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ROBOTS – USHERING IN A NEW ERA IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
The day is not far when robots working on project sites will become a common occurrence. Drones- which are already in use to an extent, will constantly scan sites to collect data, predict and solve problems before they arise.
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How software is an enabler for Smart Cities
It has been noted that to make a city smart, there’s first a need to understand the behaviour of a city’s assets: its citizens, economy and its environment, with the intent to make the ecosystem predictive and self sustainable.
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“We want to get 10,000 bikes out on roads by the end of the third quarter.”
A group with $ 1.2 billion asset base, Hero Motors Company (HMC) is name to reckon with as being the world’s largest manufacturer of bicycles with over 20 companies under its belt. Spearheading the next generation of Munjals, Aditya Munjal, Director, Hexi, a last-mile connectivity solutions provider
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“Democratizing the entire data and making it visible to the public has empowered us.”
A charismatic leader and a youth icon for many, Nara Lokesh, Cabinet Minister for Information Technology, Panchayati Raj and Rural Development, Andhra Pradesh has taken the state on an unprecedented developmental path. Taking to Chahat Jain and Manish Arora of BW Smart Cities, the minister talks abo
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Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh in Smart City era
In an era of chaotic urbanisation in the country driven by ‘impatient capital’, Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh is planned to a rational grid yet human scale. The ‘City Beautiful’ promises to be both ‘Green and Smart’.
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Sustainable Sanitaryware Solutions
With the dawn of energy efficient technology, it is possible to move forward binding rapid development keeping the environment in mind.
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BILBAO EFFECT: IS IT POSSIBLE TO TRANSFER TO INDIAN CITIES?
Based on the data we have had access to, with the expected migration to urban areas in the next 25 years, a city of one million people should be built each month in India.
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Smarter Ways of Handling Medical Emergencies in Smart Cities Of 2018
A stronger ambulance infrastructure embedded with technology is the need of the hour. Building a well-organized ambulance infrastructure with high quality, reliable services with trained staff requires lot of structured planning and quality control.
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Data and Analytics making our cities more intelligent
Many existing cities of developed countries have begun to use IoT technologies to collect data on traffic, pollution, waste management systems, crisis response, and criminal activities to create data sets and run analytics to deploy their resources more efficiently and effectively.
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Cities are becoming smart but what about financing?
When it comes to source of financing, most of the smart city plans envisage around 70 per cent of the total outlay to be funded by the Central and State Government, either through the Smart City Mission or through convergence schemes like AMRUT, Swachh Bharat etc.
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