SMART CITIES CONSULTING


Our Smart Cities consulting practice is focused on development of new smart cities, and existing cities. We digital platforms are used for city management and service deliveries to residents through portals that push information to smart phones and devices. System delivers paperless bills, and users can pay online.

Smart cities are designed to be economically sustainable ecosystems. We emphasize that infrastructure planned now should cater to future populations 50-100 years in future. Land use has to be optimized and shared between city’s civil infrastructures and food baskets to sustain the needs for future. The city civil structures are connected to digital systems to be services-enabled from very start.

Question asked is why do we need Smart Cities?
The answer is to build a planned city ecosystem for future managed growth to overcome public complains as we hear them today namely housing and amenities shortages, depleting utilities, crowded markets, hospitals, roads, schools, bad governance and failing law and order. Reality is the new population addition may have overburdened the manual systems. Worst is still to come, as over 70% population will be living in Urban cities by 2050 consuming 80% of energy and water resources, so all city infrastructures need to be planned today for the future 20-30 years requirement.

What all is included in Smart Cities Ecosystem?
Smartly planned ecosystem includes physical structures for optimal use of ground space, shared between all open spaces, roads, office complexes, residences, education and healthcare facilities. As population explodes the land must be preserved as food baskets.

Smart Buildings / Smart Homes: Smart Building with many floors require fiber links to be terminated in basements and linked to every usage point in the building. Since they use integrated systems so bandwidth requirement will be high for the IOT & M2M sensors will be used in HVAC, Lighting, Fire Protection, Access Control Systems, Surveillance, Smart Meters, Water, UPS, Elevators etc.

Smart Services Ecosystem for public services includes:
Smart Energy
Smart Water, Sewerage & Solid Waste
Smart Transport & Traffic Management
Smart Security & Surveillance
Smart Education
Smart Health Care

How do we engage?
After engagement we find the problem, we study the needs, analyze issues and create a proposal.
End-to-End solution is created to meet financial, cost reduction, operations and management goals.
Once the proposal is accepted our Project Management Office is activated to bring together stakeholders, experts and implementers.
Command and Control Centers are created as nerve centers for unified management.
E-Services modules are deployed to have one-stop-shop for all services.
E-government portals are created for G2G, G2B & G2P services and interaction.
Finally, we become shadow operations, and train staff before handing over the solution.