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With a view to providing a healthy environment to the people of Varanasi, the Uttar Pradesh Government has set up hi-tech ambient air quality monitoring stations (AAQMSs) at 15 places across the city.The stations were built after identifying the...
Article - 01/15/2021
Active Region(s): India
Pune has emerged the happiest city in Maharashtra in the India Cities Happiness Report 2020 compiled by Rajesh K Pillania, a professor of strategic management at Management Development Institute, Gurugram. The city ranked 12th across India and has...
Article - 01/15/2021
Active Region(s): India
The Karnataka Government has given administrative approval to the Rs 169-crore Koramangala valley development and rejuvenation project (from KR Market to Bellandur Lake) under the Citizens Water Way Project. Koramangala valley is one of the three...
Article - 01/15/2021
Active Region(s): India
The Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) has refloated tenders for the centralized waste-to-energy plant of 300 tonnes per day capacity to be implemented on public-private partnership (PPP) mode at Brahmapuram.Tenders were...
Article - 01/15/2021
Active Region(s): India
Odisha took home the Best State and the Best Civic Agency award, while Gujarat took home the Best State Election Commission and Kerala the Best State Finance Commission. Indore for its PPP Based Integrated Solid Waste Management took home the Best...
Article - 01/15/2021
Active Region(s): India
The City of Melbourne is inviting all eligible entrepreneurs, individuals, universities, researchers, startup, scaleups and established organisations to submit their pitches on how they might...
Article - 01/13/2021
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
"With a view to providing a healthy environment to the people of Varanasi, the state government has set up hi-tech ambient air quality monitoring stations (AAQMSs) at 15 places across the city.The stations were built after identifying the most...
Article - 01/07/2021
Active Region(s): India
The Kochi Metropolitan Transport Authority (KMTA) has zeroed in on three critical projects that have to be implemented in the next six months. Smart parking, revision of the Comprehensive Mobility Plan (CMP) (readied in 2015 by Kochi Metro Rail...
Article - 01/07/2021
Active Region(s): India
A Gujarat-based company has been awarded the contract for setting up a new sanitary landfill (SLF) site at Dadumajra (Chandigarh) for dumping of non-recyclable solid waste generated in the city. The decision to award the contract to the lowest...
Article - 01/07/2021
Active Region(s): India
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved three infrastructure proposals worth Rs 7,725 crore to support setting up greenfield industrial cities (GICs) with connectivity to major transportation corridors such as the eastern and...
Article - 01/07/2021
Active Region(s): India
Why there is a need for rethink in the interest of a digital ecosystem. Pratap Padode analyses.While we are still grappling with one of the lowest mobile internet speeds in the world, 5G is knocking at our doors. The global average of mobile upload...
Article - 01/07/2021
Active Region(s): India
NOTE: This article was written before the inauguration and will be updated with practical advice on how to get 'ready' for Biden Administration smart city and infrastructure grants and opportunities. Subscribe to get updates (see top right...
Article - 01/04/2021
Active Region(s): Main, North America
- Ajay Kumar Dwivedi, Municipal Commissioner, Lucknow Municipal CorporationLucknow is the new bond! The first city in the North India region – tenth in the country – recently released the bond of its municipal corporation for infrastructure...
Article - 12/22/2020
Active Region(s): India
The City Municipal Council of Udupi (CMC) is contemplating opting for a public-private partnership (PPP) initiative to make the city smart at an estimated cost of Rs 130 crore. City planning officials informed CMC members at the first meeting of the...
Article - 12/17/2020
Active Region(s): India
Inspired by the cleanliness of the ancient pilgrim town of Varanasi and the success of Namami Gange project, the Andhra Pradesh Government is planning to replicate the solid and liquid waste management system in the State. Andhra Pradesh chief...
Article - 12/17/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) has launched a campaign, the ‘tri-bin selfie’ drive, in which it will issue certificates to all residents who separate their garbage. This is an attempt to encourage segregation of dry, wet and hazardous/...
Article - 12/17/2020
Active Region(s): India
The focus of smart cities has changed. They have become more ambitious as budgets increased to trillions of dollars overall, unaffected by COVID-19. The original concept was based on widespread deployment of information and communications technology...
Article - 12/17/2020
Active Region(s): India
US-based public multinational corporation Qualcomm recently announced a new Internet of Things (IoT) Services suite, aimed to deliver comprehensive IoT as a Service (IoTaaS) solutions to enable global digital transformation of smart cities and...
Article - 12/17/2020
Active Region(s): India
As 2020 draws to an end, we have taken a moment to reflect on the year.It was a year of crisis and heartache for many, and a challenge for most. Our community, in particular local government and councils, were stretched to their limits at times. And...
