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Building India’s Smart Cities – the L&T way
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Global Smart Cities Maturity Level– What India Can Learn
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Smart Transportation
Smart Transportation
Solving Parking Problems In India
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Smart Mobility Is Essential For Smart Cities
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Smart Cities Need Speed to Deliver ! Gurgaon on its Way to Become Smart !
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Smart Libelium: Living IoT Lab to monitor parking, water quality, ambient and environmental conditions
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Smart Libelium: Smart City project in Ljubljana Shopping and Business Centre to follow its Green Mission strategy
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Smart Energy
Smart Cities
‘Solar Energy Key to India’s Smart Cities Challenge’- Says Mr. Donald Leo, Jinko Solar
Where Innovation meets Simply-City…
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Smart Infrastructure
Case Study
Precast Modular Housing: Solution to Growing need of Affordable Housing in India
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The Third Landscape As An Answer- For The Urban Challenges Of Tomorrow
Smart Infrastructure
Smart Cities Imperatives from ICT Infrastructure
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Smart Energy
Build - India’s Smart Cities With Passive Inspired Net Zero Homes
Smart Infrastructure A Tale Of Two Cities-Smart And Smarter Buildings
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Smart Infrastructure A Brief On Nanded City, Pune
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Smart Transportation Redefining Urban Mobility
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Safe City
UP100, Lucknow, India : In Uttar Pradesh, help is always just a phone call away
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Smart Talk
Interview With Mr. Rajiv Bhalla, Managing Director Barco
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Smart Water
Role Of Virtual Water In Making Cities Water Smart
Smart Lighting
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Philips Lighting Empowering Smart Cities
Smart Infrastructure
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From BIM to CIMThe Rise Of City Information Modelling & DataDriven Design
Smart Infrartucture
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A Sustainable Toilet Solution for Urban/ Rural Areas and Smart Cities
Smart Cities
Smart City Mission:
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Smart Water “Smart” Leak Detection for Urban Water Supply in India with German “FAST” Technology
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“Need of hour is smart Village & Smart Slum”
Smart Tech
Setting A Green Standard In Smart Technology
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SmartCities
GLOBAL SMART CITIES MATURITY LEVELâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;
What India Can Learn Author- Satish Kamat, President - Sri City Operations
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Smart cities are getting more and more attention in the media, technology companies, consultants, entrepreneurs, and increasingly from citizens in general. It needs investment of billions of dollars and most cities especially in developing world can ill afford to make a mistake on.
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n one hand, smart cities hold the promise to potentially make the growing number of cities around the globe more efficient, more tech-savvy, more value adding to the economy of the nation and they can hopefully improve the quality of life for citizens. I have been studying smart cities for the past several years. At the time I reviewed the of smart initiatives in small and large cities around the globe and especially in Europe , in an effort to understand what exactly is a smart city. I studied how the concept of smart cities was embraces by cities like Copenhagen , Amsterdam abd Barcelona etc and interpreted in Singapore and Songdo etc. Three Maturity levels can be observed in how cities have implemented and matured as smart cities, moving from top down , technology companies driven, to driven by city government and by wider portfolio of applications, to, finally, bottom-up citizen involvement driven. Some cities move from one level to another while some have remained there. The smart city journey in India has just started now but can Smart cities ( at least some ) can leapfrog the levels and reach a higher level of maturity rightaway.
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ne of the cities that has always scored well in the rankings was Barcelona, Spain . Barcelona is a major innovator, introducing a solar thermal ordinance in 2000 that requires all new buildings over a certain size to generate hot water from solar thermal energy. More recently, an initiative known as ‘LIVE Barelona’promoted electric vehicle. There are currently hundreds of EV charging stations throughout the city, sensors on trash and recycling bins to optimize pick up and minimize costs for solid waste and recycling collectors, water sensors to ensure intelligent use of water, parking sensors in to indicate empty spaces to reduce fuel waste, movement detectors in streetlights that detect movement and illumination levels in low traffic hours. This helps the city to save money, increase efficiency and reduce carbon footprint. After having absobed the initail sensor and automation driven advantages ,Barcelona has announced the launch of the Smart City Campus called ‘22@Barcelona’.The campus will convert the city into an experimentation and innovation laboratory, the center of which will be the Smart City Campus, where companies, universities, entrepreneurs and research centers can work in information technologies, ecology and urban development areas pioneering research for exploration of new technological possibilities in the service of the city and people and this is just the beginning of the PPP journy.
SMART CITIES - LEVEL 1:
TOP DOWN AND TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN
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hen I first began studying smart cities, IBM , CISCO and several other multinational technology companies were praising the potential for technology to transform cities into highly efficient, highly technologically driven interconnected and efficient cities. And some early adopter cities were definitely buying what they were selling too. This technology-centric vision of smart cities appealed to urban technology innovators, who in turn have the potential to grow jobs and the economy.
Early Smart Cities technology adaption focused on efficency , waste reduction and did not understand the implications of the technology and how they may impact quality of life. They may have just chased technology for the aim of just for the heck of having the latest . Some cities like Songdo , South Korea may be in this category. These future city visions have been driven by private sector technology companies such as Living PlanIT and Cisco. In his book ‘ Smat Cities’Anthony Townsend presents a thoughtful critique of Smart Cities in that maturity stage, arguing that tech-driven futuristic urban vision were missing out on the key dynamic of how cities interact with their citizens.
SMART CITIES - LEVEL 2:
CITY DRIVEN AND APPLICATION LED
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n this level of maturity , city administrators had developed some internal insigts and learnings for the earlier stage of Smart City implementation, as opposed to technology vendors. In this level city takes the lead in identifying new initiatives for the city , more innovative deployment of smart technologies and new innovative applications of the technology platform. In this , city administrators focus on solutions improve quality of life of citizens. One example is Rio de Janiro when they went to IBM for creating a sensor network to minimize landslides and crime in the hillside favelas. The solution included central command and control center connected to streaming video for crime detection and prevention and integrated emergency services administration among many other integrated smart services. In this level of maturity Barcelona, had more than 20 smart cities program areas and literally more than 100 active smart cities projects covering public spaces , public transit , intelligent lighting and the promotion of an electric vehicle charging infrastructure. It has sought to provide global leadership by not just initiating numerous projects, but also supporting the growth of the smart cities industry and city networks. Like many leading cities, Barcelona has identified significant opportunities for using technology to facilitate improved quality of life for citizens and visitors.
SMART CITIES - LEVEL 3:
BOTTOM UP CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT LED
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In the past few years, a new model has started to appear. Instead of a top down technology provider driven approach, or a city insight driven but technology enabled model, the mature smart cities are beginning to embrace bottom up citizen driven co-creation for helping to drive the next generation of smarter cities. In the last few years ,Vancouver led one of the most ambitious collaborative initiatives by engaging thousands of citizens in the co-creation of the Vancouver Greenest City 2020 Action Plan. And Barcelona completed an innovation project called BCN Open Challenge, where the city posted six challenges and leveraged a private platform, Citymart, to solicit ideas from local and global citizens and innovators.Historic city like Vienna, for example, continues to be quite active in the
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Level 2 and, like Barcelona, also has many active smart cities projects. But some of those projects have a different level of PPP . For example, in a partnership with the local energy company,Vienna included citizens as investors in local solar plants as contribution to the city’s 2050 renewable energy objectives. It has also had a strong focus on citizen engagement in addressing low cost housing and gender equality . Smart Cities at this level of maturity is not just for cities but for development of the world. Medellin , a city in Latin America , has focused on urban regeneration from the bottom up by engaging citizens from the city’s most vulnerable neighborhoods in transformative projects such as the cable car and electric stairs projects and new technology-enabled schools and libraries. Medellin has recently
expanded its commitment to innovators by supporting the development of an innovation district to attract and retain entrepreneurial talent. Smart Cities in the Lavel 3 maturity have demonstrated, that they are focusing more on issues of equity and social inclusion and not just tons of technology. Really mature smart city is providing the enabling conditions to allow local sharing activities to emerge. Projects such as Repair Cafes, tool lending libraries for performing repairs to your home, and bike-sharing services have the potential to not only optimize underutilized resources but also raise the quality of life for all residents. Cities like Amsterdam and Seoul seem to be taking the early lead in promoting sharing activities amongst citizens and fostering sharing startups as well.
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CAN CITIES LEAPFROG SMART CITIES MATURITY LEVELS, MOVE SEQUENTIALLY OR OPERATE AT MULTIPLE LEVELS?
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believe some cities literally go through all phases over time at a fairly high cost of learning before they provide substantial benefits to the citizens. Kansas City seems to be a city which has leapfrogged from Smart Cities Level 1 directly to Level 3. From partnering with Google to install Google Fiber throughout the metropolitan area, and immediately leapfrogged to how this infrastructure can serve as as a platform for citizen co-creation and the organic growth of the local entrepreneurial ecosystem. Singapore, for example seems to be largely focused on Smart Cities level 1 and 2 as city administration may not fully embracing the more chaotic, democratic approaches to citizen involvementthat happens in level 3 smart cities. When Indian Government was selecting the list of first 20 smart cities candidates, the cities like Pune, Bhuvaneshwar etc. that involved citizens,-
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took inputs from members of society to make a Project plan , tended to do much better than the city administrator and consultant driven project plans. Though blend of smart city maturity level that could have the best chance could be a blend of Level 2 and Level 3. City administrations need to continue to lead by example, supporting the growth of broadband digital infrastructure, wireless networks, e-gov and m-gov services and Internet of things sensor networks but the choice of projects and initiatives should be more bottom up driving citizen co-creation and urban entrepreneurship. Smart Cities should not just use citizens as resipients of the services but a partner in creating the most impactful services running on the technology and eGovernance platform. This leaves me with a thought â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Do Indian smart cities move between levels sequentially or they should leafrog levels to craete maximum value for the citizens.
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Smart IT & Communications
Internet of Things (IoT)
A Game Changer for Telecom Industry New Business Focus
Author- Surya Pandey VP & Sr. ICT Consultant Technology (IoT/M2M) Smart Cities Solution, Digital Transformation & Service Fulfilment
With businesses realizing the significance of IoT, the interest levels are growing. On one hand, technology decision makers are working towards integrating IoT into their value chains and decision support systems while on the other IoT solution providers are ramping up their offerings to stay in the game. Global telecom operators are now using digital platforms that combine connectivity, data, analysis, security, mobile and cloud to support business. This is helping them reduce Opex while enabling end-users to consume technology in a business focused manner saving time and money.
IoT is a Different Ballgame
The telecom sector in India is bracing itself for a phenomenal increase in data traffic across networks. I am not only referring to the data generated/ consumed by people but also by devices interacting with each other. Adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) and allied technology is all set to grow manifold with the IoT market expected to touch $9 Bn over the next three years, the opportunity has indeed arrived. IoT players including telecom operators will however have to revisit their existing infrastructure, business models and partnerships to serve this surge in connected devices in order to capitalize on this opportunity.
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Why does IoT need a fresh thinking and approach? The answer lies in the way IoT works at the most fundamental level. Unlike hand-held smartphones and tablets, IoT devices exchange tiny bits of data and may or may not stay connected to their network for long periods of time. Take for instance a smart bin which will only come live to inform the centralized command center about the status of the bin or any episode/event it is programmed to report. Connected vehicles on the other hand stay connected for long periods of time while delivering in-vehicle entertainment or navigation information. The network and data center connected to such devices thus must manage varying diversity in demand. A connected car traveling at 120 km/hr would travel over 10 feet further before applying the brakes if the system was experiencing a 100 millisecond delay. Which is a dangerous proposition. In cases of industrial usage which require a faster response, 5G connectivity will definitely come in handy. (This is also why some are demanding 5G be reserved for Industrial IoT.)
Coming back to the smart bin example, it requires low bandwidth and can be powered by low-power WAN networks (LP-WAN) which can work with 3G/4G networks with low power consumption. This can extend the battery life of the device by years.Faster adoption of cloud technologies could give a flip to data management. This is important to deliver network, platform and solution functionalities. Which means the business value of an IoT deployment cannot be fully realized without appropriate data management. A virtual environment that delivers continuous application availability, adapts to new application deployment and scalability is essential for businesses to remain competitive. Solution providers also need to expand their portfolio to showcase newer use cases. Early movers developing solutions for green-field segments or those characterized by low IoT impact will have a distinct advantage but have to build a strong business case to push adoption.
Partnership is the Key to Success The whole eco-system needs to work together to succeed and mature. Operators need to look beyond stable business environments towards newer revenue models as connecting most number of devices alone will not ensure leadership. They need to partner the right solution partners and system integrators. For platform providers, the winning combination will include device management, cloud based storage, analytics, data visualization capabilities and the ability to integrate with other systems through Application Program Interfaces (APIs) or Software Development Kits (SDKs). This will help them take advantage of legacy systems as well as wide variety of other IoT hardware and software. System integrators will have to tie-up with platform providers who offer such capabilities.
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SmartTransportation
AuthorNitin Kumar Deputy MD Fairwood Group
Is Essential For Smart Cities Whenever, we talk about smart mobility in Indian cities, we start taking about the following: a) Bus Rapid Transit b) MRT / LRT c) Improve the local train services
d) Improved bus system e) Radio taxi f) Feeder transport system
While we think of the above, we forget that we have the following constraints while we implement them: a) Most of them are commercially unviable. b) All MRT / LRT projects unless supported by government are not viable c) We do not have space to implement effective BRT. We have seen the consistent failure of BRT in Indian cities d) Local train service is not available in most of the cities except few cities like Mumbai e) Radio taxies though necessary but add to the already existing traffic chaos f) Somehow for reasons not known to us, we
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have pathetic feeder services in our country g) The biggest chaos in India cities is due to the poor feeder services. Once people get down from MRT / LRT, City buses, local trains, etc. they need to take transportation to reach to their last destination. h) Due to the poor feeder services, lot of people avoid taking the public transportation system and reluctantly use their own vehicle which add to the traffic woes. i) The feeder services and transportation available around the MRT / LTR station and bus station creates huge nuisance
So, what is the solution to this problem? What come out of the analysis above is that we need an urban transportation, which fulfil the below criteria: I. On-call, no waiting II. Facilitate full / seamless journey whereby giving the first and last mile connectivity III. High capacity IV. Low carbon footprint V. No conflict, no casualty VI. Rapid, time saving VII. Personal VIII. Comfortable, secure IX. Reasonable fares X. Smart and Intelligent XI. To be able to manoeuvre in congested areas of Indian Cities XII. Easy & quick overlay in dense area XIII. Do not spoil the urban landscape
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The next obvious question is “Do we have such a transportation?”. The answer is yes. We have revolutionary transportation system “Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) System”, which fulfils almost all the criterion of good transportation. Please find below the details of one such PRT system.
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ltra PRT is an urban light transport system comprising of battery powered, driverless 6 seater pods operating on a dedicated secure elevated guide way. This system has been in commercial operation at Terminal 5, Heathrow Airport, London since April, 2011 after 6.5 years of rigorous testing on test track. During this period, the Ultra System has transported over 2 million passengers covering over 5 million km of distance. This has been achieved with full safety and with an efficiency of over 99.85 %. The PRT System has been designed and developed by ULTra of UK and Fairwood has an exclusive technology partnership to implement this system in India. ULTra PRT arguably is the largest and only time tested system in the world.
THE SALIENT POINTS OF THE ULTRA PRT SYSTEM ARE: a) A transport system facilitating the “first and last mile connectivity” b) Integrates with the existing transport system c) Provide feeder services to any mass transport system d) Automated pods run on dedicated one way Guideways (single/ twin track). e) A SAFE system:
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Control system ensuring non-conflicting paths Automatic Vehicle Protection fixed block signalling system l Vehicle on guideway evacuation system (NFPA-130) l Safety sensors l Complies to American society of civil engineers – APM standards l
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f) Demand responsive: Provides on demand non-stop journeys and excellent operational flexibility g) Low waiting time at stations even during peak hours. h) Headway of under 1-3 Second enables high density carriage of 7200-20000 people per loop in the network grid. i) Flexible routing allowing for closer point-to-point travel (direct to destination) j) Off-line stations ensure non-stop travel from Origin-
Destination bypassing intermediate stations. k) PRT stations can be integrated into buildings facilitating direct entry into malls, hotels, offices, hospitals, etc.. This is the key to have seamless journey l) Clean green eco-friendly transport system, which is the need of hour if India cities. A sizable network within cities can improve the air quality by 5-12% by taking the huge nos. of cars off the road.
