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SMART CITY :

AHEAD OF PEOPLE’S ASPIRATIONS

“A smart city could take between 8 to 10 years to build from scratch and

even more time to attract businesses and people. This requires commit-

ment and persistence on part of the government over a long period of

time” “Measures such as reduction in the size of projects eligible for FDI from 50,000 sq. meters to 20,000 sq. meters and halving the minimum investment limit for FDI to $5 million

will bring in opportunities for cheaper capital for smaller projects as well,

improving quality and delivery of low cost and affordable housing projects.”

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USD $83 million allocated for Digital India Initiative

Under the flagship “Safe City” project, the Union Ministry proposes USD 333 million to make seven big cities (Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Hyderabad) to focus on technological advancement rather than manpower.

The Intelligent Building Man-agement Systems market is around USD 621 million and is expected to reach USD 1,891 million by 2016.

Smart Buildings will save up to 30 per cent of water usage, 40 percent of energy usage and reduction of building maintenance costs by 10 to 30 %

10$ Implemen-tation of 8 smart grid pilot projects in India with in-vestment of USD 10 million is allocated in budget 2014-15.

Government of India has allocated Rs. 70.6 billion (USD 1.2 billion) for Smart Cities in budget 2014-15 :

GLOBAL SMART CITY MARKET

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91%Government survey found that 79 percent of its employees believed this service was valuable

91 percent expressed interest in working from a Smart Work Center in the future.

Urban Population in India Will continue to grow over next few decades & by 2050, will comprise about 58% of the total global population

Approx. 62-63% of India’s Gross Domestic product (GDP) is contributed by urban areas & the same is estimated to reach 75% by 2030 (HPEC, 2011)

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Plans to Install 130 million smart meters by 2021

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Trillion Global Smart City Market 2020

Growth in Smart Energy Sector to 2020

Global Smart city Market : Industrial automation is & remains the smartest technology

A gap Of INR 1.45 Lakh cr. in the annual investment in infrastructure service delivery in Indian Cities based on a comparison between investment made in 2011-12 & 2012-13 . (HPEC, 2011)

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Smart Work Center proj-ect – piloted by Seoul Metropolitan Government - allows the government employees to work from 10 offices – Smart Work Cen-ters – located much closer to their homes. As employees check-in to a Smart Work Center for their shifts they are per-mitted access to sophisti-cated groupware and teleconferencing systems, ensuring their absence from City Hall in no way impedes their job performance”

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INTERVIEWExclusive Interview With

Somshubhro Pal Choudhury

MD, Analog Devices India

SMART CITY

Smart Cities - Smart Card “For A Smart Living”

A Strategic Visioning Approach For Smart City Proposals

How Collaboration Can Aid Smart Cities

NDMC Conducted Citizen En-gagement Meeting With Diplo-mats From 34 Countries

Smart Infrastructure

Smart Transportation

Smart And Pure Air Choices To A Smart & Young City

2500 Smart Parking Spaces In Zug

Adani Ports Profitability And PerformanceWiththe Pi System

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Why Our Cities Have No Choice But To Be Smart !!!

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Exclusive Interview With

A Shankar National Director Head – Urban Solu-tions Strategic Consulting, JLL India

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Intelligent Streetlights The Smart City Launchpad

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Brandon Davito Vice President

Smart Cities

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INTERVIEWExclusive

Interview WithSiddharth Jain

Managing DirectorEmbrace Group

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INTERVIEWExclusive

Interview WithKunal Kumar

Municipal Commissioner, Pune Municipal Corporation

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Smart Cities Leading India’s Digital Transformation

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Heritage Building Smart Retrofit

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What according to you is Smart city?

There is no single definition of a Smart City. It means different things to different people and varies with the demography and socio-economic conditions of the city and country. It depends on the level of development, willingness to change and reform, availability of resources and am-bition of its residents. For me, a smart city leverages a range of possibilities – from information technology to best practices for public policy, from proactive involve-ment of the private sector to generating minimal cost and sustainable solutions to the most pressing needs of its citizens. As rightly said by Hon’ble Prime Minister, a Smart City is a City which is a step or two ahead of people’s aspirations and strives to evolve with time to create distinctive quality of life for its citizens.

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Interview with KUNAL KUMAR (IAS)

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Commissioner, Pune

Municipal Corporation

This is the first time government is organizing cities challenge for deploying of funds for urban development of India. What is your opinion on it?

I welcome this change. This is a big step towards empowerment of cit-izens and will lead to inclusive development. Further, since the focus is on developing smart solutions, we hope to see more effective and prudent use of existing resources, cost effective and sustainable solutions to the issues that are plaguing the common man. The solutions coming out of the contest will serve as the lighthouse for similar developments in oth-er cities not only in India, but the rest of the developing and developed world. I feel this is an innovative and effective way to leverage the intel-lect of the citizens and generate inclusive and intelligent solutions. This competitive mechanism would end the top-down approach, and boost our push towards people-centric urban development which is a step or two ahead of people’s aspirations and strives to evolve with time to create distinctive quality of life for its citizens.

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Pune, known as the “Oxford of East” has won the Stage 1 of Indian Smart Cities Challenge and is now striving hard to be selected in the top 20 cities. Kunal Kumar, Municipal Commissioner, Pune spoke to Arpita Gupta, our editor, on what opportunities the Mission holds for Pune.

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Kunal Kumar, IAS is presently holding the post of Munic-ipal Commissioner at Pune Municipal Corporation. With his focused vision and great leadership qualities, several

innovative concepts and ideas were incorporated in the “Smart Cities Mission” vision document for Pune city version 1.0. Few of them included public participation to crowd source ideas through the “Maza Swapna, Smart Pune” contest, where citizens could propose smart solutions to key issues facing the city. This received many accolades from State as well as Central govern-ment. Also, he has been a part of various successful Engineering Projects such as Bridges, Roads, Lake Development Projects and other infrastructure projects. He played a pivotal role in planning and roll-out of the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) in Pune.

BIOGRAPHY

Mr. Kumar is an Electrical Engi-neering graduate from IIT Roorkee,

and has successfully completed his Masters in Public Management

from National University of Singa-pore jointly conducted with Har-

vard Kennedy School, Cambridge, USA. He has presented various

papers on e-Governance which have received awards/ citations

like the best e governed district award for Jalgaon district nation-

ally, the certificate of Appreciation for being a finalist in Manthan

Award South Asia 2009. More-over, he was awarded by the

Prime Minister for the excellence in Aadhar Governance award

during his stint as District Collector of Aurangabad. He is working as

the Commissioner of Pune’s Munic-ipal for the last one year.

Has the SPV been formed? If yes, what is its constitution?

We have not formed a smart city SPV yet. However, we are under the process of designing the SPV and are ex-ploring innovating models that have been successfully implemented in India and across the globe.

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What major challenges are being faced by your city that you wish to address through Smart cities Initiative?

There are two fundamental ways of assessing a city’s challenges – assessing the most pressing areas for citizens and comparing gap between existing level of service delivery versus accept-ed levels. Based on the analysis of household survey (CDP 2041) an average citizen in Pune primarily wants solution to their transport and water issues followed by road conditions and sewage. Also keeping with the best traditions of involving citizens in the decision-making process, Pune Municipal Corporation floated a contest titled “Mazhe Swapna Smart Pune”, before being selected among the 100 Smart Cit-ies mission to prepare the Vision for the city. The contest was launched on 14th July 2015. Citizens were invited to come and participate in the Best Smart City Idea competition and share their views on how they and the PMC could make Pune a better and smarter city. Cit-izens have shown huge excitement about being part of their city’s transformation and in the contest period (one month), there have been 535310 hits to the contest page, and 6251 have participated in the survey. The results show that Traffic/ transport management, Garbage management/ sanitation&Environment are the top three concerns of the citizen. Quantitative benchmarking of Pune with global service stan-dards reveal Pune has serious service delivery gaps in transport and housing, though it fares well in most of other metrics such as Water Supply, Sanitation Solid Waste Management etc. Putting both these lenses together clear-ly highlights that while Pune is at a relatively advanced stages on a number of core urban services, it needs to make a big push on urban mobility & water management.

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Has a consultant been appointed for preparation of

Smart City proposal to be submitted to the center for the Blomberg’s Challenge?

And at what tender Value?

Yes. We have appointed Mckinsey& Co. for the same. They are one of the best consulting firms globally

and possess expertise in gathering global insights and best practices; we will leverage the Mckinsey knowledge net-work, which is a Harvard case study in itself. We wanted our solution to be best in class and based on real, feasible

and implementable ideas across the world. We are working with this goal in mind. As per the Govern-

ment of India guideline for Smart Cities Mission Rs. Two Crore will be given to each potential

Smart City for preparation of SCP, thus the tender value is in tune with that

amount.

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How much estimated funds are required for Smart city Development of your city? And is the amount allocated by Center sufficient?

The total funding for this will be Rs.1,000 Crore, 500 Crore will come from the Center and the rest from the State. We plan to use this corpus as equity and seed fund to raise capital for both pan-city and local area develop-ment initiatives. Large global cities spend ~USD 300 per capita on civic infrastructure every year. Pune, in compar-ison spends USD ~90 per year. Therefore our spend needs to increase by 4-5 times. The good news is that because of the business dynamism and agglomeration benefits cities offer, they are typically able to raise almost 80% of the funding requirement from their own resources.

From where are the balance funds expected to be raised?

Cities have 4 major sources of funding - land monetiza-tion, debt and PPP, Govt. support and property tax and user charges - and they need to leverage all these four sources to make a city economically viable.

What financial impact will Smart City development bring to its citizens? Will the cost of living increase?

As I mentioned earlier, Smart city development will aim for solutions which reduce existing costs and optimize the utilization of resources using the best in class techniques of digital innovations and information technology. The focus will be on a more equitable distribution of resourc-es and bringing positive change to lives of each and every citizen of Pune – more job opportunities, development of skills, healthier environment, cheaper transport, focus on health and fitness, better housing and other infrastructure. When we save resources using smart solutions, we will see only an improvement in the cost of living index.

Which locality/ areas are you considering for Smart City Development (of Retrofitting/Redevelopment/Greenfield)

We are looking at areas greater than 500 acres that can be used for retrofitting. As of now we are looking at the en-tire city and discussing with citizens, experts, town-plan-ners, architects etc. No decision or consensus on locality/area that will be selected has been taken yet.

When are the infrastructure development tenders expected to come out?

The last date of submission of SCP (Smart City Proposal) is mid of December, after which the SCP will be review by MoUD. Once Pune City is selected among the Smart Cities of Phase I, the infrastructure development tenders would come out in phases.

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Which solution according to you should be select-ed for Pan City development?

City profiling and our extensive citizen engagement exercise that has touched ~50% of Pune’s households has revealed 6 key areas of concern of the citizens – they are Transport and Mobility, Water and Sewage, Solid Waste Management, En-ergy and Renewables, Safety and Security and Environment and Sustainability. We have now asked the citizens to define next level goals in each of the 6 key sectors. This exercise help us identify the pan-city initiatives that we shall choose as part of the Smart City Challenge.

Where do you see your cities in 5-10 years from now?

I see it as a technology hub with seeds of digital and informa-tion technology innovations in different sectors enriching citi-zen’s lives through low cost solutions ensuring inclusivity. As an illustration, let us pick up transportation and mobility. There are only so many roads you can build. The number of vehicles too will increase. To answer these challenges, I envision a major shift towards non-motorized and public transportation alter-natives, aided by technology and efficient master planning. For example, bicycle sharing, which can be tracked through mobile apps, integrated in terms of payments and location with public buses (which too are GPS enabled) and stops, in tandem with intelligent street design will reduce significantly the need of pri-vate vehicles. It will not only reduce pollution, congestion but also help increase the citizens’ connect with the city. Five years is the time-frame I set for these changes to pick and a decade post that as the fruitful culmination. I see Pune playing its part in facilitating these changes by building a sturdy ecosystem of government leveraging private sector to create welfare capital for its citizens.

Where does your city stand among the 100 select-ed Smart Cities? And why do you think your city should come in the first 20?

I believe Pune can become one of the smartest cities in the world. Our greatest strength is our citizens. Punekars are whole-heartedly supporting the Smart City initiative by help-ing the city identify its major problems and further developing innovative and smart solutions to resolve them. We believe ex-tensive citizen engagement makes our proposal unique because of the scale of outreach and the kind of support which we have received from the citizens within the short time. Further, Pune boasts of a literacy rate of 92%, which is much higher than the national and state average. Known as “Oxford of the East”, Pune has the 2nd largest university in the country with 811 colleges empaneled. Pune is an IT hub, ranking 2nd in India in software exports, contributing 9% to total software exports in the world. This makes it easier to source local suppliers of solutions reducing costs further. Lastly, Pune has a very pro-gressive and modern civil society and the feeling of connected-ness to the city is high in the citizens, which gives us the edge over all other cities. Pune has a diverse industry and provides a progressive investment climate.

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SMART PARKING SPACES IN ZUG

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Anyone looking for a parking space in the Swiss city of Zug will from now on be guided by electronic displays and traffic signs indicating free parking spaces. “Parking Guidance System Zug” is in operation since December and in-volves approximately 2.500 parking spaces. In this system Nedap’s SENSIT on-street parking sensors provide real-time occupancy information about individual parking spaces.

SMART TRANSPORTATION

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inding a parking space can be nerve-wracking, especially for drivers who are not familiar with the city. That is until now. Thanks to the new integrated approach on the entire on- and off-street parking capacity. Prominent notice boards and dynamic signs inform drivers in the vicinity of the parking facilities and at the city entries about the currently available spaces, guiding them as quickly and efficient as possible to an available parking spot. The real-time parking status information can be requested online, al-ways and anywhere.

SENSIT offers the city of Zug real-time parking status information. Nedap’s wireless in-ground parking bay sensors detect the real-time vehi-cle occupancy of individual outdoor parking spaces. With this valuable parking occupancy information, the city’s parking capacity can be effectively enforced and motorists can be guid-ed efficiently. In Zug’s new parking solution, Nedap’s SENSIT was integrated with the sys-tems of its partners Hectronic and Swarco.

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“The Zug parking guid-ance system is an asset in several ways. It relieves the city from unnecessary search traffic, helps to save fuel and optimizes the availability of exist-ing parking facilities. In short, the new solution is an advantage for many. These benefits have major impact on the city of Zug, which is an attrac-tive canton capital and economic engine of the region relying heavily on the good accessibility of the city.”


INTERVIEW

Interview with Somshubhro pal Choudhury

Managing director,

Analog Devices India

UW : How do you look at the oppor-tunity of 100 Smart Cities for Analog Devices?

SPC : While Analog Devices is working in several world-wide Smart City projects in partnership with our customers and partners, in India our focus is on technologies and solu-tions in the following areas.» Smart street lighting to reduce energy While Smart security, surveillance and Traffic Monitoring using Smart Cameras» Smart metering for Energy Metering» Water and air quality monitoring

Analog Devices participated recently in India’s first Smart City expo in New Delhi in May of 2015 where several solutions on the above were showcased.

Is Rs. 1000 Cr of investment (by Centre & State both) per selected city sufficient to build a smart city?

India’s 100 Smart Cities project is one of the most ambitious and potentially game changing projects taken by any Indi-an government and would probably count in the top 10 worldwide as well. So far, the Central government is planning on spending Rs 1000 crore under two new urban missions over the next five years. While cities have been selected based on a city challenge, the roadmaps are being drawn and plans being discussed, the scope of what constitutes a smart city from an Indian context, is the key. City Challenge concept along with a scoring criterion I believe has creat-ed a healthy competition among the cities. The Smart Cities features which are at a very high level today, needs to be detailed further and guidelines established.

As compared to the Smart city initiatives of Singapore and Barcelona, our cities need some basic infrastructure help first. City and urban planning becomes a basic first order necessity. Implementation of security and surveillance, proper garbage collection and disposal, basic maintenance of roads, reducing pollution, stopping wasteful energy and water usage and leakage while managing traffic better are some of the basic requirements of the day. So our goal should be not mimicking what other international cities has done, but a phased approach, solving the basic issues first with technology.

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UW : How do you see yourself in a few years into the future?SPC : Analog Devices in India had grown by over 30% in terms of headcount this year and revenue has been growing on an average of 20% in the last couple of years. We are leveraging the enormous talent India has to offer and the capabilities and the skillset of the design house ecosystem. We see immense potential in the new initiatives by the government in Digital India, Smart Cities and Make in India as these mature and take shape from policy to im-plementation.

How big is the Smart CCTV, Smart Street Lighting & Smart Meters Market in India?

There are three use cases of Smart Lighting– at Homes, Commercial Buildings and Street lighting. For Smart Homes the focus is on automation, where your mobile can turn on/off the lights, do mood lighting and integrate with heating, cooling and security. The energy savings achieved with Smart Lighting from automating the light, particularly if it is a LED light is significantly small, but a nice ‘ease of use’ feature to have for your Smart Home. In Commercial buildings, lighting is a significant part of the energy usage. Hence automating it via occupancy detection is a big push to save on energy. Secondary advantages are predictive maintenance and ease of use. While occupancy detection with proximity sensors and motion sen-sors have been used in the past, today we see a lot of movement towards vision based analysis with Smart cameras to detect occupancy and as well as number of people to optimize lighting, heating, and cooling in commercial buildings.The main driver for city wide Smart Lighting is coming from the fact that CFL Light bulbs are being replaced by LED lights globally. This shift already saves around 40-50% in terms of citywide street lighting bills. Now the discussion is that given the fact that you are doing a truck roll to replace the street lights, you could add another 15-20% of the savings adding a few dollars more per LED light and at the Data Collection unit. Additional benefits of predictive maintenance, reducing energy usage by dimming lights or alternating them, theft detection and even integration with vision based occupancy detection to decide when to on/off the lights would easily reduce the energy usage by an additional 20%. Globally and including India the street lighting tenders are now coming for managed services with an Internet of Things (IoT) server or cloud platform with analytics and alerts.

The potential of IoT is huge. How does Analog Devices plan to real-ize its business benefits?

Analog Devices has been connecting the Physical World to the Digital World for de-cades with sensors, signal acquisition, signal conversion from analog to digital and digi-tal signal processing. We make sense of the physical world. We make the information relevant. If we look at the Third wave of evo-lution with billions of devices connected to the Cloud, it is nothing but sensing the Phys-ical world and then processing the informa-tion either locally or in the cloud to make de-cisions. There is hence an immense potential for Analog Devices in the IoT world as we have decades of experience in this. Today, along with our partners we are building the IoT solutions from the Sensors to the Cloud.

Smart MeteringGlobally Automated Meter Reading has seen significant progress in the last decade. In US, utilities like Pacific Gas and Electricity

has put in Smart Meters for majority of their 5M customer foot-print. Europe has led in the last few years in terms of rapid

deployment with companies like Enel. Currently almost 43% of US household is already covered by Smart me-tering systems and Europe has set a goal of getting to 80% smart meters by 2020. Prepaid metering initiatives have been done in Europe and parts of South East Asia

as well. According to several research reports, the global advanced metering infrastructure market would grow at a

CAGR of high single digits in the next 3-5 years. The next phase of big growth will come from China and India. In India there are currently several pilots ongoing for Smart Grid and Automated Meter Reading, with one full scale deployment at Maharashtra State Electricity Board with Zigbee at 2.4 GHz which showed several coverage challenges. Ideally deployments with subGHz wireless networks would be more suited with the concrete construction type used in India.

Smart CCTVIndia has several millions of CCTV cameras in-stalled, but most are non-networked or have a

low bandwidth interface to the Digital Video Recorder(IDVR). What it

means is that most of the vid-eo is stored locally and not streamed out to a central net-work operating or surveillance center to run video analytics

on detecting threats, detection violations etc which is done in

many advanced cities like London and Singapore. So what India needs today is how to make these cameras smarter but put in edge analytics that can detect situations like a scuffle or weapon and send out alerts and an image in a low bandwidth situation. There is an enormous opportunity in terms of enabling these CCTVs with analytics to make them smarter.