Article - 12/14/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Following its most successful year yet, the Australia New Zealand Smart Cities Awards revealed a significant evolution in the maturity of the smart cities market place. The quantity and quality of smart cities projects submitted supassed previous...
Article - 12/11/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
As part of the smart city project, 3,000 surveillance cameras, including 22 facial recognition cameras, will be installed at 720 locations across Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, to develop a smart surveillance system.Facial recognition cameras, installed...
Article - 12/11/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Jharkhand Government is going to begin auctioning land for public and private buyers at the upcoming Smart City Project in Ranchi’s HEC area to garner investment for the proposed state-of-art township.State urban development secretary Vinay...
Article - 12/11/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) is planning to complete construction works on the 15 megawatt waste-to-energy plant by this December. As the Swachh Survekshan team would visit the city in January, 2021 for direct observation,...
Article - 12/11/2020
Active Region(s): India
The recent relaxations by the government by increasing participation from a larger set of bidders are likely to intensify competition in highways, roads, bridges and tunnelling projects, as they enable mid-sized firms to participate in the bidding...
Article - 12/11/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Greater Noida Authority has decided to install smart water meters in households and other establishments across the city. More than 38,000 units will be covered under the project, of which 90 per cent will be domestic connections, officials said...
Article - 12/11/2020
Active Region(s): India
The smart cities leaders of Australia and New Zealand have accelerated their efforts in 2020, with new technology solutions and innovative projects tackling the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic head on.Eighteen winners have been acknowledged...
Article - 12/02/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
The Centre has identified infrastructure projects to turn Leh and Kargil into smart cities. The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs is working on a proposal from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and has identified key infrastructure projects in...
Article - 11/30/2020
Active Region(s): India
Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Faridabad and Indore have entered the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance that brings together 36 “pioneer cities” under the aegis of the World Economic Forum. Besides the silicon city, Hyderabad, Faridabad and Indore will join...
Article - 11/30/2020
Active Region(s): India
Trinity Mobility, an Indian software company that specializes in smart city solutions, received an undisclosed investment from Honeywell. The investment will help Honeywell to expand its smart cities capabilities by offering access to Trinity’s...
Article - 11/30/2020
Active Region(s): India
Sustainable finance framework to fund Asia’s smart city projects The UOB Smart City Sustainable Finance System (UOBSCSFF) was unveiled by the United Overseas Bank (UOB) in Asia to make sustainable funding more reachable to corporations who are...
Article - 11/30/2020
Active Region(s): India
The UK has formed a strategic partnership to develop GIFT City, a fledging international financial services centre. The UK has set up a new Fund of Funds to route its future capital investments into India. The State Bank of India manages the Fund of...
Article - 11/30/2020
Active Region(s): India
Begin Rating ProcessVote for the cities you would like to see lead Readiness Cohorts. See more information about each city's projects below.Smart Cities Council Readiness ChallengeOur goal is to invite cities to provide information about their...
Article - 11/18/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN, Smart Cities Week
The development of smart cities in India has been given a boost after the decision of the national government’s Telecommunication Engineering Centre (TEC) in making the oneM2M specifications as national standard. It will enable greater collaboration...
Article - 11/10/2020
Active Region(s): India
Telangana received an early Diwali gift over the weekend as they received the highest Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) ever witnessed in the State’s history. This move was made by Amazon Web Services Inc (AWS), an Amazon.com company, which decided to...
Article - 11/10/2020
Active Region(s): India
Amidst the large scale disruptions that the fatal COVID-19 virus has brought into play, Seoul has managed to rise to the occasion to establish itself as Asia’s real estate leader in such unprecedented times. The capital city of South Korea’s...
Article - 11/10/2020
Active Region(s): India
Ramky Enviro Engineers and the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) announced the launch of a new construction and demolition (C&D) waste recycling plant in Jeedimetla, Hyderabad. The Jeedimetla plant is another step in the company’s...
Article - 11/10/2020
Active Region(s): India
India is likely to spend $500 billion (approx Rs 37 lakh crore) per year on infrastructure projects to accommodate India’s rapidly growing population by 2030, according to a report titled ‘A Blueprint for Modern Infrastructure Delivery’ by...
Article - 11/10/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Aurangabad Cantonment Board is set to get CCTV cameras installed under the ambitious smart city project to maintain checks on the areas and keep a close eye on the movement of unwanted elements.The installation work is set to begin in the soon...
Article - 11/06/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the investment of Rs 1,810.56 crore for 210 MW Luhri Stage-I Hydro Electric Project located on river Satluj in Shimla and Kullu districts of the Himalayan...
Article - 11/06/2020
Active Region(s): India
The road project has been divided into a total of ten packages, and bidders have been separated into three sets, one for Karnataka, one for Andhra Pradesh and the final one for Tamil Nadu.NHAI has called for bidders to contend for the Hoskote to...