A very little Right of Way (ROW) is required for PRT. PRT track can very easily fit in the road median and station can fit in the aerial space.
POTENTIAL PRT APPLICATION AREAS Airports Industrial Campus New Urban city developments Eco Towns University Campus Real Estate & Developers
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Hospitals Park & Ride Tourist Attractions High Climate Countries Extension of alternative transport mode
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Smart Mobility in Smart Cities
PRT arguably is the only transportation system, which is profitable in metro cities and can sustain on fare box alone. In Tier II and Tier III cities, the model like Annuity, Viability gap funding (VGF), Land monetization, Tax increment financing, infrastructure bond finance, etc. can be looked at. PRT is a complete green and hence a future transportation and must be promoted in India. In fact, in some of the nominated smart cities in India, PRT has been shown as preferred smart transportation. Government must support such green transportation to make it a success in Indian cities.
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AUTHOR Shubhankar Gautam, Digital Marketing Manager getmyparking
Get My Parking:
Solving Parking Problems In India Parking is an issue for everyone, from drivers to merchants to city governments. Today you can search and book on-demand cabs, movies or even laundry service on your phone. And yet, you are forced to waste your time, fuel, and energy on parking problems. Not only do inefficient parking systems result in congestion & increased carbon emissions, they also waste commutersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; time, lead to lost productivity and economic opportunities and can lead to inefficient city services.
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norganized parking creates problem on multiple fronts. As per IBM Global Parking Index 2011, an average urban motorist spends 20 minutes more on road due to parking problems. This is not only a waste of time but also loss of productivity. Smart parking solution can make cities economically productive, less polluting and wasteful of resources. It is not just about managing the parking spaces. It is about making transportation simplified. Get My Parking is a Delhi based funded venture started in July 2015 with the aim to transform the parking industry. It is digitizing the parking industry through mobile solutions & empowering motorists to search, book and navigate to relevant parking in real-time. The company has recently raised $1.1 million (Rs 7.35 crore) in pre-Series A funding from Indian Angel Network (IAN), venture firm Beenext, The Chennai Angels, and Hero Corporate Services chairman Sunil Munjal.
“The opportunity to provide every day value to an automobile owner with friction-free parking is being delivered by Get My Parking. The team has demonstrated its deep focus in scaling up to over 1.5 Million tickets a month. Their technology platform that triangulates digitization, integration, and automation at the parking lot with the consumer to manage demand and payments has a global market. IndusAge Partners and The Chennai Angels are proud to have been supportive of the team in its endeavour.” - SudhirRao, Lead TCA Investor & Managing Partner of IndusAge Partners
The market opportunity for parking estimated to be over $100 billion and most of the existing solutions are not flexible enough to succeed in emerging markets. Get My Parking attempt to streamline any unorganized market. www.UrbanaWorld.com
“We are organizing the industry by serving the parking contractors (enterprise solutions), government (smart city), infrastructure partners (integration) and the consumers (mobile apps). Our vision is to create a constant vehicle companion that solves all problems faced while driving, starting with parking.” Rasik Pansare, Co-Founder, Get My Parking
Besides, parking management systems and mobile applications, Get My Parking has city dashboards and enforcement applications for government authorities, revenue analytics for contractors, application programming interface for mobility providers and hardware integrations with original equipment manufacturers. The integrated IoT platform connects all these solutions and their stakeholders together. “From deploying our technology at a single mall in Noida we have now developed to service over 150+ locations in Delhi NCR using over 500+ of our smart parking systems. We process 40,000+ parking transactions per day. And we are just getting started,” says Pansare. “ Get My Parking is providing advanced parking analytics solutions for cities and major facilities to reinvent parking infrastructure. It will help to match drivers with available parking to minimize traffic, improve quality of life, reduce environmental impact and maximize revenue. The real time data will help cities plan scheduling of mass transit, infrastructure projects, and special events. As long as people are travelling in cars, they should rather know where, when, how to park. No need to waste fuel, time, mental stress in search for parking.” - Chirag Jain, CEO, Get My Parking
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SmartTalk
Exclusive Interview
With Mr. Rajiv Bhalla Q. Technology plays a very important role in the new missions of the urban sector? What is the product line of Barco and latest products introduced for Smart City Projects
MR. RAJIV BHALLA MANAGING DIRECTOR BARCO
Ans. Given the enhanced efficiency and better service delivery that technology enables, it will undoubtedly be integral to the success of the Smart Cities Mission. Convergence and collaboration, in particular, will emerge as the necessary building blocks for highly reliable control room visualisation systems that smart cities need. Barco, as the leading provider of smart cities solutions in the world, has the expertise toplay a major role in this futuristic vision as a technology partner. Weprovide state-ofthe-art control room solutions for broadcasting, telecommunications, public utilities, process control, traffic control, surveillance, and emergency operation centre applications. We also offer leading-edge networked visualisation solutions that meet the specific requirements of the entertainment, enterprise, and healthcare markets. Q. What are the sectors that are mainly adopting connected visualization systems and why so? Ans. Networked visualisation solutions are registering increased demand across almost all market segments, thanks to the enhanced business productivity, better decision-making, and improved knowledge-sharing that they enable.High-precision sectors like healthcare, manufacturing, security & surveillance, quality control, and administration are already employing connected visualisation technologies across multiple applications. Several emerging market segments such as e-commerce are also adopting
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visualisation solutions to enhance service delivery and optimise efficiency, as are other markets like education and entertainment. Control room solutions such as video walls and controllers are also being used for applications like traffic management, security, telecom, utilities, and process control systems in smart cities and safe cities. Q. How Barco is contributing in Governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Smart City Initiative Ans. The existing urban infrastructure in India is ill-equipped to meet the specific requirements of the Smart Cities Mission. Several domains, such as healthcare and entertainment, will need to be modernised, while effective control room solutions will need to be implemented in smart cities. Smoother day-to-day operations and effective query resolution will require information from multiple sources to be combined and shared with little to no lag.This is where Barco, as a leading provider of visualisation and networked distribution solutions, steps into the picture. By allowing multiple stakeholders to share and view real-time information through connected devices, Barco can assist in the creation of a highly reliable and efficient smart infrastructure. Q. Which are the recent client acquired by Barco in India and any new smart city project soon to be close Ans. Barcoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hi-tech solutions are being used by almost all leading public and private sector organisations in India. We have top hospital chains, major telecom operatorsand leading power generation&distribution companies as a part of our client portfolio. Metro Rails and few cities are using our system for City Surveillance to make a city Smarter & Safe.
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SmartTalk Q. What are the major challenges you face in the Indian market? Ans. India, despite being one of the largest exporters of skilled IT workforce in the world, still has comparatively low levels of technological awareness and penetration. For example, the country only has eight cinema screens per million inhabitants, a miniscule amount when compared to 120 cinema screens per million that the United States has. This is further compounded by the fact that different markets have different requirements for technologies, stacks, and hardware.Creating a strong partner ecosystem has also been a major hassle for players in the networked visualisation space in India, especially given the technological barrier in the Indian market. Q. Is India comparable to the global set-up in terms of demand and technology utilization? Ans. India is still playing catch-up with developed nations as far as technology and utilisation capacity is concerned. Recent advancement in tech adoption and innovation, however, is extremely promising. If the country continues to make technological progress at the present rate, it has the potential to emerge as the global tech hub within the next decade. Q. What is the road map for next three years? Ans. We are looking at becoming the go-to enabler of the smart city infrastructure in India, and the partner of choice for control room solutions for smart cities and safe cities. The entertainment industry is also a key focus area for us; we are looking forward to providing cutting-edge solutions for cinemas, events, and projection mapping etc. for major players in the sector. We also plan to work closely with the government to support the ‘Make in India’ and ‘Digital India’ initiatives. Creating an ecosystem that will facilitate industry collaboration and promote latest manufacturing technologies will be a win-win situation for all stakeholders within the Indian economy.
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Q. India’s level of urbanisation is very low compared to other developed countries or even Emerging countries like Brazil or China. What should be the government strategy towards it? Ans. Urbanisation in India is increasing at an exponential rate, and has already crossed 31.16% according to the 2011 consensus. More than 10 million people are estimated to migrate from semi-urban and rural areas into urban centres every year, and several studies predict the country’s urban population will cross 600 million by 2030. But with fewcities currently equipped to deal with such heavy population inflows, the pressure on urban infrastructure, basic services, land, housing, and the environment is bound to increase. This is something that the government must look at addressing to avoid the proliferation of urban slums and sprawls, which are currently home to 65.5 million Indians. Q. Which are the 3 must have technologies for a smart city Ans. Interconnected control rooms, smart visualisation and collaboration solutions, and the Internet of Things are three must-have technologies for any smart city.
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CII Corporate Program By-Brijesh Chawla, CII
CII Gujarat Knowledge Application & Facilitation Centre (GKAFC), the Technology & Innovation wing of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) based out of Ahmedabad, Gujarat (WR), as one of its mandate is extending handholding services to Start-up/ Entrepreneurs across sectors (Cleantech, Energy, Sanitation & Chemicals etc) across the country with an aim to support Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Development.
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he team with its holistic approach & as a part of its engagements with various stakeholders in the ecosystem (Govt., Industries, Mentors, Experts ,Incubation cells/ centres, National & International Technology providers etc) is trying to create a synergy by working closely with the Startups who are different stages & supporting them by providing a right and a customized solution, which facilitates them to move up from stage to stage and scale up eventually. As an incremental move in the same direction & to know the industrial perspective, CII GKAFC carried out a 3 Days Corporate visit in Vidharba Region, Maharashtra during 14th -17th March, 2017, wherein whole day visits to some of the prominent industries were undertaken such Mahindra & Mahindra, Nagpur , Ashok Leyland, Bhandara , KEC International , Butibori, Nagpur , LEMKEN India, Butibori, Nagpur & Indo Rama Synthetics India, Butibori, Nagpur. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CORPORATE CONNECT PROGRAM Âť
The extensive visits to the industries created an open platform for the startups to explore opportunities , assessment on the need as well as possibilities to demonstrate their technology solution, feasibility of the solution, what kind of customizations are required, on what business models industries would like them to work and other aspects.
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For Industries, it was a fantastic interactive forum & live experience wherein they were able to map the gaps, visualize the need for such technology interventions, how these kind of projects/activities could take up a new shape and at the same time contribute ,drive or accelerate the Industrial initiatives such as Energy Conservation, Reduction in Operations & Maintenance Costs, Adding New & Green Technologies, Streamlining of Processes, Gainful utilization/ Enhancing the Efficiencies in sections like Process & Utilities etc. which can help them to address the challenges and work on something new and innovative.
All the industries visited welcomed the efforts & suggestions given by the CII GKAFC & were open to move ahead with a pilot projects & explore possibilities for adopting such tech solutions & scale up.
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SMARTCiTiES
Smart Cities Need Speed to Deliver !
The massive scale of the Govt`s Smart city projects got startups with cutting -edge technologies flocking to them. But the tough qualifying criteria and slow pace of work is forcing several startups to change course in search of Greener pastures, Reports Taslima Khan in today`s Times of India.
AuthorAmarjit Singh Bindra, Greentech Waste Management Limited, Smart Cities Solutions
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f the Government stipulates a turnover requirement of 10 crores and past experience of catering to such projects , it has already ruled out all startups from applying.Another challenge is depositing a performance guarantee fee. Thus we are ruling out our own Indian startup companies from participating in this God send opportunity. This is an opportunity for all of us to encourage Innovation in Indians & we should not miss it ! The present model of engagement for many of the startups is forcing them to partner with Large system integrator like L& T or Tata Power. This goes against the aim of Make in India.
1. Innovation should be the biggest qualification in choosing Solutions providers for Smart cities. 2. Start ups should be exempted from Performance guarantee with new retweeked rules for participation in Smart cities projects. 3. Urban Development ministry should appoint around 100 Consultants one each for one city who can monitor & update real time data & get approvals for the SPV s in a jiffy. This will save crores of rupees in time over runs etc. 4. Urban development Ministry should mandate a 50 % stake of Indian players even if the foreign companies are the Bigger players in Technology projects. This will ensure more than 1,000 Indian companies are ready in future for
Make in India by Indians in our other cities & Villages which is real India ! 5. I would really like to give example of one Indian Startup company Iysert Energy who has started Solar manufacturing in Bikaner, Rajasthan & in less than a year it has a mandate of providing Solar solutions to 3 Indian cities namely Jaipur, Ajmer & Bilaspur. This company is owned by a 26 years young Rakesh Biswas who is a Child prodigy & holder of many patents. 6. Companies like Flamencotech, Ideaforge,Get my Parking & Greentech waste management, a startup in waste management can go forward only if Govt. retweeks the rules of engagement for Indian startups willing to participate in Smart cities in India.
I have taken extensive help from Taslima Khan`s article today in Times of India , delhi edition.Thanks Taslima Khan.
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Gurgaon on its Way to Become Smart !
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We have got a Green signal from Urban Development Ministry for the necessary Financial assistance to make Gurgaon a Smart city.Though It`s come at least 2 years late , yet It`s Great news.
AuthorAmarjit Singh Bindra Greentech Waste Management Limited Smart Cities Solutions
Let us understand the Unique character of this city first 1. Gurgaon has more than a dozen villages inside the city. 2. Aravalli Hills are surrounding the Gurgaon city , In fact as I write this post, I can see the Hills from my window. 3. There are a number of water bodies out of which a few have dried too due to Urbanisation & unsustainable development. 4. Gurgaon has a considerable Forest cover . 5. Gurgaon has a very deep Water level kind courtesy merciless development by Builders.
ow when we have to develop Gurgaon as a Smart city , the ideal way will be to develop the Villages without changing the unique character of an Indian Village. Chaupals & Johars ( Village Pond) can become a tourist attraction & give a distinct flavour of Indian culture. Forests can be made more dense by planting a Million fruit bearing & shade giving suitable trees.Forest Guest houses can add Zing to lives of Corporate Honchos & Gurgaon citizens as well as Diplomats & NRIs. We are devoid of any Boating club , Govt. can provide us a boating club run properly at Damdama lake.Water bodies revival can be an integral part of the Smart city development plan. Metro pillars can be used for showcasing Vertical gardening. This will improve the Oxygen level & reduce the pollution in the city. We can have a World class Street food Mart organised & run by Govt as we should have a cultural Gulli which should have an arts exhibition centre & a theatre auditorium. We don`t have a World class University in Gurgaon. We will save millions in travel & convenience if we have one.
NOW TRADITIONAL BENCHMARKS OF A SMART CITY 1. Roads can be planned with cycling tracks & pedestrians in mind with proper slope & drainage. 2. Smart Lighting for roads & Traffic. 3. Street lights can have all sensors & inbuilt cameras. 4. One emergency number for all complaints & emergencies. 5. Last mile connectivity with Metro by E- Rickshaws. 6. A programme for rehabilitation of Jhuggi dwellers. 7. Noise pollution & Anti Honking programmes. 8. Pre monsoon checks for avoiding Jams like last year.
9. Smart & efficient Public transport including a World class Railway station. 10. Monthly score card of MCG & Govt. regarding Governance & Smart initiatives. Resident groups should be involved to run the city. We can have a Citizens council with at least 25 members representing various areas as well as expertise. 11. Last but not the least utilisation of professional City/Townships Managers to run the city. 12. I strongly recommend Military Veterans & at least a dozen of them. GMADA should be seriously thinking of recruiting Military Veterans to manage the City as DDA has done in last 10 years.
I sign off with a wish that we change our mind set towards Civic issues & become Smart citizens of a Smart city as soon as Possible. No city can evolve without the active engagement of citizens.
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CASESTUDY Smart Libelium:
Living IoT Lab to Monitor Parking, Water Quality, Ambient and Environmental Conditions
Zaragoza (Spain)
Libelium believes in a world completely connected to gather data from anything located anywhere to enable citizens and organizations to make decisions based on valuable information. The vision of a Smart World consists on monitoring parameters and physical conditions that impact in different productive sectors like agriculture, industry or cities, and of course in valuable resources like water, environment or eHealth.
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ith the aim to show customers, partners and visitors the wide range of IoT applications, Libelium has deployed a Living Lab in its headquarters in Zaragoza (Spain). The installation has been carried out during 4th quarter of 2016 by Libelium technical departments.
