Indian Smart Cities and villages projects

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Developing smart cities is a journey

Cities can start with smarter solutions such as the integrated city command and operations centre to centrally monitor the health of key city functions and take coordinated actions. This can help in increasing collaboration between various city departments by integrating city functions such as utilities (water, energy and waste), transportation and public safety, helping to transform city operations from reactive to proactive. Smarter emergency/disaster management solutions help cities to provide comprehensive situational and organizational awareness to effectively manage emergency and crisis situations. These solutions can also be provided during operational decision support for interagency and task force communication, mission readiness, collaboration, coordination and critical information sharing. Smarter public safety solutions can help cities to create a single public safety platform spanning multiple agencies such as police, police control rooms, emergency numbers, fire, traffic, and anti-terrorism agencies, etc. Video analytics can be used to improve effectiveness of surveillance by providing features such as crowd detection, tripwire crossing, abandoned object, facial recognition, illegal turns and parking, vehicle classification and counting.

Smarter sater management solutions can be taken up by water authorities to get real time visibility of water supply in a city to ensure equitable water distribution. This will also help in improving network and asset management, metering, billing, leak detection (using hydraulic modelling), pressure management (using optimal pressure), non-revenue water management and demand management.

Smarter waste management solutions can be taken up for end to end planning, monitoring and efficient operation of waste management. Pan city waste management infrastructure and assets can be mapped (key sites and locations, such as community/RWA collection points, infrastructure, personnel, as well as location of any citizen-reported issues).

Smarter transportation solutions such as integrated fare management (single fare card) for hassle free journey by multiple modes of transportation. Smarter traffic management for improving overall traffic management, traffic prediction, improved traffic signalling based on congestion, traffic enforcement, etc. Smarter parking for hassle free parking experience for street and closed parking areas. Mobile apps for citizens by providing a single window of information on all city services, bill payment, complaint registration and grievances. Developing smarter cities is a journey, not a destination. As cities progress in this journey, they will need to continuously improve and innovate to set new benchmarks to be truly known as a Smarter City.