Latest Articles in smart cities
Emerging need of Professionals for Smart Cities
The global rapid urbanization is evident by the rise in the number of megacities. Most of these are located in Asia and Africa. Currently, 22 out of 33 cities with a population of over 10 million are in Africa and Asia.
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Bhagalpur: Improvising Smart City with Inclusive Citizen-Centricity
Bhagalpur is a centre of health services for various adjoining smaller cities and villages. The attendant of patients does not get facilities to stay at an affordable price. With our commitment to do the customer-centric project we are developing a 100 bedded night center for the attendant of the patient. Says Sunil Kumar, CEO, Bhagalpur Smart City Limited in conversation with Poulami Chakraborty of BW SmartCities. Excerpts below:
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Future and importance of Cloud Solutions for Smart Cities in India
As an individual our daily activities like Personal E-mailing, Facebook, Google, and many other applications are enabled through cloud. Our work environments have been slowly migrating to Cloud over years now.
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Command and Control Rooms Turn War Rooms Digital Responses to the Pandemic City
As the world reimagines new ways of working, interacting, schooling, shopping and entertainment with the help of digital technologies; the Integrated Command and Control Centers (ICCCs) have already turned into War Rooms fighting the challenges posed by the pandemic city. Writes Sameer Unhale, Municipal Corporation, Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation.
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Bengaluru Smart City Squad to monitor people in quarantine
The squads and vehicles were launched by BBMP Commissioner B H Anil Kumar and Mayor M Goutham Kumar on Thursday, after a meeting with Health Department officials earlier in the day.
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Trichy Corporation resumes Smart City Project operations
The work at Trichy’s Puthur fish market was stalled for over 70 days and with the labour crisis looming large the Trichy Corporation plans to extend the project deadline
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What Happened to Our Great Cities?
What is common to all the urban centers is their high density. Population density is determined by the number of residents who live within a given land area – usually a mile or kilometer. It is this high density that has contributed to the rise of these cities as economic hubs, cultural centers offering immense opportunities to diverse sets of people from everywhere, writes Author, Speaker and Urban Sociologist, Dr. Binti Singh.
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ICCCs set-up for Smart Cities are utilized tackling COVID crisis
The Integrated Command and Control Centres(ICCC) in around 50 cities have been helping the administration cater to the needs of healthcare and logistics.
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COVID 19 Lockdown: Smart City work worth INR 1 lakh crore stalled
Smart city projects worth approx Rs 1 lakh crore have been stopped due to the lockdown, rendering tens of thousands of workers jobless and causing large-scale damage of building materials, which could significantly escalate project costs.
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Government inclined to building Smart Cities along Delhi-Mumbai expressway: Nitin Gadkari
Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport, Highways and MSME during an interaction with real estate body NAREDCO, via a video conference stated that, the government is looking if NHAI can plan a township along the highway (Delhi-Mumbai Expressway) .
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