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Globally, implementation of smart grids hasn’t taken off the way it was anticipated. Are cyber security or funding concerns behind it?

There are different aspects to a Smart Grid implementation. SCADA automation has been going on for ages on the transmission side of the network. Distribution grid auto-mation down to the substation level has been done in most countries starting from the high voltage and going down to the low voltage, but it is always about the to what ex-tent you do compared to the investments. As indicated above, automated meter reading has gone on in a rapid pace in the last 5 years especially in US and Europe. Industrial customers have been on Time of Use pricing in many of the advanced geographies. Commercial building also have deployed accurate metering and energy measurement infrastructure to manage their costs. In California today, many have now have signed up for Time of Use Pricing and even turning off their air conditioners at specific times during summer months to get added discounts on the bill. In Germany, all the rooftop solar are fed directly back to the grid with net metering implemented. What probably has not happened in large scale is the monitoring of the dis-tribution assets like transformers, when they are supposed to fail or due for maintenance. Because of cyber security, the utilities have always used dedicated networks, sometime proprietary protocols, dedicated servers and not cloud severs for any of the deployments. Yes, it has remained a concern and justifiably so, and hence typical IoT use cases of the grid with available and standardized hardware, software and cloud resources has not happened.

How precisely and easily IoT vicinity will revolutionize the Technological globe?

Concept of Internet of Things based on intelligent and self-configuring nodes intercon-nected in a dynamic and global network infrastructure is not something totally new as the number of connected devices had already surpassed human population way back in 2011! However, with the integration of Cloud, applications around Internet of Things are emerging truly as disruptive innovation; revolutionizing the way we adopt and use technology to Prevent, Predict and enhance Productivity. This would enable new emerging markets and solutions that would disrupt and eventually displace an earlier technology. Be it Industrial, Healthcare, Energy, Automotive or Communication appli-cations, IoT attempts to knit technology with people, machines and our environment in a way that it creates a platform to build a truly connected world; that is smart, intelli-gent and efficient. Most talked about applications that would see tremendous adoption in coming years include Wearable’s, Connected vehicles and Home automation. Wear-able’s in particular is transforming itself into a tool to improve personal healthcare and in essence adopts 3 Ps explained above.

Though evolved independent of each other, integration of Cloud with IoT solves majority of the challenges of the later such as scalability, efficiency, interoperability and more importantly the concern of security at different levels of implementation. Well, any new technology has to go through a ‘healing’ period that would see emergence of standards & protocols, permitting the long list of heterogeneous devices to co-exist and work towards building a truly connected world that is smart, intelligent and efficient.

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Waternet: An Internet Of Pipes

TOP TEN URBAN INNOVATIONS

(Digitally) Re-Programmable Space1

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Melbourne’s approach has helped reduce taxes from 13% in 1995 to just over 4%, and if it can accommodate the projected population increase of 3.5 million people by 2050 within its cur-

rent boundaries, it will reduce required infrastructure funding by an estimated $440 billion over 50 years. As such, treasured historic city centres could again become productive areas, hosting not only “knowledge workers”, but also the emerging “fourth industrial revolution” of 3D printers and digital manufacturing, as technological development enables new ways of organizing work, occupation pat-terns and places of production. Buildings themselves will also be digitally programmable and able to instantly shift use between a theatre, gymnasium, social centre or night club, further minimising the overall urban footprint.

WHY

Demands on space in cities are constantly changing as a result of economic growth, demographics and consumer preferences. As urban populations increase from 4 billion to nearly 7 billion over

the next 30 years, the world will need to almost double its urban capacity by 2050. There is neither the time nor money to produce the required infrastructure conventionally through large-scale engineering solutions; focus should be on the better use of existing infrastructure.

WHY

Population growth, ecological threats and climate change all make it more critical than ever to effi-ciently manage and protect limited freshwater resources. By 2030, it is estimated that freshwater

demand could outpace supply by 40%. Currently, the average water loss due to leakage is estimated at 25-30%, with some utilities agencies allowing it to rise to over 50%.

WHAT

City centres struggled to adapt to the heavy, invasive technologies of the 20th century but can more easily host the clean, knowledge-based and lightweight industry and digital technologies of

today. Cities have started to look at reprogramming their space to get more from less: Vancouver has reduced its allowable urban footprint; Glasgow has moved from a policy of expansion to concentra-tion; New York has been incrementally repurposing asphalt to expand footpaths and open space; and Melbourne has repurposed 86 hectares of underutilized road and other spaces in the last 30 years and aligned new medium to high density residential development around its rail stations and road-based public transport networks.

WHAT

Smart water management models use sensors in network pipes to monitor flow and manage the en-tire water cycle, providing sustainable water for human and ecological needs. Companies such as

TaKaDu, based in Israel, are creating cloud-based solutions to connect water pipes to the Internet of Things, enabling a proactive approach to flood control and rainwater collection, and the identification of weak points or blockages in the network before major damage occurs. For example, in Queensland, Australia, Unitywater cut its direct water losses by one billion litres in one year, saving $1.9 million; it reduced the time it took to detect and resolve network events by two-thirds, and increased availability by almost 20%.

- The Global Agenda Council on the Future of Cities, World Economic Forum

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Trees now cover 22% of Melbourne, a figure that will rise to 40% by 2040. By developing tools and processes for measuring and modeling the potential of trees to mitigate the effects of climate

change, Melbourne is positioning itself as a global leader in urban forestry.

POTENTIAL

With advances in sensors, optics and embedded processors, a whole new breed of transportation solutions could emerge. For exam-

ple, cycling could be further popularized by innovations such as the Copenhagen Wheel, an add-on to existing bikes conceived by the MIT Senseable City Lab that makes it easier to cycle by augmenting pedal power with a battery that captures energy as you brake or go downhill.

POTENTIALSensors in sewage pipes, using new techniques developed at MIT, could allow for scientists to analyse bacteria and viruses, monitoring the impact of health policies and more quickly detecting the outbreak and spread of infectious diseases such as flu strains. Such early warnings could help to prevent pandemics, saving lives and significantly reducing medical costs.

WHY

The International Panel on Climate Change foresees an increase in extreme weather events that will challenge cities, especially in developing countries. The dominant engineering approach has

been to build walls, bulkheads, levees and other fortifications to minimize the effects of future storms and sea level rises. A less appreciated response is planting more trees. Studies show that increasing a city’s green area by 10% could compensate for the temperature increase caused by climate change: vegetation helps to block shortwave radiation while also evaporating water, cooling the ambient air and creating more comfortable micro climates. Tree canopies and root systems can also reduce storm water flows and balance nutrient loads.

WHY

Modernist visions from the 1920s and 1930s influenced the devel-opment of sprawling, tall, car-centric cities between freeways that

spanned the world. These visions had no place for walking, cycling, public transport or well-planned, shared urban spaces that are human in scale, sustainable, healthy, safe and lively – elements that are now recognized as essential for cities be environmentally sustainable, lively, equitable and liveable.

WHAT

Melbourne encourages citizens to take pride in urban greenery through its Urban Forest Strategy, consisting of over 70,000 trees. All trees are tagged on a central database: citizens can adopt a

tree, name it, track its growth and carbon offset and share this data through their social networks. Each tree has its own email address which allows citizens to report defects and diseases and even send love letters.

WHAT

Improved safety for pedestrians and non-motorized transportation leads to greater adoption of public transport, reduced congestion and

pollution, better health and commutes that are quicker (bicycles are, on average, 40% faster during peak hours), more predictable and less ex-pensive. Small investments to encourage cycling can have a large pay-out, as high as 35:1 according to a recent UK government study1. Such relatively low-cost solutions include separate bike lanes, bike-sharing schemes, rephasing traffic lights to fit the speed of bikes and planting trees along the side of roads to slow traffic.

Adopt a Tree through Your Social Network

Augmented Humans: The Next Generation Of Mobility

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SMART CITY

The Sharing City: Unleashing Spare Capacity

Co-Co-Co: Co-Generating, Co-Heating, Co-Cooling

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Quad generation goes one step further, also including the re-covery of carbon dioxide from the generation of electricity

and heat through burning gas. The CO2 can be used in industrial processes, horticulture or the food industry, such as carbonating soft drinks. A quad generation setup offers operational flexibility, reduced operational cost and the potential for low or zero opera-tional carbon emissions. The main challenge in such systems is the initial investment.

POTENTIAL

There are opportunities to expand the principle of sharing to the provision of physical, social and recreational infrastructure. Co-location reduces the need for infrastructure and enables

more to be achieved with less resource use and at lower cost. For example, co-location of a new secondary school with a state sports park may enable gymnasium and other facilities to be shared and used more intensively; clustering child health services with schools may achieve better health and education outcomes; or land not being used by one government agency may be transferred and used more effectively by another.

WHY

Around three-fifths of CO2 emissions come from the generation of electricity, heat and industrial usage (IEA Statistics 2011).

Due to factors including population growth, economic develop-ment, urbanization and industrialization, global energy consump-tion is projected to increase by around half from 2010 to 2035, reaching some 226 billion MWh (WEO 2010; EIA 2011). In the absence of technological breakthroughs, this increase in energy use will lead to a proportional increase in CO2 emissions.

WHY

Since the first Industrial Revolution, consumption patterns have tended to be linear – a “take, make, consume and dispose” economic model, which leads to intensive use of materials and

energy. Moving towards a more circular economy will help to reduce resource use and emissions. The circular economy is closely linked to the idea of the sharing economy, in which the culture of consumption changes towards regarding products as service, ensuring they are used in the most efficient way.

WHAT

In conventional power plants, electricity generation produces wasted heat. “Cogeneration” mechanical systems capture and

use the excess heat, significantly improving energy efficiency. Spe-cifically, “trigeneration” systems use the heat either to heat build-ings or to cool them, through absorption refrigerator technology – for example, cooling office complexes that house large numbers of computers. Trigeneration is making inroads into Scandinavia, southern Europe, South Korea and Japan.

WHAT

Websites such as Airbnb make it easier for unused space to be rented out, reducing the amount of wasted capacity in terms of houses standing empty. Likewise, many city residents are

reducing wasted capacity in commutes by using websites to carpool, or even ditching car owner-ship altogether in favour of web-facilitated car sharing clubs, which now exist in cities around the globe. Websites such as Streetbank make it easier for city residents to share other products, or pass them on when they are no longer being used.


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The increasingly widespread use of smartphones and their growing capabilities for running re-al-time applications will make it possible to design new, smarter transportation systems based on

the sharing of cars or minivans. The on-demand qualities of individual mobility or taxis could effec-tively replace public transportation. Self-driving vehicles promise to have a dramatic impact on urban life, blurring the distinction between private and public modes of transportation. “Your” car could give you a lift to work in the morning and then, rather than sitting idle in a parking lot, give a lift to someone else in your family – or, for that matter, to anyone else in your neighborhood, social-media community, or city.

POTENTIAL

Using architecture and urbanism as a tool for social development can bring surprising results in physical, functional and behavioral changes. In particular, the creation of new connections to

break down city barriers between rich and poor can work as an instrument to contain and gradually eliminate violence in cities.

WHY

Vehicular traffic congestion – and the air pollution that results from it – comes at great monetary and human cost. In the 83 largest urban areas of the United States alone, the time and fuel wasted

by congestion has been valued at 60 billion USD. The World Health Organization estimates that over one million deaths per year worldwide can be attributed to outdoor air pollution, in large part caused by vehicular traffic. Further fatalities are caused by road accidents.

WHY

In 1992, Medellin, Colombia, was considered one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Today, it is seen as a laboratory of progressive architectural and urban interventions that were initiated un-

der the mayoral administration of Sergio Fajardo (2003-2007). Whereas urban development projects often target specific solutions to physical problems, Medellin opted for a different strategy, using architecture and urbanism as tools for social integration.

WHAT

Digital information and communication technologies could help manage vehicular traffic more efficiently. Realtime information allows unprecedented monitoring of urban mobility infrastruc-

ture, and opens up new potential for the exploitation of unused vehicle capacity through dynamic optimization algorithms. One example is the “mass transport vehicle routing” algorithm developed by researchers at Irvine University in California to route vehicles in real time, meeting demand for picking up and delivering passengers in fast-varying environments.

WHAT

Projects such as the España Library Park and the city’s elevated cable car as a mode of public transportation have been presented as the key symbols of a process that has led to the city’s

spatial, social, economic and cultural transformation – connecting the city’s low-income residents and communities with its wealthier commercial centre. As a result, Medellín has changed in the past 10 years, not just in its spatial dynamics but also in the mentality and perception of its inhabitants who now see culture as an important tool for development. This particular approach to urbanism has caught the attention of experts who have now come to see Medellín as an exemplar model in urban planning and governance.

Mobility-on-Demand

Medellin Revisited: Infrastructure for Social Integration

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Urban Farming: Vertical Vegetables

Smart Array: Intelligent Street Poles As A Lat form For Urban Sensing

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The switch to LED technology gives cities the opportunity to turn streetlights from a “dead as-set”, which consumes energy and money, into a “live asset”, which produces revenues. How the

technology is implemented will determine how the public receives it; transparency is key when it comes to public surveillance.

POTENTIAL

Other companies such as Freight Farms upcycle shipping contain-ers delivering a plug and play fully working urban farm all con-

trolled from your smart phone. They can be placed in redundant space such as car parks and stacked, instantly scaling urban food production. Aquaponic systems used by companies such as Sky Greens take the waste products of fish farms to fertilize the plants, turning fish food into carp and lettuce. In the original design for London, an area of farmland was preserved around this city. This “green belt” was con-ceived as a way to preserve nature while ensuring food security for the burgeoning metropolis. The new wave of urban farming can be seen as a new vertical green belt feeding the populous while also bringing nature to the city centre.

WHY

Standard street lamps are expensive for municipalities to maintain and run, and in some cases contain toxic gases. Over the next few years, 4 billion lights worldwide will be converted to

light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which last longer than ordinary street lights, consume less energy and contain fewer hazardous by-products.

WHY

The UN predicts the world’s population will reach 9 billion by 2050, most of this extra 2 billion will live in cities, feeding all these new

urban residents is going to require a complete rethink of the global food system. The current system is hugely wasteful. The Ellen McAr-thur Foundation found that 45% of perishable vegetables grown in Europe are wasted before they reach the table, much of this is due to long and inefficient supply chains.

WHAT

Next-generation LED street lights can act as a platform for a host of sensing technologies that collect data on weather, pollution, seismic activity, the movement of traffic and people, and

noise and air pollution. By linking these intelligent street poles into a network, it is possible to sense what is going on across a city in real time and provide innovative solutions in areas such as public safety or identifying where there are free parking spaces. One such system, the Light Sensory Network, was demonstrated by Cisco, Sensity and the City of Chicago during walking tours at the Internet of Things World Forum.

WHAT

A simple way to cut a lot of waste out of the system is to move the farm. The roofs of buildings and even the walls can use soil-less,

hydroponic systems to grow food right on the consumer’s doorstep. Hydroponic systems feed nutrients straight to the roots, using up to 10 times less water than traditional means. Advances in LED lights, which are now highly efficient and emit specific wavelengths for plant growth, mean that urban farms can be inside and stacked. Systems such as Aero Farms, stack multiple trays of veggies, yielding up to 100 times more per square meter than traditional farms.


NDMC CONDUCTED CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT MEETING WITH

DIPLOMATS FROM 34 COUNTRIES

Delhi made use of its location as home to embassies to tap into global expertise at hand for its smart city planning. At a recent meeting organised by the New

Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), diplomats from various countries gave suggestions on making Del-hi a better city and expressed interest in sharing their expertise in various aspects of city manage-ment. As most of the embassies are in NDMC area, they are key stakeholder. The salient points of the discussion are provided below:

QATAR

SURINAME

RUSSIA

SINGAPORE BURKINA FASO

BELGIUM

INDONESIA

CZECHTURKEY

MACEDONIA

JAPANSLOVAK

REPUBLIC

Need to focus on individual safetyTraffic congestion within NDMC

Encroachment of pavements Focus on Pedestrian safety

Focus on pedestrian safety and walkabilityImprovement of Public transportImprovement of road infrastructure conditions

Focus on safety of women by:Women HelplineBetter Taxi Services

Traffic congestion within NDMCStray Dog menaceImprovement of Public Parks City wide Wi-Fi could be introduced

Encroachment of Sanjay Camp JJC leading to unsatisfactory living conditions

Frequent road excavation leading to disruption of essential services (Internet etc.)Improvement of garbage collection (waste management)

Safety of women especially for single womenImproving physical, social and institutional infrastructure to achieve smart city vision is the way forwardCleanliness of markets and shops, especially conditions of food storageCreation of Entertainment areas

Sewerage and drainage within Chanakyapuri (especially during rainy season)Water shortage

Improvement of road infrastructure conditions Creation of an agency responsible for complete operation and maintenance of road infrastructure

Waste management is a major issueImprovement of parking problem

Air pollution caused due to leaf burningStray dog menace NDMC should take a long term view of the Smart City initiative:

Electric Cars and charging pointsEnforcement of laws

Parking problemsMore public facilities Solid Waste management Waste to energy facilities may be explored

Improve access to pedestrians e.g. Nehru Park. Pedestrian crossing time should be mandatory and included in all traffic junctions

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VATICAN MALAYSIA

THAILAND

CANADA

CHINA

RWANDA

SERBIA

KENYA

Complaint redressal mechanism of NDMC needs improvementSolid Waste managementStreet lighting in NDMC areasSecurity and safety of women, children and disabledImprovement of pavementsParking space outside embassyFumigation

Stray animals on the roadImprovement of street LightsImprovement of public toiletsPedestrian walkways could me made attractive Public awareness/ education programmesPunitive measures for violation of rules

Traffic congestion Pedestrianization of core areasParking managementInclusion of public sports facilitiesBetter waste management (especially in market areas)

Improved collaboration with between different agencies of government for achieving better outcomes in NDMCNairobi’s garbage management could be considered as a case study (case study could be shared)

Enforcement of building byelawsCreate cycling infrastructure (Bicycle lanes from Shantiniketan to Chanakyapuri)MICE as an acronym suggested for NDMC

M - Mentality (Continuous public engagement to improve behavior & mentality)I – Implementation (Focus on implementation) C- Consistency E – Engagement

Best practices from Malaysia were suggested:Penang – Traffic Management through one way lanesPutrajaya – Flood mitigation and water managementKuala Lumpur – Integration of cab services to improve mobility(e.gUber)

Development of better public infrastructureDevelopment of mindset leading to creation of smart and law-abiding peopleEnforcement of laws within NDMC should be consistent

Improvement of air qualityMeasures for improving noise pollutionTraffic management with a focus on pedestriansPublic Transport with last mile connectivity to metroManagement of stray animals in NDMC areas (dogs, monkeys)Maintenance of areas outside Embassy compoundsBetter waste management and street sweepingImprovement of water supply durationConstruction timings

Enforcement of traffic disciplineImprovement of drainage system (especially water logging during rainy seasons)Air pollutionGarbage disposal systemImprovement in electricity supplySolution for beggar & hawkers in major traffic intersections

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Automation Technologies are Transforming City Power Distribution into Smart Utilities

- Vijayan S.R & Sethuraman Ganesan, ABB India Ltd.

IntroductionOperations of power utilities may be broadly classified into Generation, Trans-mission and Distribution. While the former two have been drawing attention with re-spect to investment, technology upgrades, there is no parallel development in distri-bution segment. This is partly because, un-like generation and transmission systems, technical and operational issues in a dis-tribution system are isolated and rarely af-fect the overall grid system operation. The services and equipment connected to the system are also mostly simple, fed radially from the source. They are designed to op-erate largely unattended, with the consum-er giving feedback to the operator typical-ly over phone to complain about failure of supply which is best attended by the crew over the next few hours.

Need for Smart Distribution UtilityThe introduction of Distributed Generation (DG), especially renewable re-sources such as wind and roof top solar is changing the earlier radial distri-bution system into an inter-connected grid system (Figure 1).