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One of Libelium technicians installing the Waspmote Plug & Sense! Sensor Platform
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ibelium Smart Building gives real-time information to the company about outside air and noise pollution levels and environmental parameters as well as inside ambient conditions, water quality or waste management. The goal has been showing all the verticals applications of the technology in a Living Lab.
“This project aims to convert our central offices in a Smart Building to clearly and simply explain how our technology works and the wide range of applications that can be deployed quickly and reliably to the market”. - David Gascón,
CTO, Libelium
Diagram of Smart Libelium installation
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The installation includes eight Waspmote Plug & Sense! Sensor Platforms connected to the Meshlium IoT Gateway located in the Showroom area inside the building:
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Waspmote Plug & Sense! Ambient Control to control solar light intensity levels with luminosity sensor.
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Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Cities to monitor sound levels and control noise pollution, an important parameter considering that the headquarters is located in an industrial zone.
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Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Environment PRO to measure pollution levels with O3, CO, SO2 and NO2 sensors and particulate matter with dust sensor. It also controls weather conditions such as temperature, humidity and pressure.
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Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Parking to detect available or occupied spots in the parking area.
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Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Agriculture to control soil conditions with watermark and temperature sensor and ambient conditions with the WS-300 (pluviometer, wind speed and direction), humidity, temperature, pressure and UV radiation sensors.
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Waspmote Plug & Sense! Sensor Platforms installed outdoors •
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Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Water to measure water parameters and guarantee the quality of the water pond of the hall with pH, connectivity, oxidation reduction potential (ORP), DO (dissolved oxygen) and temperature sensors.
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Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Water installed in the water pond
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Waspmote Plug & Sense! Ambient Control deployed at MySignals warehouse to monitor temperature and humidity. There has been set a temperature range to detect higher and lower temperatures that send an alarm by email to the person in charge to solve the problem.
Sensor Platforms installed at Libelium warehouse
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he information gathered by the Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Parking is sent through LoRaWAN to a LoRaWAN base station. The other seven Waspmote Plug & Sense! Sensor Platforms communicate with the IoT Gateway through 802.15.4. All the information is visualized in a dashboard developed by Libelium and located at the IoT Showroom.
Dashboard developed by Libelium
Libelium’s IoT Showroom
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n 2016 Libelium celebrated its tenth anniversary and one of the main initiatives was creating an IoT showroom in its central offices. This new area is divided in different areas explaining the international strategy of Libelium, the value chain of the company and its commitment to interoperability. “The idea to create the IoT Showroom arose from the need to integrate in a space the three main signs of Libelium’s identity: interoperability, internationalization and the extensive ecosystem” - Alicia Asín,
Libelium worldwide map with partners and distributors locations
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ibelium has displayed a big map pointing out worldwide distributors, main partners and some of the most popular case studies. At a glance, the visitors are able to discover Libelium presence in more than 120 countries and the different projects that the company has carried out since 2006. In the IoT Showroom, Libelium shows the main verticals sectors in which the company is currently focused on: environment, water, agriculture, cities, parking, logistics, industry 4.0, retail and eHealth. Visitors can also touch and understand the exposition that includes three products lines of the company: Waspmote OEM, Waspmote Plug & Sense! and the Meshlium IoT Gateway.
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Libelium IoT Showroom
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CASESTUDY Smart Libelium:
Smart City project in Ljubljana Shopping and Business Centre to follow its Green Mission strategy Air pollution is one of the major environment risks to health. According to a report from WHO cutting down gases and pollutants emissions can reduce the burden of hearth and respiratory diseases like stroke, lung cancer and asthma. In fact this pollution generated by vehicles, industries and energy production kills 800,000 people annually by Health and Environment Linkages Initiative.
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oise pollution is the second cause of illness for environmental reasons after air pollution in Europe. Traffic congestion, civil works or industry in urban areas impact adversely exposing people to high sound levels. This exposure can increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases and also high blood pressure. BTC City is one of the largest shopping and business centres in Europe located in Ljubljana, the 2016 European Green Capital. It has trusted SmartIS City Ltd., a company that provides digital transformation solutions for cities and municipalities, and Libelium to develop a project to improve its environmental and social commitment.
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any worldwide cities are following environmental standards to reduce the number of illnesses induced by air pollution and to lower emissions. These cities are changing their attitude towards the environment and, above all, taking action. For that reason, they need to detect the problems and respond with green projects installing wireless sensor networks.
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CASESTUDY BTC City Shopping Centre
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his Smart City project is based on Waspmote Plug & Sense! Sensor Platform that has been installed in the BTC City shopping area in Ljubljana to control ambient conditions and air pollution. The devices and sensors installed are: Waspmote Plug & Sense! Ambient Control: • Luminosity • Temperature and humidity Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Cities: • Luminosity • Noise • Ultrasound distance Waspmote Plug & Sense Smart Environment PRO: • Temperature, humidity and air pressure • CO • O3 • NO • NO2
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he information collected by the sensors is sent to Meshlium IoT Gateway through 868 protocol, which requires to locate sensors within a radius of 500 meters. The communication among the SmartCityPlatform and the IoT Gateway has been carried out via WIFI.
martCityPlatform is an innovative platform for digital transformation of cities. It serves cities as a smart governance tool and a big data market place and creates value for future city development. The platform enables better management of urban, socio-economic and technological development of the city helping city leaders to make better decisions and to create green cities as better places for living.Living Lab
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SmartCityPlatform developed by SmartIS
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CASESTUDY GREEN SOLUTION TO ACHIEVE SOCIAL COMMITMENT
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he goals of this project has been aligned with sustainable goals of the City of Ljubljana. I In words of the mayor, Zoran Janković, at Ljubljana Forum 2016 Future of Cities conference:
“More cities should adapt the vision of green cities and work towards providing best services for their citizens”.
“We have created a BTC City Living Lab Digital Platform, which is transforming not only shopping industry and creating new value for local businesses and their customers, but holds prospect for transforming management of cities as well”. - Julij Božič, Chief Innovation and Digital Officer at BTC
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his solution supports BTC Company to follow their Green Mission strategy, which is oriented towards sustainable development and creating a better environment for local people, visitors and businesses.
Waspmote Plug & Sense! installed at BTC City
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“This environmental quality monitoring project in BTC City area supports the company in following their innovative business model ECO Index for measuring and assessing the impacts of their activities on the environment and society”. - Blaž Golob, CEO and Partner of SmartIS City Ltd
SmartIS and Libelium have designed a Green City Kit for The IoT Marketplace after the successful story of implementing network of sensors in BTC Company. This ready-to-be-deployed solution allows cities to carefully measure key environmental parameters in real-time and monitor these measurement in the SmartCityPlatform.
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SmartEnergy
‘Solar Energy Key to India’s Smart Cities Challenge’ -Says Mr. Donald Leo With over 7 billion people inhabiting the planet and rapid urbanization taking place to keep pace with modern day developments, sustainability has become a key issue.
Mr. Donald Leo, Asia South Managing Director, JinkoSolar
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Climate change, brought about mostly due to human activities, is a major threat facing countries around the globe. In this scenario, building smart cities is an absolute necessity to ensure long term sustainability.
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ndia being a densely populated country and the 4th largest consumer of energy after USA, China and Russia, will have to take impactful steps to curtail greenhouse gas emissions. By 2030, India’s energy requirement will spike by an estimated 200%.Further, technological advancements, infrastructure developments, modern lifestyles, good transportation, advanced communication systems and better earning opportunities havecaused a population shift to tier 1 cities. Megacities will emerge soon given they are primary drivers of economic activity. Approximately, 843 million people in India are expected to be living in urban areas by 2050. Development of smart cities is the only answer to complexities that will arise due to large scale urbanization. The local government looks very focused on revolutionizing the way cities operate within the country. Building 100 smart cities is big on their agenda. Of course, this mission will have huge power requirements and demand innovation in its fulfilment. Currently, India’s power sector is largely dependent on thermal generation, though solar is now picking up steam. Solar power tariffs have plummeted over the last couple of years and are now competing with conventional power. The recent bids in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh solidify this point where the lowest bid per kilowatt hour was low as 3.15 rupees.However, viability of the solar sector will be driven by appropriate balance of monies between investment and tariff generation. India’s Modi government is promoting use of solar energy which is encouraging investor sentiment, panel manufacturers, power producers and other players in the industry. With the target for solar set at 100 GW by 2022, the market is now at a very exciting stage. Both utility and rooftop projects are being installed. Going forward, a lot of other applications of solar such as solar street lights, solar water heaters, solar cars, rooftop systems will be seen penetrating the market. For our company, Jinko Solar, India is a very strategic market and we will certainly play a major role in India to fuel the solar growth by working closely with our key customers and partners. We are also introducing the best-in-class new products and offering prompt service to meet market needs.As the world’s number one module supplier, with strong leadership in module technology, we are constantly working on high power and high efficiency products to support diverse solar projects.
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Within smart cities, rooftop solar will be a significant contributor towards energy security accounting for 40 GW of the solar capacity by 2022. Till now, India has already installed over a gigawatt of such projects. Out of this 513 MW was added last year, recording a growth of 113%. This year, about 1.1 GW is expected to be added to the existing portfolio, doubling the current capacity. Majority of the rooftop play remains industrial and commercial. Educational institutes, railways, DMRC and other institutes are also going green by installing rooftops. This movement is powered by benefitsof rooftop solarsuch as such as Accelerated Depreciation, Capital Subsidies, Renewables Energy Certificates and, netmeteringwhich is luringmany customers.
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he whole solar chain is valuable with its sustainability turnaround, electricity supply, job creation and benefits to the user in the long term. Particularly for rooftop customers as they can lock in tariff for 25 years, sell excess electricity back to the grid, contribute towards a green future and generate their own electricity. A complementary situation prevails where in 100 smart cities need to be created, solar is on the rise and large scale adoption is being seen not only India but globally. Nonetheless, solar energy still faces many challenges such as grid parity, energy storage, loss reduction, theft, poor DISCOM health among others. To achieve the commitment of the PM at the Paris Summit of bringing down emissions by 35% of 2005 levels and 40% of its installed capacity from non-fossil fuels; aggressive steps will have to be taken to mitigate these issues plaguing the sector. As of now, all conditions are ripe for smart cities to develop and flourish with the precondition that the government and executed on ground is committed. At this pace, India is sure to create history and set an example for other developing countries. It remains to be seen how India creates a cohesive ecosystem to carry out various plans in a bid to create the country a more sustainable one.
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CASESTUDY Precast Modular Housing:
Solution to Growing need of Affordable Housing in India AUTHORS-
Construction sector which is broadly spread across Residential, Commercial, Retail and Hospitality has been registering modest growth since last few years. There has been a lot of buzz regarding ‘affordable housing’ in residential segment which is evident from various government and private schemes started recently in India.
Satyendra Singh B.Arch, M.Tech., MSc (Germany) Geschäftsführer | MD INSELL GmbH Stuttgart, Germany
Gul Ekmen Industrial Engineer INSELL GmbH Stuttgart, Germany
Ms. Giulia Grosso Architecture Intern INSELL GmbH Stuttgart, Germany
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ccording to the 2011 Census, there is a shortage of 18.78 million houses in the country. Government of India plans to construct 29.5 million houses in rural areas under ‘Housing for All’ scheme. ‘Housing for All by 2022’ is a flagship project launched with the aim of building affordable homes for the urban poor. With demands for housing increasing in the same proportion as the rapid population growth, the sector is under high pressure to cater to this demand at affordable rates and lower turnaround time. There has also been tremendous growth of premium housing segments in India’s housing sector as incomes of middle class have also risen in last few years. Looking at the acute shortage of affordable housing sector in India in EWS (Economically Weaker Sections) and LIG (Lower Income Groups) and increased demand of premium segments, the precast modular housing production system developed by our cooperation partner RATEC has just the right answer to growing challenges of providing millions of housing within a short time span. Moreover the costs of such housing when produced in larger scale is substantially less then cost incurred for conventional brick-mortar system in India.
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CASESTUDY What is modular precast construction
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he basic idea of the modular housing system is the monolithic production of a room module which combines the supporting walls, floor and beams. The maximum dimensions are determined both by the requirements set out by architects and guidelines given by housing authorities. Modular housing combined with upcrete® technology is an economical and innovative solution to growing needs of affordable housing in India. The company RATEC has developed efficient precast concrete production methods which offers quality and flexibility.
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eymann Technik offers all support from engineering production plants to project management, feasibility studies and turnkey facilities, to ensure the smooth, efficient and economical execution of modular housing projects. As per the internal estimates done by InSell for affordable housing typical unit designed in India, use of this technology can bring down the construction cost by 10-15 % and it could be the answer to India’s affordable housing both LIG and EWS segment. The cost benefit is achieved by considering the number of factors as in conventional methods shuttering gets damaged due to its repetitive use because of frequent cutting, nailing etc. On the other hand, the mold for the precast components can be used for large number of repetitions thereby reducing the cost of the mold per unit. The home buyers get a larger carpet area, since precast walls are thinner, compared with conventional brick walls etc.
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recast Concrete is a construction product produced by casting concrete in a reusable mold or “form” which is then cured in a controlled environment, transported to the construction site and erected in place. Ratec along with Reymann Technik, Germany have developed an independent modular housing concept by integrating upcrete® technology. Upcrete® (‘concreting upwards’) is a technique for pouring highly complex precast element geometries. In combination with intelligent shuttering and pumping technology it allows a highly efficient and adaptable modular construction system based on self-compacting concrete (SCC). Upcrete® combines all-round visible concrete-quality surfaces and in situ production with the highest possible degree of economic efficiency.
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ATEC has succeeded in producing prototype houses that can be erected in few days for their project in Peru and various ongoing projects in different countries. A core module including plumbing, wiring and sanitary fixtures and fittings facilitates rapid construction work. The rigorous development of this concept, in conjunction with upcrete® technology and the new modular form units, has opened up entirely new horizons for the industrial manufacture of residential space.
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project to install modular housing production unit and building 3,600 houses, each with 60 sq. m of living space as well as its own patio and garden, on a 100,000 sq. m is completed within a period of just 60 months. The houses are earthquakeand stormproof and provide a pleasant interior climate.
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pcrete technology brings together all expertise and know-how from the fields of building construction, factory planning, process control, employee training and mechanical engineering. With the upcrete® system, we set new standards for the integrated planning of work with precast concrete. Upcrete® technology permits both the in-situ production of complex geometries and smooth all-round form finish surfaces. Coupled with intelligent formwork techniques and efficient pump technology, the upcrete® concreting system facilitates a highly efficient, flexible and modular production system using self-compacting concrete. Sophisticated upcrete® complete system solutions enable the production. Here are some of the key advantages of the technology: • No screening or smoothing of surfaces • Minimal quantities of concrete residue • Maximum dimensional accuracy of parts • Quiet, minimal waste of materials, efficient and • ecological concrete parts production • Shorter formwork laying times
The side formwork, inner core and covering can immediately be used for the concreting of the next room module, thus saving valuable production time and working hours, as well as reducing downtime. This monolithic production method therefore saves materials and is highly economical. Another great advantage of the upcrete® technique is the high-grade surface appearance it produces. Using free flowing concrete and distributing it within the formwork under pressure produces smooth walls and sharp edges of a high visual quality. Any desired shape can be produced as necessary, for example on the underside of the piece or on the upper edges of the walls. Extremely precise tongue and- groove joints can be applied to the piece, as well as visually attractive surface features or structurally required recesses.
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n order to assess the profitability of business proposition, a benchmarking test to assess the cost of per unit construction of EWS and LIG units was done by Ratec in cooperation with inSell for selected EWS housing scheme in India. The results of this test have proven cost effectiveness of the structure in modular housing. In order to prove the cost effectiveness of modular structural elements in different parts of India, an investigation was done by InSell as well and cost calculations given by Ratec was compared in order to estimate per unit cost of structure in different parts of India by applying current prices of labor and concrete etc.
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Qualitative aspects The country specific comparision statement are prepared. The table below shows the comparision of technology with other popular construction methods-
As part of the viability test for indian construction market, a qualitative aspects for RATEC modular products were also conducted and Micro level assessment was made by inSell to check issues related to safety, environment, social impact, legal and climatic and product is found to be suitable.
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nSell GmbH is cooperating with RATEC to establish the business footprint in India. InSell has conducted a thorough review of the product with its own team of architects and engineers and in the process InSell has also observed the housing construction trends specific to India, potential geographies where housing projects are launched and last but not the leat the cost component of these technologies for Indian market. It is understood that, more and more real estate developers are investing in modernization of construction techniques, exploring precast options and adopting to centralized processes to source material and deploy qualified manpower in areas like project management, architecture and engineering. This changing scenario is considered conducive to adoption of Ratecâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s modular system by these developers.
