Jan-Feb edition of Urbana World contained a brilliant graphic distilling the key components of the 20 SMART City projects into a single infographic.

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But successful implementation of the listed proj-ects relies on a vital ingredient which does not currently exist in India: reliable mapping. Smart Cities in Europe have the benefit of ready availabil-ity of Mapping Layers including terrain, buildings, transport, utilities and many others. In Asia, such off-the-shelf data rarely exists but City Leaders recognise the benefits which spatial informa-tionoffers their Smart projects. In a current high profile example, Singapore embarked on a Smart City program (called “Virtual Singapore”)but didn’t have any available mapping data. The Singapore Government recognised the problems of starting this program withoutreliable data, so they commis-sioned an accurate and detailed mapping program of the city. Their project involved mapping the terrain, photographing all landuse, and compiling a realistic 3D model of every building (details next Urbana World edition).

Overlaying Evacuation Zones (coloured polygons) and Evacuation Routes (red) over 3D Base Map

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e are all becoming familiar with the power of spa-tial data, from applications such as finding a new apartment relative to schools and shops, calling the closest Uber, or optimising our driving route with due consideration for live traffic adjustments. Similarly, planning and implementing Smart City programs need to benefit from power offered by spatial data. Smart Cities cannot be designed with old tools.

Reviewing last month’s Urbana World article identified numerous projects which need to be spa-tially enabled to minimise cost, maximise outputs and minimise project risk.

If the Smart City initiative was commenced even

five years ago, its implementation and maintenance would have had to be undertaken with just textual or unreliable spatial data; the Indian Mapping in-dustry was unable, unprepared and un-authorised to undertake the required mapping tasks. How-ever, like many things in India, all that has rapidly changed to a stage where the Indian Survey indus-try now has the capability to efficiently undertake the above tasks to support Smart City components.

Local capacity, supported by international expe-rience, now exists to spatially empower the various Smart City projects. Modern survey tools can be deployed in satellites, aircraft, drones, vehicles and on-foot to collect the required spatial data.

WSmart City advocates fully embrace the “why”; current momentum defines the “when”. The good news is that modern Indian mapping techniques can now add the

missing “where” ingredient to the “what”.

Assessing solar potential: Site has 29.65% sky visibility (denoted in green) due to surrounding shadowing

Streetscapes mapped by vehicle-mounted

laser (LiDAR). Used to locate assets

(parking bays, poles, posts) and plan lay-

ing OFC cables

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Buildings colour-coded by energy efficiency

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Interview With Pradeep Misra

UW: Smart cities are emerging fast and they introduce new prac-tices and services which highly impact policy making and plan-ning, while they co-exist with urban facilities. How do you see the contribution of urban Plan-ning smart City frame work? PM: Making any city smart is a contin-uous process. Since decades cities are growing, some organically on its own pattern and some through various planning interventions. Now making a city smart in planning framework with technological interventions aims at making it sustain-able, more livable, socially inclusive, and efficient in all respect, hence the term “SMART CITY”.

UW: Retrofitting the heritage core of the Bhopal city poses many hurdles and also difficult to set up a fire station in Old City. How do you see the solutions? I think Bhopal case is a redevel-opment, please confirm it from the sources?PM: Retrofitting in an old city has always been a challenge, due to its limited scope of development in the existing settlement, having no space for improvement as per norms, very limited scope for new proj-ects/facilities to develop, etc. Same applies in the case of Bhopal old city, having very limited space available even for a fire station. Solution may lie in the approach of strict imposition of firefighting norms at building level, and converting one of the government buildings with fully equipped

firefighting facilities for surrounding areas.

In Bhopal, redevelopment of Shivaji Nagar was chosen as Area Based Develop-ment (ABD) in Smart City Challenge.

UW: It is now needed to under-stand the smart city’s contribution in the overall urban planning and vice versa to recognize urban planning offerings to a smart city context. How urban planning highlights and measures smart city and urban planning interre-lation and identifies the meeting points among them. PM: Any development, if planned in a proper way through various interventions, makes the development efficient, effective, and sustainable leading to Smart devel-opment. So, it is mainly the proper urban planning which gives platform to other

smart features to sync, in order to make the city smart.

UW: How do you see the complex issue of traffic management in Bhopal smart City with reference to LRT &BRT? PM: LRT and BRT, as they facilitate mass public movement at one go, reduce the load of private vehicles on the road. Particularly, LRT caters more population in shorter period so it has a significant impact on traffic and transportation issues in the city. This mass rapid transport system has high impact on landuse at their nodes, resulting in mixed used, dense and compact development, called Transit Oriented Developmet (TOD). The TOD concept increases walkability, encourages more use of public transport and reduces pressure on road which results in less traffic congestion.

UW : Please share your visualization on vehicle free area in the Bhopal Smart City ?

PM: In Shivaji Nagar - Bhopal (ABD area), it was tried to keep maximum area free of regular traffic by provid-ing loop road around the ABD area. Underground spine road and land use distribution (Mixed use development) was kept in such a way that every facilities are at walkable distance (within 500m), with strategic location of parking facilities.

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CMD-REPL / Urban Planner of Bhopal

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UW: Bhopal Smart City will have some diverse hubs like digital innova-tion hub. Please share your thoughts. What is the rationale behind this plan?PM: OBhopal city’s area based devel-opment has been divided into various hubs based on specialized and high-end activity of particular type in respective hub. All hubs are self-sustained and have all facilities, but dominancy of specialized activities of its own type.

The Digital Innovation Zone (DIZ) aims to promote Digital Media, IT and entertainment industries — as well as companies whose core business re-quires the use of information, commu-nication, and media technologies — to grow and prosper in the global business environment.

The DIZ serves the nation’s larger goals of strengthening innovation economy and promoting Bhopal as an alternative hub for commerce, being Central to whole of India.

DIZ will be the home of Digital Me-dia R&D firms; firms that create cultur-al material; R&D Centres for software development, Information Technology, Nanotechnology, Bio-Technology, Animation, Online Games & Content Generators for Online Education, and technology-oriented office spaces.

DIZ will host entertainment and retail establishments, technology companies, prestige housing, R&D institutions. It will feature Digital Street which will provide an opportunity to develop and test new technologies, and to refine them in a living labora-tory environment. The street will mix entertainment and retail usages with technology companies, incorporating the most advanced and interesting dig-ital urban devices. A permeable realm that blurs the transitional edge between public and private space will be created by juxtaposing digital information with physical places. This will naturally have its own positive impact on employment opportunities at various levels.

UW: How Bhopal Smart City will tackle the water management for the city? is there any arrangement of Rain Water Harvesting system PM: Water is a precious natural resource. Therefore, water demand of the city is planned to be catered by fresh as well as recycled water. About one third of domestic water demand(for flushing), total water requirement for horticul-ture, cooling water demand for HVAC (Heating, Ventilating & Air Conditioning) in commercial & institutional area has been planned by treated wastewater recycling.

Yes, rain water harvesting has been pro-posed for rainwater collected from roof top of all the buildings. Collected rain water will then be carried to rain water recharging pit for recharge of ground water aquifer. UW: How Bhopal Smart City is equipped with Solid Waste Man-agement?PM: All household will have twin dustbins. One for organic and other for inorganic waste. All multistoried residential and commercial buildings will be equipped with chute system for collection of waste, and it will then be transported to iBins(with cen-sors) placed at various locations. There will be separate chute and iBins for organic & inorganic waste. These iBinswill be connect-ed by server and a signal will be received after a prefixed level of waste is accumulat-ed. All theiBins will be underground. The driver of waste collection truck will receive signals from all theiBins and may decide the appropriate route for collection. Organic waste will then be transported to composting plant within smart city, and inorganic waste outside at municipal dumping ground. UW: Please share how the Sewerage System of Bhopal Smart City works. PM: Sewage collection network will trans-port all sewage of smart city to a centralized sewage treatment plant. As we have planned to reuse treated wastewater for flushing, hor-ticulture, and cooling water, MBR technol-ogy followed by tertiary treatment has been proposed to give good quality of treated wastewater. Treated wastewater will then be pumped into separate water pipeline network to feed all green belts and buildings. UW: What is the provision for disaster management in Bhopal Smart City? PM: Provision of earthquake resistant structures, proper provision of drainage to

come out with flooding, efficient fire fighting system with alarms, sensors &alarm system for any type of emergency, makes the city disaster resistant. UW: What will be the challenges in converting the Plan into reality? PM: Active and time bounded participation of various private players, cooperation& initiative from government organization, changes in some norms, etc may affect the plan in to action. UW: What will be the role of ICT? How do you propose to create a robust system which is not very difficult to implement and is equal-ly effective at the same time?PM: ICT plays major role in this project, as the whole concept revolves around making the city safe, effective,and efficient, which can be achieved only through effective technologic intervention. Through central command system and sensorsystem the objective can be achieved. UW: There is a famous thing about India that we are expert of giv-ing high class products/services/facilities but we donot have a maintenance budget for anything? How do you propose to ensure the provision of maintenance? PM: Through effective alarming and sensorsystem and sufficient provision of recovery from various services operation & maintenance is ensured. There will be provisions for the financial outlay for maintenance. Also the PPP will ensure that the maintenance is taken care in sustainable manner.

UW : Is there

any innovative solution

like Storm Water Management

added in the water management

system of Bhopal Smart City?

PM: Sustainable urban drainage system

has been conceptualized. Perforated pipe

drains surrounded by gravels have been

proposed in area without basement.

This will allow natural percolation of

rain water and only surplus water

will be disposed. Pervious con-

struction materials will be used for paving.


The state of a city’s transportation system is more or less an interpretation of its quality of life. If you can get from one spot of the town to another quickly and

conveniently, you are likely to be fine with your daily groove. You are likely to be sailing through your day smoothly. On the other hand, a messed up transporta-tion system makes your life very tough; you get very less time for yourself and family, you have to toil with the pollution and extreme weather conditions and

everlasting safety concerns.

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t just deprives your life of the much-needed balance and peace of mind. The byproducts of an unorganized daily transport alsocontrib-ute quite heavilyto environmental deterioration. Not to forget, the countless health hazards associated with spending too much time in traffic.

In several developing and developed nations, transportation man-agement remains a hard nut to crack. With increasing vehicular popu-lation, authorities are faced with new challenges even before they are able to fix the existing ones. The onus to address this concern is on the use of intelligence in transport management. The more automated the transportationbecomes; the more efficient will be the calculations for managing it. With so many numbers in play, planning things accurate-ly has a major role to play.

What I T enabled intelligence can do to a city’s transport? Well, the answer is; it can surely do a lot. It can go beyond imagination to fix the worries the plague every transportation system. From better planning to smoother traffic flow, technology can make use of transport data to change the state of transportation drastically.

Here’s more insight on what all typical concerns affect any trans-portation system of fairly populated town.These problems start with something as elementary as the quality of roads. Several cities owe most of their traveling woes to the state of roads. The public transport, while being one of the biggest pillars for the common man’s daily life is often coupled with insufficiency. It is either uncomfortable or too crowded especially during peak times. There are many of us who sim-ply do not prefer to take public transport and that’s how, many other problems begin. We are forced to depend on private vehicles, which, inevitably adds to overall traffic congestion. With more vehicles, con-trolling the flow of traffic becomes a challenge. That also leads to jam packed roads, increased pollution and below average road con-ditions. However many regulations you implement, you would need an adequate number of staff or measures to enforce them. With the current scenario, most of the major cities around the world seem very shorthanded when it comes to enforcing traffic regulations. That is not where the problems stop; many cities do not have enough routing choices to be able to segregate heavy vehicles and restrict their in-terference with light vehicle roads. In addition, parking problems are quickly becoming a reason for stress and roadrage.Lack of parking space contributes directly to traffic jams as people are forced to park cars on the roads. For travelers who intend to go the eco-friendly way have no space for bicycling or even walking safely. This concern re-stricts one of the most significant ways to manage traffic and promote reformed environmental practices. The list can go really long but here is a focus on the solution. By lending smartness to a transport system, I T enabled systems can really change the system dramatically. Many smart practices are already in action but there are a few that are in con-sideration. All of them have the promise to deliver a better tomorrow

in terms of convenient transportation. Demand Analysis: One of the first things that a smart transpor-

tation will implement is automating the prediction process. The right technological solutions will help in calculating the amount of traffic, the projections, the rush hours and congestion – prone routes. With ac-curacy in this aspect, you can expect better infrastructure maintenance and planning, public transport acquisition and traffic management. It can also help in preparing for the augmentation of traffic enforcement staff in a better way.

Use of geo informatics: This can help immensely by aligning with mobile apps which give you traffic forecasts and let the trav-eler connect with real-time data. With such a network in place, daily travelers can plan their journeys in a better way leading to enhanced convenience. Imagine the kind of convenience you will experience if you could get to know that the route you are about to take is expected to be jammed. That will allow you to take a different route and make it easier for you to get to your destination. There are similar practices in place already; however, it needs to be more widely-used.