Figure 1 – Traditional V/s. Inter-connected grid

SMART ENERGY & WATER


The expectations of quality lev-els of distribution has also gone up considerably. Variability of solar and wind power in a small geographical domain calls for quickly controllable back up gen-eration or storage such as battery systems to fill in shortfalls. In ur-ban scenario, the loads may peak during evening hours when there is no solar generation. Additional loads in the distribution by way of electric vehicle charging is adding newer dimension to a city power distribution. It also makes sense to encourage shifting the loads to a time of the day when there is surplus energy available in the system through ‘Demand Response’ (Figure 2). A smart utility should consider these in planning the system to ensure quality power to its customers.

A smart utility has to not only monitor the system components at every location of the distribution system but also plan ‘automatic’ reconnection of disconnected customers, when technically feasible, within a short time. The maintenance crew has to be alerted through SMS or other quick communica-tion means pin-pointing the location with details of the fault, so they may rush to the trouble area with the right tools and spare parts.

Technological progresses in communication, con-trol and automation technologies are now helping accelerating transformation of a traditional distri-bution system into a smart utility, fulfilling all the above requirements of a smart distribution utility.

With respect to controllability of a distribution network, the status of the components of the distribution system should be visible electron-ically both locally and remotely. Some of the existing, earlier generation of hand operated switches, breakers etc., need to be retrofitted with motor operating mechanism which can be controlled through electric commands from local or remote. Functionality levels desired at various equipment may depend on various aspects, refer Figure 4.

Uninterruptible power supply at all the individual compo-nents and communication facilities and links need to be integrated into the distribution power system before the whole system can be made smart. Individual residential and commercial building may have smart systems which can in turn be connected to a higher level automation sys-tem for co-ordination. While fiber optic could form the backbone of communication system of a distribution util-ity, the very distributed nature of the loads and generation would often call for a broad band wireless mesh topogra-phy with self-healing properties (Figure 5)

Smart Utility aspectsAccordingly, distribution segment is now seeing increased focus on developing and strengthening the network both in terms of equipment installation and implementing automation solutions. Components of distribution system will typically include, but not limited to, breakers, isolating and grounding switches, transform-ers, tap control gears, metering and protection devices, capacitors, FACTS devices etc., all with necessary features to communicate with remote and local control systems. (Figure 3)

Figure 2 - A smart distribution utility system will deal with the above and more

Figure 3- Typical electrical scheme of a city distribution system

Figure 4- Functionality levels possible in a distribution system

Figure 5- Distribution system with smart communication system



Automation in a smart utilityThe automation solutions include applications like SCADA/DMS, Outage Management System (OMS), Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), Smart Metering and advanced applications like Demand Response etc. A typical power systems network management is indicated in Figure 6.

These system concepts will enable more efficient operation, volt-age optimization and maximization of energy throughput. They also contribute to outage identification, outage recovery and optimal system performance under changing system conditions. The Dis-tribution Automation also paves the way for a “Self-Healing Grid”.

The grid automation provides a greater and wider visibility of the network thereby enabling remote and faster controllability. Imple-mentation of automation brings in enormous data from the field and there is a growing importance of managing these data and using them as information by implementing Information Technology (IT) solutions. The traditional control systems which are called the Op-erational Technology (OT) need to be bridged with the IT systems. While a smart grid converges the OT and IT systems within a utility, the important aspect of its implementation is to efficiently integrate them as per the utilities requirements.

The SCADA system itself has set of functions which support the system operator in alarm han-dling, control, monitoring, operation and helps in storing historical generation, loading of various components of the distribution system.

There are different aspects that a Smart Grid is expected to improve in the power system operations, like -

• Optimize asset utilization and operating efficiency.• Provide power quality• Anticipate and respond to system disturbances in a

self-healing manner.• Operate resiliently against physical and cyber-attacks • Enable active participation by consumers.• Address Distributed Generation and energy storage

options

Figure 6- Typical Power System Management

Figure 7 - General Network Configuration

Figure 8 – SCADA/DMS/OMS system architecture

SCADA/DMSA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system is the base for any automa-tion system. It enables to acquire data from the distribution system devices to a central remote location.

A general network configuration of a SCA-DA system between a substation and the re-mote control center is as depicted in Figure 7, below:

DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (DMS)While SCADA is the basic platform of an automation system, the applications for the distribution network widely known as Distri-bution Management System (DMS) is a key component of smart grid (or) distribution au-tomation. The DMS provides functionalities to improve the operations and the efficiency of the sub-transmission, medium and low voltage distribution networks. Typical sys-tem architecture of a SCADA/DMS system is shown in Figure [8] below:



The reliability of a distribution system is measured by two main indices – Customer Average Interruption Duration Index (CAIDI) and System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI). The efficiency of a dis-tribution system is measured by the distribution losses and the voltage quality. Accordingly, the two main applications of the DMS are

• Fault Location, Isolation and Restoration (FLISR)

• Volt-Var Optimization (VVO)

In FLISR, the fault location deals with detecting the permanent fault in a feeder. The faults are detected through the relays whose values are telemetered through the SCADA system. The fault parameters are read and analyzed by the DMS applications and based on the network topology built in the system at the time of system engineering, faulty sections are identified. Once, the fault and the faulty section is iden-tified/located, the Isolation function, isolates the faults by producing operation sequences (also called as switching sequences) of the network devices which can be remotely controlled. The Restoration function, attempts to restore the power to as many customers as possible, thereby reducing the number of customers affected and improving the reliabili-ty indices. The restoration function also produces switching sequences

of the network devices which can be remotely controlled for supply restoration. These switching sequences can be executed either automat-ically or manually. In automatic switching, the switching operations are executed automatically with/without operator approval depending on the system configuration. In case of manual switching, each operation in the switching sequence for Isolation/Restoration has to be done by the operator. The Automatic/Manual operation depends on the utilities needs and possibilities.

The Volt-Var Optimization (VVO) function improves the efficient op-eration of the network by:

• Keeping voltages in limits

• Reducing losses by minimizing reactive power flows

• Reducing peak power by voltage reduction

The capacitor banks and the transformer tap changers are controlled to achieve the required voltage and reactive power operating range. This application is also interfaced with the SCADA system and uses the re-al-time network information, thereby using the “as-is” status of the net-work in the optimization calculations.

OUTAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (OMS)Outages can be either planned or unplanned. The OMS system provides a platform to intelligently manage the outages and provides support in decision making process to support daily grid operations and minimize outages. For unplanned outages, OMS can automate decisions that were previously time-consuming processes involving many people. It will transform identification of alerts and prioritize actions by using analytics based on subject matter experts, available data and learned heuristics. For planned outages, utilities can use OMS to plan all maintenance work in order to minimize out-of-service time and also schedule work at low load intervals. OLM will help them optimize field crews based on skill sets, truck compatibility and network feeder similarity.

CONCLUSIONSThe smart grid is more than any one technology, and the benefits of making it a reality extend far beyond the power system itself. While the transition in the grid connectivity is already happening and the utilities are facing the reality, the transition in the way this new gird is operated is the need of the hour. These new technologies, supported by appropriate standards encourage the industry as a whole to march forward with a positive thought of making the grid “Smart” by implementing such systems and solutions. The recommended approach is be to have a tightly integrated SCADA/DMS/OMS system.

DEMAND RESPONSEDemand Response is a program to control and change the end customer energy consumption pattern depending on the factors like time of use price, peak shave-off incentives. As peak shave off is more important from the utilities perspective to maintain the operating conditions of the grid, incentive payments are normally included to encourage end customers to volunteer and subscribe to the program. DR opens up a disciplined usage of energy by intentionally altering the time of usage of home appliances. Demand Response is a voluntary program where the end customer “participates” in helping the utilities to manage the energy distri-bution. The implementations of smart meters and other AMI systems are widely viewed as enabling technologies for demand response that will permit greater and more effective use of demand response strategies.



INTERVIEW

Exclusive Interview

With Shri Deepak

ShindeMunicipal CommissionerPasighat Municipal Corporation

What according to you is a smart city?

A city that listens and responds positively to its citizens.

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DS

Has the SPV Been formed ? If yes, what is its constitution ?

Not yet. It will be formed only after selection of the city through smart city challenge.

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DS

This is the first time government is organis-ing cities challenge for deploying of funds for urban development of India. What is your opinion on it ?

It is a revolutionary change. On the one hand it has forced city administration to look inwards, assess their strengths and weaknesses and look for smart solutions while on the other hand the competition framework creates sense of ownership and partnership in not only the city administration but also residents of the city. This sense of ownership and partnership will go long way in ensuring plans and projects are implemented properly and public funds are utilized in the most ef-fective and efficient manner.

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Pasighat has won the Stage 1 of Indian Smart Cities Challenge and is now striving hard to be selected in the top 20 cities. Mr Deepak Shinde, Municipal Commissioner, Pasighat spoke to Arpita Gupta, our editor, on what opportunities the Mission holds for Pasighat.


What major challenges are be-ing faced by your city that you wish to address through the Smart Cities Initiative ?

Pasighat is the oldest town of Arunachal Pradesh. So improvement of core in-frastructure like Roads, drainage etc. and augmentation of public services like water supply, Solid Waste Man-agement are major challenges. Also providing housing to expanding popu-lation of Pasighat particularly econom-ically weaker section is also a challenge faced by city administration.

UW What financial Impact will Smart City development bring to its citizens ? Will the cost of living increase ?

Smart city will lead to economic growth and employment generation which will benefit the citizens immensely. Smart solutions using ICT will help in reducing cost of public services like water supply, electric-ity etc. Initiatives like e-city will definitely help citizens in saving their time and money as the entire citizen to government communication and grievance readdressal can be made online. All this will lead to considerable savings on part of individual citizens in all strata of the society. There will be major indirect benefits due to improved health and education infrastructure also. On the other hand user charge collection on services like parking and property tax collection will partially increase the cost of living.

UW

Where does your city stand amongst the 100 Selected Smart Cities ? And why do you think your city should come in the first 20 ?

If you consider the level of citizen engagement and participation, Pasighat with population of 24000 stands in Top 20.

Pasighat which is strategically located town in Eastern Arunachal Pradesh is transit point for all border districts in East-ern Arunachal Pradesh. Better Road, Rail and Air connectivity augurs well for the development of Smart City. Further natural beauty of Siang river and dawn lit mountains of Arunachal Pradesh hold tremendous potential for development of Tourism hub in Pasighat.

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Which locality/ areas are you consider-ing for Smart City Development (ofRetrofitting/ Redevelopment/ Green-field)

We are considering High region area in which all government offices and houses are located for redevelopment and Market and surround-ing high density areas like Banskota for Retro-fitting.

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Proliferation of Data

“In God we trust, all others bring data”. -Dr. W. Edwards Deming in The Elements of Statistical Learning,

eming’s words, repeated famously by Michael Bloomberg, still hold true today, but there are many who believe that too much data is as bad as too little. According to IBM, every day society generates 2.5 billion gigabytes of data in organizations, via the Internet of Things, and as a re-sult of our personal digital activities, and that less than 1% of that data is mined for valuable insight. Aberdeen Group believes that organizations using IoT will double the amount of data they generate every three years.

The Smart City of tomorrow will be dependent on the machines, sensors and devices connected together into the Internet of Things, but with an almost exponential increase in the amount of data each generates, extract-ing meaningful information from that data using existing technologies becomes an almost impossible challenge. The challenge is hard enough for a single organisation extracting data from a single network of similar devic-es, but the Smart City of tomorrow will have additional challenges.

The sensors and other devices currently deployed tend to serve a specific purpose for a specific organisation. Energy companies providing city-wide services deploy sensors to monitor flow across their grid, traffic sensors on traffic lights monitor traffic for the Traffic Manage-ment Centre, weather sensors provide data for the fore-casting services. The Smart City of the future will need to have data from all services to be able to run effectively. If not then how can they know when storms might dam-age power lines that affect the control of traffic through the city? The fact is that with data the whole exceeds the sum of the parts, as adding more data sets increases exponentially the number of ways in which that data can be combined. What makes the scenario more challenging is that the most valuable IoT applications are probably not yet recognised, and when recognised will probably change rapidly over time. As a result it is likely that the combinations of data required will have to change in step.

Centralized data analysis engines just can’t keep up with the amount of data being thrown at them, with half of the organisations canvassed by Aberdeen Group admit-ting to failure in improving time-to-decision in the last year. The key is to distribute the intelligent data gather-ing process, making sure that each of the stakeholders in the data receives only that data which is meaningful to them and in a timely manner. This, however, introduces an additional layer of complexity in that there is usually only one data owner for a particular dataset but multiple,

potential data beneficiaries. The data owner may be hap-py to share all or part of their data but will likely only be able to do so under certain constraints. To facilitate the Smart City we need to provide them with the capability to extract meaningful data from multiple data sources, com-bining that data in ways that allows joined up thinking to occur.

Need for federated service agreementsIf we look at the different types of organisation involved in serving a city, it is easy to see how the data available may be used in different ways to facilitate more intelli-gence-based services. Traffic monitors placed at inter-sections provide information that could be used by traffic controllers to manage traffic flow, by police services to target speeding vehicles or track criminals, by ambulance services to determine the quickest route to an accident, or by members of the community to determine their quickest route to work or back home. Each beneficiary would be best served by receiving only a subset of the data avail-able e.g. the police only getting data on speeding vehicles or specific number plates, and the data owner would be best served by not having to propagate the whole of the data generated. In an increasingly commercialised world there may also be licensing considerations, costs, security and privacy implications in the provision of the data to external groups.

Today these exchanges of data, if they occur at all, are governed by paper-based service agreements which re-quire significant time and effort to implement and change. What is required is a method of federating the data sourc-es and the data beneficiaries so that the sharing of data is controlled through service agreements implemented in software which carries out the policies determined by the data owner in consultation with its users.

Because of the ever changing nature of anything driven by humanity the city will also need to be able to dynamically change those service agreements in concert with the data owners and consumers, rather than relying on lawyers to argue and reargue changes which may re-sult in the opportunity or emergency having expired.

In short, the existence of any available dataset should be published along with the policies which dictate the ser-vice agreement that governs its access, and the metadata that describes their data in machine-readable format. Au-thorised users can then access that data provided that they conform to the policies without unnecessary delay.

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Potential solution

The Agility DataBroker framework allows an organisation to unlock the value of their own data in conjunction with federated data through its controlled consolidation, cleaning, analysis and distribution. It allows for data to be extracted from any combination of data sources, whether they sit in the Cloud or locally, under strictly enforced, but dynamically changeable service agreements which govern its use and deployment.Agility DataBroker can be used to clean and filter data close to source and distribute it in different formsto different recipients so that the appropriate analysts can extract the information they require in an optimal manner.

Agility DataBroker is implemented as an overlay that is deployed as a stand-alone server at each organisation, or part of an or-ganisation, which is to interact in relation to shared data. It provides a means to capture existing and future relationships with other organisations (Note that an organisation might be an independent enterprise, a department or even an individual) and enables organ-isations to be connected together into a ‘Federation’ in which cooperation occurs through mutual agreement, but within which each party retains independence.

The service agreements which control the exchange of data between organisationsis defined as a set of policies that can be changed dynamically if necessary and which specify all critical access criteria.Within an Agility DataBrokerServer, Policy is structured as one or more Policy Modules. Multiple Modules can represent different aspects of an organisation’s policy, or represent the interests of different actors within the organisation, or be concerned with particular events. For example one Policy Module might be concerned with legal aspects, another with financial auditing, and yet another with green issues. Policy interacts with the Agility Server through a Policy API. By this means Policy Modules can control which Service Agreements are to be entered into, how they may be modified over time and under which conditions they may be terminated.

Policy can interact with the organisation in order to report on the progress of the organisation with respect to its Service Agreements and/or to modify the behaviour of the organisation in order to ensure conformance with its Service Agreements. The implementation and behaviour of Policy Modules are not re-stricted, beyond the requirement that the Policy API be supported. Policy Mod-ules can interact with other Policy Modules, processes, human users and data in whatever way they see fit. The overall behaviour of the organisation will how-ever need to be directed by the organisation’s requirements to meet their Ser-vice Agreement obligations and the understanding of the business, financial and legal implications of failing to do so. Agility DataBrokerdoes not in any sense ‘enforce’ Service Agreements or define how the organisation should behave. It simply records and reports on changes to Service Agreements as they occur and, if appropriate, permits those changes to be responded to automatically.

The end result is that data owners retain control and visibility of to whom their data is consigned and the policies that dictate its access and use. Data beneficiaries only receive the datasets that are meaningful to them. The federation between the parties, implemented via the service agreements, allows for the policies under which data is exchanged to be dynamically altered where necessary.

Data can therefore be extracted from the IoT, be cleaned close to source, be consolidated, analysed and distributed in accordance with these policies to one or more data beneficiaries who, in turn, may need to consolidate that data with data from other sources to provide the meaningful information required to run the city. By defining their data in ma-chine-readable format, the data owner is able to share the metadata, facilitating easier, automatic conversion for use by the data beneficiaries.

To run efficiently the Smart City requires ac-cess to multiple sources of clean data. We believe that Agility DataBroker can help facilitate that.


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Canadian and Australian cities dominate global rankings of the best cities to live in. India, despite having 53 cit-ies with a million plus population, including 8 megacities, doesn't have a single city in the top 100 global cities list. What can we learn from Canada and Australia?

Why our cities have no choice

But to be SMART

- Mr. Snehdeep Aggarwal, Founder and Chairman, Bhartiya Group

From a carpet exporter in 1978, now the owner of Rs 1,300-crore business em-pire that straddles leather exports ( India’s #1 slot for over a decade) real estate including SEZs, integrated township and more recently low cost housing,


SMART CITY

Cities are engines of growth. Talent looks for good lifestyles, which can be nurtured by well planned and

well executed cities. This is why Toronto, Vancouver, Sydney, Melbourne and San Francisco top the charts. Most Indian cities are growing at a rapid clip since they pro-vide jobs. However, while jobs are being created and Indians are migrating to cities, lifestyles in most cities, for most citizens, is abysmal. Over the next 2 decades, our cities shall have unprecedented urbaniza-tion. Hence, Indian cities need to become much better much quicker.

Ever wondered why all the cities of In-dia combined fail to attract fewer foreign tourists than the single city of Kuala Lum-pur? For the record, Kuala Lumpur is tar-geting 10 million plus foreign visitors in 2015, whereas all indications are that India would be struggling to cross 7 million for-eign visitors mark this year. And why for all the hype, the number of foreign tourists at the Taj has been dwindling in the last couple of years?!

Truth is Indian cities offer extremely low quality of life. Most would qualify as quite un-smart cities. Along with economic op-portunities, urban residents need decent housing with core infrastructure such as 24x7 water, power, a tap and sewerage connection in every home, parks and green spaces and a hassle-free commute to work, preferably walking to work or by public transport. Instead, we have slums, pollu-tion, deficient public transport and unre-sponsive city governance.

We need a unified approach to City man-agement, not multiple agencies. The other learning from Canadian, Australian and major global cities is that the Mayor is the champion of the city, and leads it to better times. The Mayor of London is responsi-ble for making London a better place for everyone who visits, lives or works in the city. The Mayor is responsible for many areas from policing, transport, housing, planning and the environment. This aspect of empowered urban leadership is perhaps one major missing element in Indian cities - smart cities need smart leaders.

For urban Indian citizens, the daily grind of life is robbing them of their productiv-ity and happiness. Sadly, four of our cities rank amongst the top ten most polluted cit-ies globally.

Yes, there are showcase areas in almost every Indian city where the political and business elite live. These gated commu-nities are picture perfect, great visuals for advertising. Ironically they also represent a paradoxical side of our city life – isola-tionist exclusivity rather than desirable in-clusivity.

This is why we have incorporated inclu-

sive living in our 125 acre ‘Bhartiya City’ in Bengaluru. Here you can walk to work, walk to school and walk to leisure, in a live-work-play environment.