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RATEC in cooperation with InSell GmbH is all set to offer clients everything they need, from engineering production plants to project management, feasibility studies and turnkey facilities, to ensure the smooth, efficient and economical execution of their modular housing projects.
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Smart Cities Imperatives from ICT Infrastructure Need of Unified, Secure, Harmonized & homogenous Information & Communication Architecturein heterogeneous environment
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Author- Narang N. Kishor, Mentor & Principal Design Architect, NARNIX TECHNOLABS PVT. LTD.
Actionable Insights Into Ict Infrastructure Design & Deployments In Smart Cities
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ith the evolution of the converged and networked society, further fueled by the ‘Internet of Things’ era, a multitude of new applications of the Information and communication technologies have changed the way we live, work, play, interact and even think. Hence, the perspective in Infrastructure Design for any city has undergone a paradigm shift with advent of convergence and networking technologies, solutions for information, communication, entertainment, security and surveillance; which are beginning to have a profound impact on the way we look at the Buildings’ Design (be it residential or commercial) and Town Planning.
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o make cities and our planet earth ‘Smart, Secure& Sustainable’ all the initiatives are extensivelyleveraging ICT (Information & Communication Technologies) solutions to manage various aspectsof O&M of any infrastructure and services. While, intervention of ICT tools can help achieve majorenhancement in operational efficiency and optimisation in the Energy Consumption & EnvironmentContamination including but not limiting to GHG Emission; the Carbon Footprint of the ICTInfrastructure itself needs to be kept in Check. In the gold rush of getting buildings and citiescertified as Green/ Sustainable, a plethora of SCADA and Automation systems are being added. Inany Smart Building or Smart City, every service & utility is being automated and being re-enforcedwith ICT backbone to monitor and control its operation in a most optimized manner. While theattending benefits of ICT backbone for any service/utility are quite commendable, yet there is littlefocus to optimize the design of the ICT infrastructure itself. Thus, All these shifting and risingparadigms have ultimately created a new much larger paradigm of ‘unified and secure’ smartinfrastructure. With the recent initiatives of the Indian Government on improving the Quality of Infrastructure& citizen Services by virtue of: be it Smart Grid, Smart Cities, Swachh Bharat or Digital India; the issue of Standardization, Harmonization, Interoperabilityand seamless Integration in numerous physical infrastructures, utilities and services has taken the center stage. It has created an urgent need to address this problem holistically and comprehensively; otherwise there is a very high probability that the Infrastructures that we build shall work in SILO mode, and we shall end up laying multiple similar Communication Networks& IT infrastructures individually for Each Service for the Society. The time to adopt the Unified and Secure Framework, the Architecture, the Communication Protocols, the Interfaces, the Data Exchange Formats, the Interoperability and the relevant Standards is NOW.
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SmartInfrastructure Consider the following Smart cities development & deployments announced without any groundwork onpreparedness of the stakeholders and the ecosystem… In a smart city, multiple utilities are going to leverage and deploy similar technologies &solutions to improve the operational efficiency The technological trends in “smart Homes”, “Smart Buildings”, “Smart Grid”, “Smart Water”, “Smart Transport” and “Smart Cities” are being considered and pursued in isolation from eachother, by the respective stakeholders. This is in spite of the fact that they form a very tightlyinterwoven and homogenous confluence of similar technologies being applied in differentdomains for a common cause of making our planet earth “smart-n-green”. There is no common framework and architecture defined for the various physical infrastructuresto be deployed in the proposed smart cities to work in an integrated, harmonized andoptimized manner… Since indigenous ecosystem is not geared up to cater to the physical infrastructure needs of thesmart cities, most of the systems & solutions deployed shall have to be imported from foreignvendors based on their respective proprietary technologies with limited or NO interoperabilitywith system/solution components from other vendors. Each city shall always be dependent on the respective foreign vendors throughout the lifecycleof such systems/solutions for their Operation & Maintenance… Lack of harmonized standards in the respective “SILO” ecosystems of the Smart Infrastructureshall ensure that the smart nodes of one network cannot talk to smart nodes of the othernetworks. Thus, Data sharing amongst the multiple stakeholders of a smart city shall be a major challenge In fact, there is a recursive cycle to the data in a Smart City. Information that is generated isinformation that is consumed which in turn adds to the information generated which becomesinformation used again.
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Beyond leveraging ICT in the digitization of Institutional, Economic, Social & GovernanceInfrastructures of a city, a glimpse into the physical infrastructure brings out a few staggering numbers on the business aspect of this Unified & Secure ICT Infrastructure paradigm and itsintervention in a smart city: Smart Cities or NOT, In next five years, more than 250 million Smart Electricity Meters are goingto be procured & deployed under the NSGM (National Smart Grid Mission). All these 250 millionSmart Meters are going to use Communication Modules and Gateways/DCUs (DataConcentrator Units). At a conservative figure of One DCU/Gateway to 500 Smart Meters, 200million Communication Modules & 0.5 million DCUs/Gateways shall be needed for the last milecommunication in the Smart Grid Deployments alone… Smart Streetlights in next five years, are going to use more than 100 million CommunicationModules and at least half a million of DCUs/Gateways… Smart Buildings are going to deploy more than 50 million smart Sensors and at least 100K – 200KDCUs/gateways… Similarly, various applications of the Smart Infrastructure paradigm like Smart Water, Smart Gas,Smart Traffic, Smart Environment, Smart sewage Disposal etc. are going to use a few billions ofSmart Sensors with Communication Modules and DCUs/Gateways correspondingly with at theleast worst case ratio of 1:100 to 1:500….
To summarize, India is going to need a minimum of 8 - 10 billion of Communication modules to be integrated into the Smart Sensors and Controllers and 10– 50 million Gateways that shall be neededto operate and maintain the Nation Wide Critical Infrastructure that needs to be deployed toenable and empower the citizens to lead a sustainable, safe and secure life …
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ll sectors in the infrastructure framework are influenced by the unified ICT backboneparadigm.However, a common infrastructure pool enables the creation of an interconnected and trulyhomogenous system with seamless communication between services.Coordination, collaboration and harmonization can be better implemented by the effectiveuse of standards based open, common and shareable, information and communicationtechnologies. The disconnect amongst technological trends being pursued by the stakeholders of the nowhomogenous smart infrastructure needs to be bridged without any further delay to maintain theLifecycle Cost or TCO (total cost of ownership) of these individual components within viableeconomic thresholds.In this context, we need to redefine our individual perspectives of smart grid, smart building andsmart cities. Now, they have to work in close harmony with each other to fulfill the homogenous functioningof the smart infrastructure in any given geographical territory. To optimize the resources and costs, we need to design and deploy an integrated common ICTbackbone for all the different components of the smart infrastructure. This shall need to be independent of the individual stakeholders’ applications and use cases likesmart grid, smart water, smart health, smart transportation, smart street lighting and or smartbuildings.
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t its very foundation, it will integrate with and ingest datafrom all possible sources, then apply various data models, processes and tools and ensurequality with an aim to provide insight and intelligence on various city resources and serviceswhile at the same time establishing a sharing and serving mechanism for all informationresources and services in the city. Different sources of information can blend together, in someways compensating their own deficiencies, enriching the larger information pool andtherefore providing the ability to offer services more efficiently.
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systems level approach in design and standardization is likely to not only enable newer andbetter services, but also allow far greater synergies and cost-effective deployments, reducing thelifecycle (total) cost of ownership of any Infrastructure, be it the electricity, water, a transport,sewage disposal or safety & security in a city, with attendant environmental benefits, includingcarbon reductions. There is a need to focus on the creation of a secure, standardized and openinfrastructure model for the delivery of services. The concept combines standards-based, end-to-endsoftware with a converged smart infrastructure gateway/DCU design with unified Last MileCommunication Protocol & Data Semantics to establish a common, open framework for securedservice delivery and management.
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here is clearly a dichotomy between, on the one hand, the question “Who is goingto invest in developing New products, systems and solutions based on the ‘UNIFIED, HARMONIZED& SECURE Information & Communication Architecture or even a Framework’ for such aheterogeneous scenario with such diverse challenges, when there is absolutely NO Co-ordinationor even realization of the problems each stakeholder is going to face in the very near future?”and on the other hand, the question “Who is going to create the Architecture and/or Framework,if there is no demand or even realization of this NEED?”
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Where Innovation meets Simply-City… From time immemorial, civilization has flourished around the ports and roadways. Therefore when Government of India proposed the 1483 km long DFC (District Freight Corridor) passing through 6 Indian states, it is sure to influence the development and industrialization of the region.
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MIC (Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor) is a 150-km band to be developed on both sides of this corridor. Out of the 7 nodes to be developed under MIDC in the State of Maharashtra, the Shendra–Bidkin Industrial Area is the first one to be taken up. The development of this area is being carried out through Aurangabad Industrial Township Limited (AITL) a special purpose vehicle (SPV) between the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) and the DMIC Trust. Aurangabad has always been showcased as the strength of Maharashtra in manufacturing and technology- automobiles, textiles, apparel, consumer durables, and green industry. With the advent of this DMIC, it will easily become the next sought after trade city, venue for manufacturing-related research and design, and high-tech hub centrally located within the state. Aurangabad and the strategic location of this area, places it at the convergence of Maharashtra’s production, manufacturing, and tourism (historic sites). So history repeats itself! When there are people, there are processes. And where there are processes and policies, there rather be IT. AITL’s intention of implementation of an electronic land management system allows its potential clients to apply for land using a state-of-the-art online system. This system enables key AITL officials to review and process the land applications online and create an online Land Management System (e-LMS). The system supports end-to-end functionality of land management including (1) getting registered on the land portal/AURIC website, (2) applying for land, (3) online application review with online approvals, and (4) online payment for registration, etc. e-LMS was intended to be implemented in 4 distinct phases, with a scope of Integration into Geo-mapping.
The Land Allotment process and e-LMS
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he land allotment process often goes through the grind for not being transparent and also for being partial. To add to it, the massive turnaround time, is a good dampener to many entrepreneurs, for whom getting a piece of land is just the very first activity of the huge laundry list of setting up an industry. From the point of view of the government body, the pain areas are far more astute. And it starts with a simple old question – what comes first – the process or the system! AITL said both and CSM did both. Therefore e-LMS not just addresses the pain points of AITL but also puts a system for its processes, namely – the pre-allotment, approval, and post allotment. In the absence of a comprehensive database of Applicants and their payment details, AITL faced a herculean task to prioritising and allocating lands in stipulated time, which hampered the Ease-of-doing-business policy of the PM of India. Even if, they were able to track an applicant, how do they verify and authenticate the details? Another very time intensive process. These reasons most often than not, led to manipulations and opacity in their deals.
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Pre-Allotment; Approvals and Post Allotment Pre-Allotment comprises of all those processes that commences with the registration of an applicant to the handing over of the land to the latter. After the applicant registers in the system by paying a token amount, s/he submits the application form. This application gets validated and authenticated by layers of moderators, industry advisors and planners. Once verified, the applicant pays the Balance of payment (BoP) and closes the deal by getting the Possession receipt. The land is officially Her/His! That simple! The major modules in the Preallotment process would be•Applicant Registration and Login •Profile Building •Project Information •Upload of Applicant’s Documents • Fees & Deposit Calculation & Payment •Priority Matrix • AITL Staff, Experts Registration and Login •Application Review & Verification by AITL • LAC Meeting Notification • Resubmittal of application process as required • Sub-plotting or Amalgamation of plots • Web Portal Updates • LAC Meeting Documentation
• Land Allotment • Applicant Actions/Payment of BOP • Agreement & Corresponding Documentation • Possession Receipt The way forward in these phases of development is integration with e-Auction, to help ease-of-doing-business, not just for Industries but also AITL. NOC and Approvalsis the second set of processes, which goes forward from the land allotment and establishes marriage between the applicant and the various vendors for planning and approval of the industry. In this phase, the architects are empaneled; fire and building plans are verified and approved or sent for re-submission. The major processes in place in e-LMS are• Architect’s Registration • Temporary Utility Application • Provisional Fire NOC Application • NOCs / Building Plan Approval • Verification & Response • Resubmission / Online Approval for Utility and Fire • Commencement Certificate • Development Tracker • Architect Registration/Login • Architect Addition by Applicants • Document Uploads • Online Building Plan Approval
• Construction Commencement Delay Checks & Reminders • Architect Online Updates • Dues Payment • Documentation / Notifications • Fire NOC & BCC Approvals • Verification / Resubmission The way forward in e-LMS at this stage would be integration with Maitri that would complement the approval process of e-LMS for added advantages to the Industries. Post Allotmentset of modules mainly comprises of providing a window for Industries to make changes to their original allotment or plan and being able to track, monitor, review and comply with those changes. This set of processes would look after the fate of the land allotted. The primary modules of Post allotment would be• Transfer of Property • Property Surrender • Occupancy Notification • Subletting, Subleasing, Mortgage, etc. • Change of Constitution • Change in activity •Change in Land Use • Change in Shareholder Pattern • Company Acquisition • Additional parcel of land
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part from the giving the entire process a facelift, the application brings Effective monitoring of land application causing reduction of time and cost, Enhances transparency with a centralized monitoring engine, Increases efficiency of the officials with the progression to automated system from a manual operation, Track land information via GIS mapping, and many other process improvements. According to the Govt officials, e-LMS is a formidable step towards better governance in land management and provides clear direction on the procedures of disposal of land, building, and amenities. In 2016, Maharashtra bagged nearly the half of nation’s total Foreign Direct Investment inflow and is prepping up to land investments to the tune of USD 84 Billion by 2020. To achieve that, it is crucial for the State to ready its investment havens in the form of industrial and smart cities. AURIC is a forerunner in Maharashtra’s premier Industrial Smart City league and powering AURIC’s industrial prowess is e-Land Management System.
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THE “THIRD LANDSCAPE” AS AN ANSWERFOR THE URBAN CHALLENGES OF TOMORROW AuthorAdrien Defosse, TROISIEME PAYSAGE
Human civilization is urban and everything pushes us to live in the city. This phenomenon will accelerate in the decades to come, particularly in India and developing countries.
How can we think of the Indian smart-city program without thinking about the urban landscape created, its aesthetics, its context of implantation, and especially its relation to the world. The Smart-city’s Indian program and the many projects that will result will send us a picture of ourselves that we must now choose.
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ndia has been the subject of rapid urbanization for several decades and many cities will have to accommodate by the year 2050 an additional 250 million urban areas. Prospective reflection on all the themes related to this phenomenon in progress monopolizes a large number of experts and must mobilize landscape architects. Building new relationships to maintain an environmental quality is going to be necessary. These deep urban changes must be accompanied, planned anticipated and balanced precisely. The “Landscape concept” proposes to take a look at this “urban evolution” in progress. Although the term of “landscape” is used with different notions, depending on the cultures in which it has emerged, this concept of landscape now tends to agglomerate several distinct and complementary themes (quality, nature, geography, common good, environment...). An international definition was even given to it with cultural nuances : “landscape is the arrangement of features, characteristics, forms of a limited space, of a” country. It is a portion of the earth’s space, represented or observed horizontally and vertically by an observer; It therefore implies a point of view. The notion of landscape has a strong aesthetic dimension, even a pictorial or literary dimension as a representation, but it encompasses many meanings and the landscape also reflects spatial planning policies, even geopolitics. The quality of the living environment, in urban areas, in the countryside, in degraded territories such as those that are remarkable, everyday landscapes, … are essentials element of individual and collective well-being.
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he landscape is a multifactor concept. In the context of future convergence of nations around a common future on our planet (COP 21, 22 ...), an understanding of an international diagnosis has taken place on the evolution of our environment. For several years now, there has been renewed interest in sharing points of view in order, if not to agree, to develop cooperation, in order to ensure a transition to a better, sustainable and quality for the most of the inhabitants, (India and France, long-term friends have committed themselves and are constantly signing collaborative development agreements in this sense). In an urban context with unparalleled future development, meeting the multiple expectations of urbanites and neighbors in terms of quality of life must be a priority. As part of the Smart-City program launched by India, it is necessary to combine the themes of the “Landscape Concept” with those of Smart-City to establish the success of the many operations to come. It is clear that synergies are existing and that those two concepts can interact to bring about obvious synergies. The themes related to Smart Cities program validated by the government: Intelligent Environment l Intelligent Urban Planning l Intelligent Buildings l Smart IT and communications l Safety and security smart l Intelligent Energy Distribution l Clean energy l
Although smarts cities tend to offer innovative dematerialized technological solutions, (Data, energy, water supply, wastewater, transport, health, infrastructure, pollution ...), the first answer is urban planning and landscape planning in these cities. The “landscape concept” within the framework of the smart-city program could be technological and aesthetic, in order to ensure a concordance of points of view and to allow a successful and integrated urban and territorialized transition.
