Safe & Smart City - An Overview

What are the technologies building the Smart Cities of the future?

Future Smart Cities will be having various Smart Elements which will ease Citizens Life.

Smart Elements in various domains like Safety, E-Governance, Water and Public Transport will play a differential role in the development of Futuristic Smart Cities.

Technologies like Facial Recognition, ANPR, Smart & Prepaid Electric Meters, Bus Rapid Transport system and various E-Governance Portals like EPRO, NPS etc will help in building the Smart Cities.

What is shaping the key decisions in smart city projects?

Every City has their aspirations and challenges & being a largest democratic country we face challenges in the name of Good Infrastructure, Shortage of Jobs, Food, water and Electricity

There was a pressure on the cities to fulfil their objectives resulting the search for technologies that could increase adaptability, bring down costs and generate value-added jobs and above all worthwhile living conditions and economic growth in the cities

Understanding the significance of the above said issues, the current government took some smart and efficient steps to upgrade the life of a common man.

Which are the industries that form the backbone of a Smart City project?

For building a smart city, which provides smart solutions to its citizens, technological literacy is the key element.

In current scenario Infrastructure companies, Analytics platform based organisations  & connectivity has joined hands to become the backbone of any Smart City.

These technologies are like a thread which channelizes all data from different aspects of the city, such as traffic, utilities, finance, health or waste management to monitor and deliver improved services, improve e-governance, and in result smart intelligent solutions.

What are the key considerations for a Safe City project?

A Safe city project objective is to provide a safe and environment to the citizen’s .For any government, the pressure is on to address the challenges related to safety of citizens.

We have variety of crimes which occurs every day in every city. Women Safety becomes an uttermost priority after the Delhi Incident.

It is very much important to utilize the technology to address such social evils.

Facial recognition, Security Alert Apps and an intelligent network can contribute well for a safe city

Government has to think of begin building smart systems that can support massive population increases while still keeping citizens happy & Safe.

What is the best & Most Important technologies available in the market for any Safe/Smart City?

A recent Intel-backed study estimates that smart cities would save up to 125 hours of every urban resident each year and this can be done by providing them smart solutions such as smart parking, smart traffic management, smart health management, smart waste management and smart mobility.

These solutions based on technology can ease citizens life with all information away by one digital touch.

Safe & Smart city must have a combination of Platform and intelligent systems which can produce a digital data and based on that data a better & proactive decision making can be done.

Solution on the below mentioned platforms helping various organisations to come up with their own solutions.

• ICT( Intelligent Security systems like Facial Recognition ,ANPR,Crowd Behaviour ,Loitering )
• Artificial Intelligence
• Block chain
• IOT

What makes Smart City Surveillance different?

Smart City Surveillance is not only installing cameras and creating a viewing centre but it is more than that.

It enables the surveillance network to take proactive decisions on its own.

Smart City surveillance can integrate with ICCC platform and couple of more technologies will be on board like Facial Recognition, Crowd behavior, Automatic Number Plate Recognition which will create a difference.

 

What are the latest technology trends and solutions in City surveillance projects?

City Surveillance Projects are enabled with some great platforms like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Technology is enabling brain & eye to entire security system and helping humans to take a predictive approach, helps to take better decisions in crisis.

What are the new initiatives required to secure cities?

Secure cities first need adaptive thinking and experiments with various platforms.

Security is the key flavour in any city and we need a MAN with MACHINE approach to fight with external world or our enemies.

Enablement of technology to the security forces to fight with various intruders either virtual or physical.

Example: Intelligent CCTV system which can track the person in a city, searching an exact physical location of a person with the help of his online presence. Identifying a face in a crowd even if a suspected person has done any type of plastic surgery.

Today technology is available which can do all the said wonders.

What are the challenges faced in implementing the City surveillance projects?

During the implementation there are multiple challenges mostly financial & political. 

Government has come up with a SUV approach which created a PPP (Public Private Partnership) model to execute such large projects & this model is doing well in most of the projects, but still in some areas improper Fund Management leads to multiple show stoppers in the execution of projects.

Over and above there are multiple interventions from various aggregators and bureaucrats resulting a delay in projects .

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