We believe that a smart city is a combi-nation of science and art. The five pillars of Bhartiya City are Family, Community, Culture, Learning, and Health – together these improve the quality of life in the city for everyone. We believe in a habitable city where it is pleasant to both live and work.

We are enthused at the Smart Cities Mis-sion for 100 Indian cities, and look forward to playing a major role in it. The concept of smart city would be different for individu-al cities, as long as they have basic infra-structure, use smart solutions for making infrastructure and services better, and rely on area based development. A smart city needs to promote culture of walking and

cycling which is the birth right of every individual. Also with the use of smart tech-nology, we can offer solutions such as in-telligent traffic management that helps op-timize existing infrastructure, and increase efficiency. We invite you, dear reader, to visit us at Bhartiya City Bengaluru and see how we have integrated all these elements in our smart city. India’s urbanization pace is now going to pick up big momentum. With it, will come both challenges and opportunities. Good cities are known for enhancing quality of life. If not, they can make lives a lot more miserable. But cities change for the better. Think London in 1860, and New York in 1890 with poor quality of life, and how they have improved. The choice is totally ours. For me, Indian cities have no choice but to be intelligent.



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INTERVIEW

What Solutions are offered by Barco in the Smart Energy & Smart Transportation fields?

We provide the Connected Visualisation Systems in control rooms of Smart Energy and Smart Transportation. We bring different proven display technologies to our customers. Besides this we have technologies in which we can bring the information from various sources on the network, distribute / share it on different displays within the control room or the adjacent room and now even the mobile devices. This provides a great capability of making the faster decisions by providing a complete situational awareness.

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What according to you is a smart city?

A city which provides a sustainable pub-lic infrastructure, security, quality of life, job opportunities and last but not the least brings the efficiency in the life of citizens. This can be achieved with a careful planning, using best of the scal-able and flexible technologies.

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Your opinion on the Bloomberg city challenge competition by the government?

I feel it is a great way of motivating the states, cities and the citizens to come up with creative and concrete ideas about their cities. This is also a good idea to decide how to use the limited resources for a big plan. This will en-sure the best wins

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In Smart Cities abundant data will be generated. How do you suggest we can cope with such large amounts of data & put it to intelligent use?

Using the analytics & best visualisation one can use the big data in more useful manner. Also it should be possible to share the data in a more flexible way possible. Also usage of dash boards can help in using big data into useful piece of information. Once you have all this, high res-olution visualisation will be needed to display this useful information in a user friendly man-ner..

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What all sectors in Smart City Devel-opment are you targeting?

We are mainly targeting the control rooms and the collaboration rooms for various city infra-structure e.g. Public utilities (Power, Water & Gas), City Surveillance and Transport. Having said that Barco is a world leader in providing the connected visualisation systems for Health-care, Entertainment and Venues and Hospital-ity sector and we believe that a smart city will have all of this and therefore Barco can be a partner for the connected professional visuali-sation in different domains of Smart Cities.

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- Country Director Barco

Can you detail our readers about the Control Room Tech-nology?

Control rooms always have been places which are designed to be used 24/7/365. One of the main attributes of control rooms is proven highly reliable tech-nology usage. Once cannot afford to do the experiment by using the commer-cial technologies in the control rooms. Broadly control room consists of the set of applications to convert the raw data into meaningful applications, IT & Network infrastructure and high-ly reliable proven Overview display. Nowadays there are additional fea-tures which are also critical besides this e.g. in order to have the faster decisions and ease of use it should be possible to share the information with-in the control room and even out of the control room. This also requires the integration at the application level to enable the operators to work in a more seamless manner without burdening them with additional load of working with different user interfaces. So the proven eco system between various technology providers and application providers will become the key. There is also a need today to share the con-trol room information in a secured way on the mobile devices. Last but not the least, control room will also foresee the need of the recording of information being shown for the post event analy-sis purposes as well as for the training purposes.

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What are your target customers / clients?

Public Utilities, City Surveillance Agencies, Met-ros, BRTS, Urban Traffic Dept., Agencies who will manage the emergency operations, Telecom com-panies, Healthcare service providers, Cinema Ex-hibitors, Digital Advertising Companies.

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Barco has presence in the Smart Cities field internationally too. What examples can we draw from other nations for smart city development?

Design something which is for future, flexible, scal-able and provide open interfaces.

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How do you see yourself in a few years into the future?

We see Barco providing the solutions which are in-tegrated with other technology providers, connect-ed over the network to use the power of scalability and flexibility. By bringing some of these technolo-gies we intend to remove some of the pain points in the markets we are operating.

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Interview with Shoma Majumdar

- Divisional DirectoR

Mott MacDonald

UW : What basic concepts / broad guidelines would you work on to help develop your city into a smart city?

SM : A city that enables its residents to access amenities through the applica-tion of smart technology can be classed as a smart city. Smart technology enables the delivery of information and services that enhance the livability, workability and sustainability of a city for its residents.

UW : What were the key takeaways in your past projects undertaken for city development?

SM : The importance of a comprehen-sive city master plan which incorporates properly considered and realistic forecasts for land-take and services and takes into account future growth scenarios cannot be understated. In recent times, cities have been developed without following the basic rules of planning. In some cases, cities are planned only after they become over popu-lated and the conditions become unlivable in terms of mobility and basic infrastruc-ture. In India, the implementation of city developments happens in small tranches de-pending on what funds are available. Trunk infrastructure projects such as water supply, sewerage and drainage are often developed on a gradual basis rather than holistically.

UW : What potential operational challenges / roadblocks do you see in imple-menting a smart city plan?

SM : The key challenges for implementing a smart city plan are governance during the execution phase and the availability of funds. In India there are nu-merous organisations that are responsible for various development activities. The redevelopment of cities to make them smarter will require one agency to be given the authority to undertake all activities. Decision making powers can return to the respective organisations once the redevelopment has been completed. The intro-duction of new technologies and expanded infrastructure will obviously require funding as well.

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UW : What has been your past experience of Preparation of City De-velopment Plan / Smart City Plan (globally)/Town Planning Scheme / etc. for cities (Indian or overseas)?

SM : Mott MacDonald produced the revised Urban Development Plans Formulation & Implementation (UDPFI) Guidelines in 2014 which includes sections on various levels of regional and urban planning as well as smart city planning. The original national level guidelines were published in 1996 and provided a framework for plan preparation and implementation processes. Since then, many changes have taken place in the field of urban development. Towns and cities have become more dynamic in nature and are subject to unprecedent-ed changes in terms of infrastructure and other basic services/amenities require-ments. New emerging aspects such as inclusive planning, sustainable habitats and transport, land use and transport integration, comprehensive mobility plans for urban transport, service level benchmarks, disaster management and urban reforms have also given a new dimension to the planning process. All these factors necessitated the revision of the guidelines.The UDPFI Guidelines 2014 were published publically by the Ministry of Urban Development in March 2015 and will form the basis of urban and regional planning in India at national and state levels for years to come. The guidelines take into consideration the typical conditions of terrain, geography, location (hilly region, coastal regula-tion zones, metropolitan cities, peri-urban locations etc.) and the current context of planning. The main challenge was to condense all this information into a sin-gle document so that it could be used by all planners in any part of the country. Mott MacDonald collected and reviewed planning guidelines from various parts of the country and compared them to guidelines used in other countries. A core team of experts was set up by the Ministry and we met with them regularly to brief them on the work. Five regional and one national workshop were also held where experts were invited to consider the draft guidelines. The output of these workshops was used to finalise the guidelines.

Mott MacDonald has broad experience in urban development, ranging from the preparation of development plans and masterplans to being in-volved in industrial parks, corridors and sustainable township projects both in India and abroad. For example, we are currently playing a key role in delivering Tianjin Eco-City in China, which will be one of the world’s most sustainable cities once complete. The ¥150 billion (US$22 billion) project is being constructed over a 10-year period as part of an agreement between the Chinese and Singaporean governments and will cover an area of 34 sq km, housing up to 350,000 people. We are help-ing develop a sustainability strategy for the Eco-City which encompass-es industrial and commercial strategies, green building and sustainable transport. These strategies are all underpinned by education options and stakeholder engagement to encourage low energy living. We are also lead-ing on the design of two demonstration projects – a 20,000 sq m middle school and a 600 apartment complex. Both these projects will be required to demonstrate a 65% saving in annual energy compared with the previous national standard. Tianjin will have one of the world’s lowest per capita carbon footprints and to achieve this we’re applying the latest thinking and the latest innovative technologies, bringing together different design disciplines in an integrated way to achieve trailblazing performance in sustainable living. The aim is for Tianjin to become an international centre for environmental expertise and green innovation, serving as a model for eco-cities across the developing world.

Mott MacDonald is also working on the development of a world-class mixed use township community at Khondwa & Bhugaon, close to Pune in the Indian state of Maharashtra. We have undertaken technical feasibility studies which looked at the basis for engineering and performed a techno- economic viability assessment for financial institutions and banks looking to invest. Other duties have included sizing on-site physical infrastructure, utility planning, site optimisation works and demand assessments. We also reviewed social infrastructure with regards to applicable local and regional planning regulations and policies.

UW : What all will be detailed in a city’s smart city proposal to be present-ed in the bloomberg’s city challenge?

SM : For a smart city proposal to be included in the city challenge the guidelines need to incorporate the fol-lowing:A bold vision: Each city must convey its own unique vision that reflects local history and environment, its resources and the priorities and aspirations of its citizens.

A pan-city initiative: Cities should draw inspiration from smart solutions that use technology, information and data to improve services or results for citizens. The pan-city initiative must touch the lives of many, or potentially all, of its citizens. A area-based devel-opment plan: This plan will transform an existing area of each city, creating an exemplar for other areas to follow. Depending on local circumstances, there is a choice of three approaches – retrofitting, redevelopment or green-field development.

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UW : Financing smart city development is a big challenge and has to be self-sustain-able. Your views and plans to address the same?

SM : Smart cities will enable residents to live with ease. There should be a consultation process where key stakeholders are part of the planning and implementation processes. Capital expenditure needs be raised through municipal bonds, dedicated infrastructure funds or through a public-private partnership. The actual operational expenditure can be levied in the form of taxes on the city’s residents.

UW : When are the tenders of each city expected to be out (for various services like technology, civil works, infrastructure development, etc.)

SM : Possibly by the end of 2016 or early 2017 if cities fast-track their activities and perhaps more importantly secure the funding.

Shoma Majumdar (Divisional Direc-tor) in a remote community in playful pedagog-ical activity.

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What basic concepts/ broad guidelines would you work on to help develop your city into a smart city? Ecorys is focusing on extensive public participation in decision making process. Citizen consultations are best source of information to understand the needs of the city. We want to engage people at various levelsthrough different modes like public meetings, stakeholder consultations, print media, social networking etc. It will help us formulate the city vision to realize the aspirations of the citizens.

Financing smart city develop-ment is a big challenge &have to be self-sustainable. You views and plans to address the same?We have to follow principle of ‘more from less’ for our projects to be self – sustainable. The use of ICT can be leveraged to cut down O&M cost of the projects. Also, we can look for different sources for funds like municipal bonds, loans from financial institutions etc to finance the projects.

What potential operational challenges/roadblocks do you see in implementing a smart city plan?Smart City Plan needs to be realistic and achievable. If we focus on being creative to propose sustainable strat-egies, the potential roadblocks can be minimized during the implementa-tion. One of the key challenges will be to promote eco-sensitive urban development. We have to link nature and development to enhance quality of environment of the city.

When are the tenders of each city expected to be out (for various services like technology, civil works, infrastructure development, etc.)Each Smart City has to first consti-tute a SPV for the implementation of the projects under Smart City Pro-posal. It is expected that few cities will be able to begin implementation in the starting of next financial year.

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SMART CITIES - SMART CARD

“FOR A SMART

LIVING”

Introduction -Multi-Use Smart City ID card with Digital Wallet

One card which enables Smart City citizens to unlock services and facili-ties across the entire city in a secure way. This will be a unique identification and payment tool making it easy for citizens to use and pay for everyday services securely. This is not limited to accessing your work place, but also it can provide a digital wallet with simple tap and go convenience.

Smart cities rely on technologies that put citizens first and promise social, environmental, and economic sustainability. A vast array of new technologies as well as social and economic trends will enable cities to deliver on this promise. Technical trends such as context-aware devices, displays and mobile devices everywhere that connects to everything, human-centric computing, and Smart Cities - Smart Card “For a Smart Living” continuous access to massive amounts of data will make city workers and citizens more efficient at work and continuously connected to family, friends, and information. This paper defines vision for common Communi-ty (Citizen) card for people of Smart city which not only serves as integrated identity and payment tool but can be envisioned provid-ing various applications in the areas of Public services, Utility ser-vices and Business services using a simple quick secured “Tap and Go” convenience As envisioned in the diagram below the Smart City Smart card would allow its Citizens to use the smart card for multiple purposes.

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Typical application2.a. Public services

People often need to carry multiple cards to enable them to access public services, which can be inconvenient. The Community Card can enable a user to access a range of public services, a welcome development arising from the policy of sharing the fruits of advanced technologies with the general public as people go about their daily activities.Card holders can pay for medications bought from designated drugstores, pay for medical services received at designated hospitals and clinics, pay pension premiums, and access personal social security account information. No need to worry about the change for small transactions like auto, bus fare and no need to worry about how small and how many times can do the transaction without much cost per the transaction. When linked to Bank account, card holders can access their bank account records to check the balance, payment and withdrawal records, personal loans, and so on. Smart ID card can enable the digital wallet facilities of transferring one time from the bank account to the wallet and use the wallet as many times as they want at a convenience of mobile or smart card.When receiving medical services, card holders can access community medical ser-vices, including disease prevention, health care and treatment, rehabilitation, health education, and family planning guidance. Additional services can be seamlessly incor-porated into the Smart City Card system.

Utility servicesWorking people are often inconvenienced by having to spend time queuing up to deal with matters such as payment of electricity and water bills and for other essential services or provisions. The City Card can initiate the following functions:The Smart City Card, a small “e-wallet”, can be used to pay for public utilities such as water, electricity, gas and cable TV charges at one time. The Smart City Card can also be used by employers to pay wages to employees, thereby improving business efficiency.For cultural and tourism services, the Smart City Card can be used to pay for public library, cinema, museum, gym, theatrical performance and amusement park tickets or entry, a complete change from the existing methods and far more streamlined.In the transportation services, the card can be used to pay for bus, taxi, ferry and metro train fares. It can also be used to pay for highway and bridge tolls and for fuel and parking.

Business servicesMany professional people experience heavy work pressure and have no time to at-tend to domestic chores. The City Card can initiate the following functions:When doing shopping, card holders can use the cards in supermarkets and other stores as well as at gas stations and the like. Many cooperatives can offer preferential dis-counts to card holders. In financial services, certain banks can facilitate the use of Smart City Cards as debit and credit cards.

School And Resident CardChildren can use the card in the school as ID card and Access Card and Li-brary Card etc. Children can pay for any service in the school whether it is canteen, tuition fees, excursion fees etc safely using their cards. Parents can top up the cards from online bank-ing whenever needed.Residents can use it as resident ID card and access multiple services. Also residents can pay for mainte-nance fees, utility services, club fees etc using the same card. The card can be easily recharged online.

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About Transaction Analysts (India) Pvt. Ltd (TA) is a specialized cashless pay-ments company with RBI license to op-erate a Prepaid Payment System (PPI) and UIDAI licensed AUA and KUA (Authentication and EKYC) operator and also implementation partner for National Payments Corporation of India. TA cur-rently enables digital wallet and Aadhaar Authentication from its hosting platform with its own IP and patented Software.It currently processes lakhs of Aadhaar Au-thentication transactions and thousands of Digital wallet transactions for its partners every single day.TA currently provides cashless payment system services using NFC smart cards, Payment Kiosk, POS based payment ap-plications for educational institutes like IIT, large universities like VIT, large residential complexes like South City in Bangalore, large hospitals, temples, Cor-porates and Govt organizations.Srinivasa Katuri , Founder, MD & CEO of Transaction Analysts is widely respected in Indian Payments industry and also ad-visor, Payment systems to IDRBT( RBI) Organization and director of many USA organizations. He brings 18+ years of USA Payment Systems experience. He is gradu-ated from Hyderabad University and M.S. from California State University, USA.


Interview with Ashish Tandon

-Managing Director

Egis in India

Smart city is now not a question of if, but a ques-tion of how & when. What is your vision of a Smart City? And your role in help-ing develop a city Smart.EGIS strongly believes that to enable a city Smart, first we have to know how to build and manage cities. Egis has been involved in the process of making cities for over 50 years now. For Egis, the meaning and manifestation of Smart Cities transcends the role of ICT alone as the key solution to developing and managing cities. The MoUD’s vision of Smart Cities is to focus on effective and equita-ble service delivery. In helping realize this public purpose vision, Egis’s focus is quality of life to the end user. ICT is not an end but an instrument towards achieving this goal. Egis has worked on design and development of Smart cit-ies and Smart Infrastructure abroad and in India. Given our global experience, we had been engaged as part of an advisory group established by the Ministry of Commerce & Industry in establishing the ‘Attributes of a Smart City’. Further, Egis has also been empaneled by MoUD for the implementation of the SMART City projects. A Smart City is first a Livable City. This means the city has to provide efficient services and be accessible & af-fordable. The attributes we have defined, emphasize that smart ap-proaches towards integrating multiple infrastructure sec-tors is essential, for example engineering designs which in-tegrate the design of road networks with drainage through ‘Green Streets’ approach. Then, Smart integrated infra-structure is important: Smart Transportation (road based traffic planning and management, metro rail, high speed rail, tramway systems and light rail, waterway transport and aviation), Smart Water management, distribution net-work and monitoring supply and consumption for water supply, power, and other basic services; Finally, e-gov-ernance through processing ‘Big Data’- through our two decades of engagement with public authorities in India and particularly Urban Local Bodies, we have developed soft-ware data infrastructure that integrates infrastructure con-sumption levels mapped through input data. Through these we have developed Monitoring & Evaluation systems which lead to understanding of outcomes of development initiatives undertaken. Now, our next endeavor is integra-tion of the ‘Internet of Things’ with hard engineering infra-structure and urban management procedures, mechanisms established at various levels of government departments in cities.This dual ability, of being able to develop instruments to Design and help Manage cities; to integrate hard and soft ICT based data infrastructure is our Core Competence that we bring to the table when it comes to Smart City Projects globally.

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Egis is a strong inter-national player. What has been your expe-rience in the global market regarding smart cities? And what takeaways would you recommend India to adopt from them?

AT Egis offers competencies in the Smart Infra-structure sector. These include Smart Port cities, Smart Airport Cities, Smart Public Transportation Networks and Smart Water networks. The vision world-wide, especially from firms engaged predominantly in the ICT sectors, is to enable the ICT/ Smart infrastruc-ture towards building a “Frictionless Society”. Being grounded in the craft of making cities, Egis knows the various challenge in achiev-ing this vision. Much work has to be done in setting a firm institutionally capacitated base to realize this vision, in emerging economies such as India.

We strongly recommend that efforts be chan-nelized towards capacity building of agencies of the State and the Private sector firms and the linkage between them, which often seem dichotomous, in order to implement this vi-sion of a ‘frictionless society’ and a ‘friction-less market society’.

ABIDJAN, a city in the airport (Aero city) is one project where Egis is responsible for the project management of the airport. Egis is responsible for conducting the technical and economic feasibility studies and providing ur-ban project management of the future aerocity which will cover 450 hectares. There are quite a few interesting case studies with Egis which could be used as a case study to arrive at solu-tions for some of the infrastructure challenges cropping up while rolling out the Smart City project in the country.

Smart cities will be densely networked. How can they protect themselves from hacker attacks and the mis-use of data?