Article - 11/06/2020
Active Region(s): India
POWERCHINA Huadong Engineering Corporation (HDEC) is using BIM to provide the foundation of a co-called Digital Twin that the company says will transform the ancient Chinese city of Shaoxing.The company is responsible for the digital engineering of...
Article - 11/06/2020
Active Region(s): India
A new initiative called “Nurturing Neighbouring Challenge”, launched recently aims to generate data banks in smart cities to improve city planning. The initiative will ensure the development of public places in smart cities, along with the...
Article - 11/06/2020
Active Region(s): India
This article is provided thanks to SCCANZ partner FrontierSI and first appeared at frontiersi.com.auThe ChallengeA robust city modelling framework is essential if local, state and national governments and communities are to work together across...
Article - 11/04/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Image above: Yellowbox team with the Mayor of Randwick City Council at Coogee BeachOver the past year, Randwick City Council has used smart-city technology to digitise the city and introduce emerging technology to public spaces. By...
Article - 11/04/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
The Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam has floated tender for construction of sewage treatment plants in Rae Bareilly of Uttar Pradesh. The scope of work involves design, build, finance, operate and transfer sewage treatment plants of capacities as set out...
Article - 10/30/2020
Active Region(s): India
Madurai Corporation has obtained clearance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the funding agency for the ‘package-4’ of the mega drinking water project proposed at an estimated cost of Rs 1,295 crore to get additional 125 MLD of drinking water...
Article - 10/30/2020
Active Region(s): India
Institute (TERI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for management of water and wastewater. The MoU was signed by DP Mathuria, Executive Director – Technical, National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), Ministry of Jal Shakti and Sanjay Seth,...
Article - 10/30/2020
Active Region(s): India
Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of State (I/C) for Housing & Urban Affairs, has urged that all our organisations should undertake efforts to identify more and more activities to be automated and free of human interface. “The power of technology is...
Article - 10/30/2020
Active Region(s): India
Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs, Nitin Gadkari virtually laid the foundation stones of nine National Highway projects with a total length of nearly 262 km worth over Rs 27.52 billion in Tripura on October 27, 2020. The event...
Article - 10/30/2020
Active Region(s): India
Fulfilling its commitment to usher new era of infrastructure development in rural areas across district under smart village campaign phase-II, Food and Civil Supplies Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu kick-started 3,201 development projects worth Rs 149....
Article - 10/23/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Madurai Corporation has been saving big on electricity every month, thanks to the conversion of street lights in 72 of the 100 wards in the city under the smart city scheme. Corporation officials say that not less than Rs 22 lakh is being saved...
Article - 10/23/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Central Government is drafting guidelines to scale up cycling infrastructure in the country, including interventions such as segregated lanes, shared streets, and intersections. The guidelines were shared with cities as the part of the Smart...
Article - 10/23/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Centre has provided an assistance of Rs 885.58 crore to Odisha under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme during 2015-2020. Of the 191 projects sanctioned under the scheme, 152 have so far been completed...
Article - 10/23/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Nashik Municipal Smart City Development Corporation (NMSCDCL) has invited suggestions and objections about the draft of the proposed Greenfiled township project. The township is to be developed on 753 acre in Makhmalabad areas of the city. The...
Article - 10/23/2020
Active Region(s): India
Smart Cities Council Partners have the unique opportunity to engage with multiple cities at the same time working together using the Council's Smart Cities Activator Platform. Here is an example of how the process works. You can download the PDF and...
Article - 10/16/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
As per a new study from Technavio, the smart city market size is poised to grow by more than $2118 billion during 2020-2024 with the decreasing price of connected devices expected to fuel market growth.The report from global technology research and...
Article - 10/16/2020
Active Region(s): India
Bharatpur is likely to become a Smart City in the coming years as the plan to include the city in the Narendra Modi government’s Smart City Mission has intensified. Recently, the Urban Development Department has sent a proposal to the Union Ministry...
Article - 10/16/2020
Active Region(s): India
The current COVID-19 pandemic has had unprecedented impacts on individuals and society as a whole. What was initially considered a China-specific outbreak spread quickly throughout the world, hospitalizing many and killing thousands. Until recently...
Article - 10/16/2020
Active Region(s): India
While the initial caseload of Covid19 in India was confined to metro cities like Delhi and Mumbai, it is now the Tier 2 and 3 cities that are contributing the most to new COVID-19 cases in the country. The increasing caseload has also led to...
Article - 10/16/2020
Active Region(s): India
Nokia announced an automated, zero-touch elevated temperature detection solution designed to help spot potential COVID-19 infections in facilities with thousands of people. The Nokia Automated Analytics Solution for Access Control streamlines and...
Article - 10/16/2020
Active Region(s): India