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GTU Smart City E-Newsletter Issue XXVI Date : 15-04-2017
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SMART INDIA HACKATHON 2017 on 1st
- 2nd
April, 2017
In order to work towards our PM’s Digital India mission, Ministry of HRD, All India Council for Tech-
nical Education (AICTE) propose the Smart India Hackathon 2017, a unique initiative to identify new and
disruptive digital technology innovations for solving the challenges faced by our country. This initiative
aims to institutionalize a model for harnessing the creativity and technical expertise of 3.0 + million stu-
dents for direct benefit of our nation .
Smart India Hackathon 2017 will be a computer programming competition which will involve all Engi-
neering colleges with a reach to approximately 30 Lakh students from across India. This is planned to chal-
lenge the students to think out of the-box and offer innovative ideas to build smart applications which will
help address major real time problems in our country.
Gujarat University and Gujarat Technological University are collaboratively working to make this unique
initiative successful. This hackathon held on 1st & 2nd April 2017, at Gujarat University Convention Hall,
Ahmedabad
Indian Smart City Updates
Media Coverage ...
Smart City Mission: List of 40 Smart Cities to be Announced Soon by the End of June
Under the Narendra Modi government’s flagship scheme–Smart City Mission launched on June 25, 2015,
the mission aims to develop 100 smart cities across the country in a five-year period. The government has
earmarked Rs 48,000 crore for the development of these cities.The Urban Development Ministry will an-
nounce the list of 40 smart cities by June-end. Each selected city will be given Rs 500 crore over a period
of five years by the Centre with the respective states expected to make the matching contribution. So far,
60 cities have been selected for the scheme and the remaining 40 cities would be announced by June end,
an official said.
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Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation to Send Smart City Proposal to Center
Municipal Corporation and Consultant firm have finalized Smart City Proposal. On Friday this proposal
will be sent to the Union Urban Development Ministry. After several amendments, the final proposal of
2822 crores has been prepared. This proposal was presented to UP Chief Secretary Rahul Bhatnagar last
week. Consulting firm KPMG’s experts have also finalized the proposal after approving Proposal with
Lucknow. However, the cost of the proposal is reduced by Rs 79 crores.
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How IoT integrated the world’s largest solar plant in India
In 2016, the Adani Group commissioned the world’s largest
solar plant in a single location, a strong contribution to In-
dia’s goal of 100 GW of solar power by 2020. Built in
Kamuthi, 90 km from Madurai, the Adani solar project sur-
passes the California-based Topaz Solar farm which has a
capacity of 550 MW.
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Smart City Project in India - LH Signs MOU on Smart City Development with India
The Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) announced on April
7 that it held an MOU ceremony in honor of the construction of Kal-
yan-Dombivali Smart City at Maharashtra State Government Build-
ing in India. The Kalyan-Dombivali region was designated as the sec-
ond smart city in September last year in accordance with the Indian
government's 100 national plans. Previously, LH reviewed seven des-
ignated cities in Maharashtra as part of the Korea-India Cooperation
and Development Project. Read More ...
Chandigarh Smart City | Here’s How This French Firm Wants to Make Our City Smart
After Chandigarh being shortlisted as the one city to undergo Smart City project by Union urban develop-
ment ministry, French firm Egis International has been selected as consultants to aid the city undergo this
amazing transformation process. The Smart City project, since its announcement has been taken by the au-
thorities so seriously that it is creating buzz around the vicinity for quite sometime now.
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MSMEs to benefit from smart city, renewable energy, and Digital India initiatives
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and the country’s economy get a boost when sustained
major investments take place in sectors that are reliant on high tech and aligned with global trends.
While increasing dependence on renewable sources of energy and building new cities that are smart, more
resource efficient and meet the administrative needs of the future are some of the global investment trends,
information and communication technologies are becoming all pervasive.
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Common Mobility Card is now a Smart City Idea for Bengaluru
BENGALURU: A single smart card that citizens can use for cashless travel across all public transport
modes? Well, this is an ecosystem the city civic corporation has proposed in its latest bid to make Benga-
luru a smart city.