Enhanced Safety: Sensing components can help in ensuring safe-ty. They can notify the traveler of collision-prone situations. They can also warn them about wrong-way bound vehicles or any unexpected event at the way ahead. This will help managing uncalled for traffic situations such as breakdowns and accidents without the need of traf-fic staff.

Automated car-pooling applications: This is one of the best things about smart transport. By giving access of real-time data of passengers to drivers, these applications can bring in plenty of conve-nience. These applications will be able to apprise the traveler of car pool seekers in the exact direction that he is heading towards. What’s more; they can integrate payment options to enable easy fuel expense sharing provision. If this is implemented adequately, it can relieve a city from many of its traffic worries.

Traffic Monitoring or Surveillance Technologies: This can ad-dress the shortage of traffic enforcement personnel. Surveillance at important spots can quite efficiently monitor offenders and enhance road safety. Any unwanted incidents captured can be attended to quickly by the monitoring staff. With such a system in place, there will be increased adherence to traffic regulations including speed lim-its, lane-driving and safety rules.

Integrated Toll Cards: By combining all tolls and taxes into one card can reduce problems associated with toll queues and jams. It will also help in ensuring adequate revenue collection which can further be channeled into transport infrastructure improvement.

Automated Traffic Management: Intelligent traffic signals can control traffic by changing signal durations according to real-time conditions. A networked functioning of multiple signals will allow seamless flow of traffic at all junctures of the city. Smart signals are

already in place in several cities and have been very successful in eliminating jams.

Speed Limit Variations: Similar to automated traffic signals, the variable speed limit features can make a transport system smarter than ever before. These speed limit indicators can keep changing as per the state of traffic. These smart indicators will in-crease the limit during less congestion and decrease it during more.

Usage of Mobile Networks to Calculate Traffic Data: This is a highly innovative idea which does not need any additional in-frastructure investments. It can use the passengers’ mobile phone to transmit data about speed, congestion and a lot more without interfering with their privacy. With one or more mobile phones in each car becoming a standard quickly, this idea can feed plenty of important data to smart systems for ensuring better transport man-agement. It can get important numbers in order to ensure better infrastructure planning and transport management.

Transportation is critical to every citizen’s satisfaction level and currently, there is a lot of improvement that every city requires in this department. There is a definite demand to make good use of technology to manage transportation. If technology takes over most aspects of a transportation system, then it is very likely to improve many lives. It will be a smart investment which will very quickly eliminate all the transport problems. These solutions will not only help in lending convenience to citizens, they will also con-tribute to the environmental improvement efforts.

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Interview With Yogesh Dandekar

Senior Manager, Visual Design,

Tata Elxsi

UW: How is design playing a role in Urban transport?YD: Design plays a crucial role in terms of addressing many factors that influence travelers to make certain decisions and help make their journey comfortable.

Earlier, transport systems were seen as monopolistic ventures; users had no choice but to accept the available service and per-haps compromise on safety, efficiency and reliability. However, with the current change in urban transport, this compromise has wit-nessed a change. Customer experience is the focus and service design aids this focus.

Urban transport systems are life lines of the future cities with a critical role in deliv-ering better quality of life for its citizens and visitors. There is a global shift of designing products and systems in a more human cen-tered approach which live up to the needs and expectations of the users.

Design and the process of design think-ing behave as the key stone in bridging this gap. The gap is quite evident when you see inaccessible stations, bus stops, illegible sta-tions buildings with people feeling disorient-ed, inconsistency and clutter, un-ergonomic furniture and water fountains and disregard to cleanliness, safety and security. Design puts users first and brings about a change in the thought process. A system designed for the users instead of a system adopted by the users. For example, How intuitive will it be when Mr. Joshi, age 65, shows his travel card to the TVM for adding value. The machine greets him on his birthday, adjusts the on-screen display for larger fonts and better contrast, starts an audio response and introduces a lag because he is not quick to deal with these devices which his grandson grasps very easily. (Source: Public transport and urban design)

UW: Give examples of how different cities are using design in their urban transportation?YD: Transport systems around the world have been using design to deliver better experience for their users. London is a great example and a pioneer in making design at the core of its service delivery. Buses, Taxies, Underground, though managed by different entities present a single face to the users. Their maps are designed using colour codes assigned to each route, making it easy for the user to navigate which route to take to get to their destination. Well-structured design guidelines form the backbone for delivering the service.

London developed its service delivery with very low technology systems but has

been able to harness the latest technology. It has become an icon in the design fraternity and everyone looks up to its new initiatives and innovative ideas to connect with people.

Technology has been increasingly coming to assist in enhancing the integrated experience for users to seamlessly use the system. A single Octopus card is enough for anyone to travel and make convenience purchases in Hongkong. Portland in US for instance, is a unique example of integrating cycling, walking, buses and metro which have coordinated schedules and seamless interchanges.

However, there are also cities that have integrated service design for urban trans-port through technology, such as the use of mobile apps for public transport for tracking purposes, estimating time of arrival and even booking tickets.

UW: How can IOT be integrated in Urban transport? YD: Connectivity is now an inseparable pertinent factor in the urban lifestyle. Like-wise, it plays an important role in urban transport. Products and environments around us are getting connected and “smarter”. A responsive product, environment or a system, which reduces the interaction for very basic activities, assists as an extended presence in an autonomous manner to help users carryout their daily chores.

Transport systems are having many components. They possess a huge opportunity to deliver an enhanced experience which at times can be personalized for the users. IOT ( Internet of Things ) on one side is creating autonomous driverless vehicles, but can also very easily help you know the exact parking slot available, help you track the bus location and the bus sending a message if it is delayed.

A smarter metro train can help people on the next platform identify the doors to those compartments with less crowd. A self-driven, self-monitored and responsive system will make them more reliable. These will cover transport management factors such as location tracking of public transport, public announcement systems, transport information systems, passenger counting and surveillance systems. (Source: The Internet Of Things Is Already Improving Public Transport)


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UW: Trends that we have been witnessing / or will witness from India perspective in Service Design in Urban Transport?YD: One of the main trends to keep in mind for design in urban transport is service. In In-dia, Urban transport is now being increasingly seen as a “Service” and not just a “System”. A system is various elements working together to fulfill a purpose – ‘traveling in a city’.

Transport systems have to increase the speed of travel which substitutes the needs for physical proximity within the cities. However, it is important that “Delivery of this Service” matters more. System just exits but a service is an intentional offer and a commitment to make it safer, easier, reliable, comfortable and economical for its user and brings a value add like – reducing stress and uncertainty.

Urban transport is one of the most import-ant elements in Government of India’s initia-tives like JNNURM and the recent Smart city development. The MoUD (Ministry of Urban development ) is eager to implement a com-mon mobility card across India. It would be a great feeling to use the same card for traveling in Delhi metro, pay for the bus in Kochi.

The transport systems are increasingly focusing on customizing their system com-ponents making them relate to the city and its people and culture. Kochi metro is design-ing their stations with unique ambiences which bring in local connect and aid in Place making. Macro interventions like making walkable streets, seamless interchanges and intuitive wayfinding signage. Apart from this there are interesting ideas being imple-mented like customized interiors for many public transport systems such as buses, trains and even taxis, adding services such as USB charging points for phones/laptops/tablets including access to WiFi.

The radio taxies like Uber and Ola cabs are excellent examples of making a shared transport system extremely convenient to use. They have harnessed the potential of technol-ogy and connected devices and IOT resulting in reducing congestion on roads. The user experience of these systems is a key element in inducting people to use this system. These designed services are what make the user ex-perience of urban transport more captivating for the users.

(Source: How connected is your city? Urban transport trends around the world )

UW: What would the future be?YD: Unified Mass Transport Authority (UMTA ) is one big step gaining traction and policy maker’s mind share. It is Government’s next focus. The unifica-tion is very essential to make the system components work in unison and respond to each other and bring out a single face to the user.

Transport Oriented Development (TOD) will be the focus of all govern-ments and city planners. (IoT) Internet of Things is giving that ultimate edge in delivering a user focused experience and it is also making it easy for the system operators to manage the various transport modes in a predictive and responsive manner.

We are not far from the future when the entire urban transport system is self-learning and adaptable to the changes on day to day basis. The Big data is enabling the systems to take de-cisions to deliver more intuitive service and make it a predictive to respond in typical scenarios.

We are not talking of futuristic concepts but something that will be unlocked in near future. For instance, Mobile apps assisting travelers in travel planning making the travel more matured. Beyond just tracking on users travel and suggest course corrections, alternate travel modes and diversions in case of congestion, it can delight users by reminding on their tasks at the right time at right place along the travel route.

The future is definitely adaptive, responsive and intuitive where transport services will integrate with the multiple modes of transport from walkable streets to PRTS ( Personal rapid transit system). Imagine a situation where for instance bus systems would automat-ically divert more buses to a specific route in case of a special event or in response to the peak time travel.

UW: What are the chal-lenges that one faces from design perspective while designing for Urban Transport?YD: As cities continue to become more distributed, the cost of building and operating public transportation systems increases; and designers do not have the liberty of designing a city and its trans-portation system from scratch.

However, the biggest challenge is moving away from motorization in or-der to adhere to a healthier environment, avoiding pollution and use of fossil-fu-el driven vehicles. In order to do so,

usage of personal vehicles needs to be minimized, and this is one challenge that is present in urban cities, especially with highly populated cities in India. The easy solution to this is to design access to public transport systems that are near homes, so that residents can walk or cycle to the nearest commute point. However, only one third of the population of India does so (source).

Another challenge is that, solutions to problems in urban transport currently are very engineering oriented. In the next 10 years or so, this will evolve and the implementation of design will play a key role in urban transport with service design being at the forefront. Service / Experience Design will be integrated into the transport systems in the future and act as the key differentiating factor from others. (Source: Changing India’s commute)

UW: Could you let us know how service design can alter Indian transportation system?YD: I would like to explain these with some realistic examples. For instance, Miss. Madhavi has ordered her new hand bag while in office and she has the option to collect her parcel at a pickup point provided at the metro station exit on her way home.

Mr. Gupta is able to effortlessly walk 200m from his house to pick up a rented bicycle and use it to reach the nearest BRTS stop and commute to his office which is in a high density business district located on the BRTS route 10km from his home. Not just that, during his travel he is also able to read a book of his choice on his e-reader, answer a few mails and reach his office in more presentable attire and with a fresh set of mind.

These are some day to day examples to showcase hoe integrating service design can alter the Indian transport system. In fact, Service design approach preempts the users’ requirements. These range from very basic needs to expectations from the system which are more aspi-rational.

In the current context, if the cities really have to make it better for people to live, reduce the global warming by reducing emission, then the ability to choose an urban transport over personal vehicle is favorable. However, the urban transport has to reach out to people, it should be attractive, easy to use, safer and offer value added services. Putting Service design thinking on the forefront is important to introduce this change at the strategic level.


Reporting a crime or registering a complaint with the police shouldn’t be more stressful than the incident itself, but sometimes it can seem that way—particularly

for women or the elderly. InBangalore, India, the police department has embarked on a program to reduce that stress and make it easier for residents to report incidents more comfortably and conveniently. In collaboration with Cisco, the Bangalore City

Police launcheda First Information Report Registration Service pilot project it dubbed “Police One” in November 2104. It is the first of its kind in India

olice One kicked off with the placement of anenclosed Internet-connected kiosk that uses the Cisco Remote Expert for Government Services (REGS) solution—and conveniently located it in a shopping mall where people al-ready gather.

The Police One kiosk allows a complainant to enter and to initiate a First Incident Report (FIR). Help getting started is available from an onsite policeman, but the complaint is ac-

tually registered through a live agent who ap-pears on the built-in monitor in the kiosk(see image). The complainant provides the incident information to the agent who enters it into the police system. The complainant can scan rel-evant documents via the built-in scanner and type in additional information via the built-in keyboard (ifthey are able). When the report is complete, the individual receives a print out from the built-in printer, whichconfirms that the complaint has been registered and pro-vides tracking information for follow-up. In addition to easing citizen stress, the service can also improve the department’s own ability to track reports.

The solution has been a resounding success. Inits first10months, Public One collected more than 1,000 incident reports from the public and already shows the first signs of its ability to reduce redundancy and costs and increase ef-ficiency, public safety and citizen satisfaction.

Following on the success of the first Police One, six additional kiosks have been added to the system. Although there have been some procedural challenges, the department hopes that the expanded network of kiosks will fur-ther extend its ability to engage with citizens, gather critical information and track and re-spond to incident reports.

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“Police One” How the Bangalore Police Department

Successfully Used ‘Cisco Remote Expert for Government Services’ (REGS) Kiosks to Reduce

Stress, Improve Citizen Engagement, and Track Issues

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KEY HIGHLIGHTS• The “Police One” kiosk

Remote FIR Registration service allows the Police Department to gather, regis-ter, and track complaints in a convenient, safe, familiar location in a privet, con-nected kiosk, using built-in equipment, with the help of

a centralized agent to reduce overall operating costs and improve efficiency.