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Smart city background & living spaces Troisième Paysage
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A NEW RELATION TO THE WORLD The expectations of the future urban populations are large and will no longer be that of simple decent housing. The associated functions, proximities (transport, schools, shopping centers …), but also the “living environment” will change the expectations of neo-urban.
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he sensory universe in which we are going to live will thus be determinant. We must be flawless in the treatment quality of the future urban development projects to meet these justified aspirations.
Human expectation in terms of green spaces – Troisième Paysage
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he urban mutation ongoing commits the city of the future towards a hybridization with its environment to draw the full potentials of the territory and to reestablish permeable links with the surroundings. This necessary hybridization will involve the introduction of a living nature into the urban world, by reflecting on its place in the city, its need for urban life, but also its evolutionary durability over time.
Relationship evolution between Urban/Rural/Nature Troisième Paysage
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ature is generous and plentiful when it is given the means to express itself by giving it the right conditions. Depending on its presence (from the simple tree in the street to the urban park), nature offers many advantages (lowering the temperature by vegetation cover, qualitative sensory space, relation to the world, increase in biodiversity …) .
Related research themes on the benefits of nature in the city Troisième Paysage
Our relationship with the world, our human exchanges, our lives develop in a real world that must be in our image: • sensitive, creative, event, increase city • dynamic, evolving, resilient, landscaped and integrated city
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GREEN IS TECH TOO The smart-city is technological, nature in the city will be also. The technological city of the data’s will thus be the immersed and invisible part allowing to optimize the management of the city (energy, flow, regulation ...).The living spaces of the inhabitants will be real.
(RE) -QUESTIONING THE “URBAN FACT” AND THE PLACE OF NATURE IN THE CITY
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he definition of an urban project framework around the design of a living and inclusive landscape thus becomes a means of re-contextualizing the urban environment, giving it a new legitimacy and ensuring a qualitative living environment. A valorization of nature in the urban environment, by setting up necessary condition to its expression (soil quality, adapted plants, size of plants, trees, need of water, etc.), a customized management are solutions to ensure a quality environment.
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aking nature in cities, however, requires complex consideration and expertise mobilizing transversal knowledge (botanical, biological, spatial, water needs ...). The creation of quality channels for the supply of land, plants and trees, materials, etc. also depend on this.
The necessary conditions for the hybridization city nature must be taken into account from the start of an urban program or project. These conditions must be shared with future managers of the spaces created to specify their expectations and the “degree of landscape” desired.
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THIRD LANDSCAPE DEGREE (AS AN ANSWER) What kind of nature in the city: the concept of Third Landscape (mastered nature, hygienist, dynamic, moving ...)
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ajor temporal evolutions mark the evolution of our living environments. These evolutions summarize over time the relation to the Landscape, the world and its progressive understanding by man. The concept of “Third Landscape” tends to take an innovative creative view on future urban issues by integrating a sensitive positioning with the aim of recomposing and redeploying our places of life with the forces of nature and plant engineering as matter.
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he services rendered by the necessary hybridization of our living spaces with nature, the living and its limitless potentials are thus the basis for the success of the urban transition that we will all face.
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eintroducing a nature in the urban world with adapted cycles (water, plant and animal species, etc.) will allow a qualitative increase in our environment (quality of life, biodiversity, health, etc.).
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he creation of spaces with several dimensions (intergenerational, optimized uses ...) with spatial optimization and environmental integration to the existing will guarantee a quality of life for the future inhabitants.
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inally, the economic optimization of investments (qualitative investment, future management of the spaces created, technical principle) will be a means of ensuring financial gains without surcharge.
The concept of Third Landscape proposes to engage an integrated positioning to recompose, with a lively and generous nature, our places of life and our environment to shape it in our image. NATURE IS NOT A DECORATION NATURE IS GENEROUS
NATURE IS TECHNICAL
NATURE MUST BE COMPOSED
“NATURE IS THE ANSWER”
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Build - Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Smart Cities With Passive Inspired Net Zero Homes The vision to build Passive Inspired Net Zero Homes in India was shared with Dr. Wolfgang Feist the father of Passive homein Germany. Dr. Feist indorsed the idea and offered to support whole-heartedly building of Passive homes in India and stated that India has the perfect environment for the development of such energy efficient home homes. It has ample amount of Sunshine and the local material and manpower to build them for the increasing demand of housing in India.
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Dr. Wolfgang Feist and Manmohan Mahal in Germany at Passive House Conference.
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oday is the beginning of that dream and visualization. I am going to be speaking at the 1st BuildingsIndia 2017 Expo at the One Mega Event â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Smarter solution for a better tomorrow in New Delhi on May 11, 2017. I am going to take this opportunity to share and talk about the Passive Inspired homes and why we need to build them in India. Here are my justifications to build Passive homes in India and how I got inspired to build them in the first place. I was born in Amritsar and lived my life in New Delhi. I was a student at Delhi Public School and next studied at Indo-Swiss Training Center in Chandigarh. I had accepted the conditions and happily lived there with the hot summers and chilling winters with no heating or cooling. The skies were smoggy and that was the part of life, I did not know any better and like millions was content and accepted that as my life style and destiny.
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y parents had migrated to USA and settled in California. I went there as an Immigrant and perused my education at UC Berkeley. I got my degree in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering. In the seventies the sky in Los Angles and some suburban cites were also smoggy and polluted. Once the unleaded gas was introduced and California put strict standards on the air quality I begin to see the change in the air quality, it got better and skies were blue and smog begin to disappear except some days called Spare the Air Day when we limited our driving and burning of the fire places. After over 15 years I visited India again with my wife Arvinder and daughters Subina and Simran. To my surprise the country was more populated and the smog had increased. Yes the trip was in winter but I did not see a clear sky during my trip especially in Delhi where I live my life as a teenager. The family members all complained of the asthma and respiratory lung diseases. Upon returning to USA I begin flipping homes and building homes. I learned that Homes contributed over 15% to the pollution in this country and I made a commitment to myself not build any home that is not going to add any pollution to the environment. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when I started researching about clean and energy efficient home all over the world.
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n a typical home in USA 72% of the energy is consumed for heating and cooling and water heating. So our goal was to produce more energy by using the solar PV than we use in the house. The reason for this is that the way the current homes have been built they were built with code and standards that were adopted in the sixties and seventies. They have very hot attics in the summer where the temperature difference is 70 degree as compared to the temperature in side the house. The door and windows leak and the air quality poor. There is mold in the house and homes can have termite due to moisture. Keeping this in mind I was looking for the most energy Efficient homes in the current environment I learned about Passive Homes. If you look at this chart from Rocky Mountain Institute you can see that the current homes or average existing homes are above 100 hundred and California Title 24 is better followed by LEED Certified Homes.
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ight at the bottom are the Passive homes and Net Zero SIDCO homes. We build homes that are Net Positive and produce more energy than they consume. This is what we want to build in the all the Smart Cities in India. These homes are designed with the PHPP software that I a bringing to India for all the IIT to design and build such homes as competitive project. The result will be the most efficient home designed for the Indian market with the Indian resources, technology, raw materials and the labor to build them. Once we have accomplished the Passive results each home will be very comfortable and use only renewable energy from the sun for heating and cooling.
WE BUILD HEALTHY, EFFICIENT & COMFORTABLE HOMES
The current homes are more modern and contemporary, the simple design lines make it easier to insulate and make it airtight as per the PHPP design. This is the house we are building in Palo Alto California. While I was searching for these homes I traveled to Paris to attend the COP21 and learned about the building envelope and the visited India to attend the Make In India event in Delhi with Prime minster Mr. Narendra Modi Ji.
Manmohan Mahal at COP21 in Paris and Germany learning about the Building Envelope.
Now I am coming back to India to promote and recommend building Passive Inspired Net Zero Homes in all the Smart Cites in India under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi Ji. With India making headway in this energy efficiency direction I want India to take lead and build such homes that will use all renewable energy form the solar and wind energy. Here are the key elements for the design of Passive Inspired Net Zero Homes- “PASSIVE HOME”
What’s a passive house anyway? Passive Houses are essentially buildings, which use very little energy for heating and cooling, whilst also providing a high level of comfort.
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assive Houses are essentially buildings, which use very little energy for heating and cooling, whilst also providing a high level of comfort. If I were to describe Passive Houses in a few words it would be ‘Exceptionally energy efficient, virtually airtight houses’. The houses are so energy efficient they can save up to 90% in heating costs. One of the main focal points of Passive Houses is minimizing air leakage from the property. In fact, for a house to be certified, ‘the building must not leak more air than 0.6 times the house volume per hour’. The houses implement the latest in insulation technology, triple-glazed windows, balanced energy recovery ventilation and limiting thermal bridging, being heated mostly using ‘passive’ energy from electrical equipment, people and passive solar gains.
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SmartEnergy I got Inspired to Reduce Carbon Emissions Whether you believe global warming or not, or whether you believe climate change is influenced by humans (carbon emissions), it doesn’t matter. It was when the G8 met in 2009 to discuss global emission cuts; they set the target to slash global emissions 80% by 2050. India and China did not agree to this, as it would mean stifling their economic growth. Most people look at vehicles on the road and factories billowing smoke, yet do not think that what they do in their own homes has a significant impact; well, it does. So for that reason I decided to build passive homes in USA and in India if possible.
So what does this mean for Passive House?
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et’s look at this logically. The pioneering governments of the world have set goals to cut emissions by 80%: Buildings account for 48% of emissions. It’s glaringly obvious that there is going to be a bigger push in the future for homes, which are far more efficient and conserve energy
Future New Builds will be More Energy Efficient
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o force change, building regulation standards have to change. Passive House standards are what the government’s needs to meet their targets and the institute is perfectly poised on the crest of a property conservation wave which could take the world by storm. This trend has already started to move, which can be seen here.
This is the Thermal imagining of Passive house which is shown is blue as compared to homes in the area that are not build Passive or Energy Efficient.
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aving up to 90% on energy means most of the energy required to run the appliances in the house can be operated by off the grid power, from on house solar panels or on site wind turbines. I’m sure this is especially appealing to the apocalyptic minded of those amongst us! But on a serious note, the reduction in energy consumption coupled with the use of renewable energy sources means the owner of the Passive House will be relying upon and using far less fossil fuels such as natural gas, oil, coal and nuclear power.
hen talking to people about how Passive Houses stop air leakage they tend to comment on how the ventilation system must be very good in order to breathe. They presume the quality of air must be lesser than a normal home but in reality it’s the opposite. With the sophisticated air circulation system, the air, which is ventilated into the home, is filtered and is efficiently warmed, with the old air being exhausted out. The sophisticated ventilation system controls the humidity within the house between 30 and 60%, replacing that stale, sticky atmosphere with one that feels fresh and clean. The air is ventilated, warmed and circulated using a heat recovery ventilator, which can be seen in the diagram below.
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imilar to voting, most people think, ‘What can I do to change the country?’. True, one Passive House is like a drop in the ocean of the approximate 1,500,000,000 (1.5 billion) houses in the world and does not seem significant, but what if the trend caught on. The 20,000 could double again and again, and then before we know it, we have a noticeable proportion of the world doing their part. Edmund Burke said all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. All people have problems in their lives, and the quality of ones life is determined by the quality of their problems and how they deal with it. Global emissions is a corporate problem which we all have a hand in, therefore as more people are enlightened to it, the more people will feel they are called to tackle the problem and do their part. Some people will feel a tickle in their conscience and will buy a Passive House. Don’t be ‘THAT’ person who does nothing.I don’t think I’ve really given the best argument here, but I feel there are seeds of truth entwined within. Worst-case scenario, having a Passive House is a great conversation piece, especially when one has visitors around to the house.
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hat keeps warmth in keeps sound out. The thick insulation on the walls and the high performance triple-glazed windows means you can make noise and not disturb the neighbors and the neighbors would have to do something miraculous to disturb you. Passive Houses could be a potential answer to houses, which are built in the part of airplanes.
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hat’s what we all want isn’t it; a house that is comfortable, relaxing and pleasant to be in. That’s exactly what the Passive House boasts that it is. The main thrust of the notion of comfort in Passive House is ‘thermal comfort’, however the follows at the Passive House institute are so serious about comfort that they have created.
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he first Passive House was built 23 years ago in 1990 and it’s still running like new. To achieve the stringent quality guidelines a house must adhere to obtain a certificate from the Passive House Institute, the highest quality material have to be used, and it’s in these materials, which creates durability. Buy quality, buy once; buy cheap, be prepared to buy twice or thrice.
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he minimum standards of a passive house building in Europe are as follows: ‘The building must be designed to have an annual heating demand as calculated with the Passive House Planning Package of not more than 15 kWh/m² per year (4746 btu/ft² per year) in heating and 15 kWh/m² per year cooling energy OR to be designed with a peak heat load of 10W/m².
Total primary energy (source energy for electricity and etc.) consumption (primary energy for heating, hot water and electricity) must not be more than 120 kWh/m² per year (3.79 × 104 btu/ft² per year)The building must not leak more air than 0.6times the house volume per hour (n50 0.6 / hour) at 50 Pa (N/m²) as tested blower door
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Sidco Homes markets a home with a prepaid lease on a Tesla parked in the driveway. Now Manmohan Mahal wants to build Passive homes and offer a Tesla 3 with it.
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inally I would like to say that building Passive homes in all the Smart Cities being built in India will result in a very clean India not today not tomorrow but in the years to come. One house at time can make the difference.
nce we motivate the youth of India and show them the opportunity to build a future for themselves and the country while making profit on making simple passive inspired homes in the villages that are comfortable and build with 100% renewable energy.
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ur goal does not end here we also want to provide each house with an electric car so our transportation needs are also meet by the solar energy. One day I wish all of you own a TESLA Mode 3 or I believe that Tesla may one day build these cars in India.
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AuthorMr. Mohan Mahal Founder & CEO SIDCO Homes
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A TALE OF TWO CITIES SMART AND SMARTER BUILDINGS
Author : Mr. Doug Haines, Owner - Haines Security Solutions, Llc (Hss)
The Smart City – Building
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ost buildings today are designed to be aesthetical pleasing and functional.Some new construction includes crime prevention through environmental design principles (CPTED) but the vast majority of projects don’t. And when they are, they certainly arenot designed to reduce the effects of terrorist attack. Buildings and neighborhoods should be designed to include mitigation strategies that deter criminal activity and reduce the effects of man-made threats. Moreover, according to 6Wresearch, a research and consulting firm, the India video surveillance market is projected to grow at a compounded annual growth of over 13 percent between 2016 and 2022 and the Indian electronic security market to reach US$ 2.31 billion by 2018. But just adding cameras is not the solution; we must design the inhabited space and make it work to our advantage.
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Between 2010 and 2050 India is expected to add about 500 million to its 2011 urban population of 377 million. As urban centers of the future increase in population so will the demand for functionality on a multitude of levels. Most of the world is talking about how the capability exists to use the Internet of Things (IoT) in planning efficient modern city infrastructure systems and interconnecting a variety of “eco-systems”. We must ensure that conversation includes the design of secure buildings including the surrounding environment.
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marter cities will include smarter buildings. Not only buildings with the latest technologies so that electronic technologies can talk with each other, provide data analytics and provide a safer environment for residents but also designed in such a way as to deter and or prevent criminal activity, including those that cause mass casaulties. Designing aesthetically pleasing and functional buildings will not be enough. Buildings must incorporate concepts, such as, CPTEDand other mitigation strategies that reduce the effects of man-made threats, especially those that are extremely violent. By shaping the built environment and integrating security solutions, both physical and technological, Smart Cities planners can create neighborhoods where people actually want to work, live and raise their families – not because they’re efficient but because they’re safe.