The common mobility card has been packaged under Bengaluru Transport-related Information and Plan-
ning System (B-TRIPS), an app based platform that will allow commuters plan their travel across all
modes. The modes include the Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation BSE -1.15 %, Namma Met-
ro and cab services.
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‘Smart cities must build human capital’
NAGPUR: "A city's first test for smartness is that it should build the human capital. A city should be built
on the principles of equity and a digital platform does not discriminate. Smart cities should therefore pro-
vide digital platforms," said VK Gautam, principal secretary (information technology), government of Ma-
harashtra. He was addressing the Smart City summit organized by Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC).
Praising Nagpur, Gautam said it was the first to introduce a six kilometre smart stretch. "Elsewhere, Smart
City project has meant only CCTV surveillance," he added.
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Smart Cities Development - Global Updates
INTERGEO SMART CITY SOLUTIONS - laboratory solutions for the city of the future
Cities are the vibrant hubs at the heart of our society. They are the source of many pioneering develop-
ments. They are the laboratories of the future - a place for living, thinking and preparing for what is to
come. INTERGEO is the world’s leading communication platform for geoinformation, geodesy and land
management, and in its midst is the SMART CITY SOLUTIONS topic platform, which turns the spotlight
on the cities of the future with all their facets of digitalisation.
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The Dallas "LivingLab" smart city approach: bringing everyone together
AT&T Smart Cities and the Dallas Innovation Alliance bring new solutions focused on citizen engagement
and the environment.
AT&T* Smart Cities momentum continues with the launch of the DIA Smart Cities Living Lab powered
by AT&T (Living Lab). The Living Lab is a multi-phased smart cities project in Dallas. The project is
spearheaded by the Dallas Innovation Alliance (DIA) in collaboration with AT&T and other technology
leaders in the public and private sector. AT&T, a Foundational Partner for the DIA, used its smart cities
framework to help the City of Dallas develop and apply a holistic strategy to address some of its most sig-
nificant challenges. Dallas is among the eight cities participating in the AT&T Smart Cities spotlight cities
initiative.
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Smart Technologies Updates
All Traffic Solutions Releases Four White Papers On Current Transport Issues
Located in Herndon, Virginia, All Traffic Solutions is recognized as an innovator in the traffic safety in-
dustry for integrating cloud technology into all of its products, which includes radar speed and variable
message displays, imaging products, and intelligent transportation management systems. The company’s
four new White Papers explore and offer solutions for some of the challenges facing the current transporta-
tion management industry.
The Smarter cities: Five ways to see results in 2017 paper explores the five core components of a success-
ful smart city transportation initiative, and shares how to make use of the best new technologies, including
the Internet of Things (IoT), and implement the right systems to become a smarter city, both today and into
the future.
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These 6 technologies are redefining the ‘smart city’
The phrase “smart city” conjures up images of gleaming new infrastructure, from intelligent street lights to
NASA-style command centers. In reality, however, technology’s biggest impact on urban life is much less
flashy.
Rather than betting on VR headsets or other currently popular interfaces, communities that invest in six
underlying capabilities are best positioned for the longer term: 1. Recognition 2. Location 3. Sensing 4.
Transactions 5. Connectivity 6. Integration
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The Smart Evolution of Living Buildings
In the United States, 101 million square feet of new construction is already underway. These new structures
will define and have the potential to transform our urban spaces, making cities smarter. But are we allow-
ing the evolution of “living” buildings to emerge and create smarter, more resilient urban spaces?
The Smart City paradigm, still under construction itself, represents a wide spectrum revolution, where the
material and the digital worlds co-exist, creating new symbolic spaces, approaches to reality, ways of hu-
man interaction and of course major transformations of urban space. American buildings generate 39 per-
cent of carbon dioxide emissions; therefore, we have an unprecedented opportunity to address climate
change by giving birth to a new evolution of buildings that minimize negative environmental impacts.
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Prof. Rajnikant Patel, Honorary Director,
Graduate School of Smart Cities Development (GSSCD)
Gujarat Technological University ,
Nr. Vishwakarma Government Engineering College
Nr. Visat Three Roads, Visat - Gandhinagar Highway
Chandkheda , Ahmedabad - 382424 , India
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