• Police One is helping Ban-galore City Police modernize its services and extend its hours and its reach us-ingpublic locations where

residents already gather.

• Police one has the prom-ise of reducing the need for travel to a police station—which may be particularly daunting to women and the elderly--to register com-plaints.

FEATURES AND BENEFITS OF THE REMOTE FIRST INFORMATION REPORT (FIR) REGISTRATION SYSTEM• The “Police One” kiosk n allows citizens

to connect with the Police Department re-motelywithout having to visit a jurisdictional Policestation..

• The solution gives citizens the ability to register complaints with the police depart-ment using remotehigh-definition video and high-quality sound equipment.

• Helps police personnel to conduct a complete service transaction, including document shar-ing and printing of an FIR copy remotely

• Allows for a personalized interaction with a police officer with confidentiality throughout the session.

• Improved police department employee productivity through centralization of police resources and expertise.

• Increased access to Bangalore City Police services in remoteareas of the city.

• Improved traffic flow management by dis-persing Police One kiosks acrosskey areas of the city reducing traffic in city centers.

• Better overall citizen satisfaction with and perception of the police department.

• Ability to pay traffic fines and interact with the police officer in a confidential and secure manner.

For more information on Police One, the Cisco Remote Access for Government Services (REGS) solution, or other Cisco Smart+Connected Communities solutions, visit our website at http://www.cisco.com/go/smartconnectedcommunities or Contact : Krishna Prasad at [email protected]

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Telcos Feasibility of Smart Cities

A smart city uses information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance quality, performance and interactivity of urban services, to reduce costs and resource consumption and to improve contact between citizens and government. Smart cities not only involve integration of multiple technologies but also to keep the basic needs and overall infrastructure intact.

he core infrastructure elements are adequate water supply, 24*7 electricity supply, sanitation, solid waste management, efficient public transport, affordable housing, robust IT connectivity, e-Governance and citizen participation, sustainable environment, storm water drains, pedestrians, non-motorized and public transport facilities, safety and security of citizens of all ages and health & education. Robust IT connectiv-ity forms the backbone of all the services mentioned above because it is the major link which connects the whole chain.Smart City Value ChainCities or rather firms aiming for smart cities who de-sire to obtain full value from their ICT investments should look at smart city technology from a total value chain perspective rather than treating each ICT proj-ect as an individual technology problem. The smart city value chain basically comprises of smart objects and devices, network operations and management, an-alytics, cloud services, platform providers and service providers for smart cities. And all of these is spread over 4 major layers namely, utility layer, network or physical layer, analytics layer and applications layer. With the increased usage of mobile internet devices such as smart phones and sensor-devices that connect to various networks, the job is easier for organizations to track important information. Combined with visu-

al interfaces, data collected through the interaction of people, mobile technology and the environment can be used for policy decisions.

Real-time data streams-off these devices and pro-vides terabytes of raw data. And with IoT emerging as the major driver, these raw data streams may be used to identify citizens and their activities, e.g. catch-ing a bus or making a phone call to a taxi company, purchases made by citizens within the city, mobile network activity etc. These important chunks of data can be leveraged for further improvement in service delivery and customer satisfaction.

Now when it comes to managing the entire net-work, initially a centralized NOC is required which ensures network integrity by closely monitoring its performance and alerting for any errors so that prompt action is taken. An efficient NOC which keeps system, and the citizens, safe from potential threats to the network is need of the hour.There are many challenges and opportunities of emerging and future smart cities with smart grids, which can be addressed by means of cloud computing, for instance, consis-tency of heterogeneous data from different sources like sensors, SCADA system, real-time massive data streaming, etc. A cloud-based platform will be really helpful in minimizing network complexity and pro-viding cost-effective solutions as well as increasing

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the utilization of energy. Smart grid and smart city services/applications may be de-ployed in various ways, such as in a private cloud, community cloud, or hybrid cloud. At the center of smart city service delivery are domain-independent service-delivery platform providers, who present a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering that integrates IoT devices and infrastructures, processes and analyzes data from a large amount of distributed data sources in real time, and lets applications employ both IoT and cloud resources on demand.Public/private part-nerships are necessary to achieve smart cit-ies. Network operators have huge opportu-nities to work upon in marketing, education and training. With education services and support tools, government collaboration tools, connections across data systems and sharing (P2P) ecosystem infrastructure net-work operators should proactively identify opportunities and work on them to achieve desired goals.Role of System IntegratorsIn the market flooded with telco players, it is very important for any telco to position itself appropriately to gain advantage out of it. Today every telco has positioned itself as connectivity provider that is Wireless Broadband Access. It’s quite easy for telco to work on selective verticals due to short implementation and rapid results. Even-tually they are confining themselves to the very limited part of the overall space lead-ing to limited revenue generation which is the financial goal of any organization. There are many different verticals where telcos can spread their legs: sensor man-agement, data aggregators, providing se-curity services. At the same time it is very important that horizontal service platform that aggregates and share information and services across various verticals is partic-ularly needed. If we analyze the smart city models of Vienna and Stuttgart, telcos are acting as a hub for smart city environment because they are connecting each vertical with every horizontal service and therefore

not limiting themselves only to connec-tivity providers. According to a study by Arthur D Little: “Fully integrated smart city solutions ensure 15% addition to GDP contribution”. It’s very important to choose right business model. Telcos should position themselves as solution providers rather than service providers. If they manage to do it, it will give them three times more revenue. Management of Network ElementsThe term ‘network element’ means a fa-cility or equipment used in the provi-sion of any service. With structuring and grouping, it is very well seen that in any distributed network there are devices per-forming one complex function. At that, those devices can be placed in different locations. Smart Street Lightning is a typ-ical example of such a distributed group of devices. It typically involves integra-tion of multiple other intelligent systems like traffic light control, security cameras, environmental sensors, LED lights and short distance communication networks etc. Thus the Central command does the complex job of controlling all the entities inside. The Smart City is utilizing of cut-ting edge, coordinated materials, sensors, gadgets, and systems which are interfaced with automated frameworks contained databases, following, and choice making calculations. The principle objective of the Smart City design is to give a structure to the execution of data administrations for checking basic frameworks and compose the Smart City information bases. Smart City will exploit correspondence and sen-sor abilities sewn into the urban communi-ties’ bases to enhance electrical, transport, and other logistical operations supporting in day by day life, in this manner enhanc-ing the personal satisfaction for every-body. The key regions for dealing with the system components in shrewd city are Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Perfor-mance and Security (FCAPS).

The administration of the system component can be subdivided into three sections:

Hardware And Software Components Handling Data Base Elements

System Components Administration

The savvy idea is spoken to in transmit-ting and accepting the information utilizing correspondence conventions from and to the system component (resource). The advantages information sending and accepting is the base of checking and controlling the utilitarian operational structure required for cleverly arrange resources overseeing.

The most useful path is to insert the required equipment (operational sensors) and programming amid the configuration stage.

The second component for making Smart City is to develop the best possible database that would mirror the current/pro-posed framework systems. The database needs to mirror the fulfillment of the system resources and also the consistency and information honesty. The benefits positional precision is critical viewpoint that must be taken watch over all of system resources which will mirror the physical reality of the framework that would be the base for all system spatial investigation activities. Then again the database needs to deal with the information correspondence conventions between the advantages programmable rationale controllers and the information servers.

In the wake of setting up the database that mirrors the physical reality of the benefits/system segments. The third component is to develop the most commonsense and proficient Management System (MS). The MS needs to have a computerization work outline that must be insightfully worked keeping in mind the end goal to spare vitality and as needs be diminish the running expense. The size of vitality sparing created because of the temperate mechanization and agreeable/ease operation mirrors the level of the savvy a specific building has.

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These days progress or development of a nation has got a new defini-tion. The nations are now battling to have maximum number of

smart cities. The nation can become smart only if it focuses on solving the problem by providing smart solution to the people and improving lifestyle of the people and also creating opportunities for urban de-velopment by supporting eco sustainability initiatives. When talking about cities like Dubai they have come up with a new inno-vative technology of tolling system which is also known as Salik Operation. This free flowing system of toll has no plazas or gates, they have no collectors or toll booths and everything is done electronically and doesn’t require any maintenance. Apart from Dubai, In China every bus station in

Karamay has been equipped with electron-ic screen which display information about next arriving bus stop and also residents can get exact schedule on their mobile devices. The role of ICT is an important aspect in the concept of smart city as its future will com-pletely depend on internet technologies, internet of things, location based services and trust and security platforms. To pre-pare a smart plan one should have a look at the four important aspects namely network infrastructure, network and communica-tion, building intelligence and e-service for people. Coming to the initiatives taken in the smart city project, usually government takes the initiative. For example say Mas-dar City where the special economic zone has been created by presidential law. Same is in the case of Cape Town and Suwon city

where the Minister of Korea collaborated with Ministry of construction and transpor-tation to resolve the issues related to U-city which would be realized in newly created cities. Amsterdam is an example in which the government works hand in hand with private companies and other partners like the electric grid operators called as Liander working to reduce energy consumption in the city and to tackle environment related problems.

Keeping in mind the constraints within India related to infrastructure, government policies and regulations, etc. and amalgam-ating it with the lessons learnt from the implementation of smart cities globallywill pave the way for more efficient network of smart cities.

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Smart City Needs Smart

CitizensTraditionally, initiatives like smart city are indicators of a developed

economies. The developing country will be asuccessful developed country when its citizens also upgrade and update themselves. Now,

in India, the smartcity initiative is going on in full swing with the top 20 smart cities stepping into the next step of implementation.

Though Smart City mission is focusing on the technology overlaying the basic infrastructures that will be built inright place and

sufficient quantity in the cities, it is important that the most vital aspect ie the citizens, who createcities, live, work and grow within

it to be integral part of the implementation process. The vibrant and successfulfuture of smart cities lies with Smart Citizens!

smart citizen is one who has civic sense and respects the law. Although the smart city concept is driven byadvanced technologies to monitor and manage the system, its success is highly depen-dent on the engagementof citizens. Some of unanswered questions as far as citizen participation is concerned are:-

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Awareness about smart solutions plays crucial role in developing a true smart citizen, although the local authorities

would make substantial investment in smart cities and smart solutions, they would need to make sufficient effort in raising citizen awareness and efficient usage of the service.

For example, energy saving cannot be achieved by simply having a smart meter in the house. In fact, in order to reduce en-ergy consumption and save money on bills, consumers need to monitor their energy use carefully through smart meters and then make an effort to change the whole family’s daily energy usage behaviour, such as less water usage, reduce water wastage, less TV watching, switching off electrical applianc-es when not in use, etc, especially in peak time along with shifting to energy efficient appliances.

Strategic Consulting team of JLL advo-cates citizen participation as the ma-jor success factor in implementing the

smart solutions in a city and successfully demonstrated it while preparing the smart city proposal for Bhubaneshwar and Chen-nai which are part of the top 20 smart cities; Bhubaneshwar being number one ranked. Below aspects are few which should be fol-lowed to make the smart city mission suc-cessful through Smart Citizens across India.Citizen should update and upgrade them along with these smart cities for a colourful success story

A smart city connects people with their environment and city to create more efficient and optimal relationships between available resources, technology, communities, ser-vices, and events in the urban fabric. This connection is a tool that links the implemen-tation of the smart city and the technology in proposal.

Joint engagement of citizens and government

Political will and the technical capacity to engage citizens in policy making, or pro-viding accurate data on government performance are signs of developed democ-racies. It is important to make policies for city’s growth and comprehensive de-

velopment. However, a smart city realizes that “policy” alone is not enough to reach the goals. It looks for support among its citizens and local stakeholders in order to achieve its ambitions. They are called to jointly take responsibility and to engage in the process. Building social capital is essential to ensure that smart citizens acquire the capabilities and skills to meet the challenges of the future. Only then does a city become “future fit”.

Technology Support

Technology has given the world new dimensions. Globally, the citizens are be-coming technology oriented in every aspect for their comfort and convenience. Technology support has become an essential factor for citizen and city’s growth.

The use of innovative ICT applications, smart phones, and fixtures are the process of making smart citizens. When city dwellers use the internet to make smarter, more in-formed choices, cities become smarter too. Smartphone owners in cities globally are now making this happen. Thus, the approach towards smart city mission should have to be a balance between technological and non-technological approach. ICT platform is the tool to bridge the current gap between the government and the citizens. Smart city concept has understood this fact and has emphasized inclusion of ICT solutions as part of its entire proposal. Going forward, such a system will be robust and sustainable. In this regard there are lot of apps and various online platform available that facilitate citizen participation, few of them are Swachh Bharat Clean India mobile app, IPaidABribe.com, Safecity India, Next Bengaluru, Kumbhathon, etc. Cities become more dynamic by the use of such platforms.

