The development of a smart city that offers a good quality of life to its citizens and that is not only future ready but also sustainable is a time-consuming process. The Smart Cities Mission (SCM) […]
An interview with Shahar Levi, Co-Founder and CEO of Locusview. We heard a lot about Locusview in the past few months, tell us about your company. Locusview helps CGD and transmission utilities digitize and automate […]
Cities are huge consumers of power, using up to two-thirds of the world’s energy and producing a similar proportion of global carbon emissions. However, digitalisation, smart grids, the electrification of transport, and advancing energy efficient […]
Urban transportation in the country is currently facing a number of challenges such as traffic congestion, poor road safety and parking, and high levels of pollution, pointing to a dire need for a switch to […]
A significant part of the Smart Cities Mission (SCM) focuses on area-based development (ABD) that includes city improvement, renewal, redevelopment and extension, and affordable housing comprises a big component of ABD. This has resulted in […]
The Smart Cities Mission (SCM) is based on the idea of using information and communications technology as the bedrock to modernise cities in order to make them more sustainable, liveable, resilient and inclusive. One of […]
The Smart Cities Mission (SCM) aims at the amalgamation of two important aspects – digitalisation and urbanisation – and attempts to achieve urban renewal through a number of technology-enabled solutions. While the mission promotes the […]
The Smart Cities Mission (SCM), one of the most ambitious government programmes for urban renewal and transformation, was envisaged to be implemented through the bottom-up approach instead of the top-down approach followed for most government […]
Launched in June 2015, the Smart Cities Mission (SCM) aims to provide core infrastructure in Indian cities and ensure a decent quality of life to citizens through the deployment of smart solutions. One of the […]
The Smart Cities Mission (SCM) has been at the centre of the government’s urban rejuvenation agenda. While progress has been made, it has been patchy. At a recent confer- ence organised by India Infrastructure on […]
In recent times, it has become imperative for city-level governments to incorporate e-governance to strengthen democracy, increase public participation and thereby increase public welfare. The extensive use of digital solutions not only creates a progressive […]
The Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City) has been included in the Smart City Mission Statement and Guidelines as a model city in the greenfield category. GIFT City has deployed several advanced technologies across different […]
Against the backdrop of a growing urban population and increasing shortages in service delivery, smart cities in India have been incorporating technologies such as smart meters, geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS), supervisory […]
Urban transportation in the country is currently facing multiple challenges such as pollution, traffic congestion, poor road safety and parking, pointing to an alarming need for transformation of urban mobility via cleaner technologies. One of […]
Safety is a very crucial aspect to ensure that a city is liveable for its inhabitants. Safety and security have been accorded high priority under the Smart Cities Mission (SCM). Deployment of CCTV cameras, development […]
As part of the Smart Cities Mission (SCM), some cities have planned to converge with the Housing for All scheme in a bid to address the gap in the informal housing sector. A substantial portion […]
Smart energy is one of the thrust areas under the Smart Cities Mission (SCM). Broadly, the smart energy objective under the mission is to promote renewable energy generation primarily through solar rooftop installations and ensure […]
The Smart Cities Mission (SCM) was launched by the government in June 2015, with the objective of providing core infrastructure in Indian cities and ensuring a decent quality of life to its citizens through the […]
The central government has introduced several programmes aimed at improving the quality of life of citizens. The launch of the Smart Cities Mission (SCM) is one such step to make cities more liveable and citizen […]
One of the crucial components of a smart city is intelligent and connected lighting. With an appropriate illumination system, possibilities of connecting light points to the available communication technology as well as to back-end software […]
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