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Getting Stakeholder Buy-in an Essential Step
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he normal process for designing buildings goes something like this; a requirement is formed, then an architect is contacted, some designs are drawn up based on the functionality or proposed use for the building, the owner approves the visual, and then the engineers go to work putting together all of the detailed drawing that ultimately will incorporate the owners desires and the architect’s concept and…voila’ a building is born. Sure there are varying steps where the stakeholders (functional area experts) may have some input, but for the most part, they are limited to
the parameters outlined by the design team. Consequently, their input is limited to, “Let’s put an electrical outlet there or a door here”. They really have very limited input as to the structural design of the building. And finally in the process, the security team gets called in almost as an afterthought. This causes the engineers to scramble to redesign the electrical grid and other facets of the building to accommodate “newly” added security equipment; such as, intrusion detection systems or access control technology. Sometimes, but rarely can the security team have enough influence to affect the
changing of a wall or the removal of a recessed doorway. With this scenario in mind, the first order of business is to ensure the design team includes everyone from the very beginning; i.e., architects, engineers, owners, occupants, security and building management – everyone. With everyone included from the on-set, the second issue of beginning the process with everyone “on the same page” becomes redundant, due to everyone’s “buy in” of the Design Basis Threat (DBT) from the start. This keeps modifications to the project to a minimum; thereby, reducing additional costs and delays.
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ne DBT concept that’s been around since the early ‘90s and has been effectively employed is Crime Prevention through Environmental Design or CPTED. We must go beyond designing the exterior environment to reduce the effects of terrorist attack, in particular “the use of ballistic weapons and improvised explosive devices”. While CPTED may assist in deterring and preventing most types of criminal behavior, active shooter and improvised explosive device incidents, will need a different approach due to their inherent violence. Let’s look at a couple design
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philosophies for the active shooter first. We’ve been teaching “RUNHIDE-FIGHT” for a number of years now. Incidents in Orlando and Istanbul indicate that hiding is not an effective strategy. We must design spaces so that there are always two options for escape. It will take time for architects to embrace this concept for new building design and it will take even longer to modify existing high occupancy buildings. With that in mind, there are three ideas that I believe can be incorporated immediately for new construction and during major renovation projects for existing buildings.
First, design spaces to restrict the freedom of movement of the shooter (Similar to the idea of “bulkheads” in ships to reduce the spread of fire or flooding). Currently active shooter protocols require staff to herd everyone into a space such as a backroom but the space doesn’t offer protection. So our second solution is to retrofit retail storerooms, designated office spaces within high occupancy spaces, bathrooms or closets, with ballistic resistance. There are companies making “plug and play” safe-havens that can be installed and there is ballistic material available that can be attached to existing walls.
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And thirdly, in all high occupancy spaces install ballistic resistance in furniture; i.e., chairs, desks, tables, office panels, etc. so people have a chance to hide behind something. Now the second threat – the improvised explosive device, either vehicle borne or handheld. This becomes a little more complicated because of blast effects. Unless very near the explosion people are not affected by the blast itself, instead they are injured or killed because the environment around them wasn’t design to resist the blast pressures.
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ith that in mind, we should implement five antiterrorism strategies for high occupancy buildings; maximize standoff distances, reduce flying debris hazards, prevent progressive collapse, limit airborne contamination and provide mass notification.
An array of application for ballistic resistant materials to protect occupants against active shooter threats. Image provided by Amulet® Protective Technologies
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Aesthetically pleasing crash-resistant “street furniture” that incorporates the CPTED principle of Natural Access Contro and assists with maximizing stand-off distances. Image provided courtesy of MarshallsPLC
Implementing Parameters or “Triggers”
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ince it would just be too costly and inefficient to implement new standards in all buildings or try to go back and retrofit everything, we will need to establish “triggers” or parameters for implementation. I believe those “triggers” could be initiated for all new construction with an implementation date of as soon as we can pass ordinances requiring this new approach. For existing buildings, implement these new standards during major construction projects when the project costs exceed 50% or more of the plant value cost of the building, or when changing the floor space by 50% or more, or when chang-
ing the usage of the structure from uninhabited space to high occupancy space. Additionally, not all spaces should incorporate Antiterrorism standards. We should concentrate our efforts on high occupancy spaces (> 50 people) and not worry about uninhabited or low occupancy spaces (< 10 people). By bringing everyone together at the beginning and agreeing on the design basis threat, and incorporating the aforementioned design strategies, the effects of criminal activity can be reduced and the people protected. After all, isn’t that what it’s all about?
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ndia is expected to emerge as the world’s 3rd largest construction market by 2020 by adding 11.5 million homes every year, in addition, to thousands of government and public buildings. It would be a real shame to miss the opportunity to address tomorrow’s threats as we modernize. By addressing future threats today, we can keep short term cost lower and reduce the long term costs of maintenance
and personnel significantly. Those savings can be passed on to other projects. Building security into smart cities isn’t just crucial from a citizen safety perspective but also for safeguarding national integrity. For Smart City planners the question should be, “Would I want my grandkids to live here”?
Sample of a “Plug and Play” Safe-haven. Image courtesy of PreCon Concrete
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A BRIEF ON
NANDED CITY, PUNE By-Sunil Bajaj
Nanded City is the natural extension of the world-renowned, award winning Magarpatta City model. Based on the acclaimed inclusive development principle, Nanded City stands for a life in tune with contemporary tastes. Coming up in the naturally rich vicinity of Sinhagad Road in Pune, it is spread over 700 acres of lush greenery and soothing countryside.
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anded village - a hamlet nestled in the green environs of Sinhagad and Khadakwasala. During the Maratha regime this village was awarded to the General of Peshwas named Pilajirao Jadhavrao for his bravery. It is situated just 7 Kms. from the epi-centre of Pune - Deccan Gymkhana. The growing urbanisation and the increasing need for housing gave birth to the unique idea of creating a beautiful and modern Nanded City. A dream of 235 landowners farmer families of Nanded and Khadakwasala village’s aspiration of turning the small hamlet into Nanded City. It’s the largest Township approved by the Government of Maharashtra under the Special Township Act. Emulating the Magarpatta City legacy, Nanded City is created based on convenience of living along with pollution free environment, sustainable development, community living model. It has created city level amenities like Amphitheatre, Swimming Pool, Badminton Courts, Tennis Courts, Skating Rink, Yoga Hall, Table Tennis, Landscaped Gardens, Schools, Gymnasium, Solar Energy, Biogas and many more lifestyle and energy conservation features. It also offers civic amenities such as Fire Station and a Shopping Centre. It also has smart features like - Prepaid Electricity Recharge Meter, Prepaid Water Recharge Meter, Piped gas, Access controls and CCTV’s at all entry and exit points, RFID cards and stickers, etc.
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Eco and user friendly materials used in construction include use of fly ash in concrete mix, crushed stonesand for construction, Door shutters – FRP Door Frames, Rubber flooring in children play areas, Water proofing skid, Aluminum sliding frame window, Aluminum form work shuttering, etc. Over 7,000 solar water panels are installed having a total collector area of over 13,992 sq. mtrs. and over 8,74,500 liters water is heated per day culminating into saving in 1.26 CR kWh electrical units per year.
NANDED CITY IS A ‘ZERO GARBAGE ZONE’. Solid Waste Management - monthly 210 tons garbage is collected & segregated at source. • Bio-degradable waste - 120 tons • Non bio-degradable - non recyclable waste - 15 tons • Non bio-degradable – recyclable waste - 75 tons • Organic waste processed through – Biogas plants & vermi-composting process • Inorganic non-recyclable waste goes for power generation • Inorganic recyclable waste is sold for recycling Waste to Energy Management – Biogas plant • Capacity: 3 tons expandable to 9 tons • Monthly waste loaded : 75 tons • Monthly gas generated : 4,693 M3 approx. • Monthly power generated : 2,816 Units ( I M3 = 0.6 KWH )
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Waste to compost – Vermi - culture plant • Monthly organic waste converted into manure: 40 tons • Vermi-composting pits: 20 nos. • Monthly manure generated: 20 tons Sewage water treatment – 4 MLD Waste water generated is recycled through 4 decentralized sewage treatment plants • 1 STP of 1.60 MLD • 1 STP of 1.10 MLD • 1 STP of 0.32 MLD • 1 STP of 1.32 MLD • Treated water used for curing during construction and landscape irrigation - ‘Zero Discharge’ Water Distribution is through centrally located GSR and ESR by gravity and saving power • 10 MLD WTP - Raw water from irrigation department is treated and then sent to the centralized distribution system • 24 X 7 Water supply.
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f the 700 acres, Nanded City has over 200 acres, reserved for greenery with parks and playgrounds. The main road within the city has 6 lanes ensuring swift and steady flow of heavy traffic. Nanded City has walk-paths and cycling tracks. It has also undertaken the development of sustainable systems for conservation and betterment of the environment. It implements Power Management, Rainwater Harvesting, Garbage Segregation at Source, Solid Waste Management, Biogas Plant, Vermiculture, Water Treatment Plant, Solar Water Heating, Sewage Water Management, Water Tank – GSR, In-house nursery, Drip Irrigation and more. Enabling it to be a Self Sustainable Township is the unique tenet for Community Development of its own - the City Council. The PMS – Property Management Services division is in place for day to day maintenance, housekeeping, inspection & repairs with a Service on Call 24 hours for Nanded City Citizens for Electrician, Plumber etc. Management and maintenance of all commercial establishments including electro-mechanical installation is also taken care of. The staff employed – approximately 300 people
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The Nanded City Residential District houses 1, 2, 2.5, & 3 BHK Apartments. The Nanded City Residential District Phase I is a lifestyle bouquet of six exquisite neighborhoods, each named after a unique raga - Asawari, Sarang, Madhuvanti, Shubh Kalyan, Mangal Bhairav and Lalit - with each raga representing the unique attributes of the particular neighborhood. All these neighbourhoods with over 7000 apartments are completed and possession handed over. Currently two new neighbourhoods – Sargam and Pancham are under construction having 3000 apartments. Two schools from Pre-primary to Secondary level – CBSE and ICSE board, a large playground along with indoor and outdoor sports activities having a current strength over 2100 students are operational. Nanded City has a double-layered security arrangement with every residential neighbourhood having its own compound wall with access control entry-exit gates. There are Security and Surveillance Systems with CCTV camera covering the entire complex round the clock and a Central Command Center for security. The first phase of Symphony Software and Development IT Park spread over 5 Million sq. ft. of total space creating direct employment for 70,000 professionals and indirect employment for 20,000 persons is under construction. Nanded City is surrounded by Panshet, Mulshi, Bhatghar and Varasgaon dams awarding its citizens with soothing southwest breeze throughout all seasons. It enjoys presence of 25 kms of backwaters. It is far away from pollution and traffic congestion yet within reach in terms of connectivity and location. It is conveniently accessible from all corners of the Pune City and within accessible distance from the Airport, Mumbai-Pune Expressway, Swargate and the Deccan.
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UP100, Lucknow, India In Uttar Pradesh, help is always just a phone call away
The new video walls provide us with a seamless viewing experience. And because they are connected to each other, we can easily move content from one wall to another - Anil Aggarwal, Additional Director General, UP Police
If the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh was a country, it would be the fifth largest in the world. Here, the UP 100 police emergency system provides immediate relief to people in urban, rural and remote areas of one of the world’s most populous regions. To make this possible, the service’s central contact center in Lucknow is now equipped with four Barco video wall arrays that provide police and emergency responders with all necessary information.
Barco Solutions
Why Barco?
OverView MVL-721 video walls
• Product features; bright, seamless, detailed images • Long lifespan, reduced operating costs • Ease-of-use, low-maintenance
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The brand-new, centralized control center of the emergency response system of Uttar Pradesh, located in the capital of Lucknow, is one of the most cutting-edge in the world. Responsible for providing emergency response services to more than 204 million people, it routes information from calls and texts to the nearest police stations and response units so that they can deliver aid in around 15 minutes. How? Through the use of advanced monitoring systems powered by Barco audiovisual technology.
This data is displayed on the video walls and shared instantly with supervisors, which greatly improves our efficiency. In this way, we can deliver on our promise to provide relief within 15-20 minutes, anytime and anywhere. - Anil Aggarwal, Additional Director General, UP Police
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he establishment of a modern, high-tech emergency response center has been a governmental priority for quite some time, and the province is keenly interested in encouraging the growth of ‘smart cities’. Officially inaugurated in October 2016, the UP 100 system-which is a huge step toward the ambitions of the province-is fully online and will contribute to bettering the lives of millions of Indian citizens annually. To provide the ultimate in monitoring capabilities, the province identified Barco video walls, which can be easily networked and are capable of clearly displaying even the most minute details, as the ideal solution. Consistently clear, connected images riginally, the center’s control rooms were equipped with a huge number of LED TV panels. At the end of 2016, these were replaced with OverView MVL-721 video walls by local Barco partner Godrej and systems integrator Mahindra Defence - for a total of 180 cubes in various configurations.
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“The new video walls provide us with a seamless viewing experience,” says Anil Aggarwal, Additional Director General at UP Police. “And because they are part of a network-based visualization solution, we can easily move content from one wall to another.” The right information, the right people, the right way ecause Uttar Pradesh is so vast and populous, this level of control is indispensable for emergency operations. Anil: “The whole process, from taking calls to dispatching the right people, requires a lot of information. This data is displayed on the video walls and shared instantly with supervisors, which greatly improves our efficiency. In this way, we can deliver on our promise to provide relief within 15-20 minutes, anytime and anywhere.”
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Redefining Urban Mobility
The sharing economy and disruptive technologies evolving around world are leading to an exciting new age in transportation: the era of smart mobility. The arrival of on-demand ride, Van pooling, real-time ridesharing, bike-sharing services provided by Uber and Ola etc. and thousands of kilometers of new urban bike lanes and pedestrian walk ways are all changing how people get around.
AuthorDr. V. K. Gahlot Urban Transport Engg./ Key Note Speaker Sustainable and SMART Mobility Advocate/ Road Safety Auditor
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ommuters no longer need to buy or own a car. They do not have to pre-arrange carpools to share a ride with others headed in the same direction. They need not to wait for a ride home when it is pouring down rain and there is not an empty cab in sight. For their part, automakers increasingly see themselves as both product manufacturers and mobility services companies. In addition to developing nextgeneration connected and autonomous vehicles that will improve traffic flows and safety, automakers are making huge investment in new mobility servicesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;everything from car sharing and rental services to multimodal trip-planning apps. There is no question that consumers have been the primary beneficiaries of new mobility concept. The question facing urban planners is how todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expanded mobility ecosystem can help advance public policy goals such as encouraging higher productivity and reducing congestion, while bringing related benefits such as fewer traffic accidents, better air quality, and a smaller urban footprint for parking. The answer to all these questions lies with the new emerging concept of Shared mobility. The following paragraphs explain how shared mobility is helpful for future cities in promoting sustainable mobility ecosystems.
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ndia’s big cities are asphyxiating with traffic congestion that is fast acquiring the contours of a permanent gridlock. The disappearance of the traditional lean hours for traffic, the constant digging up of the streets along with encroachments by hawkers and homes, are all accentuating factors, but at its core, the problem is the sheer number of vehicles that are pouring out on our beleaguered roads, nearly 1,500 in Delhi every day. What is true of Delhi is equally true of all the metros in India, particularly Bengaluru and Kolkata, where there is much less road space. Traffic congestion on Delhi roads costs around $10 billion or about Rs 60,000 crore annually. This is because of fuel waste due to idling of vehicles, productivity loss, air pollution and road crashes, according to a study done by IIT, Madras.
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s the vehicular population rapidly grows in the capital, the data projects the congestion cost would increase to the tune of around Rs 98,000 crore by 2030 unless steps are taken to tackle the daily mayhem. It has recommended dedicated lane for buses since “the productivity loss due to congestion delays of commuters who use buses accounts for about 75% of total cost of congestion”. For decades, governments have tried in vain to develop solutions to address congestion. The construction of new flyovers, under passes and deployment of new fleets of public buses with Metro lines may have slowed the growth of congestion, but commute times continue to lengthen in all Metro cities. It is clear from the present scenario that a new approach is needed to make cities livable and to give quality life to citizens.