Citizen Participation:Citizens play crucial role in developing cities. Most of the developed cities en-

sure that citizens participate in every as-pect from cleaning to safety requirements. Citizen participation ensures citizen sat-isfaction, citizen satisfaction inturn en-sures maximum efficiency of the proposed technology.A good governance is always measured by the extent of involving its citizens in the decision making process. In an increasingly complex world, citizens’

input is a critical resource for policy-mak-ing. Good decision-making requires the knowledge, experiences, views and values of the public. The participation of citizens has become simpler through online partic-ipation in Govt. portals. This will reduce the conflict of opinion among the citizens and makes the implementation easy.Smart citizens need to be fully inclusive, innova-tive, and sustainable i.e. implementation of smart city mission requires a holistic approach from citizens.

» Will people obey the traffic rules, drive within speed limit and don’t jump signals?

» Will people put pedestrians first and leave space for them?

» Will people respect elders and give way to senior citizens?

» Will people park their vehicles at designated lots and not anywhere else on the road?

» Will people clean not only their flats but outside of their apartment complex?

» Will people throw garbage or spit only in bins?

» Will people do source segregation during garbage disposal?

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Already government has taken necessary tools to make the citizen proactive in smart city mission participation. Some of them are;Street Cam-

paigning, Education Programs in Schools and Colleges, Advertisements through media, Hoardings, Consulta-tion programs with Govt. officials, Online participation etc.Mygov is an excellent example of such an initiative, where ICT integrates and increases the efficiency of citizen engagement. All the policy level decision will directly involve citizens’ opinions. This platform will make the system more transparent and act as an inter-active forum between the citizens and the government. This platform enables the citizens to post their com-ments and suggestion on the proposal. It includes dif-ferent types of participation (i.e., voting, raising public awareness, advocating for an issue, monitoring political processes) that will best promote democratic develop-ment in different contexts. It is a technology that is cre-ated to purposefully connect citizens’ groups and ampli-fy their voices

In addition, private tech players are continuously exploring many smart technologies from smart mo-biles to smart furniture/appliance and bringing to the market at affordable prices to make it reach to all cat-egories of people. It not only helps in cost saving but also connects with the globe to move one-stepforward with smart technologies. Moreover, it is noticed that the formation of societies in residential colonies and many corporate companies across many cities in India are taking initiatives in cleaning the neighbourhood, roads, water bodies, plantation of trees, recycling of electronic waste etc. This will motivate the citizens to participate and come forward in taking the Smart City initiative to next level.Finally, to enable a move towards a greater share of online participation channels, such as through smartphone applications and social media, municipali-ties needs to make sure they invest in smart people and not only in smart technologies.Only then will tools like smartphones and mobile applications have the potential to revolutionize city governance and contribute to the making of a people-centric smart city.

Smart cities need to have smart citizens to be fully inclusive, innovative and sustain-able. Smart cities are directly proportional to smart citizens. More smart the city is, it demands equally efficient and smarter citizens otherwise the proposals will hold good only for documentation but not im-plementation. Similar to the government is the city’s growth i.e. of the people, by the people, for the people. A city is a reflec-tion of how its citizens perceive it. A smart city actually is how a city behaves as an innovative ecosystem, in a smart way. One thing is certain, there is no such thing as a standard template or a magic all-in-one smart city application. Allowing citizens to become active in the process of city design and building enabling “‘bottom-up’ inno-vation and collaborative ways of devel-oping systems out of many loosely joined parts, will help in implementing Smart City successfully.

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A city-driven, people-centered approach for India and the world

Smart City 2.0

What is it that makes a city - or its vision for the future- smart?

f you ask ten city officials from as many cities and countries, you will get ten dif-ferent, sometimes radically different, an-swers.And rightly so.

Definitions of what a smart city should be change according to geog-raphy, political landscapes, values and history of the places. They also change over time.

Some cities mightapproach the smart city concept in terms of making an ex-tensive use of cutting edge information technology to improve efficiency of pub-lic infrastructure. Others might be focus-ing more on ensuring access to public services through smart urban planning.

Most of the debate so far has stressed the centrality of technology, especially ICT and digital tech. However, technolo-gy cannot be but a means to an end, and the real question that cities are increas-ingly starting to ask themselves is what they want the city to be smart for.

I The concept of “smart city” has become a hot topic, with new technologies encouraging cities to explore methods of connect-ing and integrating sustainabil-ity solutions. But the discus-sion does not always reflect the reality on the ground. Around the world, a new understanding of the smart city is emerging, as can be seen in examples from three pioneering cities in Asia and Europe.

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Smart solutions from smart cities Smart City 2.0

India’s 100 Smart Cities

The Songdo Smart City project, in South Ko-rea, is known for its

artificial urban space and use of new technologies. Its buildings are equipped with automatic climate control and water, waste, and elec-tricity systems with electron-ic sensors to enable the city’s brain to track and respond to the movement of residents.

The population in Songdo is rapidly increasing, but people are not moving in for the technology: with 40 percent of the city given to park space, Songdo offers its inhabitants a greener daily life; it is also a magnet for foreign education institutions, ap-pealing to Korean parents, who value rigorous higher education.

The city of Berlin in Germany, Europe, strives for “smart-

ness” through several proj-ects ranging from electric sustainable mobility to the development of clean tech parks. Over 300 research groups and companies in Berlin are working on smart city-related subjects, and in-deed the local government has invested in open data as a way to ensure transparen-

cy and efficacy of public policies through its Open Data Portal: over 791 data sets are now available for research and app devel-opment. For instance, the “BürgerbautStadt” application makes it easier for citizens to participate in building projects and plan approval procedures.

The Vienna Smart City project in Austria, Eu-rope aims to improve

the city’s performance in three areas: resource pres-ervation, quality of life, and innovation. Driven by these goals, the city has imple-mented numerous special-ized smart city projects in different sectors. The MA48 Waste App is one good ex-

ample of Vienna’s approach to smartness: the app provides in-formation regarding waste disposal, including the next collec-tion dates, the nearest waste disposal sites, and updates to the system. Vienna uses the app to motivate citizens to participate in waste separation.

As can be seen from these few examples, ICT is involved to different degrees in the design and implementation of smart city projects, but the core and main driver of those

projects is sustainable urban development. A city isn’t smart based on the range of technical solutions it can deploy, but rather on what purpose those solutions serve. A smart city puts people at the center, not technology.

This is the core of what we call Smart City 2.0 approach.Ultimately it means two things.One, that cities can and should harness the power of innovation in order to improve the life of their citizens, in a range that goes from bringing efficient waste disposal and clean energy produc-tion to communities to ensuring that citizens of large metropo-lises can plan their daily commute with accuracy, ease and in the most sustainable way.

Two, that if no man is an island, this is even truer for cities. Networking and peer-to-peer sharing of resources and knowl-edge is crucial to ensure that good solutions can be replicated.

In Europe, the GrowSmarter – Smart City Lighthouse project created a network of three Lighthouse Cities, where smart solu-tions will first be implemented, and five Follower Cities, which will monitor the Lighthouse Cities to learn from their experi-ences, in order to identify measures suitable for their specific local context.

Like in this example from Europe,everywhere cities are connecting with each other to share smart city solutions, while building partnership with the private sector aiming

at the development and implementation of such solutions.Governments are not often directly involved in this endeavor.

The initiative launched by Indian central and state governments with the Smart City Mission is thus all the more interesting to explore and potentially capable of setting an example of coop-eration between local governments and their respective national counterparts.

The first phase of the Smart City Mission has begun, involv-ing 20 selected Indian cities. With the list of cities announced, the government and concerned agencies are gearing up to start an urban makeover of these cities. While much of the focus is on infrastructure, land use planning, transport, architecture and more use of information technology, citizen-friendly local gov-ernment and making cities less vulnerable to disasters will be other essential features of these smart city projects.

The 20 cities will be followed by two more batches of 40 and 38 cities over the next two years. It’s clear that the nation-al and state governments in India are looking to increasingly use technology to provide smart solutions for cities. Therefore it becomes all the more important that the governments and or-ganizations such as ICLEI help cities understand the scale of these interventions so that they can be tailored according to their needs. To achieve this, good governance – timely authori-zations, access to data, transparency in the use of funds, ability to deal with multi-stakeholdersituations and commitment to ca-pacity-building – will becrucial.

The government has promised to provide funds exceeding Rs 500 million in five years to help set up the first wave of 20 smart cities. The cities themselves also have plans to mobilize resources through public-private partnerships,whereby the pri-vate sector is expected to bring in advanced technical expertise and manpower.While the funds from the Government of India and states are a seed grant amount, the involved cities can source additional funding from private and other sources to implement their smart city plans.

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City-driven, people-centered

In an effort to accelerate the kinds of cooperation and exchange taking place in smart cities around the world, ICLEI is hosting the Smart CITIES 2.0 conference at

Metropolitan Solutions 2016 in Berlin, with an aim to help put cities back at the center of the smart cities debate and to set the tone for new projects. Events such as this and projects like GrowSmarteremphasize the importance of networking and cooperation: a constant exchange of ideas, expertise and approaches can in fact help each city find its own path to smartness.

They also reflect and build on a new understanding of smart cities: only a city-driven and people-centered approach can in fact ensure that urban development is implemented in an inclusive and fully sustainable way. This is true in India as elsewhere.

The India Smart City Mission is therefore a great opportu-nityto spread the Smart City 2.0 approach across major urban centers, and to accelerate the implementation of smartness in a way that benefits citizens as well as the private sector and governments. Let’s take it.

India’s Smart City Mission is an ambitious public-driven effort to dramatically improve the way cities work for citi-zens and businesses in a comprehensive way. Such a dream would certainlybenefit from cooperation with international organizations and among the cities themselves.

In fact, while some cities all across the globe might be able to share with Indian would-be smart cities effective and tested solutions to similar problems, the 100 Smart Cities program has the potential to provide unprecedented insights and lessons that could be then learned by other cities on a similar path.

At the moment, while some countries have already of-fered expertise and collaboration to the first 20 Indian smart cities, the scale of the whole project would allow for- and perhaps require-a greater degree of collaboration. Amid growing popularity for smart cities across the globe, this is certainly the right momentfor further cooperation and ex-changewith other cities that have already implemented use-ful policies that would add value to India’s Smart Cities’en-deavor.

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Roman Mendle, Smart City Program Manager, ICLEI World Secretariat

Vani Manocha, Communications Manager, ICLEI South Asia


MOUD ISSUES SMART CITY ADVISORY FOR SPV ESTABLISHMENT AND

CONVERTING PLANS TO PROJECTSBy - Ministry of Urban Development, Smart Cities Mission

FIGURE 1 Decision Tree for SPV Operationalisation

Project implementation has to start by 25th June, 2016.

A systematic way has to be followed to convert plans contained in the Smart City Proposals to a group of similar Projects (modules). The de-cision tree given in Fig.1 will assist the smart cities to make decisions connected to pro-jectivization of the integrated plans. Projectivizationof integrated plans will follow a two-step process –

Procure a Project Management Consulting Firm (PMC). The PMC can be of two types - a single one for the Area Based Development (ABD) and Smart Solutions (SS) Or separate PMCs for ABD and SS.

The PMC will design, develop the modules (set of projects), prepare the DPR/RfPs for the modules given in the Smart City Proposal and assist in their implementation, etc. as given in para. 10.6 of the Mis-sion Guidelines.

During projectivization, pre-pare a concept and a TOR for the PMC and send to the MoUD for providing handholding assistance.

The Smart Cities have to do a quick start of implementation of at least one module by 25 June 2016. One way is to use an existing PMC (WB/ADB) Or the PDMC (AMRUT) Or form multidisciplinary teams with individual consultants to design, develop projects and prepare the DPR and RFP. Such individual consultants are available in WB/ADB assisted projects in the States/Cities and MMUs of AMRUT.

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Importantly, theWB (CBUD) programme has been realigned and will fund AMRUT Reforms in the Smart Cities. The cities may prepare the concept and TORs and send to the MoUD to convert them to WB compliant RfPs and obtain funds. A decision tree to claim funds for Reforms from the WB supported CBUD programme is given in Fig 3.

On demand, the MoUD will provide close, timely and deep handholding assis-tance to the States/Cities/SPVs for all the Smart City Activities.

Citizen’s consultation at every stage is to be done by the SPV. This can be done either through using My-Gov platform or any other way or through any other platform.

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The SPVs have to be informed clients and not be completely dependent on the consultants and consultancy firms. In order to ensure objectivity, fairness and transparency, the SPVs should establish some mechanisms to independently review the RfPs prepared by the PMCs. The review should include assessment of objectivity, fairness, transparency and validation of the concept as set out in the Smart City Proposal. (Please see point 4.1,4a & 4b of Annexure 4 of SCM Guidelines).