AT “Typically a Smart City would mean use of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, use of various IT systems to make things much smarter. A Smart City is a city where technology, science and society affect each other optimally. A Smart City knows what is going on and puts users at the center. “Getting that last mile connectivity and getting things fully automated is going to be the most important aspect of labeling a city smart.” Transpor-tation, energy utilities, buildings, and security are some of the aspects that need to be smarter and driven by technology and automated processes.

Smart cities will generate an unprecedented amount of additional data (Big Data) from various instrumented information feeders such as sensors, meters, cameras, existing consumer equipment such as smart phones and eventually even household applianc-es as the ‘internet of things’ (IOT) progresses. This information will be geographically referenced. As mentioned above IOT will encompass a multitude of devices interacting with control units and dashboards, through sensors, RFID, M2M, satellite and GPS. These will be processed on a network enabled by in-ter-connected systems riding broadband, Wi-Fi or satellite and even Bluetooth at the instrument level which would all be fed into massive server banks for centralized control centers capable of running Big Data analytics and operator interfaces for deci-sion making.

It is not difficult to visualize a scenario of cyber attacks against the critical infrastructures of the smart cities that are run by information Information and communication Communication technologies Technologies (ICT). Such a cyber attack can crip-ple the entire smart city if properly executed. To ensure sufficient protection against this new generation of attacks, enterprises should adopt next-generation protection that is: signature-less, proactive, and real time. The continuous analysis of suspicious code throughout the attack life cycle and blocking of malware communications across multiple threat vectors, next-generation protections can stop advanced malware, zero-day exploits, and advanced persistent threats (APTs) from threatening sensitive data assets.

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Egis is also part of the Dholera SIR Smart City Project. How is the experience so far ? And what operational chal-lenges are you facing there?

AT Our experience so far has been both rewarding and challenging. Rewarding because Dholera was the first of its kind in India in terms of vision and scale; challenging because we were working on multiple segments of the Infrastructure of a SMART city, including ICT and the process had to be completely integrated into one. Integrating various forms of infrastructure is one of the biggest challenges since these large scale projects involve multiple actors in its process chain. Operational Challenges were in terms of designing the ICT component. The parameters, skill levels and the details required for this component were all quite new in the Indian context. EGIS used its global experience,through deployment of international expertise and suitably adapted solutions,to meet the local specifications.

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Approx 100Mn $ is need-ed to make a smart city. How will cities finance such a big amount?

AT The central government has pledged INR 2 Crore each for the proposed 100 cities; this amount will be used for developing the development plans for the SMART City Challenge. Based on these plans, 20 cities will be shortlisted for the first phase of development through SMART City Challenge.

The Government would be funding INR 198 Crores for these cities to be developed into SMART Cities. The remaining funds needed would be financed by the Municipal bodies, State government and Private Players.

When will the first tenders come out?

AT The first tenders for the preparation of SMART City Proposals (SCP) for the SMART City Challenge have already been published. Projects are underway, by various firms, in consultation with the Urban Local Bodies. Simultaneously, State Governments have also published tenders inviting firms to form Proj-ect Management Units at State level to assist them manage the AMRUT schemes along with Smart City Projects. The first 100 day Smart City Challenge projects will be followed by tenders for preparation of Detailed Project Reports and subsequently, project implemen-tation for the 20-odd short-listed Cities .

Operational SecurityUsers People and Identity Security • Identity authentication & access management

• Endpoint security

Data Data & Information Security • Distributed denial-of-service mitigation• Security Information Event Management (SIEM)• Web, email, data content

Assets Application & Process Security • Applications & Web Application Security• Intrusion Detection & Prevention Systems

Network & System Security • Network security firewall / SSL VPN• Core Data Network

IT Security Risk Management ProgrammePrevention Detection Recovery

Perimeter • Firewall• Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)• New perimeter protection technolo-gies to deal with new threats

• 24x7 online security monitoring• Web defacement monitoring

• Incident manage-ment• Business Continu-ity Plan / Disaster Recovery Plan

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• Network Access Control to prevent & detect unauthorised devices from connecting to internal network• Review network segmentation and design

• 24x7 online security monitoring

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• Privileged rights granted only to selected support staff• Tighter management of privileged accounts (e.g. use of two-factor authentication)• Endpoint protection and data loss technology to address PDPA

• Central logging to track and analyse secu-rity events.

Access Control • Access control to corporate network and systems

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• Group Information Security Policy and standards• Security awareness and education• Review change management process

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Your opinion on the Bloomberg city challenge competition by the government?

AT The Smart City Challenge competition, initiated by the Ministry of Urban Devel-opment, is supported by Bloomberg initiative. In conjunction with the MoUD, Bloomberg Philanthropies is launching a website to ease the process for cities ap-plying for the Smart City Challenge. Their initiative hinges upon promoting citizen participation in defining projects apposite to city demands, under the Smart City projects’ fund.

Indian cities comprise of diverse types of places, constituting diverse socio-eco-nomic profiles of people that inhabit them. The challenge in providing an e-based platform is to ensure that an entire social spectrum of the population has provided feedback/ inputs on their needs from a Smart City. Egis has vast experience in con-ducting stakeholder participatory processes at various scales of disaggregation, in neighborhoods, cities and city-regions. Methodologies crafted by us towards this intent have been published by the MoUD as best practice in their Pearl Programme. Urban Local Bodies would have to plan and structure the engagement of stakehold-ers in their cities in order to ensure complete representation. Further, a response mechanism through the e-platform will also be essential to demonstrate to the citi-zens, how their suggestions have been incorporated into the projects.

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How do you see yourself in a few years into the future?

AT Needless to say, we see ourselves as one of the dom-inant actors in assisting the government towards im-plementing the Smart City Projects for India. We see ourselves as project management units/ partners with the central, state and city governments in customized project structuring for Smart Cities in India, which will require specific attention and innovation.

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Intelligent Streetlights The Smart City Launchpad

Brandon Davito is the Vice President for Silver Spring’s Smart Cities business. Brandon Davito joined Silver Spring in 2009, and has developed and led service de-livery for strategic accounts in the US and international markets. Prior to Silver Spring, Brandon was an Engagement Manager for McK-insey & Company’s San Francisco Office. During his tenure at McKinsey, Brandon served utility and high tech clients, with a focus on technolo-gy’s impact on the energy indus-try. Previously, he was a product manager for BuildPoint Corporation

a software company serving the construction industry. Brandon has a MBA and a Master of Engineering Management from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and a BA in History and a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University.

Why are cities choosing to invest in networking smart city devices?There are a range of benefits that are driving cities and util-ities to invest in smart city technologies. Some cities aim to reduce energy consumption or to drive operational effi-ciency with their maintenance crews. Some are looking to the smart city vision as a differentiator to drive economic development. Others are motivated to improve environ-mental sustainability and quality of life. One example is Paris, which has established an ambitious goal related to energy efficiency and the reduction of gas emissions from road traffic, including decreasing its public lighting energy consumption by 30 percent over the next decade. The city views the investment in a citywide smart street lighting and traffic control network as a major driver in reducing energy and cutting carbon while also allowing for a range of new city services delivered on the same network.

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Why are utilities getting involved in smart city projects?Utilities are already providers of critical infrastructure ser-vices to cities and citizens worldwide. Expanding from utility distribution networks to smart city networks builds on their core competencies of delivering reliable services while taking advantage of existing field crews and investments in smart energy network platforms. This expansion of their service offering also brings utilities closer to municipalities and end customers to ensure they are relevant for the next generation of smart city services. One example is ComEdstreetlight pi-lot in Chicago, which provides advanced control capabilities such as remote scheduling and dimming for two municipali-ties in the ComEd service territory. These premium services strengthen ComEd’s smart city offering by increasing energy savings and delivering better quality lighting for residents.

Why are many customers starting their smart city deployments with smart lighting technologies?Retrofitting streetlights with LEDs and advanced network controls has a very clear business case for energy savings and operational benefits. Streetlights also serve as a perfect first application to build out a citywide network canopy – they are ubiquitous, high in the air and typically constantly powered – creating cost-effective coverage and allowing for simple device integration. With a citywide canopy from streetlights in place, layering on additional applications, such as envi-ronmental sensors, parking solutions, or traffic management, is easy.

What are some of the new and emerging smart city projects our customers are exploring?A number of customers are exploring the interaction of their lighting networks with smart city sensors like image/motion sensing, cameras and environmental monitors. For example, over half the people in Copenhagen cycle to work. To im-prove the commute experience for cyclists, the city has de-ployed motion sensors that integrate with traffic lights. This enables motion-based dimming that adjusts automatically as bikes pass, creating a “green wave” that optimizes bicycle traffic and enhances commuter safety.

Why is a smart city network beneficial to cities in the long run?Once a smart city network is in place, the incremental cost of adding new devices is very low. As the network grows, the value of distributed intelligence and having devices control and communicate with each other at the edge increases ex-ponentially. Putting in place a citywide canopy allows cities to experiment with a range of new connected devices and software applications to learn which delivers the most bene-fits to their citizens. New business models, such as our net-work-as-a-service offering, allow users to pay a predictable, low yearly fee for connectivity and back-office controls. This encourages innovation and allows different city departments to collaborate on leveraged technology investments.

Why is it important for cities to adopt networks that en-able them to deploy devices from different vendors? The smart city space is evolving so quickly that cities need flexibility and choice in their partners. No one provider is able to deliver a complete smart city offering and many solution providers are rapidly iterating their offer-ings. Open standards encourage competition, which allows cities to lower their overall costs and take advantage of new innovations throughout the industry.

What’s an example of a city doing something innovative today? The Bristol City Council has launched the Bristol Is Open (BIO) proj-ect, which aims to encourage economic development and R&D in the re-gion, and establish Bristol as global leaders in the accelerating smart city market. The City Council is partnering with the University of Bristol to deploy a citywide Smart City Network by upgrading 5% of streetlights. The standards based network is open to the Council, Universities and 3rd party developers to create new IOT and smart city applications, with BIO charging for access to the network and high-performance cloud-computing infrastructure.


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Sometimes it is too hard to believe that technology has changed our lives so

much and dictates such a significant part of being what we are today. I keep hear-ing arguments from people who believe that the advent of technology in commu-nication systems has done more harm than good. Indeed, many people may feel so. There are parents who prefer to keep their wards away from social media sites fearing bad influence. You can’t blame them, especially when you see most ob-noxious propaganda floating openly on the web. However, it is the same technol-ogy which brings knowledge from the likes of Harvard and MIT to the screens of students all over the world through EDX, Coursera and other such plat-forms. Free Mass Open Online Courses – or more popularly MOOCs are rapidly changing the way people get educated world-wide. Infact, most of the open col-laborative platforms like GitHub, Cre-ative Commons, Stackoverflowetc are highly successful – and all of them share the philosophy of collaboration backed by technology.

Traditionally, urban governance, municipal and civic authorities in Indian cities had more operations – centric processes rather than citizen-centric

processes. As a result, citizens historically had been mere receivers of ser-vices – and had no say upon the quality of services themselves. For instance, when does the street light outside your house need fixing… or which area should be earmarked for vehicle parking? These were decisions to be made solely by service providers and citizens more or less were expected to abide by those decisions.

Things have now started changing– recently local governments invited citizens to participate in discussions regarding smart cities, there were essay themes in some cities, while in others, opinion polls were taken online. The aim was to choose action areas for smart city project. While it is essential to involve citizens, this cannot be a one-time exercise in order to be sustainable. There has to be a structured, continuous process of taking citizen feedback and suggestions throughout the lifetime of the city. This would encourage citizens to proactively participate and serve as partners to local authorities.

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While few cities have existing apps for basic complaint management or new

connections, etc., there is little or no par-ticipation of citizens neither in long term projects (like highways or metro rail) nor in tackling the daily problems of the city (like growing traffic and pollution). This is anoth-er reason why the state policies had never been citizen centric.

At SmartIndianCity.com, we are in pro-cess of developing 100 apps for 100 smart cities. Each of these apps would provide to local citizen a platform to deliberate on local issues with one another. Discussions will be moderated to reduce spam and also to facil-itate productive outcomes. The highlight of the app is its grading system which among other things awards better points for con-

structive participation.We have released phase – 1 of the apps

on Google Playstorefor demo. Phase – 1 is a simple interactive flow taking the audience through videos and blogs on smart cities and asking them about their local problems / is-sues at an individual level. It will typically take just about 10 minutes for the average person to go through the app. Aim is to find out local issues pertaining to each city and what could be the solution from people’s perspective. Also, we are trying to assess and engage initial pool of moderators for next phase of the app.

We are already analysing data from re-sponses being received every day. At the end of our analysis, we intend to publish the information for each city on our website

and use it for further updates to these apps. In the next phase (which is being devel-oped right now), we shall open the platform for discussions among people on the most common and perennial issues of each city. Handpicked citizens shall be trained on how to moderate forums, how to put their point across to local authorities etc.

Going forward, such a platform has im-mense possibilities of positive contribution to cities. It can take advantage of Gamifica-tion which has the potential to change citi-zen behaviour. When people do good deeds for the society, typically they want others to know. A platform for citizen collaboration will ensure that people take notice of “Good Citizens” in and around their area and feel motivated enough to participate too.

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In a highly cost-conscious country where everything from a housing project to a space mission is evaluated on a heavy bias of expenses, cost effectiveness of Smart Cities is a critical success factor. Through the collaborative spirit and backed by

the right kind of technology, we can reduce re-work and crash cycle times by leaps and bounds. We can engage with citi-zens to ensure acceptability of projects and agreement on fair pricing of services. And by doing so, we can build lively and sustainable smart cities which grow better and better with each passing day. There are unimaginable possibilities, restricted only by our own thoughts.

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In subsequent updates, we plan to in-troduce sensor-based features such

as navigation, travel, parking, etc. (The whole feature list will depend on pub-lic feedback as we go along) However, we foresee a number of features being dependent on data availability. For in-stance, if seismic data could be made available, it can be used to predict the occurrence of earthquakes and instantly inform public. Further additions could be relief services amongst other things. But the point is, today such data is difficult to access and the little data that is available on open platforms is subject to errors. Accuracy of data, especially in case of calamities is very critical. No app devel-oper would want to raise a false alarm based on inaccurate data. It’s a one-way ticket to lose credibility.

Data pertaining to state-run services such as power, water, transportation, etc.

could be useful too. Apart from certain classified information, which the author-ities deem fit, rest could be made acces-sible. Currently, there are very few open APIs which provide data such as train information, bus routes or metro timings, etc. There is need for urban authorities to open certain data to developers through key-based APIs.

While critical data such as earthquake / climate related data can be used by app developers to make resilience apps for citizens, consumption data of electricity / water may help local environmentalists and public help groups to raise aware-ness about conservation and help citizens to find better ways to reduce their ener-gy/ water consumption. Data openness in both public utilities and urban local bodies shall go a long way in nurturing a healthy start-up ecosystem and thus shaping the future of cities.

AUTHOR GauravIs An Energy & Utilities Professional Based In Greater Noida, India.

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What has been JLL’s experience in Prepara-tion of City Development Plan/ Smart City plan (globally) / Town Planning Scheme / etc. forcities (Indian oroverseas)

We were involved in works such as- a. Smart Solutions in GIFT Smart City in Gujarat, Ibaraki Smart Community Project near Osaka, Master Plan Support for Saadiyat Island, Masdar City, Masdar Master Plan & Strategy Review Study, Abu Dhabi UAE

b. Regeneration plan / Renewal of Melbourne Docklands and Rail Yards, Development Plan of Canary Wharf, London, Comprehensive Redevelopment of Silvertown Way East Lon-don, Development of New Metropolitan Centre, Stratford City, London, Master Plan Vision for Dubai Metro Project, Redevelopment of Navy Pier, Inc. , Chicago, IIIinios, Mas-ter Planning of Harlow North, Master Plan of Canning Town, London etc.

c. Urban Redevelopment Plan for T Nagar in Chennai, Tour-ism Master Plan for Shimoga District, Development of Beach Promenade at Puducherry, Development of Pedestrian Plaza in T Nagar in Chennai, Improvement Plan for Bus Terminal in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, Development Plans for Integrated Bus Stand at Tiruchirapalli, Srirangam and Karur

d. Development Plans for Satellite TownshipinMadurai, In-frastructure Planning for Saint Sri Ramanujur’s Birth Place in Sriperumbudur, Infrastructure Planning for Courtallam, Tamil Nadu, Development of Rural Tourism Cluster in Tamil Nadu

e. Redevelopment and Modernization of 7 Railway Stations in Colombo, Colombo Port City Development,

What were the key takeaways in your past projects undertaken for city development?

Indian city faces various challenges right from increasing populations, lack of physical and social infrastructure, en-vironmental and regulatory requirements, tax concern and budgets and increased costs. At the same time identifying new and smart solutions to manage the complexity of urban living; and ways to target problems ranging from pollution, overcrowding and sprawl to inadequate housing, high unem-ployment, resource management, environmental protection and rising crime rates.

a. We strongly believe any city should have a vision and mission with steps / goals to achieve this. Visioning exer-cise is an important and integral part of city development consulting.

b. People’s participation is the key to a successful city development plan. Earlier we had involved in city devel-opment process by including citizens of the city in the various forms of engagement. Their views and opinions are very crucial in the process of development of the city. However, the involvement and pro activeness of the urban local body plays vital role in success of these projects.

c. Proper assessment of the existing issues in terms of city infrastructure is another important factor where the consultant’s role is vital. The assessment should be rated based on the various parameters such as carrying capacity, quantum, demand forecast, perception of the end users, in-novative implementation strategies, resource mobilisation etc

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JLL has been appointed as Consultant in Va-dodara, Bhubaneswar, Amritsar, Chennai and Tiruchirapalli for Prepa-ration of Smart City Proposal to be pre-sented In Bloomberg’s Stage 2 Challenge

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What basic concepts/broad guidelines would you work on to help develop your city into a smart city?

Basic objectives for development of smart city includes providing basic infrastructure, im-proving quality of life with clean and sustain-able environment, applying smart solutions and set examples to be replicated both within and outside the smart city and catalyse the cre-ation of similar smart cities across India

Smart City should help in developing all in-frastructures, human resources, industries, technologies, educations, health and medical, banking and finance, retails, tourism and her-itage places, art and culture, natural resources utilization

There should be an increase in opportunity for domestic investors, foreign investors, develop-ers, buyers, industrialists, employers etc and should lead to Investor friendly policies will help attracting huge FDI. Since increase in in-vestment, rise in tourism, rise in employment, expansion of industries/ corporates will lead to higher GDP contribution from smart cities

Cost reduction by approaching smarter initia-tives in sectors such as transportation, energy, water, security etc. Lot of jobs need to be creat-ed around the city and increased revenue gen-eration to state / central / local governments.

What potential operational challenges/ roadblocks do you see in implementing a smart city plan?

Though smart city program dwell on long term sustain-able initiatives, the implementation of such solutions is little expensive due to high initial investment. Hence, one of the aspects to recover these costs may be by increasing the property tax and other levies payable by the citizens like user charges.

When are the tenders of each city expected to be out (for various services like technolo-gy, civil works, infrastructure development, etc.)

The primary task is to help the city qualify itself as one of the top 20 cities in India so as to make it eligible for receiving the government grant in this fiscal year FY 15-16 towards smart city implementation programme. The tenders for various other activities are hence likely to be floated in the next fiscal year of FY 16-17.

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The concept of smart cities has its challenges, especially in India. For instance, the success of such a city depends on residents, entrepre-neurs and visitors becoming actively involved in energy saving and implementation of new technologies. There are many ways to make residential, commercial and public spaces sustainable by ways of technology, but a high percentage of the total energy use is still in the hands of end users and their behaviour. The real challenge before the Government is to build inclusive smart cities for all its residents, irre-spective of whether they are rich or poor. In a country like India, the process of making a city smart should be people centric. The idea should be to make cities work for the people.

