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Aurangabad Commissioner of Police Amitesh Kumar informed that a marathon meeting with the technical evaluation committee and civic staffers was held with an aim to commission 50 CCTV cameras at 30 crucial locations in the city by October 31. The...
Article - 08/31/2015
Active Region(s): India
Image of Cyclone Hudhud from Insat-3DWeather forecasting in India has improved with new technology, but accuracy in predicting weather events remains elusive, adding uncertainty to the country’s economic planning. An accurate forecast is critical...
Article - 08/31/2015
Active Region(s): India
Smart Buildings are not just green or sustainable buildings, but are Intelligent Buildings that are responsive to changing needs of its users. A smart building is a facility that integrates Technology – IT, security, and building services, and...
Article - 08/31/2015
Active Region(s): India
India Minister of Urban Development Venkaiah NaiduBy Pratap Padode Founder, Smart Cities Council India The India Smart Cities Challenge is a competition designed to inspire and support municipal officials as they develop smart proposals to improve...
Article - 08/31/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Policy and leadership
By Paul Augustine West Monroe PartnersSmart cities continuously look for ways to become cleaner, more efficient, and more secure. They also seek opportunities to actively engage their citizens in this effort. One area of focus is transitioning to...
Article - 08/31/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Citizen engagement
The Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) of India recently released the list of 98 nominated cities, while applications for two cities are yet awaited. Over the next three years, these 100 cities will take part in a competition to receive funds from...
Article - 08/31/2015
Active Region(s): India
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Digital India project, which aims to offer a one-stop shop for government services, would use the mobile phone as the backbone of its delivery mechanism. Five hundred million people will come together on the Internet....
Article - 08/31/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Health and human services, Telecommunications, Connectivity, Smart City Tools
With growing urbanisation, the need for reliable mobility services has become critical. There is a huge gap in supply and demand of public transport with decreased resources and increased commuters. But whether this could result in a significant...
Article - 08/31/2015
Active Region(s): India
The vast majority of city street journeys take place in cars. Despite being clean and green with a host of health benefits, cycling is really popular in only a few countries. Potential accidents, the lack of a cycle-friendly infrastructure and...
Article - 08/31/2015
Active Region(s): India
Do you know that if one lays down the cities of India in the descending order of their population, the 200th city has only 2,00,000 population. So changing the face of cities through the Smart Cities mission and AMRUT essentially means changing the...
Article - 08/31/2015
Active Region(s): India
Kalyan: As news emerged about the lists declared by Ministry of Urban development, Kalyan Dombivli city bore a huge smile. They were in the nominees. Smart Cities Council India held the third of its Promising Cities seminar at Kalyan on the same day...
Article - 08/30/2015
Active Region(s): India
International and national experts on technologies and smart cities along with urban development officials from across India – constituting 600 cities covering the100 smart cities and 500 AMRUT cities – came together at the Hyderabad International...
Article - 08/30/2015
Active Region(s): India
After a successful first Promising Cities Seminar in Ahmedabad, Smart Cities Council India kicked off its second seminar in Thane last month.In February 2015, Smart Cities Council India named India’s 20 Most Promising Cities and Thane was among them...
Article - 08/30/2015
Active Region(s): India
As per the Maharashtra Region and Town Planning Act, every municipal corporation must prepare a development plan to be implemented over 20 years. The last time a development plan was prepared for Mumbai was way back in 1981 and it was adopted 13...
Article - 08/30/2015
Active Region(s): India
Bengaluru and Kolkata are among the top cities that did not make it to the list of 98 that have been nominated for the government’s ambitious Smart City project.Only the Lutyens zone covered by the New Delhi Municipal Council has been named as a...
Article - 08/28/2015
Active Region(s): India
IBM worked with the city of Rio de Janeiro on this Operations Center that provides the incident commander and responders with a single, unified view of all the information that they require for situational awareness.Navigant Research says the global...
Article - 08/28/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Finance and procurement, Smart City Tools
Over the past 18 months, red light cameras in St. Louis recorded roughly $5.6 million in violations. Now, the city will have to give all of that money back.Traffic violation cameras were once in the fast lane in many cities, but between court...
Article - 08/28/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Transportation
(L-R) Pratap Padode, Founder & Director, Smart Cities Council India; Kalyani Patil, Mayor, KDMC; E Ravendiran, Commissioner, KDMC; Apeksha Patil, Mayor, Ulhasnagar Municipal corporation; Praful Shah, President, MCHI-Kalyan DombiviliSmart Cities...
Article - 08/28/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Policy frameworks and tools, Visioning and roadmapping tools
By Barbara ThorntonIn 1994 when Tom Murphy became Mayor of Pittsburgh, the city had been in decline for 50 years. He looked at his assets:300,000 residents (half of what it had been)Thousands of acres of empty or underutilized landA significantly...
Article - 08/26/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership
It's true of course. More people mean more garbage. So how are cities with limited space and limited waste management budgets supposed to deal with it? Longmont, Colorado and Houston, Texas are among those exploring what is considered by some to be...
Article - 08/26/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management