The ability to harness and store large volumes of data to enable future services and add extensions to current services to improve can only be achieved with big data.
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Big Data Deployment is a Critical Infrastructure Component
Big data will be the thread that binds together all the diverse elements deployed in a smart city. It would be inconceivable to have any kind of meaningful smart city application layer without leveraging on big data. The Internet of Things (IoT) layer of big data sensors will generate an avalanche of data.
In today’s time, data is king
Since cities have been administered manually, it is difficult for city administrators to be present at every single asset owned by city corporations physically. But there is a solution to this challenge.
Tata Projects eyes smart cities opportunity
Tata Group company Tata Projects Limited has created a dedicated division to tap opportunities generated by the Smart Cities initiative.´A separate division has been created this month,´ Tata Projects VP and Head (smart city business) Gautam Balakrishnan said on the side-¡lines of Urban Infrastructure Conclave, 2015.