What all will be de-tailed in a city’s smart city proposal to be presented in the bloomberg’s City challenge?The Smart City Proposal (SCP) will outline

the consultations held with the city residents and other stakeholders with a vision for the Smart City which should emerge from the needs, aspirations and wishes of the local people to make their city

offering more to live better life. The Proposal will mainly cover the Area based development from the

given model of retrofitting or redevelopment or greenfield development or a mix thereof Smart City Solutions and additionally include Pan-City dimension with Smart Solutions.

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Heritage Building Smart Retrofit

The OBJECTIVE of SMART RETROFIT is to reduce the PER CAPITA OR UNIT AREA CARBON FOOTPRINT. It is also introduction of systems that keep the heritage building healthy and young.

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Introduce Glazing that lets natural light inside the building but prevents infrared range to heat up the interiors.

Change the Heating or cooling system requiring electricity to low carbon footprint systems like ABSORPTION CHILLER based centralised system.

Automates and integrates the vari-ous sub-systems of a building on a single platform. It brings together all the electro-mechanical systems such as HVAC, Lighting, Plumbing, STP, Fire Fighting & Fire Alarm, etc. in-stalled in a facility along with most commercially available sensors and controllers, on a centralized system. It integrates off-the-shelf cameras; surveillance systems and access con-trol systems into the same platform and is compliant with most major protocols in the Building Manage-ment domain.

a HYBRID INVERTER to distribute power and to maintain the power factor.

Modern hybrid inverters support inputs from Renewable energy source, DG/Fuel Cell, Grid Power and energy storage system.

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Gets automatically routed into an ana-lytics platform for insights into how en-ergy savings can be accomplished, i.e. it should be designed to be fully compatible with any future energy management solu-tion.

EMS provides a concise view of the most relevant information on a customizable dash-board that displays key information on a single screen. The Dashboard displays a per-sonalized and real-time view of a building’s energy consumption and energy wastage in monetary figures.

It is fully customizable and can be configured for any number of unique users, to display the most important information based on each user’s roles and responsibilities.

It can provide very powerful and insightful information in real time like ambient condi-tions with temperature (present, high, and low), humidity, and CO2 levels, the basis for the energy requirement for the day.

The Dashboard can be configured to include various widgets to display information suit-able for different users in an organization, such as CEO / CFO / COO, Operations Man-ager or the Facility Management Team at owners / tenants end.

Convert waste to energy in-situ where possible. If not feasible, go for long-term power purchase contract with upcoming WASTE TO ENERGY power producers. The energy thus procured from IPP is consumed by the building by paying wheeling charge to the distribution company.

Install rooftop solar PV System that integrates well with Heritage quotient of the building. It can be low rise solar PV trellises put on roof.

Procure renewable energy from dedicated Wind or Solar PV farm located within the command area of the distribution company.

Provide the heritage real estate owner Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) to maintain the heritage character of building/land and at the same time realise in full its commercial value.

Remove archaic laws like Rent Control for heritage buildings and Urban Land ceiling Acts.

Allow conversion of prop-erty for mixed use such that it supports activities 24x7x365 Hrs

Provide additional Green TDR for consum-ing renewable energy either from dedicated PV/Wind power plants or long-term con-tracts with Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer (RE-IPP).

Document the build-ing in a digital format – Building Information Modelling (BIM) Matu-rity Level 2 Compliant.

Follow compatible materials and methods of construction. Use compatible and breath-able plaster and paint on walls and fire resistant paints where necessary.

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- SrikanthShastry, Managing Associate, World Resources InstituteIn June this year, India’s current national government launched an ambitious Smart City programme, which aims to build 100 smart cities across the country, as well as transform 500 existing cities over the next five years. For the first time, the funding for this programme will be administered to cities via a competi-tive process. The national government has announced the list of the 98 cities en-tering the competition. Cities will now develop a Smart City Proposal (SCP), which will include their vision for the city, a plan, and intended outcomes to compete in the Smart Cities Challenge.

Developing a vision

A STRATEGIC VISIONING APPROACH FOR SMART CITY PROPOSALS

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Smart city proposals can be broken down into three components: vision, strategies and plans. A strong vision is a direction for the city; it is something positive for the city to move towards. While developing the vision, cities will need to answer three key questions: where is the city today, what does the city aspire to be, and how will the city get there. This process will help cities identify key areas of improvement, strategies that would support this development, and an implementable plan to make their cities healthier and smarter.

By asking key questions, cities will embark on a strategic vision-ing process requiring significant data analysis and stakeholder engagement in identifying a clear, achievable goal. This goal would become the city’s ‘brand’. For example, London’s vision is “using the creative power of new technologies to service London and improve Londoners’ lives”. This vision statement clearly out-lines what the city expects to do, that is, leveraging its strengths in technology and investing in newer technology to improve the quality of lives of its citizens.

Similarly, cities participating in the competitive process will be required to identify their strengths, and build on those strengths to ensure economic growth and improved quality of life. For instance, Bangalore could leverage its strengths in information technology, or Pune could build on its skills in the manufacturing sector.


Strategies to achieve the visionOnce a city’s strengths have been identi-fied, and the vision outlined, the strategies to achieving the vision will have to be formulat-ed. In the case of London, it was by investing in technology innovation, resource manage-ment, and other key interventions. Indian cit-ies will similarly have to identify various strat-egies to achieve their goals. It is important to recognize that strategies identified could have risks associated with them; risk mitigation is an essential part of identifying strategies to achieve the vision.

While identifying strategies, it is important for cities to identify measures and targets to pro-vide evidence of progress towards achieving their vision. How will the city’s progress be measured? Who are the beneficiaries of the implemented strategy? How have they benefit-ted from the implementation? These are some questions that need to be answered to convert a vision into an implementable strategy.

Implementation plans: Area-based and Pan-city As part of the Smart Cities challenge, cit-ies will submit project plans – an area-based project plan, and a pan-city project plan. The area-based project could involve retrofitting, redevelopment, or greenfield development, each with their own guidelines specified un-der the Smart City mission statement. These projects will need to be identified in a manner such that it helps the city achieve its vision. For example, if one of the strategies identified by the city was to enhance the use of public transport, the area-based or pan-city projects could involve improving the public transport network, improving access to public transport and other such projects.

Plans for either project will ideally follow a five step process: identify the problem, de-velop a solution, mitigate risks, develop an implementation plan, and a budget for the im-plementation through a collaborative, consul-tative process.

For the pan-city project, cities will have to design solutions that will affect infrastructure across the city. It could either involve scaling up an area-based development project, or ad-dressing a different strategy identified during the visioning process that can be implemented pan-city.

Smart city proposals: A means to achieving change

At a time when Indian cities are grappling with dual pressures of rapid urbanisation and pres-sure on urban infrastructure, the Smart Cities Programme provides cities with a significant opportunity to affect change. By sustaining citizen engagement while developing the SCP, cities can ensure that citizens are at the heart of governance and reform. A comprehensive SCP with a clear, achievable vision and strategic goals will go a long way in transforming cities.

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Wide Area Analytics to Secure Transmission Corridors

Abstract — With the exponen-tial change in the demographic be-havior, the electricity consumption pattern has changed and thus the system load has increased manifold. International Energy Agency (IEA) has already predicted 2.2% increase in average annual power consump-tion. The system operator needs to maintain the quality of power with-in the stipulated limits as defined in the Grid Code and the respective electricity acts. To mitigate the com-plexities of the network, operator needs to be informed with the in-creasing stressed conditions in the network dynamically. A suitably configured wide area measurement system (WAMS) is useful in highlight-ing stressed regions of the network in real time as well as indicating and characterizing disturbances such as generation and load loss causing an out of step incident.

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across the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) system. Voltage and current phasors are grouped within each icon where hexagon-shaped icons represent a geographi-cal region. Diamond-shaped icons show Ag-

gregate Measurement Groups (AMG’s), where phasor measurements at locations close by are grouped together. The minimum and maxi-mum angles are presented as a double colour gradient, showing angles relative to a user se-lected reference angle location. This provides an accurate representation of angle differences

and bottlenecks, which is readily scalable to a high penetration of measurements. Regional icons may be split into two colours represent-ing the maximum and minimum angle values within that region. The region indicator with a grey outline indicates the region that contains the reference angle measurement.

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Figure 2 System Disturbance Monitoring view showing disturbance locations, path, type of event and estimated generation/load loss

There are a number of reasons why angle is used to monitor system condition such as:

Changes in colour across a corridor (observed as distinct colour difference between or within regions) indicate a stressed part of the network in order to take a decision to re-dispatch generation or reduce load to stabilize the system.

Rate of Change of Frequency (ROCOF) is useful to detect the type of disturbance whether it is due to load or generator loss. An decreasing or increasing trend in the positive direction is identified as generation loss or load loss respectively. The System Disturbance provides a geographical view of System Disturbance Monitoring alerts and alarms in the WAMS.

SDM helps the operators with identifying system disturbances, and presenting the lo-cation and timing of the disturbances. In particular, SDM shows complex disturbances in which there are multiple events with triggering points spread across the interconnection that may represent a significant risk of cascading failure.

• Angle difference indicates changes in network impedance e.g. line trip will cause increase in angle difference.

• Ability to capture distribution of demand geographically – larger the demand the more negative the angle is.

• Versatile proxy to determine when lines or buses are close to their thermal and/or voltage limits

• Providing a wide-area overview of system stress is useful for operators to choose a course of action in a highly disturbed system state.

System Disturbance Management de-tects sudden disturbances in the net-

work. Such disturbances could be caused by the tripping of a major generator, loss of a major load, or a line trip.

System Disturbance Management is configured to evaluate the rate of change over a period of time for the following types of signals:

• Voltage angle• Frequency

Time-aligned Rate of Change (RoC) of voltage angle indicates the location of disturbance in power systems. Rate of Change of Angle (ROCOA) is calculat-ed for specified signals at selected PMU locations across the system. Setting a threshold on ROCOA allows detection of sudden disturbances in the network. The location closest to a disturbance in the network is highlighted by identifying the angle measurement (and associated PMU) where the ROCOA changes first. The icon at that location will turn red and will be marked with a number showing its place in the chain of events. In Figure 2, the initial disturbance occurred at the location marked “1”. If another distur-bance is recorded at a different location within 15 minutes, then it is assumed to be related to the initial event and will be marked “2”. This will continue until there is no ROCOA event for a sustained period, at which point the SDM view will reset. Thus, the display presents a consecutive sequence of disturbances that indicates a high risk operating state.



Islanding, Resynchronization And Blackstart (Irb) –Analytics To Avoid Separation

Oscillatory Stability Management (Osm)– Stability Based Analytics

Figure 3 Islanding, Resynchronization and Blackstart showing locations deviating from mean frequency.

Islanding, Resynchronization, and Blackstart (IRB) provides a real-time tool for identify-

ing islanding and providing information valu-able in performing a successful resynchroniza-tion. It provides a real-time view of both angle and frequency across a network topology map. It also provides an alarm and visual indication of when and where islanding has occurred with a visualization of frequency deviation between areas.

In figure 3, voltage phasor measurements, together with frequency measurements pro-vides an indication of the separation of the power system into two or more electrical is-

lands. The animated arrows associated with each

measurement group represent the phase an-gle and magnitude of the voltage phasors contained within the group. The direction of the arrows graphically represents the phasor angles with respect to the reference phasor. The length of the arrows represents the volt-age magnitude deviation with respect to the defined nominal voltage for the bus. The re-al-time animation of the direction of the phase angle arrows, together with the color segmen-tation of two or more segments of the WAMS (representing frequency deviation groupings)

provide a stark visualization of islanding events.

The IRB application can also provide valu-able information for operators to prepare the system for resynchronization and to supervise the process of synchronizing the system and subsequent network strengthening. The clear visualization of islanding provided by the IRB application on a single graphical display would have instantly revealed system separa-tion and provided operators with information on locations where to shed load/generation.

Interconnected power systems are made up of large spinning masses connected through

an electrical network. When the system is disturbed, a complex pattern of oscillations is set up between the various components of the grid. Normally, oscillations will die away through the action of natural damping forces and active damping control. However, it is possible for oscillations to be un-damped or negatively damped, in which case the oscil-

lations are sustained, or grow in amplitude. When the power system is subjected to a small disturbance, there are three possible categories of response: positively damped, un-damped, or negatively damped. To maintain the integ-rity of the power system it is important that all modes are positively damped at all times. To ensure that this is achieved even after unex-pected events, it is prudent to aim to maintain a margin of stability. The system should not

often reach conditions where it is close to the un-damped or negatively damped categories.

Dynamic characteristics can be extracted continuously from ambient perturbations, and used for alarms, thus providing early warn-ing of damping problems. OSM provides fa-cilities for alerting operators to conditions of degraded stability, either because oscillations become poorly damped or the amplitude be-comes large.



Transmission Corridor Management And Congestion Relief

Figure 4 Oscillatory Stability Management Showing Frequency And Damping Of Modes On The Left, And Locations And Mode Shape On Map.

Figure 4 shows the OSM view which pro-vides system operators with real-time in-

formation on dominant modes of oscillation. This particular example shows that the 0.37Hz mode is in alarm (red) status. The map view indicates the locations where the mode is poorly damped and/or high amplitude. Mode phase is shown by the arrows at the locations. Locations in anti-phase indicate measured lo-cations where generators “swing” against one another at that particular mode frequency.

To identify the locations of generators that contribute to modes of oscillation, Mode Pow-er Path (MPP) analytics provides system op-erators with information that allows them to take informed responses to large and/or poorly damped oscillations. Without this analytics, operators could normally only take action on a poorly damped mode if it was well under-stood through off-line analysis and there were pre-defined guidelines. This analytics allows the operator to respond to dynamics threats

without extensive analytical studies. It also helps analysts to identify specific generators for improving dynamic performance. Thus on a geographical display the operator is in-formed of:

• Regions contributing to an oscillation • Transmission corridors where power

flow is influencing the mode • Contribution of plants.

Real time congestion management today is dependent on comparisons of actual corri-

dor flows against Total Transmission Capacity (TTC). TTC is calculated offline in advance and is a reflection of the most restrictive com-ponent from among thermal limits, voltage limits or stability limits. Further the infinite

number of operating contingencies along with ever changing grid complexities makes it dif-ficult to come up with accurate TTCs. Instead in real time one can leverage the improved computations of path flows and path limits us-ing PMU data and the modern analytics. Such real-time calculations of transfer capability

will exceed the traditional Available Transfer Capability (ATC) in most cases, without com-promising stability margins. This will lead to reduced congestion and more optimum system dispatch.

Conclusion

The challenge in power transmission rests on smart management of the complex network flows in the interstate trans-mission grid. Non homogeneous growth in load, pit head generation far removed from load centres, increasing trade in

electricity is going to complicate these power flows more. This calls for continuous evaluation of the dynamic conditions of the grid, locating the areas under stress and identifying the remedial measures in real time. Modern wide area analytics are designed to achieve this end by providing means to the operator to intuitively focus on the root cause from a sequence of alarms. It also employs powerful computation techniques to generate associative complex alarms to pickup signatures of grid stress and manage network congestion.



INTERVIEW

Exclusive Interview

With Siddharth

Jain- Managing Director, Embrace Group

What innovative product or concept is Embrace offering to the smart city industry ?

At Embrace Gas pipeline Pvt. Ltd, We are here to showcase the idea of providing Smart Piped Gas solution in a Smart city, with our bothering about, which fuel it is. We believe that Cooking gas is the most important utility service, after water & before electricity & hence what better way to supply gas than the most efficient system of Piped gas. We feel that this would change the inefficient ways of the past & bring in a new Clean & Green India

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INTERVIEW

Apart from achieving the bottom line (profits/business), what is your objective of participat-ing in the government’s initiative of 100 Smart Cities ?

One of the most important criteria for us is that, we want the developers to open upto the fact that 2nd most essential utility service must be bundled up with their construction activity. Why they should wait for the PNG companies to come & give the residents the Gas. The residents should get Piped gas from day one, why some person, should barge in the house to deliver a cylinder, Why the carrier of the cylin-der has to lift a 30 kg cylinder to the doorstep, irrespective of the number of floor he has to climb, as it is legally not allowed to carry cylinders in the lift. Also why If a de-veloper can invest crores of rupees in making club house, which all resident may or may not use, but the most used service after water, i.e. piped gas is not given as a standard. There are many other reasons both from the point of view of the developer as well as consumer, which we will discuss during the conference.

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What are the major challenges faced by In-dia in developing a smart city?

I personally do feel that the initiatives by the govern-ment are visionary, but there are many Major chal-lenges that face the Smart City projects, to name a few, • Land acquisition, • Non availability of Skilled / unskilled labor, • People largely abstaining from making financial

commitments, i.e. buying new houses or starting new businesses,

• The marking of Industrial corridors, which will be the biggest trigger for clustered settlement.

• The idea of Make in India must fall through, • Red Tapism, etc will collectively make it very dif-

ficult for developing a Smart city.

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Who is your target audience ?

We are targeting primarily three sections 1) SMART City Developers 2) Consultants / City Planners & 3) Technology / IT coordinators.

Developers for the simple reason that, a SMART city de-veloper can bundle up all three utilities services water, electricity & gas & provide all of them to the residents. Thereby, giving the developer an option to become a util-ity service provider, there are many other reasons that we will discuss during the forum.

The City planners, as We want to work with them from day one, to help them incorporate this plan & later on help them in execution the same, since it is a technical subject.

And thirdly, We want to connect with the Technology co-ordinators as The SMART billing services & other soft-ware that we have developed in house could be shared with them & hence they could integrate this utility ser-vice as well into the IT system that is being developed to administer the utility service in the city.

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Smart Cities – Leading India’s Digital Transformation

SMART IT

Big problems need smart solutions. In India in 2013 there were 137,572 road deaths, something that definitely needs to be addressed.

he opportunity was there to do something dramatic about it, since 15 percent of these road deaths could immediately be prevented through faster response times. And that’s where technology can play its part, by implementing mechanisms to improve traffic flow and alert emergency services faster. Make cities smarter and we can see a highly positive impact on people’s lives through improved services, activities, utilities, pro-cesses and procedures.

Cities have evolved from being clusters of people staying together for safety rea-

sons, to becoming thriving centers of business and commerce. After the industrial revolu-tion cities became all about trade and today the world’s biggest cities are about business. Along with this came a need to provide sup-port and services for the people living in the city and powering the trade. So we come to

cities 2.0, or rather a smart city.A smart city takes the traditional city mod-

el and makes it about the quality of life for the residents living there. The cities of the future are not just about trade and commerce but im-proving people’s way of life is central to the new model. And here, digital solutions are the essential enablers.

In India, now there is a government initiative in place to establish 100 smart cities around

the country, powered by IT and delivering next generation services, processes and ways of living to residents and companies. They are also designed to attract investment, encourag-ing global multinational corporations (MNCs) to set up operations there. With government investment to the tune of $1.2 billion, smart cities are the future for the burgeoning urban

population predicted to reach 800 million by 2050.

Though delivering on this vision requires the right digital solutions and tools. Whether talking about public safety, education, health or other essential public services, they are all enhanced by digital solutions. There are al-ready simple technological tools in place such as location-based services, but these will grow and evolve to deliver far more to inhabitants.

TCities – Places Of Continuous Change

Helping Cities And Citizens Reach Goals

By Saurabh Sanghoee - Head of Global Services, Orange Business Services, India


SMART IT

Smart city projects are helping transform today’s cities into the cities of tomorrow

– and one way they are doing this is by max-imizing resources. By utilizing smart lighting systems for example, India’s cities will enjoy more efficient processes and save energy.

The impact on transport that I mentioned earlier is another big leap forward. Accident response times are improved and thanks to the use of sensors plus monitoring and analysis tools, the dense nature of urban traffic can be eased, again, improving the quality of life for all citizens.

A Red Crescent report from 2010 demon-strated that in developed countries, properly coordinated early rescue systems plus in-hos-

pital trauma management help prevent 15 to 30 percent of deaths from road accidents – in smart cities, this type of system becomes the norm.

