Smart Cities Council India along with Western Digital, a leading global provider of storage solutions, co-hosted a Roundtable Conference on 'Technology Modernisation for Safer and Smarter Cities' in Mumbai. The conference primarily aimed at discussing initiatives to fuel the growth of surveillance security in India, the challenges faced, and methods to address them.
Category: Smart Cities
Post
Post
People-centric approach a necessity
The development of India's Smart Cities has to be people-centric if the programme has to succeed in the long-term, a cross section of experts opined. This will entail smarter use of available resources and technologies to improve both infrastructure and service delivery in areas proposed for such development.
Post
Sophisticated Software Solutions Do not Necessarily Reduce Cost
The role of big data during project implementation is different from that of project operations. The implementation phase typically consists of planning, design and construction.
Post
Smart Cities Will Emerge as Major Big Data Hubs
Most large-scale infrastructure projects today are increasingly going the public-private-partnership (PPP) way. Technology and governance are key enablers in shaping the way forward for PPPs, while data-driven outcomes are critical because these projects need to generate value-for-money, be innovative and attain operational efficiency in a defined time frame.
Post
Big Data Analytics Is a Multi-fold Opportunity
The first step in video analytics is to train artificial intelligence (AI). This requires AI to go through thousands of hours of video to 'learn' what different objects, such as people, cars, license plates and trucks are. Initially, a human must help the AI by tagging different objects, but very quickly the AI can self-learn and educate itself at a rate that is orders of magnitude faster than what people can do.
Post
We have allocated Rs.2,247 cr for Solapur Smart City Plan
We are working on many proposals which are unique in nature. Our main intention through smart city proposals is to encourage community gatherings similar to that of European nations.
Post
City Infra Outlook and Development plan
In the recently concluded Smart Cities workshop-City Infra Outlook and Development plan-by the Smart Cities Council India, decision makers and solution providers closely examined what Solapur should do in order to enable a vibrant city operating platform.
Post
30 more smart cities announced; takes the total to 90 so far
The government today announced another list of 30 cities for development as smart cities taking the total cities picked up so far to 90 under Smart City Mission launched on June 25, 2015.
Post
Varanasi Municipal Corp appoints three consultants
For the implementation of Varanasi Smart City project, the Varanasi Municipal Corporation (VMC) has appointed consortium of three reputed firms as Project Management Consultants -Rudrabhishek Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. (REPL), Grant Thornton and ABN consulting.
Post
SOLAPUR SMART CITIES WORKSHOP: City Infra Outlook and Development plan
The Smart Cities Council India successfully organised its first-in-its-series of India-wide multicity smart cities workshops in Solapur on June 2, 2017. Solapur was selected under the CentreÂ’s smart city mission, which witnessed a lineup of world-class solution providers.