Indian cities are struggling to accommodate the accelerated pace of urbanization – resulting in crumbling urban infrastructure and unaffordable options for urban accommodation
Urbanization is only bound to rise – with a manufacturing - led, knowledge driven economy forming the core focus of India’s efforts at creating a ‘step change’ in economic growth. Our industrial growth ecosystem must be planned and created – liveable cities will need to enable people to live and work near production zones.
India has recently committed to the development and construction of 100 Smart Cities to meet the demands of its rapidly growing and urbanizing population. This effort will include construction of new municipalities and renovation of existing cities as the rural population shifts into urban areas. This white paper is a direct outgrowth of U. S.-India Business Council (USIBC) Chairman and MasterCard Global CEO Ajay Banga’s mission to meet with the new Modi Administration in June.
Government has decided on developing 100 "Smart Cities" in the country. Accordingly, in his budget speech of July 2014, the Finance Minister has stated as follows:
Expect drone technologies, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, peer-to-peer services and the like to disrupt business as usual at city hall in the years ahead. A new report released by Brookings and authored by Kevin C.
Texas State Technical College (TSTC) Waco wanted a wireless system flexible enough for the day-to-day demands of 5,000+ students and that could support any application the college might deploy in the future.
In 1998, Carroll Electric Cooperative Corporation in Bentonville, Ark., installed one of the world’s first IntelliTeam® Automatic Restoration Systems at the then-new Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport. It recently upgraded to the third-generation of IntelliTeam from Council Lead Partner S&C Electric.
As a recipient of a IBM Smarter Cities Challenge grant in 2014, the city of Ballarat in New South Wales, Australia sought ideas from IBM experts on innovations that could help manage local waste resources effectively while reducing reliance on the landfill and strengthening the regional economy.
To provide a safer community in fast-growing Surat, the city police department started the ‘Safe City Project,’ an initiative striving to reduce the city’s crime rate using modern technology. Watch this Microsoft CityNext video to learn more about what Surat police did to curb crime.
Predictive data science is not just "big data analytics" or "business intelligence" – it’s the next level of insights to be delivered by combining innovative data sources with state-of-the-art analytical methods. Predictive data science provides previously unavailable insights combining the disciplines of statistics, engineering, operations research, computer science, and others, while utilizing the techniques of data mining, machine learning and mathematical optimization. Learn more in this video from Council Associate Partner TROVE.
DS Agile is the latest in turnkey automation solutions for digital substations from Council Lead Partner Alstom Grid. It combines cutting-edge hardware, software, communications and the highest technology engineering. As you'll see in this video, it provides full integration with control room network monitoring and smart grid applications, such as network stability, wide-area automation schemes and asset management.