In Patna, centrally-monitored CCTV cov-erage of roads and intersections are now being used to monitor and detect traffic violations and speeding, while in Tamil Nadu, a free 108 emergency transportation service has helped save 120,271 road traffic accident victims through timely interventions. The service also helped lower the infant mortality rate from 35 to 22 per 1,000 live births. These figures are significant.

Ultimately the success of India’s 100 smart cities program – and indeed other smart

city initiatives around the world – rest on the core relationship between people and the city itself. If the city leverages ICT to deliver smart, life-enhancing services and processes, the city will thrive and people will have the tools and systems to enjoy a simpler, more

flexible way of life.The most commonly talked about things

are all based around this relationship; ubiq-uitous access, cloud-based infrastructure with open APIs other associated factors like veri-fiable digital identity, intelligent systems and automation across processes are all vital to en-suring this successful symbiotic relationship.

In my view, the success of a smart city will rest on this relationship between people and the city’s processes and services. This trade-off between citizens and the value and conve-nience that the city gives to them will drive today’s cities forward into tomorrow.

Better services, better for all

All about relationships

The evidence is now there. In one smart city-based pilot project implemented by the Indian Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, GPS-enabled ambulances were stationed at 2-kilometer intervals on the highway between Gurgaon and Jaipur and connected to a central control room. Doing this meant ambulances could be 15 minutes faster reaching an accident, again demonstrating the positive impact of tech-nology-enabled public services.


Adani Ports Profitability And Performance WithThe PI System

Ports sit at the heart of the modern glob-al supply chain, processing the critical natural resources, raw materials and finished products that connect in-ternational econ-omies.

Adani Ports is the largest private port operator in India, handling the majority of the country’s international trade. Economic growth is driving an expected

increase in demand for port services. Adani Ports is planning ahead for this growth by in-vesting in both new port construction and port

automation, to ensure that all facilities achieve peak performance levels. The PI System is the backbone of these initiatives, providing the data collection, analysis and reporting tools that have helped Adani Ports achieve ongoing performance improvements and wider profit margins at ports old and new.

Adani Ports processed approx-imately 100 million metric

tons of cargo in 2012-2013 and by 2020, the company expects to handle 200 million tons. It’s con-structing five new ports in India and overseas to accommodate this growth.

To move goods between ship and shore, each port uses a wide range of equipment, from the tugs that guide ships to berths to the cranes, conveyer systems, loading machinery, transport railway lines and pipelines, as well as liquid and dry bulk storage facilities. Adani Ports spent significant resources on performing scheduled mainte-nance of these assets as equipment breakdown or under performance can slow the movement of goods, eating into port capacity and prof-its. Ports, by necessity, use many different types of equipment. With different systems for recording

their use and performance data, Adani Ports wasn’t able to inte-grate data about individual assets’ utilization or performance rates. Achieving this level of systemwide visibility is critical to operating the ports at peak performance levels, says Pradeep Gupta, Project Di-rector. “Our profit margin depends on our ability to efficiently handle cargo, store it and disperse it to the customer,” he said. With rap-id growth in traffic at its existing ports and more ports coming on-line in the next decade, Adani Ports needed a system that could provide better visibility into the end-to-end lifecycle of goods shipped through the port, from intake to unloading to storage to distribution. Further-more, it needed a scalable solution that could accommodate the large and rapidly growing volume of data needed to paint that picture.

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“The PI System inte-grates all our equip-ment data at the enter-prise level. That helps us increase productivity and preserve the profit-ability of our ports.”

Pradeep GuptaProject DirectorAdani Ports

SITUATION


- OSIsoft


In October 2010, Adani Ports began us-ing the PI System to track real-time usage

and performance data across all assets at its Mundra and Dahej ports. This includes ev-erything from the utilization rates of differ-ent equipment to the specific RPM of tugs to the real-time fuel use of tug boats. The PI

System collects data output from the dozens of different manufacturers’ devices at Adani Ports and brings them into a single database; allowing managers to view relevant data from different assets side-by-side. Adani Ports then uses data gathered by the PI System to analyze equipment performance, utilization rates, op-

erating costs and revenue to set performance benchmarks. This includes both operating pa-rameters for specific assets — e.g., how much product must be unloaded by a specific crane when it is in service — and for the port as an end-to-end system.

SOLUTION

BENEFITS

BUSINESS CHALLENGE

SOLUTION

CUSTOMER RESULTS

Adani Ports’ port automation has yielded significant benefits for the company. With

increased visibility into real-time operations, the company has been able to reduce mainte-nance costs, improve productivity of individ-ual assets and increase its effective capacity. These gains have helped drive an improve-ment in the ports’ overall profit margin. By monitoring the performance of individual as-sets, the company has been able to shift away from scheduled maintenance toward preven-tative maintenance. The operations team uses PI System analytics and visualization tools to assess the health of each asset and monitor maintenance parameters, such as hydraulic

pressure, fuel use, engine performance, etc. PI System data is then integrated with Adani Ports’ ERP system to generate needs-based maintenance agendas. This cuts costs by re-ducing unnecessary repairs and significantly reduces on-the-job equipment failures.

By using the PI System to understand oper-ational costs and productivity, Adani Ports now knows how much cargo needs to be handled by each crane or other equipment. That lets the port’s equipment team make smarter decisions about when to deploy or remove equipment, which in turn, helps maximize profits. “The PI System is a tool that provides us with better trending and handles complex calculations”

says Vijendra Pancholi, Project Manager. Paired with specific shipping volume goals, this kind of automation has improved the ef-ficiency of products moving through the port and effectively increased Adani Ports’ overall capacity. “If we are behind schedule for meet-ing our daily benchmark, the manager can de-ploy more cranes or equipment to unload the ship in a faster way,” Gupta says. “That is the key parameter of productivity.”

Because of its success at Mundra and Da-hej, Adani Ports is now working to implement port automation using the PI System at four more Indian ports in Hazira, Goa, Vizag and Kandla.

• Manual log books only allow post-mortem analysis.

• Hundreds of operational software systems didn’t com-municate with one another.

• Rapid growth planned over the next decade.

• Increased port throughput.• Increased revenue and

increased profit margins at the ports.

• Reduced maintenance costs and downtime.

• The PI System collects data throughout the port from intake to distribution.

• PI System tools provide realtime per-formance monitoring and analysis.

• Benchmarks established.



CASE STUDY

A COMPREHENSIVE, COLLABORATIVE APPROACH

Copenhagen, one of the world’s most sustainable and smartest cities, has set the ambitious goal of becoming carbon neutral by the year 2025. For that reason, the city is transforming how it manages energy use, traffic systems and emergency response. Copenhagen’s commitment to the smart city transformation begins, in part, through more efficient and networked street lighting systems supported by Silver Spring Networks.

Key stakeholders are taking a comprehensive approach to rethinking smart city innovation. City leaders have collaborated through partnerships involving government, research institutions and solution providers. The Copenhagen Solutions Lab is one of the leading organizations at the fore-front of this movement. By bringing together manufacturers with municipal buyers, the Copenhagen Solutions Lab has catalyzed the developmentand deployment of next-generation smart city innovations. Copenhagen is leveraging this unique approach to accelerate the implementation of smart city solutions. One of the primary focus areas is LED street lighting.

Copenhagen chose Silver Spring Net-works and partners Citelum and SELC to deploy an enhanced city lighting system designed to improve energy efficiency, lower operational costs, enable remote lighting management and control, and im-prove citizen safety. The goal is to install and network 20,000 LED street lights throughout the city, and provide a flexi-ble network that can then support many other smart city ap-plications.

INTERNATIONAL


BENEFITS OF COPENHAGEN’S SMART CITY PROJECT

Saving Energy and Money

Enabling Smarter, Safer Human-Powered Transport

Leveraging One Network for Multiple Applications

Copenhagen continues to lead in developing cutting edge smart city innovations, and its investment in street lighting is a clear example of how a common network can serve as a foundation for those goals. By leveraging Silver Spring’s multi-application network, Copenhagen can avoid having to manage multiple, siloed systems as it adds applications in the future. Silver Spring’s network canopy supports the various bandwidth and latency requirements of different smart city applications, while also collecting and integrating data from various environ-mental sensors to provide the maximum benefit for its citizens.

Copenhagen is replacing its high-pressure so-dium lamps with highly efficient LED fixtures that not only provide a better quality of light but also ensure energy savings of 65%. As part of the deployment, Copenhagen is implement-ing Silver Spring’s radio modules to allow for instant alerting on failures as well as an addi-tional layer of energy savings by managing the light output throughout the night. Lights will first change intensity based on a schedule, but a future addition could be to dynamically dim or brighten based on the presence or absence of humans—maximizing both safety and ener-gy efficiency.

In this city of 600,000 inhabitants, nearly half of commuter trips are taken by bicycle. As this number is expected to rise, increasing the safety of the trip is paramount. One ap-plication uses a fusion of intersection-based occupancy sensors and light controls to sense an approaching bicyclist and provide extra light as they cross vehicle intersections. This, combined with other new applications that leverage smart traffic signals such as the bike ‘green wave’ system, can help cyclists avoid red traffic lights and inform them of the quiet-est or fastest route to their destination.

Investing in a network foundation is core to Copenhagen’s unique approach. Copenhagen Connecting, one of the Copenhagen Solution Lab’s most celebrated projects, demonstrates the value of a comprehensive data strategy for accelerating smart city solutions. By building a truly comprehensive, open-data hub, the city is leveraging efforts in multiple sectors to op-timize resource allocation across a number of smart city applications. This unique approach promotes integrated uses of technologies and services that improve citizen services and overall quality of life.

INTERNATIONAL


Smart and pure air choices to asmart

& young

What are smart cities made of? It’s not a trivia anymore. Smart cities are made of the smart people mak-ing smart choices despite the fact that the cities also constitute sev-eral factors that complicate the lives of the residents.

part from the dense population, a city also consists of industries, factories, corporate houses and a major workforce. To run this system we need a highly managed trans-port and sanitary facilities. The last two mentioned facilities, if not run properly with all the management it requires, can lead a smart city to a poor city! In the last decade India has come a long way in terms of technology and therefore, technology has earned its place in the list of constitu-ents of a smart city.

Indian cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Kol-kata, Chennai, Bangalore, Ahmadabad, Pune, Chandigarh, etc. are the premium cities and have a major cosmopolitan and urbanised arena of the nation. They are the major riders behind the running of the nation and its economy, polity and culture. These are the standards that reveal the real nature of the vicinity. The neighbour-hoods in such vicinities are responsible for maintaining the residential flavour and the cleanliness around. Cleanliness as a basic requirement of the people to live has been so, since the inception of civilisation. An ideal arrangement for a properly managed city depends on the correct planning of sewage and transport system. Apart from these, the technological inventions and customisation of the machinery that comes with technology in the households and the workplaces has also distinguished in many ways.

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city1.3 Million

People Die In India Due to Air Pollution

Every Year



Machinery running on technology, for instance, cars, T.V., refrigerator, mobile phones, air conditioners and invertors, play small yet significant roles in our daily lives and without

even knowing has changed our lives forever. In this rat race of achieving all that is possible and all that is desired we have somewhere forgotten the need to justify our demands and have paid lesser attention to the environmental needs and the natural demands for us to survive. The private transportation has taken an outrageous turn with thousands of new vehicles going on road along with, the public transport. This being said makes pollution a factor that we, as the city dwellers need to reckon with. Air pollution main-ly, has become one of the most potent threats to the design of a smart and civilised structure of cities.

In the process of development and promotion of any city to the designation of a modern city there is high amount of industrialisation and urbanisation and to support the identity there has to be an equal amount of humanity to live up to the vitalities. The vanity of city should not be based on the futility but the pow-er to aspire and contain its inhabitants to dwell and flourish inside it.

In the wake of the above mentioned idea of a smart city, the popular arrangements that the established governing body makes for the betterment of the city-scape must involve its inhabitants’ individual efforts as well. The combined and individual attempts and efforts must be to protect and nurture the future divi-dend, the present young population and the posterity. It goes without saying that, the elderly should equally be a part of the plan.

The rise in the commoditisation has also made the basic requirements of every human being a property to be sold and bought. But do you think that some-thing as basic as clean and pure air is a commodity too? The answer is no, and this is what we are taught in the elementary stages of our process of education.

Yet, we have made the air around us absurd and un-clean, so much so, that it has turned dangerous. The presence of the suspended particulate matter (SPM) is found in all the sources of air pollution, be it, ag-riculture, mining, power generation, transport, and community works. Mostly emitted in the cities from vehicular combustion with lethal PM10 and PM2.5 once it enters in our lungs can cause us irreparable damaged to the respiratory functioning and if enters in our blood stream then you might not even stand a chance of survival for long and good health. In ma-jor metropolitan cities, there has been a steady rise in heart, respiratory and skin diseases, as complex as cancer. Technology has digitalised our lives and Science has given several ways to improve our lifes-pan with all the latest medical facilities to save dying lives and importing giving birth to lives. But the part where a by product of technology is so potent to cause the demise of the same lives that it works to improve, dismisses the whole purpose of it all in the first place.

However much we discuss about pollution control through public transport and industrial waste man-agement and rebuke the idea of industrialisation with its drawbacks, churning one’s life cycle at the fore-ground of the debate, we need to stop under estimat-ing one serious fact. That is to believe in the power of one single drop in the ocean making all the difference. Here, the point is to make individual attempts. It has become too late and in some positive sense impos-sible to undo all the advancements that has caused pollution and unhealthy atmosphere.

To save the light of the day for all of us to live, An-gus Deaton, the Nobel Prize winner in economics this year, has contributed to the public intellect with the belief that economic progress must lead to better lives for everyone. But making your family’s life better is mostly in your hands. If we focus on the individual attempts that We should make then we can see the re-sults for ourselves. Incorporating the influential idea of pollution control and clean air in your lifestyle can bring dynamic changes in the family. Quitting smok-ing, planting more plants in your house, discontinu-ing to burn incense sticks, separating your footwear for indoors and outdoors, using chimney in your kitchens, etc, are the small steps that you can take at the personal level. But to ensure total purity, there are yet again technological advancements in the market as a commodity. An air purifier is a developing prod-uct to be adopted as a culture in the households and several other indoors. No matter how much you try to confirm to the small steps that you take but total rescue is not always possible in the indoors. You step out of the house or your office spaces you will have to bear the smoke, the smog, the various pollutants and several contaminants every day on your way to an-other enclosure. How long can you stay hidden? And on every trip you make outside, you will catch and bring in equal quantity of pollutants with yourself.

TURN YOUR CELL PHONE IN TO An “ Air QUALITY MONITOR”

This BLUE AIR’S APPLICATION- Is Now Available on App Store & Google Play.



“The air pollution app provides Indian Smartphone users an early warning system that gives them the opportunity to take precautions against heavily polluted air. Adding to the critical approach towards the need of the hour he also believes that, the major problem is people’s inability to detect what is in the air they are breathing. But the app helps by giving people the chance to finally monitor how serious their air quality is in real time and do something about it to protect their health and wellbeing. Initiatives like these are whistleblowers to us, As they say, it’s better late than never, trying out different techniques to maintain a pollutant safe and clean environment is always worth a try, always worth saving a life and giving your loved ones a healthy lifestyle. Mr. Kannan adding to this believes for a healthier air, their campaign’s aim is to tell people that they are not helpless individuals when it comes to challenging air pollution, “...Even simple acts by individuals or sole companies such as Blueair can make a difference when it comes to showing responsibility and care, which is why we have taken the initiative to take the call and mobilise for action....”.

- Vijay Kannan, Head of Blueair India

The campaign conducted a study with the HEAL Foun-dation that conveyed that 35% Kolkata’s school going kids suffer from poor lung health and our national cap-ital, Delhi is not far behind. The motive of the maiden campaign organised by the Swedish developers and producers of one of the world’s finest air purifying ma-chinery, was to sensitise and educate the city dwellers about the sensitive situation and the mayhem that is be-ing caused by pollution in the garb of modernisation, ur-banisation and industrialisation. This may sound ironic, that they offer another machine to cross the ill effects of technological and industrial by products but the fact of the matter is that the technology is not always bad.

Mr. Vijay Kannan, the India head of Blueair air purifiers headed the nationwide Clean Air India Movement in 2015.

To detect and determine the amount of pollutants hidden in the most discreet parts of the indoors and putting them at bay is the core process of an air purifier. With the technological advancement of the calibre of Blueair air purifier offering you the highest Clean Air Delivery Rate (CADR) with 99.97% of clean and pure air, and its exquisite HEPASilent® technology, these Scandinavian air pu-rifiers deliver the best that you indoors will need.

Indoor air purification has always been important but the ways in which an air purifier can help you, it can be difficult to achieve even after the several steps you may take to prevent pollutants to enter in the indoor premises and dislodge them,

The recently launched air pollution app called the Blueair Friend App has started to gain popularity.



The third Newton’s law of motion suggests that every ac-tion has an equal and opposite reaction, and proves true in this situation also where every single step taken that lead to pollution can be corrected with every single step taken towards rectifying and pacifying the situation with the pre-cious little steps that you take to stop the breach of code of conduct with the nature and giving your loved ones and the people important to you the clean and pure air they deserve to breathe in. The driving idea of an air pu-rification system installed in the closed indoors would quite suffice to the modern smart cities.


SMART CITIES NEWSCITIES PICK UP CONSULTANTS FOR

PREPARATION OF SMART CITY PLANS

AAhead of the two day Smart City Ideas Camp beginning in New Delhi today, 88 cities included in the Smart City Mission have identified consulting firms for prepa-ration of city-wise Smart City Action Plans. The remaining 10 cities in North-Eastern states and Union Territories will do so by this week end. Uttar Pradesh and Jammu

& Kashmir are still to nominate one city each for smart city development. CRISIL Risk and Infrastructure Solutions Limited in association with Pri Move Infrastructure Development Consultants Private Ltd and Probity Soft Private Limited has bagged the contract for 6 cities followed by Jones Lang La Salle Property Consultants In-

dia Pvt Ltd in association with Townland Consultants Pvt Ltd and Tata Consulting Engineers, ICRA Management Consulting Private Limited in association with NJS Engineers India Private Limited and All In-dia Institute of Local Self-Government for 5 cities each.

Foreign companies or their Indian associates are associated with the preparation of smart city plans for most of the cities.Quick selection of consultants through tendering by the Mission cities has been enabled by the Ministry of Urban Develop-ment drawing up a panel of consultants for each region.

Details of cities and respective consultants are :

CRISIL ICRA All India Institute of Local Self-Government (Mumabi)

Feedback Infra Pvt Ltd In Association With Happold Engineers India Pvt Ltd And Cisco Systems

Dorsh Holding GmbH in association with Dorsh Consult India Pvt Ltd and L R Kadaliya and Associates

Alia Consulting Solutions Pvt Ltd and Genesis Fin Tech

Haskoning DHV Consulting Pvt Ltd in Joint Venture with Haskoning DHV Nederland B.V and Grant Thornton Green Boulevard

Deloitte Touche Tohmastsu India Pvt Ltd in association with Urban Management Consultant and Hijli Inspiration

Lea Associates South Asia Ltd in asso-ciation with Crux Consultants Pvt Ltd and VB Soft Private Ltd

Mehta And Associates In Joint Venture With Oswal Computers And Consultants

Voyants Solutions Pvt Ltd In Association With Minraj Consultants

Jones Lang La Salle

Darashaw & Co in association with IDOM Inginieriay Consultoria S.A.U and FUNDACION CARTIFF

Mahindra Consulting Engineers Ltd In Association With Suez Environment Consulting And Akara Research And Technologies Pvt Ltd

NagpurKalian-DombivaliNasikThaneSolapurAmaravati

RajkotKochiAjmerErodeCoimbattore

RajkotKochiAjmerErodeCoimbattore

AhmedabadRourkelaKotaAgartala

KanputGhaziabadThanjavur(TN)

Greater MumbaiMuzaffarpurDurgapur(W.Bengal)

UjjainDahod(Gujarat)

New Town KolkataBidahannagar (West Bengal)

Tirupati (AP)Tumakuru(Karnataka)

GandhinagarIndoreJabalpur

GwaliorSagarSatna

VadodaraBhubaneswarAmritsarChennaiTiruchirapalli

Surat (Gujarat)BelgaviHubbai-Dharwad (Karnataka)Dind

BiharshariffOulgaret(Puducherry)TiruppurThoothukudi (TN)



SMART CITIES NEWSIIDC Ltd in association with Urban Mass Transport Company Ltd and Building Design Partnership Ltd

Engineers India Ltd in association with JPS Associates Pvt Ltd

International City Management Association with Urban Management Centre and Edge Soft India Pvt Ltd

Knight Frank (India) Pvt ltd with Fortress Infrastructure services and PSP Financial Consultants Pvt Ltd

TERI with Tractebel Engineering SA, Belgium and Avalon Inrastructure solutions Pvt Ltd

Srei Infrastructure Pvt Ltd with Navayuga spatial Technologies and RSP Design Consultants

Price Waterhouse Coopers with Rudrabhishek Enterprise and CPG Consultants Pvt Ltd

DDF Consultants Pvt Ltd with MSN Infrastructure and SGI Studio Galli Ingenieria Pvt Ltd

AECOM India Pvt Ltd with AECOM Asia Company Ltd

NK Buildcon Pvt Ltd.