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Indian cities are repeating the mistakes of developing countries by building more infrastructure that encourages personal vehicles at the expense of mass rapid transit.

n the next fifteen years, the top hundred cities of India will grow by around 60 percent. These cities will have 125 mil-lion new inhabitants, roughly the popu-lation of Japan! Today, with less than a third of all urban trips on personal motor vehicles (and less than 10% by personal cars), and more than two thirds by sus-tainable modes—walking, cycling, and public transport—Indian cities look good on paper. But, the ground reality is dif-ferent. Formal public transport is poor or non- existent. Uncomfortable, unsafe, and polluting paratransit services fill the gap in most cities. Walking and cycling facilities are completely missing, or unus-able if they exist. People use ‘sustainable’ modes out of financial compulsion, not out of choice. Cities are choked with traf-fic and pollution. Road fatality rates are 20-25 times that of developed countries.On the other hand, personal motor vehi-cle ownership is doubling every decade, at nearly thrice the rate of population growth. As more and more people depend on personal motor vehicles for their daily travel needs, cities try to accommodate this deluge of traffic by expanding roads, building flyovers, and increasing parking space. However, such automobile centric planning practices cause urban sprawl, re-sulting in longer commutes and more traf-fic on the roads. Infrastructure costs, user costs, travel times, and pollution increase; traffic safety worsens.

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Transport investments for better cities

To become smart, Indian cities must embrace a radically differ-ent approach to urban mobility: one that focuses on efficient and sustainable forms of mobility like public transport, walking and cycling. They also need to adopt a transit-oriented development (TOD) approach to create dense yet livable neighborhoods along mass transport lines, so that trips remain short and convenient and cities remain compact.

Large and medium-sized Indian cities must invest in an extensive network of rapid tran-sit along with a wide coverage of frequent, high-quality urban bus service. Further, cities of all sizes must invest in safe and convenient walking and cycling infrastructure. The aim should be to provide safe, convenient, and attractive mobility options for all while restrict-ing the vehicle-kilometres travelled (VKT) by personal motor vehicles to no more than pres-ent levels. In mode share terms, percentage of trips by personal motor vehicles should be cut by half of present level by 2031.

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BY : Shreya Gadepalli, Regional Director (South Asia) Institute for Transportation & Development Policy


A. global comparison of rapid tran-sit projects reveals that India has just 3.2 kilometers of rapid transit

per million urban residents (counting only cities with population of more than half million), a third of its peers China and Brazil, and less than a twentieth of France. To keep pace with its urban growth, India needs over a eight-fold increase of its mass rapid transit supply by 2031. However, at the present rate of building rapid transit in India, it would take at least

3-4 times longer, by when, the need for rapid transit would increase even further. India is not investing in sustainable urban transport at anything close enough to meet even basic mobility needs, much less to addressing the issues of inequity and en-vironmental degradation that are growing faster than the population.

Countries like Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico not only have much more urban rapid transit per capita than India but are expanding their systems at significantly

faster rate. The reason behind this is bus rapid transit (BRT)—an inexpensive and quick to implement rapid transit mode that can provide metro-quality service with the added benefit of flexibility of rubber-tyred buses compared to rail systems. BRT systems not only have dedicated median lanes to bypass congestion but also have feature elements like stepless boarding, off-board fare collection, and real-time passenger information that reduce delays and improve customer service.

The Ahmedabad BRT system—known as Janmarg or “the People’s Way”—has rev-olutionised expectations about bus-based

mass rapid transit in India. In a span of five years from 2009 to 2014, Janmarg has expanded from a 12.5 km corridor to a network of 88 km, providing connectivity across the city. Janmarg demonstrates that BRT can provide high-quality service at a fraction of the cost and has inspired similar BRT efforts like Rajmarg (Rajkot) in

2012, iBus (Indore) in 2013 and Citilink (Surat) in 2014. In 2015, Pune-Pimpri Chinchwad inaugurated Rainbow BRT. Bus operations are monitored from a central control centre using real-time data from GPS tracking devices on buses. The system uses a fleet of Euro IV CNG buses to contain emissions. With a daily ridership of 130,000, Rainbow BRT has helped reduce reliance on personal motorized vehicles. Around 12 percent of Rainbow BRT commuters

used personal motor vehicles for their daily travel earlier. Rapid transit, while important, is not enough. Many Indian cities have skeletal bus services or none at all. In their absence, people depend on intermediate public transport modes that are unsafe and, often, highly pollut-ing. Hence, a formal bus-based public transport service is a necessity in all cities. In all, Indian cities will need over 3 lakh new city buses and minibuses in operations by 2031.

Rapid Transit In India: A Global Comparison

BRT And Bus-Based Public Transport In India



Walking And Cycling: Basics Of Urban Transport

Building Cities Around Transit

More than a third of all the trips in our cities are made by foot or cycle. Public transport trips too start and end on foot—making walking integral to India’s transport

systems. Cities must focus on redesigning streets to support walking and cycling—clean modes of transport that still play an important role in Indian cities. Indian cities need to build at least 32,000 km of wide and accessible footpaths and 16,000 km of safe and convenient cycle tracks over the next fifteen years.

Chennai is the first Indian city to adopt a non-motorised transport policy to promote walking and cycling in the city.

The Corporation of Chennai has proposed to create a safe and pleasant network of footpaths, cycle tracks and greenways through the entire city to arrest the current decline in walking and cycling. 26 streets have been redesigned with better walking infrastructure, with another 20 streets under construction. Streets with wide carriageways and narrow or no footpaths have been replaced by wide, continuous and unhindered walking spac-es, safe pedestrian crossings, properly scaled carriageways, conveniently placed bus stops, and clearly designated on-street parking.

Investments promoting walking, cycling and public transport will not bear fruit unless Indian cities stop counterproductive car-centric investments like flyovers and elevated roads. No

city in the world has solved its congestion problem by building more roads.

Our cities should follow a simple mantra: Build transit, Add density, Control parking. Cities should encourage higher densities in areas where there is good connectivity to mass rapid transit. They must also ac-tively control personal motor vehicle use through park-ing restrictions and market-based pricing. Parking fees should be pegged to parking demand—higher demand, higher fee. Revenue generated from parking can be used to build better walking and cycling infrastructure and to expand public transport.

Ahmedabad’s Development Plan 2021 embraces this mantra. It encourages the use of public transport and promotes a compact city by encouraging higher density commercial and residential activities along BRT and Metro corridors while removing minimum requirements for off-street parking in new buildings. In fact, there is a cap on the amount of parking that new buildings can create—a maximum of two basement levels. Any additional parking will be deducted from the permitted FSI.

Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), through its draft parking policy, makes a case for limited parking. In areas with good connectivity to mass rapid transit, the emphasis is on controlling parking supply. As per the policy, the city will be divided into multiple parking districts. Parking rates in these districts will reflect rentals in the area, the size of the vehicle and the levels of congestion in the area.

PMC has also proposed in its 2016-17 budget to spend 50% of its transportation budget on footpaths, cycle tracks, and BRT, thus prioritising spending on sustainable transport over car-oriented infrastructure.

Revenue generated from parking will also be used to build streets with better walking and cycling infrastructure as well as to ex-pand public transport. Many vehicle-free zones are also planned, particularly on busy shopping streets.

THE WAY FORWARD

Benefits of adopting such a sustainable transport approach are many. It can bring down capital expenditure, fuel con-sumption, pollution levels and travel costs, saving money for government and individual citizens. Building safe streets that support the needs of all road users can also save tens of thousands of lives.

The Smart Cities Challenge has clear guidelines to promote walking, cycling, and public transport and will see an investment of around one trillion rupees (including central, state, and city contributions) over the next five years to develop best practices in the urban sector. Though these are good signs, implementation challenges remain. Access to funds, while essential, is not enough. Cities must also improve their capacity to plan and deliver high quality projects, by creating institu-tions with clear authority to plan, design, and implement. Smart are those cities that have the ability to create a sustainable, equitable and livable future.




Trenitalia joins myCicero network, the only platform where train, bus and metro solutions are integrated in a single App

luservice, an Italian company specialized in the devel-opment of IT solutions for managing passengers’ trans-port, has launched the first national platform which revolutionizes the concept of smart mobility and smart card.

We are talking about myCicero, the mobile pay-ment platform released in 2012 to improve the access to mobility services – from information on the pub-lic transport, purchase of tickets, payment of parking permits and access to Congestion Charge Zones, to the bike sharing, payment of fines, etc. – directly by smartphone.

After having gained in a few years the main Italian cities, from Rome to Milan, Turin and Bologna and many other smaller cities, Pluservice is now proud to welcome the most important sector player, Trenitalia, the Italian railway operator.

At the same time, a new feature has been introduced that makes myCicero really unique, providing a real integration between the different transport modes. Ac-

tually, the app enables users to search for door-to-door intermodal travel solutions, integrating urban, extra ur-ban and national transport services up to the purchase of tickets for every single journey and also for different transport companies.

Therefore, myCicero is a system able to support the user during all the steps of a journey: park the car in the closest parking area and pay only for actual parking time, have real time information on the status of public transport vehicles, buy bus and train tickets, get into the metro and book in the meanwhile a bike sharing service. Many are also the payment methods available, from the credit card to cash.

Such revolution has been made possible thanks to the know-how which Pluservice has developed in over thirty years’ experience, by serving more than 250 transport companies throughout Italy and thanks to the work of a team of more than 100 experts who created a network able to provide users with an efficient and certified service.

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myCicero wins the challenge of smart mobility, the final integration with Trenitalia

- Giorgio Fanesi, CEO, Pluservice

“With myCicero, we finally succeeded in placing the citizen and his mobility needs at the centre. That was possible by making the smartphone – the device that everyone holds in his pocket – the one real access key to the services of a territory, overcoming the tradi-tional concept of smart card in mobility”.


The Wise City is about Planning for Humans Again – Seriously

The one thing that is guaranteed to grab my 8-year olds attention away from his iPad, is the sound of his friends playing outside. It might surprise you, but this actually happened because we lived in a community where an outdoor play area is within earshot. Effectively, it’s really convenient for my son to be a kid and play. Though it seems obvious, I have learned as a resident of India, that once one crosses a certain socio-economic threshold that basic childhood necessity virtually disappears. The Indian street as a place for well healed adults to walk and enjoy, has also disappeared.

his is plea to reconsider the role of the city as a balanced environment for its people. People thrive when they are healthy, active and engaged in their community. Designing human centric cities means we are looking not only after people, but our ecosystem: it turns out that those places that are most conducive to a healthy lifestyle, day in, day out, also foster a smaller carbon footprint.

A well designed city enables people to exercise naturally as part of their daily lives. Having amenities that are ‘walkable’, that is within 5 or 10 minutes walking distance, helps residents avoid inactivity in the short term and life style diseases in the long term. Human beings are “de-signed” to walk 10-15,000 steps per day and for the most part, beyond a certain socio-economic level in India, they are not doing that.

The advantages of enclosed urban mega-projects and suburbia have largely disap-peared. Where once they were marketed as dream lifestyles, today, it usually means social separation, long commutes and an environmentally compromising lifestyle. But perhaps the greatest cost is to people’s well-being.

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THE ROAD TO SMART, INCLUSIVE, FUTURE

CITIES, IN INDIAMore than half of humankind now lives in urban areas, and much of this present-day

urbanization is taking place in Asia, especially in India and China. This process of urbanization is both a consequence of, and a further boost to, the forces that are driving economic growth in these countries. Indeed, urbanization will be a key

strategy for taking the Indian economy to the next level.

By Eastside Consulting


y 2030, 200 million more people would be living in Indian cities. There will be a net increase in work-ing age population of about 250 mil-lion, most of whom will be seeking employment opportunities in urban clusters. By 2030, nearly 70 cities will have a population of more than 1 million, as compared to 42 today.

Urbanization, however, is turning out to be a mixed blessing. Indian ur-ban centers are monuments to pover-ty, congestion, inefficiencies and pol-lution. Dysfunctional infrastructure creaks under the combined pressures of lopsided growth and governance gridlock. Yet, these cities are the in-cubators of the new middle-classes, and ceaseless job creators for rural migrants.

There will be huge demand for job creation, urban infrastructure, trans-portation, housing and sanitation, but above all else for smart, inclusive ur-ban planning that takes into account the future contours of the economy, the specifics of India’s demographic and socio-cultural patterns, the gov-ernance structure, the topographic layout, affordability issues, the com-parative advantages of locational choices, the constraints imposed by

resource availability and the respon-siveness required of an urban cluster belonging to a dynamic emerging economy.