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oday the next mobility revolution is underway, based on the use of real-time streams of data that make it easier and more efficient to provide citizens with optimized access to their cities. Increasing number of vehicles, road crashes, costly parking, raised driving stress and massive traffic congestion are main driving forces to shift to choice riders to shift to shared mobility. The emergence of improved ICT technology made it easier to provide commuters with application based mobility facility. Recently, Helsinki Finland has announced an audacious goal: By 2025, the city plans to make it unnecessary for any city resident to own a private car. The goal is an on-demand mobility system that would allow customers to choose among public and private transport providers and assemble the fastest or cheapest way of getting anywhere they need to go at any time. “The city’s role is to enable that market to emerge,” explains Sonja, a Transportation engineer with the city. Bus routes would be dynamic, changing based on current demand at any moment. From planning to payment, every element of the system would be accessible through mobile devices. Citizens could arrange a personalized travel experience irrespective of location. Wherever they are in the city, they could access a variety of options with their phone: a rideshare, an on demand bus, an automated car, special transport for children, or traditional public transit. Residents could purchase “mobility packages” from private operators that would give them a host of options depending on weather, time of day, and demand.
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Today, our congested transportation system is designed around infrastructure and vehicles: roads, bridges, under passes, and buses. Helsinki’s 2025 vision points to a very different future model, one designed around individual mobility— moving each traveler from point A to point B as quickly and efficiently as possible. US cities also are beginning to reimaging their transportation ecosystems around this concept.
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lassic ridesharing is simply what an earlier generation called the carpool: two or more travelers sharing common, pre-planned trips made by private automobile or van. In recent years, with the help of GPS and mobile technologies, ridesharing has evolved into a dynamic service
that can match drivers with riders in real time without advance planning. This ride-matching process is conducted through mobile apps that connect drivers with passengers traveling similar routes, in real time, at pre designated pickup locations.
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ike commuting refers to trips made to work by bicycle. Bicycling has been on the upswing in recent years particularly in the Europe and in cities with relatively flat terrain, kilometers of bike lanes, and other cycling infrastructure. For commutes of a few miles or less, biking is often the fastest way to get to work.
n its most basic form, car sharing is car rental by the hour. Providers include commercial entities (such as Uber and Ola) as well as private individuals who rent out their own vehicles through peer-to-peer carsharing programs. These services give consumers all the benefits of car ownership without its attendant costs, including purchase cost, insurance, maintenance, and parking. The Carsharing concept enabled by new technology, that allows companies and individuals to rent cars by the minute or hour.
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n-demand ride services companies such as Uber and Ola, which allows ordinary car user to use their personal cars to offer prearranged transportation services. These services, enabled by mobile and GPS technologies, are making the taxi market more competitive. On-demand ride services also called ridesourcing or ride hailing service. These are online platforms developed by transportation network companies (such as Uber, Lyft, and Ola) that allow passengers to “source” or “hail” rides from a pool of drivers that use their personal vehicles.
These forms of transportation have seen different levels of popularity in recent years. Ridesharing, as mentioned above, has been in decline for decades. Ondemand ride services, on the other hand, have seen rapid growth since their launch several years ago.
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he economic and social benefits of shared mobility are significant and wideranging. Many have suggested that new, innovative forms of shared transportation can help reduce VMT and emissions as well as car ownership rates and household transportation costs. Shared mobility can also encourage greater use of transit, open up more land for parks and other public space and help improve users’ health by encouraging biking, walking and other forms of active transportation. The literature on changes in vehicle ownership associated with carsharing membership is well established. A widely cited 2010 University of California, Berkeley study found that between 9 and 13 cars have sold or not purchased for each shared car. Studies have also shown carsharing mem-
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bers enjoy significant reductions in their cost of living and increase their use of public transit. The more people use shared services, the more likely they are to use public transit, own fewer cars, and spend less on transportation overall. People who routinely use several shared modes, such as bikesharing, carsharing and ridesourcing (e.g. Uber or Ola) save the most money and own half as many household cars as people who use public transit alone. Shared modes complement public transit, enhancing urban mobility. Ridesourcing services are most frequently used for social trips between 10pm and 4am, times when public transit runs infrequently or is not available. Shared modes substitute more for automobile trips than public transit trips.
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ooking to the growth trend of Shared Mobility in India, more independent research must be done to substantiate current data, and agreement is also needed on the appropriate methodologies used for benefits analysis. Local authorities need more information to decide how to plan smart mobility for upcoming future cities, integrate shared modes into existing transportation management plans and provide incentives to encourage greater use of shared-use mobility for making cities sustainable. State and Central governments need the same data to justify new regulations and policies that support the growth of shared mobility. The present challenges and barriers include, regulation & policy issues and lack of open data.The benefits of shared mobility are extensive. To
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fully realize them, however, public and private sector actors must work together. More research is needed to quantify the benefits of shared mobility. Greater awareness is also needed to ensure public sector stakeholders understand the potential for this new industry. Additionally, more can be done on the local level to analyze transportation gaps in cities and identify the potential for shared-use mobility expansion help create more robust transportation networks. Pilot projects allow cities to experiment and determine what modes will work best for their residents. Pilots are also vital for new modes such as electric bikes and carharing, While many solutions are city specific, more public sector collaboration and awareness can help spotlight innovative policies and practices for other cities to follow.
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PHILIPS LIGHTING
EMPOWERING SMART CITIES
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hilips lighting is stalled everywhere: where people live, work, play and travel. Its primary function is to provide energy efficient, quality light to enhance public safety and enhance the urban landscape. However , in the future, a city’s lighting infrastructure will also offer enormous potential to be part of city-wide network capable of acquiring data and delivering & information services to and from millions of devices, from garbage bins to autonomous vehicles. In this way, it could
help enable smart city services to improve the lives of its citizens and city managers alike.need a CIM platform to help them do it. Today, Philips Lighting is enabling smart city and smart buildings through its connected lighting systems and services. It is laying the foundations for tomorrow in cities-large medium and small, through connected lighting systems in cities such as Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Jakarta and smart building in Toronto, Amsterdam and Dubai.
Connected Streets
Interactive Public Spaces
Sustainable City Farming
Philips Lighting announced one of the world’s target connected street lighting systems in Jakarta with Philips City Touch Monitoring and Managing nearly 90,000 street lights.
Today Philips Lighting presented a new Philips Power over Ethernet (POE) connected lighting systems that transformed Madrid’s landmark office, skyscraper Torre Euroopa into a smart office.
Since 2013 Philips Lighting Collaborates with GrowUp Urban Farm that is vertical urban farm established in an unused warehouse in East London’s industrial area. This is the first commercial aquaponic urban farm in the UK and produce 20,000 kilograms of fresh salads per annum with the help of Green Power LED lighting.
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More Personalized Living In November 2016, Philips Lighting and Xiaomi joined forces to design and develop connected LED lighting products for xiaomi’s smart home ecosystem in china. The future of smart cities is the sum of many parts and success will require collaboration amongst companies- large and smart governments, academia and above all, citizens. This is why today, we are calling on citizens and city managers across the world to join our conversation and explore the future together. The future starts now.
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IMPROVE LIVES BY MAKING CITIES MORE EFFICIANT LIVABLE AND PEOPLE MORE PRODUCTIVE THROUGH LIGHTING THAT CONNECTS PEOPLE, PLACES, APPS AND DEVICES.
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hilips street lighting systems is LA leverages public mobile network to monitor and maintain 110000 street lights, provide by other venders. In addition to proving a sense of security of citizens, some of the street light poles house small cell technology, which generates new revenue streams for the city by providing wireless data services. So that wherever you are, you get a signal. The lighting infrastructure also supports future applications such as monitoring noise levels at street level, to safeguard the health of citizens.
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connected lighting implementations on the bay bridge, used input from the environment (traffic, wind, water) to creates non-repetitive patternsturning the bridge into a giants sculpture. Light that enhance the city landscape, helps revitalize communities, attracts tourism and encourage economic development- making cities more livable.
Taking a leap today and driving the smart city concept in India, Philips today is improving lives in Pune. • • • • • • • •
Making Pune’s street lighting systems smarts with LED and controls Desingn, Build, Finance, Operate and maintain for 12 year and Transfer to Corporate Public Private Partnership Project, self-financed through Energy Savings from LED street lights Upgrading 77789 street lights to LED systems 1873 plus Smart Feeder Pillar Cabinets controlling LED lights Wireless street light management server Efficient management, guaranteed performance Reporting and Control through SMS
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ighting systems in smart buildings, such as deloitte’ HQ in Amsterdam and intel’s new campus in Bengaluru, provide real-time data energy use and occupancy. This helps building managers to optimize building efficiency and employees to optimize comfort and productivity by using their Smartphone to control lighting building services.
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hilips lighting looks into the city of 2030, explores four scenarios, which demonstrate how future lighting technology can deliver more sustainable, betterconnected and more enjoyable cities.
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A Sustainable Toilet Solution for Urban/ Rural Areas and Smart Cities Author Mr. Imad Agi Group Chairman & CEO (Holland)
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here are 2.5 billion people worldwide have no access to toilet. Open spaces, riverbanks, road and street side and the open field are some of the common places to defecate. It is also seen that the water sources are badly affected by both pit/ring and modern flush toilets. The sewage from the flush toilet badly affected the fragile environment. These practices not only pollute the environment but also contaminate the land and water resources leading to diseases and death.
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Description ECOLOO is a stand-alone, decentralized toilet system that is affordable, ergonomic, biological, comfortable, ecological, hygienic, multi-functional and practical. ECOLOO is odor-free, sewagefree, water-free and energy-free on-site waste treatment toilet system that employs biologic processes to create a natural fertilizer. Water can still be used for hygiene purposes only. ECOLOO comes in various designs and shapes (squatting, sitting, handicapped friendly) to fit all purposes and is functional in both hot and cold climates and can be located indoor, outdoor, inside houses or buildings in rural or urban areas. Our project in Jordan together with UNDP for the UNESCO World Heritage Site “PETRA” rescued the site from losing its “Heritage Title” after receiving yellow card from UNESCO for being unsustainable where thousands of tourists practiced open defecation polluting the protected historical area.
Lessons Learnt
Jordan is the 2nd in the World in water scarcity. ECOLOO didn’t only help them solving sanitation issue and reducing pollution but also in preserving their precious water from being flushed away and polluted.
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Next Steps “Prevention instead of Curing!”
We have to protect our water resources by preventing water to be flushed/mixed with waste. Flush toilet is the worst invention of all times according to WASH experts, creating diseases killing people.
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Role Of Virtual Water In Making Cities Water Smart
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ur planet is sustaining life due to availability of water on it. The water balance shows how water keeps moving through our every activities, systems and programs. Only 3% of the total water available on earth is fresh and consumable. The water balance also gives us a picture of how human beings as a consumer convert fresh water to waste water. The nature gifts us the fresh water back. But, the rate of conversion of fresh water to waste water has increased manifold. Now, the balance 3% of the total water as fresh water is on a rapid decline. Every material that we cone across consumes water in its extraction, manufacturing, processing, packaging and transportation. The amount of water that is required for the construction is direct water, which can be measured, calculated and therefore can be managed.
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But, the amount of water that is embodied inside the building materials and equipments for the construction constitutes of 60-80% of the total water consumption in the lifecycle of a project.
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tudies shows that an average building construction consumes as much as 20Kl/m2 of water as embodied water. Therefore, an average project of 10,000m2 of construction consumes 20,00,000 Kl of water as embodied water. This water is the part of only 3% fresh water available to us. The embodied water volume is alarming and it requires immediate attention from planners and architects perspective to visualize the quantum and impact on the developments. The emerging smart cities call for massive developments of city infrastructure and other construction works. As we go ahead and plan our cities, there are certain determinants that would play an important role while we plan for our future. Sustainability of cities are an important determinant. Embodied water computation and assessment for construction is another important determinant of planning and construction of our smart cities.
Its time to feel the need to measure the hidden water in our buildings and infrastructures, whatever is measured can be managed. To make out smart cities water smart the virtual water should be first computed, compiled and the selection of material s should be done judiciously. Therefore we will be able to sustain our future generations.
The quantum of water available as embodied water varies from different materials. In order to quantify the virtual water content in the building, the virtual water range for materials should be understood. The major construction materials that we are using are cement and steel. The embodied water for Cement is 19.8 Kl/m3, the embodied water is steel is 200Kl/MT. The embodied water for clay burnt bricks are 0.7Kl/ m3 and for sun dried bricks are 0.1Kl/m3. Similarly, for other materials like timber, aluminum, PVC, Paint, Tiles, Glass etc, the values are different and varied. By knowing the values of embodied water in construction materials we have an idea about the materials which consumes lesser water as compared to other materials. By knowing this it is easy to determine the mix and proportion of materials chosen by architects and planners in their projects. Therefore, consciously reducing 30-$)% of embodied water in a project by applying calculations of embodied water and wise selection of materials 8Kl/m2 of water can be saved. This amounts to 8,00,000Kl of water for a single project of 10,000m2. This amount of water can feed a population of 59,25,925 people for a day consuming a standard of 135litres per person per day. For development of smart cities if this conscious decision is taken the actual saving of water shall be tremendous.
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From BIM to CIM-
The Rise Of City Information Modelling & Data-Driven Design
AuthorMr. Michael Jansen Chairman & CEO
People are Moving in to Cities Faster than at any Time in History Architects, planners, engineers, and construction firms around the globewill need to design and build 10,000 new smart citiesand their buildings by the year 2040.And they will need a CIM platform to help them do it.
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A Tsunami of Big Data and AEC Tools Floods the Profession
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he tsunami of data services and AECO+GIS software tools usedto design and operate todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s increasingly data-driven Smart City and Smart Building projectsis even more alarmingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;cities and buildings together generated more Big Data in just the past 2 years than they did in the previous 200 years combined. Today,the practicing architect or planner who used just 3-4 software tools or web services in 2007, now uses more than 15-20 on the same project. To make matters more complicated, few of these tools interoperate, and the contextual data that AEC professionals get their hands on to make big $$$ design decisions is often un-curated, out-of-date, and unusable.
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AEC tech experts are talking about CIM:
CIM is like SIM CityTM but for Real Cities
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nter the Age of CIM. Expert definitions of a CIM or City Information Modelgenerally describe a fully-integrated, semantically-enabled,“super-BIM”3Dcity model that hyper-connectsusers to any contextual project data source or analysis tool—static or dynamic, spatial on non-spatial—from buildings (BMS/EMS/FM), to roadsand public spaces (Open Data), to streetlights (sensors/IoT), to people (Social Media).
CIM models are used by both architects and planners for individual building, campus, and town planning projects of any scale. CIM users drag and drop their BIM project models into interactive, content-rich 3D city model environments right in their own web browsers, and can find any data relevant to their projects, ask any questions, run any analysis (solar, shadow, microclimate, traffic, LEED, et al), and collaborate with any team members anywhere in the world, all in real time.
“CIM offers new and enhanced opportunities for planners and other professionals working in the urban environment. Particularly, in relation to the deployment of real time data into the analysis of the conditions in which key planning and resource allocation decisions are made and the appreciation of the longer term impact of such decisions.” (Thompson, et al, Urban Planning, 2016) “A CIM model could enable citywide simulation (for architects and planners) of various aspects such as traffic, congestion, energy, impact of natural disasters such as earthquakes or hurricanes, flood control, etc.” (Khemlani, AECBytes2016).
A Platform for Data-Driven Design A true CIM is the Holy Grail of contextual project information and analysis tools for architects and planners. Users enjoy many transformational benefits:
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avail of immediate access to terabytes of project data content including, dozens of free and premium analytics tools, 100’s of 3Dcity models, and 1000’s of curated public and commercial data services enjoy savings from a reduction in man-hours for time allocated to project research, team communication, and design time eliminate spend on subscriptions for legacy software tools and web services
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Towards a Smarter World
From the creators of Google Earth, Cityzenith’s Smart World CIM platform is used by architectural, engineering, engineering, and planning professionals around the world. Smart World launches officially at the UI Labs Innovation Center in Chicago on May 3rd, 2017, at 3 pm. Visit www.cityzenith.com to request a demo and an invitation to the launch.
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Smart City Mission
“Need of hour is smart Village & Smart Slum”
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AuthorAr. Rajendra Kumar Principal Architect n Rapid globalizations, today every towns and metropolis are depending more and more on workforce coming from developing countries, smaller cities, villages, rural areas. Be it, Western countries looking towards China, India, South America for outsourcing their works to help their economy Or any Metropolitan City’s working class people are coming from neighbor towns, villages. But fact remains that Cities are not able to provide better life style and sufficient livelihoods to our working class people who are immigrating from Rural to Cities. That results issues of Urban Slum and this problem is widely spreading across the globe.