Mott MacDonald Pvt Ltd with Ernst and Young LLP

Soft Tech Engineers Pvt Ltd with Design Point Consult Pvt Ltd

Tandon Urban Solutions Pvt Ltd with Spatial Decisions and Maha Infortech Pvt Ltd

I K Worldwide with SCP Consultants Pvt Ltd

McKinsey

CRP Risk Management with Infrastructure Man-agement and Advisory services Pvt Ltd

KPMG

Ecorys Nederland BV with Ecorys India Pvt Ltd

Arki Techno Consultants (India) Pvt Ltd and IRS Systems South Asia Pvt Ltd

Shah Technical Consultants Pvt Ltd

Infrastructure Development Corporation (Karnataka) Limited in association with IDFC Foundation

Aarvee Associates Architects, Engineers and Consultants Ltd in association with MarsTelecom Systems Pvt Ltd

Data World Pty Ltd in association with Innovest Advisory Services Pvt Ltd and Caritas Eco Systems Pvt Ltd

MangaluruUdaipur

RampurMoradabad

AgraBareilly

HyderabadAurangabad

Dharmashala

Shivamogga(Karnataka)

Bhopal

Dehradun

VisakhapatnamLudhiana

Ministry of Urban Development has already released Rs.2.00 cr per each Mission city for preparation of city-wise Smart City Plans.

The selected consulting firms will prepare smart city propos-als under the supervision of urban local bodies and state gov-ernments based on review of previous plans and interventions undertaken. Smart City Plans shall contain area development action plans and financing plan for the complete life cycle of the proposal. All city wise Smart City Plans will be evaluated in the second stage of City Challenge competition for identifying the top ranking 20 cities for financing during the current financial year.

VaranasiJhansi

Jaipur Sahranpur

Navi Mumbai

Ranchi

Pune

Davanagere(Karnataka)

New Delhi Municipal Council

Bhagalpur

AizawlHaldia

VelloreTirunelveli (TN)

SelamMadurai(TN)

Allahabad Aligarh

LucknowNamchi(Sikkim)



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SWEDEN KEEN TO PARTNER INDIA IN SMART CITIES & AMRUT

FRANCE INITIATES SMART CITY PROJECTS WITH 2BN EURO LOAN

Mr. Mehmet Kaplan also offered his country’s assistance in production of bio-gas from solid and liquid municipal waste and its conversion to fuel for running vehicles. He enquired from Shri Naidu about urban planning processes in India and use of digital technologies for efficient use of resources and improving governance.Shri Venkaiah Naidu informed his counter-part that citizen consultation has been made mandatory for identification and prioritization of projects and drawing up city level plans un-der Smart City and Atal Mission for Rejuvena-tion and Urban Transformation (AMRUT). He also said that ICT based Pan-city smart solu-tions have also been mandatory component of Smart City Mission with a view to improve urban governance besides providing public in-formation to citizens, Intelligent Transport Sys-tems, Tele-Medicine, improving efficiency of water and electricity use etc.

THE TWO MINISTERS HAVE IDEN-TIFIED PROMOTION OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT, MUNICIPAL WASTE MANAGEMENT AND DIGITALIZA-TION AS PRIORITY AREAS FOR COOPERATION IN THE CONTEXT OF INITIATIVES FOR DEVELOP-MENT OF SMART CITIES AND UPGRADING BASIC INFRASTRUC-TURE IN OTHER CITIES IN INDIA.

ichier said the French development agency, AFD, has already joined hands with these state administrations even though the official list of cities to be developed under the Smart City project would be announced early next year. AFD will provide technological support in the areas of water, sanitation, transport and waste management in these cities, he said.” Even before Puddcherry is officially on the list, which will be announced in January, we have already started our work in the city on water and transport development so as to not lose time,” Richier said, adding that some cru-cial MoUs will soon be signed in this regard. While Puducherry will be the first focus, Chandigarh and Nagpur will be taken up in the second phase, he said.”We will be going to Chandigarh this Monday with AFD and French technology owners and Nagpur would a bit later.But we have already tied up with Chief Ministers of Puducherry, Maharashtra (Nagpur) and Chandigarh Administration,” he said. The support provided is on the basis of the requirement of the city, the envoy said.”Our goal is to put a lot of impetus into this so that result can be delivered in shortest possible time.We respond to the request of the cities. They chose what their priorities are on the basis of their requirements. Like in Nagpur we are working on Metro project,” he said. Richier said that even if the cities fail to find space in the official list, they will continue the work.”We do not know whether they will be in the official list which will be announced in January next year. But we are hopeful and even if they don’t we will still work,” he said.The other areas of support will include energy efficiency, solar energy, heritage preservation, communication and technology, and security and city lighting.

SOURCE: PTI

Stressing on the need for sustainable urban de-velopment in the context of growing urbaniza-tion, Sweden and India have agreed to cooper-ate in the implementation of new urban sector initiatives in India.

Smart City project for sustainable development, with two billion Euro assis-tance from the French government, has begun in Puducherry with Nagpur & Chandigarh being next in the line, French envoy to India Francois Richier recently said.

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WORLD BANK KEEN TO SUP-PORT SMART CITY PROJECTS: DEVENDRA FADNAVIS

The World Bank has shown keen interest in sup-porting smart city and urban development projects in Maharashtra, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said recently. Fadnavis said he had requested The World Bank to support the government’s flagship ‘JalYuktShivar Abhiyan’ (scheme) which will ensure sustainable agricultural development and provide assured irrigation.

High level delegation led by The World Bank Managing Director and Chief Op-erating Officer Mulyani Indrawati met the Chief Minister and other officials at the state secretariat here.

Fadnavis thanked the delegation for choosing Maharashtra as part of their India visit.”I am happy that The World Bank has shown keen interest in supporting smart city and urban de-velopment projects,” he said. The dis-cussions were also related to various projects being undertaken by Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) including the Mumbai Metro, an official at Chief Min-ister’s office said.

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“Indrawati told the Chief Minister that The World Bank would positive-ly consider supporting the Metro project and also expressed interest in investing in long term development projects in the state.”She also praised the state’s ‘ease of doing business’ policy and expressed keenness in partnering with the government to upgrade Mumbai’s public transport system,” he said.

BLOOMBERG HOSTS LIVE WEBINAR TO EDUCATE CITY TEAMS: INNOVATION FRIDAYS

ity Commissioners, their respective consultants & the entire team is given an opportunity to interact with Smart City experts, ask questions, suggestions to work on their smart city proposal (to be submitted to the centre by December 15, 2015).

On 6th November 2015 – , the team conducted a live interaction with Mr Antho-ny Townsend. Dr Anthony Townsend is the author of Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers & the Quest for a New Utopia. He serves as the senior Research Scientist at NYU’s Rudin Centre forTransportation Policy & Management & teach-es a course on Intelligent Cities in NYU’s Urban Planning Pro-gram on Smart Cities. Anthony addressed the city teams on “Finding Smart Solutions: The Potential & Risks of ICT” for about 1 hour 20 mins where the discussion saw various interest-ing questions being raised.

Bloomberg Philanthropies conducts live webinars for City Teams every Friday with leading experts & practitioners wherein City teams get access to leading experts & insights on visioning, citizen engagement, area based develop-ments and smart solutions.

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SMART CITY MARKET FORECAST SIZE


SMART CITIES NEWSCISCO TO PLAN NET-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR SMART CITY

“Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has appointed rating agency CRISIL as consultant on the smart city concept. Cis-co, as part of the MoU with the government, has taken up an advisory role. Out of 44 solu-tions it has, the company may prioritize 7-8, depending on the needs of Nagpur city.”

- Purushottam Kaushik Managing Director,

Cisco Systems’ (India)

Networking major Cisco, which has signed a MoU with the state government on developing smart cities, is expected to prioritize a set of net-based solutions for Nagpur in the next couple of months.

he solutions may be presented to CRISIL in next 2-3 months, and may be included in the detailed project report (DPR) on smart city which may follow. Cisco Investment, its capital arm, may look for some funding opportunities throughout the country in future, he said.”Each city has different types of needs. Recently, Cisco had offered solutions for Jaipur which were designed by keeping in mind the tourist influx to the city. Nagpur is coming up as an education hub so the

solutions can be related to managing floating population and settlers coming here. The likely solutions for Nagpur can be related to transport. Different modes of transport from going to place A from B can be made available through a mobile application or net-based signboards on roads. Movement of buses can be mon-itored through GPS and even linking the proposed metro rail with the system later. Having kiosks to pay taxes and laying down security systems can also be the areas, said Kaushik.” Cisco has Nagpur high on its agenda. It is also looking forward to work with any agen-cy specifically appointed to provide dig-ital solutions to the city,” Kaushik said. Emerson, which is also into networking, has taken initiatives to sign a MoU with the state government too. The company

is basically into providing services and will be keen to work with other firms setting up systems under the smart city plan, said Sunil Khanna, company’s managing director. Re-cently it was done for a leading company’s campus at Pune.

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Source: TOI

TATA PROJECTS LIMITED EYES SMART CITIES OPPORTUNITY

Tata Group company Tata Projects Limited has created a dedicated division to tap the opportunities expect-ed to be generated by the Smart Cities initiative.“A separate division has been

created for the smart city business opportunity,” Tata Projects VP and Head (smart city business) Gautam Balakrish-nan said the company would scout for opportunities to bid as master integra-tors or take up stand-alone projects with an ideal contract ticket size of Rs 100-500 crore. The company has capabilities for solid waste management, implement-ing Wi-Fi services, wider security, toll collection and data analytics, to name a few.He said the company does not fore-see any shortage of resources to invest in such projects, adding that the compa-ny was also negotiating with internation-al players keen in smart city projects for both technical and financial resources.

Source: PTI

Payback period for such projects could be around

seven years, but cautioned that law en-forcement was a crucial com-ponent to make such cities fi-

nancially viable. In the first phase, 20 smart city projects are likely to be taken up out of the 100 shortlisted ones.

- Gautam Balakrishnan , Tata Projects VP and Head

(smart city business)

Kaushik said, Cisco has signed

a non-commer-cial-non-exclu-

sive MoU with the state govern-

ment. It means the company’s role

will be limited to advising and oth-er players will be

also allowed.


SMART CITIES NEWSOBAMA ANNOUNCES NEW SMART CITIES INITIATIVE OF OVER

$160MThe Obama administration announced in Sep-tember it will invest more than $160 million in a new “Smart Cities” Initiative to build apps aimed at helping local communities tackle key challenges such as reducing traffic congestion, fighting crime, fostering economic growth, managing the effects of a changing climate, and improving the delivery of city services.

n emerging community of civic leaders, data sci-entists, technologists, and companies are joining forces to build “Smart Cities” – communities that are building an infrastructure to continuously im-prove the collection, aggregation, and use of data to improve the life of their residents – by harness-ing the growing data revolution, low-cost sensors, and research collaborations, and doing so secure-ly to protect safety and privacy.

President Barack Obama has supported local municipalities building their own ultra high-speed networks using fiber optics and has also encour-aged companies like Google to build networks that compete with traditional broadband providers. The latest initiative is meant to help cities that have al-ready deployed ultra high-speed broadband net-works work with entrepreneurs, local leaders and others to create applications that can leverage these networks to improve the quality of life in their communities.

As part of the initiative, the Administration is announcing -

The Administration’s Smart Cities Initiative will begin with a focus on key strategies -

» More than $35 million in new grants and over $10 million in proposed investments to build a research infrastructure for Smart Cities by the National Sci-ence Foundation and National Institute of Stan-dards and Technology.» Nearly $70 million in new spending and over $45 million in proposed investments to unlock new solu-tions in safety, energy, climate preparedness, trans-portation, health and more, by the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, Department of Commerce, and the Environmental Protection Agency.» More than 20 cities participating in major new multi-city collaborations that will help city leaders effectively collaborate with universities and industry.

» Creating test beds for “Internet of Things” applications and developing new multi-sector collaborative models:» Collaborating with the civic tech movement and forging intercity collaborations:» Leveraging existing Federal activity» Pursuing international collaboration:

AThe private sector is stepping up as well, including -

IBM is announcing it will organize Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) 2016 kick off events in an additional 30 cities in Asia Pa-cific, Latin America, North America, Europe, Middle East, and Africa. It will also provide technology experts to mentor and educate the worldwide participants in agile Internet of Things applications, design, and develop-ment throughout the GCTC 2016 challenge.

AT&T is announcing that it will support Internet of Things and Smart Cities technolo-gy adoption by supporting testbeds in cities in the U.S. and globally. AT&T will select 10 U.S. cities to deploy technology for smart metering, lighting, traffic management, parking, and public safety. The company will host a Smart Cities hackathon with NIST participation at the AT&T Developer Summit in January 2016 with participating cities.


BLOOMBERG’S IDEAS CAMP EMPOWER MAYORS, ULBS WITH KNOWLEDGE OF PROCESSES AND

CHALLENGES OF SMART DEVELOPMENT

The two day Idea Camp on Smart Cities held from Oct 6, 2015 organised in New Delhi has empowered the State Governments, Mayors and Municipal Commissioners with en-hanced understanding of the processes and challenges involved in preparation and sub-sequent implementation of city-wise Smart City Plans.

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O rganised by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the camp brought elected and executive heads of urban local bodies face to face with experts from India and abroad in areas of urban planning and execution besides helping them know of successful models of city development. During the camp, several issues were raised by the representatives of States and urban local bodies regarding implementation of Smart City Mission and the same were clarified by the concerned senior officials of the Ministry of Urban Development. One of the issues raised by the States and Mayors was to give appropriate weightage for Pan-City Smart solutions while evaluating the Smart City Plans in the second stage of City Challenge Competition given the benefits that flow from them to larger sections of people in urban areas.


After discussing this suggestion with Minister of Urban Development Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu who is on an of-

ficial visit to France, the Ministry officials assured the participants that it will be given due consideration.As per Mission Guide-lines, a Smart City Plan shall have propos-als either for Retrofitting, Redevelopment and Greenfield Projects or a combination of them besides at least one Pan-City Smart Solution to benefit citizens across a city. These solutions relate to e-governance, water and energy management, Intelligent Transport Systems, Tele-medicine etc.Ur-ban Development Ministry further clarified that under Pan-City Smart Solutions, in-vestments will be only for using technology to enhance the efficient use of infrastructure and accordingly, fitting GPS and Intelligent Transport System equipment on buses is allowed while procurement of buses is not. Procurement of buses is allowed under AM-RUT.Ministry officials also clarified that the central assistance of Rs.500 per each of the 100 Mission Cities is not project specific and the same can be used for any component of

the Smart City Plan conforming to the Mis-sion Guidelines. Regarding a suggestion that the Ministry of Urban Development may come out with a Model Smart City Plan, the Ministry clarified that it does not intend to do so since Smart City Plans are city specific and past experience had shown that such model documents tend to be copied without any application of mind.

In his inaugural address, Shri Madhu-sudhan Prasad, Secretary(Urban Develop-ment) made it clear that selection of smart city aspirants in the second stage of City Challenge Competition will be based only on merit and the Ministry was not obliged to pick up 20 cities for financing during this current financial year. He said only those cit-ies whose Smart City Plans come up to the expectations will be picked up and there will be no state-wise caps for selection of cities in the second round of competition. Urban local bodies were urged to prepare smart city vision statements based on detailed analysis of Strengths, Weaknesses, Op-portunities and Threats (SWOT). The par-ticipants were divided into different groups and such vision statements were prepared for about 25 cities to acquaint them with the exercise. Experts from the country and abroad stressed on the need for building trust of people around the Smart City pro-posals through their involvement in prioriti-sation of projects besides acting on small projects before moving on to big ones. In nut shell, the message to Mayors and urban local bodies was to develop cities which are pro-people and pro-environment in a trans-parent and cost effective manner.The par-ticipants were given an account of strategic

planning adopted for development of vari-ous cities like Washington, Oakland (Cali-fornia), London, Barcelona, Beijing, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Medellin, Istanbul, Mumbai etc with an analysis of challeng-es overcome and shortcomings there of. A case study of Medellin, Colombia was pre-sented bringing out how the city known as the most violent city in 1991 with 391 deaths per 1,00,000 habitants was turned into the City of the Year in 2012 through a process of Social Urbanism. It was explained that the strategy included ending segregation of localities and promoting social inclusion and involvement of communities in city de-velopment. During the two day Ideas Camp organised by Bloomberg Philanthropies, knowledge Partner for Smart City Mission, participants discussed –Setting goals for a City, Understanding Area based devel-opment, Financing of projects, Exploring Pan-City Smart Solutions and Process of Citizen Engagement. Envisioning city fu-tures, Designing and development of cities and Broad contours of a Smart City were discussed in plenary sessions.

Mr.Anthony Williams, former Mayor of Washington D.C, Mr. Stephen Yarwood, former Mayor of Adelaide, Mr.Philipp Rode, Executive Director of LSE (London school of Economics) Cities, Ms. Rose Gill Hearn, former Commissioner of New York’s Inves-tigation Department, Mr. Vicente Gulliart, former Chief Architet of Barcelona, Dr. O.P. Agarwal of Indian School of Business (Mo-hali), Shri Sanjiv Sanyal, Global Strategist, Deutsche Bank, Shri Reuben Abraham, Executive Director, IDFC Institute etc ad-dressed the participants of the Ideas Camp.

CONFERENCE & EVENTS

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Urban Mobility IndiaDate: 24-27, November 2015Place: New Delhi, IndiaOrganiser: Institute of Urban Transport (India) Tel.: +91 11- 66578700-709Email: [email protected].: www.urbanmobilityindia.in

Future Cities APDate: 26 & 27, November 2015Place: Visakhapatnam, IndiaOrganiser: IBCIPL (India)Tel.: +91 8041234500Email: [email protected].: www.ibcipl.com

13th International Conference & Exibition on Sustainable Habit & Smart CitiesDate: 9-11, December 2015Place: Jaipur, IndiaTel.: +91 (33) 4028 4028Email: [email protected].: www.municipalika.com

2nd Smart Cities India Expo 2016Date: 11-13 May, 2016Place: New Delhi, IndiaOrganiser: Exhibitions India GroupTel.: +91 11 4279 5000Email: [email protected].: www.SmartCitiesIndia.com

Arab Future Cities Summit 2016Date: 11-12 April, 2016Place: Qatar, UAEOrganiser: Expotrade Middle East FZ-LLCTel.: +9714-4542135Email: [email protected].: www.arabfuturecities.com

ESRI India User ConferenceDate: 2-4 December, 2015Place: Delhi, IndiaOrganiser: ESRI INDIATel.: +91 (124) 420-7232Email: [email protected].: www.esriindia.com


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