The Smart City program in India is a giant leap in the direction of try-ing to address the issue of rapid ur-banization. However, due to the lock-in feature of cities, the fact that real estate once built up cannot be easily repositioned and the redeployed, the regulatory issues with rezoning, re-developing and resettlement in the Indian context, the need for, and the advantages of extensive study, planning & continuous research be-comes abundantly apparent, albeit in keeping with the overall national guidelines, while learning from best practices and experiences of other urban agglomerations and clusters, high-tech cities and future cities built around the world. Global expertise and experience, will play a key role to take into account all the specif-ic issues mentioned above, develop comparative insights and policy pre-scriptions, which are attentive to In-dia’s needs and objectives, and are in-formed by the successes and failures of other developing and developed countries.

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Critical Success Factors

There are a few pillars on which the planning and research should hinge upon such as India’s development trends, urban econom-ic future, urban character and research on city planning on which

strategic analysis needs to be conducted. It should include infrastructure, smart infrastructure, water, ecology, transportation, climate responsive planning, citizen inclusiveness etc. The next step of course would be to make sense out of this data.

Continuous Research on India’s existing socio-economic conditions to identify potential development trends over the next 2 decades, explore

the overall direction of development and socio-economic backgrounds, will be key to the success of the program. This will include demographic projections, future industrial and economic landscape, job creation issues, comparative advantage and the interplay of future technology, urban form and structure and the urban economy. Loca-tional choice will also be contingent upon the analysis of economic viability of the proposed urban center.

“Economic modelling combined with design and application of technology will be key to the success-ful transformation of the cities” - Subhendu Mohanty,

CEO & Founder, Eastside Consulting

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URBANA WORLD Mar-Apr 2016www.UrbanaWorld.com 58Public accessibility of services

“…. there are strong busi-ness cases for IoT monetiza-tion and return on investment….”

An integrated approach to planning, deployment, ad-aptation is the need of the hour for a pan City Smart infrastructure enablement using technologies which

help to connect the citizens and city infrastructure to the city authorities. One such technology is Internet of Things (IoT). The Smart, Inclusive & Future cities can leverage the Internet of Things to reduce costs, improve efficiency of services and engage citizens. Internet of Things can help governments optimize costs and avoid waste. City govern-ments and departments are looking to the Internet of Things to enable proactive maintenance and operations to achieve greater governance, cleanliness, safety and effectiveness. In addition, IoT will enable new revenue streams for the cities. The business case for IoT adoption for Smart, Inclu-sive and Future cities is tricky at its core. While there are strong business cases for IoT monetizationand return on in-vestment, decisions on technology selection and monetiza-tion needs cannot be made in isolation. First and foremost a comprehensive economic modelling needs to be performed by domain experts. The choice of technology and also the quantum of investments, needs to be decided on a city by city basis. What works for one city may not work for anoth-er, due to various socio economic factors.

Eventually the pan city deployment of the sensor networks, would be the neural life of the city. Ad-equate planning of these sensor networks would be

essential to increasing effectiveness of the city agencies and engaging citizens. Data from IoT sensors, devices, applications and the specialized analytics that make sense of it will create new layers of information that will have a far-reaching impact on virtually every city and trans-forming the way we live. Analytics will be instrumental in making cities safer, more efficient, more transparent, and ultimately, more profitable.

The ability of the IoT systems to interwork with each other will be critical to the success of the program. Interoperability between IoT systems is critically

important to capturing maximum value and insights. While Privacy and cybersecurity are still issues with IoT, it is not a deterrent to IoT adaption as new and more advanced se-curity algorithms get embedded into the sensors, actuators and central platforms.

A key objective of the Smart, Inclusive, Future Cities Program is to serve as a catalyst for transformational change, with significant con-tributions to urban economic growth in the city. The program will

drive job creation, entrepreneurship, innovation, productivity, integration of formal and informal business sectors, and urban economic efficiency, in-clusivity. The program has the promise to improve quality of urban life and create economic opportunity for all, especially the poor, including afford-able housing, public and cultural open spaces, reduction in commuting time, an overall green environment, and structural enhancements for improved safety and security.

- Dr. Ashok Bardhan, Advisor, Eastside Consulting

To ensure a stable, prosperous and sustainable development of a public-government partnership in transforming urbanization

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MK:Smart - An approach for Sustainable

URBAN GROWTH

MK: Smart is a large collab-orative initiative to support economic growth in Milton Keynes, UK. Central to the project is the creation of a state-of-the-art ‘MK Data Hub’ which supports the ac-quisition and management of vast amounts of data relevant to city systems from a variety of data sources. These will include data about energy and water consumption, transport data, data acquired through satellite technology, social and economic datasets, and crowdsourced data from social media or specialised apps.

mart brings together Government, academia and business to test real Smart City solutions in a live urban environment, addressing issues such as traffic congestion has significant impact on air quality, and increasing health and productivity. The development uses technology to enhance quality, performance and interactivity of urban services, to reduce costs and resource consumption and to improve contact between citizens, government, education and business.

Building on the capability provided by the MK Data Hub, the project will innovate in the areas of transport, energy and water management, tackling key demand issues. In addition to these technical solutions, MK:Smart also comprises ambitious education, business and community engagement activities, including:S

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• Anintegratedprogrammeofbusinessengagement,aimedatsupportingbusinessesthatwishtotakeadvan-tageoftheinnovationcapabilitiesdevelopedinMK:Smart.AkeycomponentofthisactivitywillbetheInnovationandIncubationCentre(IIC)atUniversityCampusMiltonKeynes(UCMK),whichwillprovidetrainingindata-drivenbusinessin-novationandthedigitaleconomy,aswellashands-onsupportforbusinessdevelopment,demonstrationfacilities,andanincubationspace.

• Asmartcityeducationprogrammeengagingawiderangeofaudiences,fromlocalschoolstohighereduca-tionstudentsandbusinesses.Thisprogrammewillprovideadvancedtrainingcoveringdigitaltechnolo-gies,businessinnovationandurbanservicestoempowerstudentsandpractitionerswiththeskillsandcom-petencesneededtoparticipateinthecreationofasmartcity.

• Engagementactivitytoinvolvecitizensintheinnovationprocess,notjustthroughanoutreachprogramme,butalsobyengagingthecommunityininnovation-centricdecision-makingprocessesthroughtheestablishmentofaCitizenLab.

• Promotingsustainablegrowthwithoutexceedingthecapacityoftheinfrastructure,andwhilstmeetingkeycarbonreductiontarget

• Engagingbusinessesandcommunitiesininnovation-centricdeci-sion-makingprocessesthroughtheestablishmentofaCitizenLab

• Createreplicablesolutionswithhands-onsupportforbusinessdevelopment,demonstrationfacilities,andanincubationspace

• Identifyingandtriggeringstartupecosysteminthecity

• Stimulatingthelocalemploymentopportunities

MK:Smartendeavourstoachievethefollowingsocial,economicalandenvironmentalbenefits:

Investing in MK:Smart helps Citizens/ SMEs address the city problems by learning from the work done, research undertaken and by imple-menting aspects of a proven infrastructure for data driven technology.

The infrastructure elements (from data hub to buses) are scalable and replicable and the knowledge is transferable to various other urban contexts. In return for capital invest-ment, the city will reuse the learnings and infrastructure, to replicate experiments with-out excessive start-up costs, an yet facilitate change and create new services.

WHAT IS INNOVATIVE ABOUT THIS PROJECT?

IMPACT ACHIEVED

MK:Smart is a ‘smart city’ project that involves using large scale data and ana-lytics to support sustainable urban growth.• Central to the project is the creation of a state-of-the-art ‘MK Data Hub’

which will support the acquisition and management of vast amounts of data relevant to city systems from a variety of data sources. The Data Hub will allow enterprise and startups to run their apps and do trials on the available data sets

• This project is also unique as it also promotes open innovation by exposing and making available a wide variety of datasets

• The Project MK: Smart opens up and promotes other SMEs/businesses/ Cit-izens/StartUps to run trials in the city by exposing the various data sets to be used to benefit the city

• Tech Mahindra is developing an Integrated City Command Centre for MK:Smart which provides a 360 degrees view of the things happening in the city

Author - Prajakt Deotale, Head Smarter and Sustainable Cities, Europe, Tech Mahindra Limited

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BORNHOLM ENERGY 2016 a perfect example how Innovation of Cities embraces Bornholm’s renewable energy projects to show how cities can learn and share

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Innovation of Citiesenables local governments to identify successful urban innovations across cities worldwide and share best practices, ideas and experiencesto maximise progress and minimise costs.Their projects leverage global collaboration and advocacy for urban innovation and sustainable development.

or past projects in Amsterdam, Dublin and Hanoi, theyhave worked together with cities, governmental bodies, regional authorities, non-governmental orga-nizations, universities and research organizations.

Bornholm Energy 2016 ispart of a series of local urban innovation events each year under the umbrella of ‘The Innovation of Cities’platform to identify suc-cessful urban innovations and share the vast changes, improvements, and enhancements in various cities.

For 2016 they are planning events and gatherings on sustainable innovative urban solutions and projects in the United Kingdom, Ireland, USA, Netherlands, Austria, Slovakia and Denmark.

TheBornholm Conference & Tour provides insight into numerous research and development projects on renewable-energy. The programme consists of presen-tations, panel & wrap up discussions and demo-visits, with many opportunities to network with peers within their Energy or City role, or those who have similar initiatives and needs.

We know that the resources we base our society on are not inexhaustible. We know that we must change our way of living if we are to ensure a sustainable fu-ture for our children. We know that we must phase out our use of energy produced by oil and coal.

Bornholm’s vision is to create a CO2-neutral so-ciety based on renewable and sustainable energy by 2025. They have come a long way. For example, in the course of 2016, Bornholm’s local district heating and power generation under normal production con-ditions will be exclusively produced by wind, solar power and biomass.

Bornholm has 10 years to reach this goal. The new energy strategy outlines where efforts must be made to get them all the way over the finish line. New tools have also been developed. The energy strategy’s sim-ulation model can measure the progress they make and how new technologies can be adapted to their en-ergy system along the way. It is also a tool which can show how new projects can be adapted to the total energy system so production can be optimised–for the benefit of the consumers.

With the new energy strategy, Bornholm as a com-munity can contribute with a demonstration of an en-ergy system on a community scale for the benefit of other parts of the world who can use the Bornholm example.

Bornholm is one of the best places in the world for testing new renewable-energy technologies. Since 2011 the island of Bornholm, its own energy compa-ny Østkraft and numerous partners are collaborating pioneers in innovative research and development projects, involving solar cells, wind turbines, district heating, heat pumps, energy-efficient construction projects and the development of an intelligent elec-tricity system –each of which aims to reduce carbon emissions.

The results and experiences of these projects re-ceive attention from around the world. Bornholm pro-vides an appropriate test case; it’s a closed system, yet it is representative of the rest of Denmark in terms of economy and demographics –and a reliable example for Europe.

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BORNHOLM HAS BEEN CHOSEN AS A TEST ISLAND BECAUSE-

THE SMARTEST, GREENEST GRID WHAT THE LITTLE DANISH ISLAND OF BRONHOLM IS SHOWING THE WORLD ABOUT THE FUTURE OF ENERGY

In the coming years, this major urban development will be taking place in Nordhavn, which is situated like a peninsula adjacent to the Copen-hagen district of Østerbro. Until

recently Nordhavn was best known as a port of call for cruise ships and container traffic. However, as the industry moved away, this created a unique opportunity to invest the old industrial area with a brand new identity and function. A consortium consisting of Cobe, Sleth, Polyform and Rambøll were responsible for the winning proposal for Nordhavn, which is now in the process of being realised. The project will progress over the next 40-50 years. Eventually Nordhavn will accommodate 40,000 residents and pave the way for the same number of jobs.

The Sustainable City of the Future

The Sustainable City of the Future is also the motto and vision for the Nordhavn project. The term, “sustainability” refers to every

aspect of the concept, not just to environ-mental responsibility. Six sub-points for the overall vision formed the framework for the competition’s assignment, ensuring that every aspect of sustainability would be incorporated.

The Sustainable City of the Future is at once: an environmentally friendly city; a vibrant city; a city for everyone; a city by the water; a dynamic city; a city with green traffic.

Six themes for Nordhavn

The winning proposal is based on six themes, which match the six points of the vision. The themes are as follows: Islets and Canals;

Identity and Cultural Traces; Five-Minute-City; Blue and Green City; CO2-Friendly City; and Intelligent Grid.

The offices of ‘The Innovation of Cities’platform are located at DCU ALPHA, the Dublin City University Innovation Campus, Old Finglas Road, Glasnevin, Dublin 11, Ireland.


thyssenkrupp launches MAX : THE GAME CHANGER

Maximizing city efficiency with leading

Microsoft Azure IoT-enabled technology


iming to ease stress in the lives of over one billion people who use elevators each day—a number expected to rise as urban populations increase by three billion in the next three decades—thyssenk-rupp is launching its Microsoft Azure IoT-enabled MAX to increase transport capacities in buildings. With the groundbreaking MAX installed world-wide, time savings for elevator passengers could be equivalent to 108 centuries of new availability in each year of operation. thyssenkrupp Elevator launches MAX, a game-changing predictive and pre-emptive service solution that extends remote monitoring capabilities to dramatically increase current availability levels of existing and new el-evators. Utilizing the power of Microsoft Azure Internet of Things (IoT) technology, MAX makes it possible for an elevator to “tell” service tech-nicians its real needs, including real-time identi-fication of repairs, component replacements, and proactive system maintenance.