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Cities have a major impact on the economic and social development of nations. They are genuine platforms where people live, where companies have their business and in which numerous services are provided. What’s more, they are major centers of consumption of resources. Currently, cities consume 75% of the world’s resources and energy and generate 80% of greenhouse gases, occupying only 2% of the world’s territory.
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hen major Cities are becoming hub for migrations from smaller cities and Towns. Our existing City’s limits of Infrastructures are in danger because of population increase exponentially. Other sides of story of smaller towns, villages are also facing challenges due to same reason, i.e. Population Migrations towards Metropolis. Recent population statistics indicate that the vast majority of Indians live in villages. 70% of India’s 1.25 billion people considered villagers. When majority of Indians live in villages, governments are neglecting a critical opportunity to both improve economic potential and basic services by creating smart villages Most of villages lack essential infrastructure like roads, electricity and drinking water. How to find balance of the problem of Metropolis and Smaller town. One is experiencing major inflow and other one is facing major outflow of population. Physical connection, Infrastructure and employability improvements Or Virtual connection, IT connectivity can play very important roles in overcoming of city problem.
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oncept of Smart City, IT innovations, Digital City can easily increase capability of acceptances of floating or temporary populations. Smart City a city which uses information and communication technologies so that its critical infrastructure as well as its components and public services provided are more interactive, efficient, so that citizens can be made more aware of them. There is an emerging need for the cities to get smarter in India so that it would
tackle the issues related with the large scale urbanization. Smart city is a city which should be equipped with basic infrastructure to give a decent quality of life. Policy makers need to be more aware of responsibilities in terms of providing better urban environments at the same time Citizens need to be aware of rights of basic infrastructure and amenities in city where they are living for better urban environments. It all start from better streets and better streets start from better homes.
“When 70 per cent of the Indian population lives in villages. Therefore it is natural that for ‘inclusive’ development, the Government must focus on them. We must give top priority to the development of ‘smart villages’ preserving the sustainability of villages will positively impact cities in the long run”
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ven after 70 years of independence, we lack a ‘support and guidance system’; nor do we have professional counseling for farmers. Many of them have no secondary source of income — this is a major lacuna. The lack of job opportunities in villages coupled with less remunerative farming compels village youth to migrate to cities. There, many of them do not enjoy a reasonable quality of life because they manage to get only subsistence jobs.
he migration is also uni-directional as they continue to live in cities in the hope of landing better jobs. In the long term, this leads to desertion from villages, dilution of village culture, reduced land under cultivation and, consequently, farm output. In the cities, uncontrolled migration adds to pollution, traffic problems, crime, and over-burdening of civic amenities and infrastructure. The top priority should be the creation of opportunities for youths in villages, thereby discouraging migration to cities. Farming should be made a remunerative occupation, with guidance and mentoring to small farmers on how to get the best yield and market at remunerative prices. It’s important to train them to develop a secondary source of income. The benefits of schemes such as crop insurance, soil health card, and neem pesticides must reach the grassroots.
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e must create an eco-system that makes youth interested in working from their villages. BPOs/KPOs can operate from villages and young people can be encouraged to take up IT jobs there. Many jobs require computer skills instead of degrees. The digitization of post offices, rural banks, and IT-enabled services provide excellent opportunities.
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rojects supported by Digital India and Skill India should be integrated through a unified agency to reach villages. For instance, Skill India can empower youths to start their own small businesses after training as masons, mechanics, electricians, and drivers or to run repair shops, poultry and dairy farms, kirana stores, tea-shops, dhabas and so on.
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ver 50 percent of the global population now live in cities and the number is expected to reach 66 percent by 2050 according to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. That’s an additional 2.5 billion people moving into metropolitan regions around the world to pursue the socio-economic opportunities of urban living. This mass movement is especially pronounced in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Over the past few decades, China led this charge in infrastructure development, but India is now setting its sights on catching up with the rest of the world and dealing with its growing urban slum population.
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izable tribal population in India, who lives in villages, and do not wish to be uprooted. We need to make them part of development. Skill India can study the art/craft unique to each tribal cluster and train their youths to grow in their vocations. They will come into the mainstream by learning the use of new tools and techniques, without the fear of losing their lands, identity and culture. India’s crafts thrive in villages, especially as cooperative ventures. Pottery, metal craft, weaving, jewellery making, wood craft, shell craft, cane craft, embroidery, ivory craft, glass craft and paper craft could be sources of income. The arts and crafts ecosystem of villages is impossible to recreate in cities. A great deal of export potential is hidden here. Senior/elderly artisans can be employed as ‘trainers’.
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illages traditionally preserve large number of water bodies like ponds, wells, bawadis, canals etc. Training villagers in water harvesting methods, rejuvenating ponds/ wells to improve water storage and sharing these good practices systematically with others, would help mitigate hardships. Smart villages can translate into improved farm productivity, water conservation and economic independence to village youth. It makes great social, economic and political sense.
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All Indian Cities are growing very rapid and immigrations from rural areas to Urban Cities are generating slums in Metros and B Town Cities. Urban Slums dwellers are very integral part for city development. Any civilized neighborhood cannot sustain without people coming from neighborhood’s slums. In all major Indian Cities and Metros, every prosperous locality has one Urban Slum nearby. These slums are illegal and almost impossible to relocate. Most of Slum Rehabilitations projects and Government policy for slum developments of India are failing. Urban Slum is the new norm of Metropolis, and as many cities expand in the developing world, so do their slums. The future of the Urban Slum, amid India’s drive for “smart cities,” is up in the air. Rather than rehabilitating and integrating the slum while taking into account the needs of residents, the state and municipal government are trying to appropriate and clear out their land for redevelopment. Most of Indian Cities Slums sit on some of its most valuable land near Lavish Housing colonies or large business district. But there is urgent need of empowering discourse emerging from the ideological gridlock over the future Slums of Indian Cities.
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“Smart” Leak Detection for Urban Water Supply in India with German “FAST” Technology The availability of fresh water is a critical issue for all living organisms. Few organisms might be able to make use of salt water but the majority of plants and most animals require access to fresh water in order to survive. Although great amount of this resource is required, its availability on our planet is yet very limited. Indeed, only the 0.3 % of the total water on our planet is available as surface water for the use and consume of all living ecosystems, and, of this 0.3 % most of it results to be polluted by human activity and therefore needs to be treated before being consumed. Authors :
Mr. Satyendra Singh B. Arch, M. Tech., MSC(Germany)
Mr. Emanuele Clavarino Environment Engineer (Holland)
Mr. Edmund Riehle Dipl. Ing.
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n India, more than half of the country is currently facing severe water stresses. Water intensive agriculture, rapid urbanization, tertiary sector expansion and a growing energy production are all factors leading to higher water demand in India. This together with a bad management of the already scarce water resources on a linear model of withdrawal, consumption and disposal is causing severe social and environmental consequences, affecting in primis the poorest and most vulnerable. In many of these cases, water stresses are caused by water losses due to outdated water supply networks, which often result to be multi-damaged and in some situations even untighten. The leakages generated by those damaged points are the main cause of contamination of fresh water and for water losses in water networks, resulting in fresh water wastage of up to 70 % of the total amount available. The urgency in providing reliable supplies of clean water without wastage through leakage in the pipeline has given a challengeto investigate into the best possible technical solutions for leak detection. This not only is going to give increased revenue but also helpful in preventing pollutants which mix with drinking water supply lines. InSell has researched on this topic to locate best possible solution in the market and evaluated various products available. There are various products available in the market with different methods to detect the leaks and minimize the amount of Non RevenueWater(NRW). InSell GmbH plans to showcase best of Smart water
technologies, made in Germanyaimed at tackling down issues related to water leaks in pipe systems networks with highest possible accuracy and ease of applications.Globally municipalities are adopting these Smart instruments to detect not only leaks but also prevent polluted and hazardous water which mixes with the drinking water. Almost all the cities in India are facing problem of NRW and polluted water coming from drinking water supply lines. We have a large proportion of clients globally to show the advanced Instruments to detect and solve the issues in water management. Insell took a step ahead to resolve the issues for municipalities in India with our cooperation partner F.A.S.T GmbH who are pioneering in developing leak detection technologies.
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Smart Water Management
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he urgency in providing reliable supplies of clean water in order to meet an increasing demand, according to environmental friendly principles, has pushed to a rapid technological sustainable development transition in the water sector. The Smart water management concept is considered to be the cornerstone of this transition. This concept is InSell´s special suit and it is built around the idea according to which fresh water needs to be managed sustainably. This involves a usage, which maintains harmony and balance among nature and therefore living organisms, and the water cycle, while reducing the emission of greenhouses gasses produced by the functioning of water treatments. InSell GmbH, with its commitment to sustainable development, plans to showcase Solutions in the SMART Water Management at SMART CITIES INDIA EXPO which closely focuses on identifying leaks at water supply lines with the help of sensor based “Smart” systems developed by our cooperation partner FAST GmbH in Germany
The following list of water-related concerns represents the range of action to which our SMART water technologies are applied.
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Why Leak Detection is necessary?
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.A.S.T GmbH is a German company located in the Baden-Württemberg region pioneering in Leak detection systems broadly categorized into two parts. Since 1985, it is a world leader in manufacturing an entire range of technical equipment used to detect and locate leakages on drinking-water supply pipeline network systems. These innovative solutions are sold in more the 30 different countries .Since, FAST GmbH is one of the leading solutions provider in Water Management with many technological advancements to prevent drinking water to be lost or wasted and to efficiently treat polluted water streams. At InSell, it is well known that, leaks on drinking-water pipe network systems waste precious resources, while requiring additional financial costs due to water purification purposes. Furthermore, damages to infrastructures and buildings can also result as consequence of the water infiltrations. Already minor leaks can lead to exorbitant financial loses. Due to this reason, in our vision, it is essential to ensure an easy detection of possible small and major leaks, which will later require immediate intervention. On average, It is estimated that a leak with a diameter off 6 mm in conjunction with 6 bar* pressure, produces water losses for 20.736 m³ per year. Assuming an ordinary cost of 0, 75 € per 1 m³ of water, the yearly financial loses for such a leak would amount at 15.552 €.
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Leak Detection Technology Overview
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he aim of F.A.S.T GmbH technologies is to detect and locate leakages on drinking water supply pipeline networks. Most ofthese technologies are based on sounds sensors capable to track possible leakages in water pipeline networks. These sensors work by detecting sounds generated by outpouring water. Normally, sensors are applied on specific pipe network contact points, which are directly accessible such as hydrants or valves. Stronger noise indicates that the leak is located closer to the listening point, while less intensive noise suggests the leak will be found further away. This principle permits to narrow the possible location of a leak to a specific pipe section in-between two contact points. This will help to reduce enormously the time, and financial and labor resources required in order to determine the location of a leakages and intervene promptly.
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n order to get a clear picture of the leak detecting technology, it is important to understand the physical principles on which it is based.The technology works by recognizing a deviation in sound inner of the pipe network system. Sounds are vibrations that propagate as a typically audible mechanical wave of pressure and displacement, through a transmission medium, which in our case is represented by water. As soon as a liquid escapes from a pipe at a damaged spot, longitudinal shock waves are generated and start to travel along the water column in both directions. These waves by impacting against the pipe´s material generate vibrations. These vibrations are mechanical vibrations, also called structure sounds-waves, and they are detectable by monitoring the pipe´s material sound oscillations. Close to the damaged spot, the shock waves will be of higher intensity and therefore the sound, generated by the vibration of the pipe material, will be more acute. On the same way, the farther the waves travel the less intensive the noise will become and therefore the harder it will be to detect any damaged spot. This is due to the fact that at a certain distance from the pipe´s crack the shock waves are too weak to make the pipe material vibrate and therefore noise is no longer produced. Of course, this largely depends on many factors which play a very important role in sounds propagation. As a consequence of this a detailed pre-inspection regarding the kind of soil, its compaction level, the pipe material, the operation pressure, the fluid viscosity and flow rate should be conducted.
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Selected productreange relevant for Indian conditions F.A.S.T GmbH provides their clients with a wide range of technological solutions customized according to specific client and project requirement.Below are coupld of samplesofhundreds of Products offered by our cooperation partner FAST GmbH:
CORRELATOR LOKAL 400 The LOKAL 400 has the latest technology for detecting leakages in pressurized pipelines. The pressurized medium inside the pipelines generates a leakage borne noise at the leakage spot, which is detected by sensors mounted at accessible places such as hydrants and valves. The LOKAL 400 can detect the leakages in pipes with 8 different pipe materials in one measurement (correlation and geophone). The amplified pick-up signal is transmitted to the control unit. Once the leaked spot is identified the LOKAL 400 in combination with aground microphone can be used as geophone to confirm the result by eavesdropping the ground.
Key Advantage • user friendly control features • robust aluminium case • 20 pipe sectors possible • Geophone with smart function
AQUA M-300 D Innovative technology combing acoustic leak detection with geophone, tracer gas detection and tracing plastic pipe with PWG, in one single device. Very flexible products suitable for many different applications, also with loud ambient noise.
Key Advantage • Intelligent Geophone for Leak Detection • Automatic function for filtering and amplification • Pyramid mode • Long term measurement • Tracer gas leak detection
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Setting A Green Standard In Smart Technology Author- Rina Thakur, Energy Bots
Energy Bots is an IOT based organization in the business of making smart devices and designing solutions to reduce energy consumption. Our sensors and smart devices, combined with the EBots app provide energy consumption data, enabling end users to understand their energy consumption, also providing energy saving tips, resulting in reduction in utility bills & lowering the carbon footprint.
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educing energy consumption is one of the biggest challenges we face today given the fast-paced depletion of our natural resources.Rising energy prices and accessing affordable energy are growing concerns for individuals and businesses. Real time data on energy consumption helps fill this gap.Through our research, our efforts are geared to provide means to reduce and eventually eliminate uncontrolled energy usage through tips/suggestions enabling customers to make informed decisions on energy conservation.
Our Vision :
Today we provide the most actionable data & insights using our products and mobile app EBots. We want to make this data available to as many individuals and organizations as possible . Our products have one common goal, to ensure conservation of key energy sources – Electricity, Water and Gas. Our connected deviceS will make homes, Streets, Factories, Office buildings and Malls smart, and with real-time data on our finger tips , will reduce unwanted energy consumption.
Our Mission : “Conserving Energy for a Greener tomorrow” Features of EnergyBots products and solutions using IOT : • CustomizableEBots App -Android & IOS -to map your home and appliances • Connected Devices indicators • Real time information about energy consumption of individual devices connected to our smart devices. (Electricity, Water and Gas). • Remotely control and monitor energy consumption with the ON/OFF switch in the Ebots app • Define and setup multiple energy usage thresholds at equipment/appliance level • Energy saving tips provided via eBots mobile app with robust Carbon Emission Calculator • Variants with motion sensors in switches and plugs.
The Ebots App :
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Products :
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• ePlugs-6 & 16amp • eSwitches: 1 to 7 switches • eExtension boards: 2,4,6 sockets • Industrial Sensors • Fuel Trackers • Water Sensors
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nergyBots has developed innovative smart devices embedded with digital intelligence that helps individual and businesses to monitor, manage and conserve energy consumption. Our products communicate with our servers in the cloud to provide real time information and data of your energy consumption. Our solution covers wide spectrum of market segments from individual home owner, small & large business offices, Buildings, Malls, Manufacturing plants to streets and cities >> Our vision of smart homes starts with embedding digital intelligence & enabling devices and appliances ,lights and fans, water dispensation points, & gas connections share consumption data using our sensors, smart plugs, switches ,extension boards , providing the home owner
with real data on usage , which can be mapped with the existing pattern of consumption for the optimal usage. >> Organizations with a mandate to ‘GO GREEN ‘ are target driven to reduce their energy consumption. Our products and solutions are suitable for organizations and offices of all sizes.
>> Measuring the consumption of energy in manufacturing units becomes the prime objective because of the high expenditure it poses. Our solutions are applicable to units which produce their own energy and also those that draw energy from the grid.
Corporate Responsibility Reduce Carbon Footprint
Your carbon footprint is a measurement of how much CO2 you produce each year. Reduce your Carbon Footprint – • By Managing your energy consumption better • Reducing unwanted use of energy (electricity, water, gas) • Remotely Turn things off when not in use. Carbon Credits are awarded based on energy saved to encourage energy conservation . Our Tie ups with Few NGO’S helps us use these carbon credits towards plantation drives to help build a healthier environment for future generations for ‘He who plants a tree plants a hope”
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