Today’s twelve million elevators worldwide move one billion people each day, making the ele-

vator the most used means of transport – and also the safest – but in one year of operation these ele-vators are unavailable due to service interventions in a cumulative amount of over 190 million hours (or 216 centuries); MAX is set to significantly im-prove all these statistics, aiming to cut unavailabil-ity periods by half.

With MAX, data collected in real time from millions of connected thyssenkrupp elevators is sent to Microsoft’s trusted Azure cloud platform, where an algorithm calculates the remaining life-time of key systems and components in each ele-vator. Now, thyssenkrupp’s team of over 20,000 global service engineers and technicians will be able to rely on MAX as their wingman, making it possible to inform building owners in advance when key systems or components will need to be repaired or replaced, program interventions, and thereby avoid out-of-service signs on elevator doors. In a MAX-connected building, people will wait less time for elevators, resulting in decreased stress and more quality time.

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Chief Executive Officer, thyssenkrupp Elevator

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IDC Fellow for The Internet of Things

“Our mission is to revolutionize and do something nobody else in our field has done before: To transform a century-old industry that has relied on established technology until now. Cities of today need inno-vations that respond to the challenges of the massive urbanization we are currently witnessing. We are very pleased to work with Microsoft to truly take thyssenkrupp into the digital era and change the way the elevator industry offers maintenance services.” Schierenbeck add-ed, “MAX is the second pillar of our revolution and comes after the introduction of absolute breakthrough mechanical technologies such as the TWIN elevator and the rope-less MULTI technology for future buildings, designed to reduce the elevator footprint and release vital space for additional rent revenues in buildings.”

“Building on our trusted cloud plat-form, Microsoft Azure IoT capabili-ties are connecting millions of systems for thyssenkrupp, helping them inte-grate and analyze their data so they can move from reactive to proactive business models. Through intelligent data, thyssenkrupp is truly transforming their business and the way they engage with building managers.”

“thyssenkrupp is a prime example where telem-etry data from the worldwide installed base of thyssenkrupp elevators could be analyzed to reduce the equipment downtime through preemptive main-tenance prior to failures.”



MAX is a major milestone in thyssenkrupp Elevator’s business strategy. In the 18-month launch period the

company aims to connect some 180,000 units in North America and Europe, with the US, Germany, and Spain as pilot coun-tries and other key countries in Europe as well as in Asia and South America follow-ing shortly after. In two years, the offering will be expanded to all continents, becom-ing available to some 80% of all elevators worldwide.Today, thyssenkrupp provides mainte-nance services at some of the world’s most iconic buildings and transport infrastruc-tures, including the newly opened One World Trade Center in New York and the Denver Airport, US; the Panama Canal, Panama; the Metro Sao Paulo, Brazil; the BMW headquarters building in Munich and the European Central Bank in Frank-furt, Germany; the Royal London Hospi-tal in London, UK; the Madrid-Barajas airport, Spain; the Federation Tower in Moscow, Russia; the Dubai airport, UAE; the World Financial Centre in Shanghai, China; the Shinsegae Centum City, Korea, and thousands of other buildings around the globe.

Urbanization trends and the global elevator market thyssenkrupp has a strong commitment to generate innovations that support city planners, authorities, and people trans-forming current and future cities into the best places to live that mankind has ever created. By the end of this century, it is estimated that around 70% of the global population will be living in cities and in this, the age of smart technology, com-panies such as thyssenkrupp have an in-trinsic role to play in shaping our urban landscapes by making smart cities of the future as efficient and sustainable as pos-sible.Urbanization is an unstoppable trend, and an estimated additional 85% of the existing urban floor space will need to be developed by 2025, with the number of elevators to be serviced and kept in operation at optimum performance lev-els also growing by a similar percentage. Already by 2020, the global demand for elevator equipment (including elevators, escalators, and moving walks) and ser-vices is projected to rise over 4% annually to 61 billion euros, with the maintenance service business valued at approximately half of the total.

ELEVATORS AND CITY EFFICIENCY

Today, time wasted by people waiting for elevators is a global issue, generating significant stress in large office and mixed-use buildings, and affecting the efficiency levels of cities. Although this element of additional

stress is not widely taken into consideration, as urbanization progresses rapidly, with over three billion people expected to move to cities in the next 35 years, the impact of these waiting times also grows exponentially. Efficiency of existing elevators is required to improve significantly if we want to keep cities evolving to become the best places to live. In fact, a project on elevator travel carried out by students of Columbia University found that in 2010 alone, New York City office workers spent a cumulative amount of 16.6 years waiting for elevators. With MAX installed, each year New York City office workers would get back over eight years worth of free time.



UD MINISTRY ASKS STATES TO ENSURE LAUNCH OF SMART CITY PROJECTS BY JUNE END

GERMANY TO DEVELOP KOCHI, COIMBATORE, BHUBANESWAR AS SMART CITIES

hri Rajiv Gauba, Secretary (Urban Development) spoke to the Chief Executive Officers of Special Purpose Vehicles set up for implementation of smart city plans and Municipal Commission-ers of 16 Smart Cities and Mission Directors and senior officials of 9 respective state governments through video-conferencing and urged them to ensue launch of projects by June 25th. During the two hour long interaction, Shri Gauba reviewed the progress in re-spect of conversion of Smart City Plans of these cities into specific projects for tendering and awarding of works.

Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam that account for the remaining four smart cities have been kept out of the review as assembly elec-tions are in progress in these cities.Shri Rajiv Gauba ascertained progress by each city in respect of putting in place institutional mechanisms, transfer of central grants and share of respective states to SPVs, preparation of Detailed Project Reports for calling tenders etc.Each of the 16 cities furnished details of projects being prepared in respect of Area Based Development including Retrofit-ting and Redevelopment and ICT based Pan-city solutions.

While urging the Smart Cities to ensure appointment of full time CEOs for the Special Purpose Vehicles, Shri Rajiv Gauba urged them to look beyond the IAS cadre given the shortage of officers and choose professionals for heading SPVs.On hearing the responses of different cities, Shri Rajiv Gauba complimented them for innovative thinking and initiatives like mobile governance, LED lighting, Smart Classrooms, Open Air Gymnasiums etc.

Shri Naresh Kumar, Chairperson of New Delhi Municipal Council informed that substantial groundwork has already been

done for the launch of projects by June this year. These include ; roof top solar systems, smart grids, e-Waste centres, 24 X 7 water supply and water quality sensors, mobile governance, multi-util-ity ducts, 20 MW Solar Power Plant, Smart Control Centre etc. He informed that a provision of Rs.400 cr for Smart City Project has been made in the Budget for this financial year.

Under Smart City Mission, launched by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on June 25 last year, the first batch of 20 selected smart cities have proposed a total investment of over Rs.48,000 cr over the next four years. central Government will provide an assistance of Rs.500 cr for each city while the respective States and urban local bodies will provide an equal amount. Rest of the required resources have to be mobilized through convergence of all schemes of central and state governments, PPP, Municipal Bonds and borrowings from financial institutions.

he three cities are among the 20 cities which are to be developed as smart cities, announced by Urban Development Ministry in January this year. Germany had earlier set up a six-member joint committee with India to identify the cities which it could develop as smart cities.The committee had two representatives of Urban Development Ministry, one from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, and three from Germany.

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Smart Cities selected in the first round of City Challenge competition and respective state govern-ments were asked by the Ministry of Urban Development to ensure launch of implementation of smart city projects by June 25th this year marking the first year of launch of Smart City Mission.

Germany will partner with India to develop Kochi, Bhubaneswar and Coimbatore as smart cities.”Germany would contribute to India’s smart city programme and will help develop the cities of Kochi(Kerala), Bhubaneswar (Odisha) and Coimbatore(Tamil Nadu) as smart cities,” State Secretary in Germany’s Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Gunther Adler, told.

Mr. Ney said Germany is an ideal partner in India’s mission to create smarter cities as the country is “very strong at smart planning for urban centres”. We have developed the technologies to make life in cities easier. We have developed the processes to bring on board the stake-holders to make cities thrive and German companies have developed smart solutions to make smart cities.”

Germany had already been engaged in various fields related to smart cities-such as sustainable urban mobility, water and waste-water management, renewable energies and energy efficiency, the Ambassador said.”We have been supporting important Indian initiatives such as ‘Swachh Bharat’, National Mission for Clean Ganga and Atal Mission for Urban Rejuvenation and Transformation,” he added.Germany is India’s second largest bilateral donor with a record commitment of 1.5 billion Euros (Rs 11,0000 crore) agreed last year, Ney said.Meanwhile, India and the US have also agreed on formulating action plans for development of smart cities in Allahabad, Ajmer and Visakhapatnam.

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WIPRO AND SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC PARTNER TO DEVELOP SMART CITY SOLUTIONS

ipro and Schneider Electric will collab-orate to enable the delivery of cost-ef-fective and efficient citizen services to urban and rural communities. Both orga-nizations will jointly develop solutions in the Smart City space for India and global markets. Smart Cities have a strong and equal play of operational technology (OT) along with information technology (IT) to provide convergent solutions. Wi-pro and Schneider already have a strong partnership around IT, Data Centers, connectivity, Intelligent Building Man-agement Systems and Data Center In-frastructure Management solutions. Both the companies are now collaborating to focus on key OT areas like energy op-timization, analytics and citizen service improvement for smart cities.

WWipro Limited , a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, announced a strategic partnership with Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management and auto-mated systems, to develop convergent solu-tions for India’s Smart Cities.

- Kiran Desai , Vice President and Head – Global

Infrastructure Services, Wipro Limited

- Anil Chaudhry , Country President and Managing Director,

Schneider Electric India

Wipro’s strength in system integration across tech-nologies combined with Schneider’s world class products and solutions will help create a unique proposition for customers. With its strong IT background, industry domain and focus on Internet of Things, Wipro is uniquely positioned to create convergent solutions with optimal total cost of ownership thereby enabling enhanced citizen experience.”

“The world of energy is transforming. The conver-gence of IT and energy technologies such as the internet of things applied to energy, allows increas-ing control and anticipa-tion in the use of energy and resources. The energy world is becoming more connected, more distributed, more electric and more efficient. Our collaboration with Wipro will see new and innovative technologies coming into exis-tence and making India’s cities better places to live, work and play.”

ISRAEL, MP GOVT EYE COLLABORATION IN SMART CITIESsraels Consul General David Akov met Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan here recently to explore possibil-ities of working in agriculture, water management and smart cities projects, an official release said. Chouhan said that Israel and Madhya Pradesh can collabo-rate in water recycling and water management sectors with Israel, an official release said. The Chief Minister invited Akov to Global Investors Summit to be held at In-dore in October.

He said that seven major cities in the state are be-ing made Smart. Besides, small cities are also being developed as Mini Smart Cities.

The Consul General said that his country is collaborating with various states of the country in water man-agement, agriculture and rooftop solar energy sectors.”Israel wishes to work in these sectors in Madhya Pradesh too,” he was quoted as saying.Principal Secretary to Chief Minister S K Mishra and Commissioner Industries V L Kanta Rao among others were present in the meeting.

IIsrael can collaborate in the process. Israel and India are natural friends. Israel has done commendable work in agriculture, water management and defence production sectors. Madhya Pradesh is pioneer in agri-culture growth rate in the country, Source : PTI

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AVAYA, RADWIN TEAM UP TO WIN SMART CITY PROJECTS IN INDIA

Israel-based wireless broadband company and the US-headquartered communica-tions solutions provider have entered into strategic partnership for India’s ambitious Smart City initiative.

he two companies will jointly bid for projects as a part of their go-to-market strategy and will worktowards offering Wi-Fi connectivity through a telecom service provider for the Prime Minister Na-rendra Modi’s prestigious Smart City program.

Radwin is our preferred partner to facilitate last mile connectivity for Smart Cit-ies in India,” Avaya Inter-national President (EMEA & APAC) Nidal Abou-ltaif confirmed, adding that

this partnership is restrict-ed to government-driven initiative in India alone.The bilateral agreement will allow both companies from diverse geographies to create a synergy to tap government business op-portunities in India and share revenue based on re-spective deliverables.”We have learnt a lot from In-dia. No single vendor can build a Smart City and it requires ecosystem-based approach,” the company’s top executive said.

TAvaya Int’l President (EMEA & APAC) NidalAbou-ltaif

“We are active in govt. sector business and developing an entirely different approach,” Nidal said and added that the government should accelerate digitization of services and improve last-mile connectivity in the country.

Out of the total 100 proposed Smart Cities, the Urban and Develop-ment Ministry has recently finalized 20 cities for the mega initiative and is investing Rs 50,802 crore over a period of five years through a public-private- partnership (PPP) model.The US-based commu-nications software and services company is also banking on Smart City program to augment its cloud-driven communi-cations and collaboration services.

STERLITE TECHNOLOGIES BAGS GANDHINAGAR SMART CITY PROJECT

Sterlite Technologies, founded by Anil Agarwal of Vedanta Group, is among the early com-panies to have bagged a smart city project. Sterlite, said senior official of the company, has bagged contract from Gandhinagar.

The contract entails creating a Wi-Fi city, with applications like smart parking and lighting.

Mr. Anand said We are creating 400-500 access points for Wi-Fi, with applications like smart parking and lighting. The plan is to give 30 minutes of Wi-Fi free. The project amount is around Rs 30-40 crore.”

he Gandhinagar project is part of the Gujarat gov-ernment’s initiative to develop some cities as smart cities. Agarwal also said the company was in talks with all the 20 states mentioned in the smart city list by the Central government.With increasing spend of government on building network, Agarwal believes the share of government projects in its revenue will also go up in the coming years. “In the telecom sec-tor till date it was the private sector investing more. But with rural broadband, Bharat Net and defence networking projects coming up we think Govern-ment contribution could become a larger compo-nent,” added he.

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HUAWEI SAYS READY TO KICK OFF SMART CITY PROJECTS IN INDIA

PPP NEEDED AS FUNDING FOR SMART CITY, AMRUT INADEQUATE: VENKAIAH NAIDU

he government has decided to bring in the PPP model for the implemen-tation of the Smart City and AMRUT schemes as funds allocated for these are inadequate, Union minister M Ven-kaiah Naidu said.”Presently, the funds we are providing under the Smart City and AMRUT schemes are not adequate. I know it. The figures (of allocation) are

very big but they are not adequate from the point of implementation,” he said.

“The investment potential in the urban sector in the next 5-6 years is Rs 18 lakh crore, including Rs 1 lakh crore under AMRUT, Rs 2.50 lakh crore under Smart City Mission and Rs 66,000 crore under Swachh Bharat Mission.” These figures are good-look-

ing but not adequate; I know it. That’s why we have decided to bring in the PPP model,” the Urban Development Minister said at a meeting of the All India Council of Mayors.Naidu told mayors from across the country that the Centre would provide Rs 87,147 crore directly to urban local bodies between 2016 and 2020.

n competition from these players, Joe said, “It’s good to have competition. I welcome the joining of companies in competition with us. I think it’s only through competition, you can prove that you have the best price for the Indian market. We are the only company on earth who are providing the complete solu-tion on ICT infrastructure.”The executive also said that the company is continuously investing its resources in India, and consid-ers it as one of the important markets for the enterprise business.”It’s almost the same size as China.

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I think smart city as a concept rather than a solution. In Huawei if you look at all the Indian smart cities, it’s not going to happen too quick, based on my experience with China, Dubai, and Singapore. “We are initiating a lot of projects with our partners in India. How-ever our strategy is to be focused on certain areas rather than doing everything, he said, suggesting that the initial focus would be on public safety.The executive also emphasized that the company is actively engaging with the Indian government to build trust and inform the authorities that the company can provide the best equipment at reasonable prices.”Just a company doing business, we want to earn the trust, because it’s not an easy with a lot of issues ahead. We want to tell you can partner with us trust us. ” - Joe So ,

CTO of Industry Solutions Enterprise Business Group at Huawei

Huawei works an infrastructure provider for ICT solutions of Smart Cities, and it will offer an open platform which will hold all the applications in vertical layers.The gear maker is also looking to collaborate with system integrators, software developers, and other partners to form a Smart Cities platform, which can be deployed across the identified cities in the country. Our [Smart City] ecosystem is open we do not have a lot of prefer-ence. We assess the partners on their competence, suitability, and enthusiasm and willingness to invest in the solutions,” he added.

We see there is a tremendous opportunities in India. It’s very competitive as well. This is a year of growing our enterprise business,” Joe said, adding that verticals like BFSI and Education are going to be an area of growth for Huawei this year.The company also reck-ons that telecom operators’ increasing investment in networks will play a crucial role and help the Smart City projects.

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SMART CITIES MARKET TO DOUBLE TO $1.4 TRILLION BY 2020

REPL TO FORM JV WITH CHINESE FIRM FOR SMART CITY PROJECTS

hey would also work for application of BIM technology in implementation of Smart City projects, REPL said in a statement.

They will also explore potential investment opportuni-ties in Real Estate & Infrastructure sectors in India. REPL has recently collaborated with Bhopal Municipals Corpo-ration (BMC) to develop a Smart City Plan for Bhopal in consortium with PWC. Pradeep Misra, CMD of REPL, said: “This association assumes greater importance in the context that the REPL?s Smart City plan for Bhopal has recently been selected among top 20 in India”.The Chinese firm has the advanced competencies in providing services for smart cities, he added.

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an intelligent 3D model-based process that equips architecture, engi-neering, and construction to more efficiently plan, design, construct, and manage buildings & infrastructure.Through BIM, the construction is virtually built and documented completely in the system, before it takes shape on ground. This gives higher efficiency in terms of time and cost sav-ing. Application of BIM platform is still at nascent stage in India.

ccording to a recently published report by Grand View Research, the global smart cities market will hit $1.4 trillion in 2020, nearly triple the global market size of $568 billion back in 2013.The main factors leading to this increase are the rapidly expanding population, speedy urbanization and industrial-ization. Smart cities are designed and

built to cater to a plethora of challeng-es and issues – including water man-agement, energy management, urban mobility, street lighting and safety of the citizens. Rapid growth is expected to occur in the smart city market, with an estimated annualized 13.6 % rise each year between 2014 and 2020.

One significant reason smart cities

initiatives are being considered is to reduce the dependency on non-renew-able resources for energy, as stated by the Globe Newswire. The most cur-rent technologies garnering headlines today are critical in the development of smart cities, including cloud com-puting, wireless communication, sen-sor networks and data analytics.

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Realty and infrastructure consultant REPL will form a join venture with China based- Beijing Jian Invest-ment & Development (Group) Company to work in the areas like urban planning and smart city projects.Rudrabhishek Enterprises Pvt Ltd (REPL) and Bei-jing Jian Investment & Development (Group) Com-pany have signed an MoU to set up a Joint Venture company in India for working together in the area of urban planning with the help of Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools and Big data services.

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PHILIPS AND VODAFONE JOIN FORCES FOR CON-NECTED LIGHTING AND SMART CITY SERVICES

hilips Lighting, a Royal Philips company and the global leader in lighting, announced today a new agreement for Vodafone to become a global Internet of Things (IoT) managed connectivity partner. Un-der the agreement, the two com-panies will enable city authorities

worldwide to implement connected street lighting sys-tems which will be connected wirelessly, saving energy and making maintenance easier and more efficient.

The Philips CityTouch street lighting manage-ment system will use Vodafone’s world-leading ma-chine-to-machine (M2M) network to connect individu-al light points. Every connected street lamp will contain a Vodafone M2M SIM. City authorities can then mon-itor and manage lighting through the user-friendly and highly flexible Philips CityTouch system while engi-neers will be able to check performance, identify faults and control the lighting remotely.

The joint offering allows city authorities to create an infrastructure that is easily scalable, and will be able to support other smart city applications in future.

Vodafone M2M Director, Erik Brenneis, said: “Lighting plays a key role in the smart city. Our agreement with Philips will see this technology trans-forming cities across the world backed by Vodafone’s world-leading innovation, technologies and networks.”

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“Just less than 12% of the world’s street lights are LED and less than 2% are connected. We are at the start of a new era which will see highly energy efficient connected street lighting become the backbone of most smart cities. Robust, reliable wireless connectivity will help make this happen, linking streetlights with sensors, devices and management systems. By partnering with Vodafone we can work together to take light beyond illumination, helping to make cities more energy efficient, more livable and giving people an increased sense of safety.”

- Bill Bien , SVP, Head of Strategy and Marketing,

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NDMC INSTALLS ‘SMART DUSTBINS’ AT CONNAUGHT PLACE

ZTE POWERS SMART CITY CONSTRUCTION IN 140 CITIES

In a bid to make the city’s iconic Connaught Place smart and clean, the New Delhi Municipal Council has initiat-ed a scheme for installation of 253 stainless steel ‘smart dustbins’ under the Swacch Bharat Mission.In the first phase, the dustbins would be installed at public plaza, radial roads and in public corridors.

“Dustbins are the most important aspect of cleanliness in public areas as well as markets due to heavy footfall. “The transparent design of the dustbins has been prepared in consultation with Delhi Police keep-ing in view all safety and security aspects. The bags would be pro-vided by NDMC to its safai karam-charis for collecting and cleaning the litter from the bins, Mr. Kumar added.” The NDMC has decided to install such dustbins in other com-mercial areas. Source : PTI

GAIA SMART CITIES, STREAM INK A PACT FOR SMART CITIES NETWORK ACROSS INDIA

Gaia Smart Cities, an Indian start-up pioneering Internet of Things (IoT) & smart cities solutions has entered into an agreement with Stream Technologies to collaborate roll-out smart city networks across India.

nder the pact, Stream’s ‘IoT-X’ Connectiv-ity Management Platform, will support cel-lular, low-power WAN and other connec-tivity technologies, enabling subscription management, monitoring and monetisation of IoT connectivity networks.

IoT-X platform will provide an inter-face for the networks that Gaia Smart Cities plans to deploy, to which connected devices can be attached. Gaia’s would commence deployment of networks initially in three major cities, including Delhi.

U “India is an exciting and substantial opportunity for a company like ours. The state-of-art and the latest LPWAN technologies such as LoRa and SigFox will open up some immense opportu-nities for this market. We are delighted to be engaging with Gaia in participating in this market.”

“India is indeed a very promising market and Gaia will bring in the best technol-ogies as the segment unfolds. Partnering with Stream Technologies will now take the value proposition in the ecosystem a notch higher and will accelerate the solution development.”

- Negel Chadwick , CEO – Stream Technologies

- Sumit Chowdhury , Founder & CEO - Gaia Smart Cities

Due to the active participation from the initial stage of the ninety eight (98) proposed smart cities announced by the central government. Gaia has the first mover advantage in the smart cities domain in India.

Together both companies aim at the emerging segment of Smart Cities and its technology requirements that would unfold in the coming months. The alliance will bring in world class proven solutions and technolo-gies to help cities achieve their goals.

- Naresh Kumar , CHAIRMAN, NDMC

t MWC, ZTE CIO Jane Chen has intro-duced three innova-tions made by ZTE in the ‘smart city’ field:

the Cloud-Network-Map top-level architecture; the shared city big data cloud platform; and the busi-ness model and city cooperation in a new PPP mode. ZTE Smart City has entered 40 countries, participating in Smart City construction in more than 140 cities, the company also said. Chen said ZTE made every steady step from Smart City 1.0 to 3.0. Focusing on big data, it makes its way forward clear from data to Smart City by siloed construction phase, big data centralization based on big data cloud platform, and big data operation of future Smart City 3.0. In the construction of Smart City, ZTE is working with Yinchuan municipal government to integrate the resources and founded ZTE (Yinchuan) Smart City Industry. They are introducing the brand-new business cooperation model and city informatiza-tion operation management, and building an intelligent Smart City operation management system.

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E-PRAGATI PROG WILL EMPOWER CITIZENS: AP CM TELLS ASSEMBLY

Andhra Pradesh has launched an e-governance pro-gramme to empower citizens to be active participants in the governance process, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said

aking a suo moto statement in the State Legislative Assembly on e-Pragati and the ambitious AP Fiber Grid Project, Naidu said the hierarchial systems in government would be replaced by an “integrated and collaborative operating model” using e-Pragati.

“The single-channel, one-size-fits-all models of service delivery will give way to personalised ser-vices delivered through multiple channels. The out-put-driven processes will be replaced by transparent, outcome-driven procedures,” he said.Citizens would no longer be “passive spectators” but would be em-powered to be active participants in governance, he said.Through e-Pragati, AP would rank among the global leaders in e-governance like Singapore, Aus-

tralia, Korea, France, USA, UK, Finland and the Netherlands that adopted Enterprise Architecture, the chief minister said.

e-Pragati would also usher in a “certificate-less” system that would eliminate the need for citizens to produce various certificates like nativity, caste etc.

M”Now that the Centre has enacted a legislation giving a legal framework for Aadhar, we will use the data and inte-grate it to various government services. This will ensure transparency and eliminate corruption as various govern-ment services will be made available to citizens online,” Naidu elaborated.

AP has become the first state in the country to implement a comprehensive Enterprise Architec-ture treating the government as “one entity” and “not 33 departments and 315 agencies”.

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