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A smart city (also smarter city) is an emerging conceptual view of a city that promotes the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to engage with citizens to develop social capital and intellectual capital, to make better use of hard infrastructure (physical capital), reduce usage of environmental capital and support smart growth (sustainable economic development). The inclusion of social and environmental capital distinguishes smart cities from the more technology-laden terms of digital city and Intelligent city.

Smart cities create more effective urban systems capable of addressing contemporary challenges and urban problems. They create more innovative and competitive cities, based on knowledge clusters, people-led innovation, and global networking; offering higher capacity of monitoring and management of environmental issues; improved city transportation; more secure urban spaces. This greater effectiveness is based on solutions /platforms integrating human, collective and artificial intelligence (in other words urban activities, institutional capacity, and IT).

The Top 10 Smart Cities On The Planet
Crunching a list of variables about innovation and sustainability, we rank the world’s smartest cities, from New York to Hong Kong (and with an unexpected winner)

Written By Boyd Cohen


Last year, I spent considerable time researching best practices for climate resilient cities—an endeavor that culminated in what I believe was the first ever global ranking of resilient cities. Now, after extensive research on smart cities initiatives around the globe, I have developed what may be the first ever global rankings of smart cities.

The term "smart cities" is a bit ambiguous. Some people choose a narrow definition—i.e. cities that use information and communication technologies to deliver services to their citizens. I prefer a broader definition: Smart cities use information and communication technologies (ICT) to be more intelligent and efficient in the use of resources, resulting in cost and energy savings, improved service delivery and quality of life, and reduced environmental footprint—all supporting innovation and the low-carbon economy.

Here, then, are the top 10 smart cities:

1.) Vienna. This came as a bit of a surprise to me, as going into the research I had not heard much about Vienna as a smart city. But Vienna was the only city that ranked in the top 10 in every category: innovation city (5), regional green city (4), quality of life (1) and digital governance (8). Vienna is establishing bold smart-city targets and tracking their progress to reach them, with programs like the Smart Energy Vision 2050, Roadmap 2020, and Action Plan 2012-2015. Vienna’s planners are incorporating stakeholder consultation processes into building and executing carbon reduction, transportation and land-use planning changes in the hopes of making the city a major European player in smart city technologies.

2.) Toronto. The highest rated smart city in North America, Toronto also scores pretty well across the board. Recognizing its importance in the movement, IBM recently opened a Business Analytics Solutions Center in Toronto. Toronto is also an active member of the Clinton 40 (C40) megacities, which seek to transition to the low-carbon economy. The private sector in Toronto is collaborating too, creating a Smart Commute Toronto initiative in the hopes of increasing transit efficiency in the metro area. Toronto also recently began using natural gas from landfills to power the city’s garbage trucks. That’s smart closed-loop thinking.

3.) Paris. As is typical of sustainability-related rankings, Europe fared well. Paris was highly rated in several categories including innovation (3), green cities in Europe (10), and digital governance (11). Paris was already on the world map for its highly successful bike sharing program, Velib, and just last month, the mayor launched a similar model for small EVs called Autolib, which currently has 250 rental stations.

4.) New York. New York scored higher than most other cities in the ranking in all of the categories outside of quality of life, where it ranked a miserable 47th. New York partnered with IBM in 2009 to launch the IBM Business Analytics Solution Center to address “the growing demand for the complex capabilities needed to build smarter cities and help clients optimize all manner of business processes and business decisions.” In New York, IBM is already helping the city prevent fires and protect first responders as well as identify questionable tax refund claims—a move that is expected to save the city about $100 million over a five-year period.

5.) London. The UK capital also scored relatively high across the board. London has been well-recognized for some of its sustainability innovations (i.e. congestion tax) and its robust transit system. The city will soon be home to Smart Cities research center housed at Imperial College, which will leverage transport, government, business, academic and consumer data in hopes of making the city more efficient and innovative. Just the other day, London announced a partnership with O2 to launch the largest free Wi-Fi network in Europe.

6.) Tokyo. Tokyo is the first Asian city on this list, scoring well in the innovation (22) and digital city (15) categories. Last year, the city announced plans to create a smart town in the suburbs. In partnership with Panasonic, Accenture, and Tokyo Gas (among others), the eco-burb will contain homes that integrate solar panels, storage batteries, and energy efficient appliances all connected to a smart grid. Tokyo is also focused on promoting smart mobility solutions.

7.) Berlin. Berlin also performs well across the board, with good scores in innovation (14), green-ness (8th in Europe) and quality of life (17). In collaboration with Vattenfall, BMW, and others, Berlin is testing out vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technologies in the hopes of creating a virtual power plant from electric vehicles.

8.) Copenhagen. Lately, it seems Copenhagen has been doing a lot right. It was rated number one on the green scale in Europe by Siemens and also achieved number one ranking in my global resilient cities ranking last year. All with good reason: Copenhagen is taking a real leadership role on sustainable innovation. The city has committed to carbon neutrality by 2025 and 40% of its citizens regularly commute via bicycle. Furthermore, I was quite impressed with the way their mayor, Frank Jensen, recently articulated the role of cities as growth engines and the potential to stimulate the economy through cleantech innovation.

9.) Hong Kong. Hong Kong scored quite well in key areas, including the digital governance ranking (3). However, its quality-of-life score (70) dropped the city down to ninth in my ranking of smart cities. Hong Kong is experimenting with RFID technology in its airport, as well as throughout the agriculture supply chain. The city has also been a leader in the use and adoption of smart cards, which are already used by millions of residents for services like public transit, library access, building access, shopping, and car parks.

10.) Barcelona. Barcelona was recently ranked the number two smart city in Spain in the IDC report, and with good reason. The city is a pioneer in smart city and low-carbon solutions. It was among the first in the world to introduce a solar thermal ordinance about a decade ago, recently launched the LIVE EV project to promote the adoption of EVs and charging infrastructure, and the city also recently announced a major partnership to develop a living lab for smart-city innovation.

There were many other strong candidates which are runners-up in this first ranking, including Amsterdam, Melbourne, Seattle, São Paulo, Stockholm, and Vancouver.

Pundits and industry insiders expect smart cities to become a sizable market, with projections of nearly $40 billion spent on smart-cities technologies by 2016. And real estate experts predict that smart cities will in the future be attractive to the educated work force and will therefore become real-estate gold. All reasons enough to get on the smart-city bandwagon. Who knows? Maybe next year your city could crack the top 10 rankings.

Source : The Top 10 Smart Cities On The Planet | Co.Exist | ideas + impact

Hopes For India

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Smart Cities India Expo, Conferences, Exhibitions, Trade Show & Fair Organizers Company in India 2015

Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


BUILDINGS INFORMATION

1. PAREL | Ariana | 75 fl | APP
2. PRABHADEVI | Ahuja Towers | 250 m | 53 fl | U/C
3.MALAD (E) | Omkar Alta Monte | 73fl + 65fl + 58fl | U/C
4.WORLI | Century IT Park | 300m | 59 fl | U/C
5.PAREL | Crescent Bay | 64fl + 57fl + 54fl + 51fl + 48fl + 45fl | U/C
6.PRABHADEVI | DB Crown | 337 m | 75 fl x 3 | U/C
7.MAHALAXMI | DB Turf View | 76 fl + 70 fl | Site Prep
8.PAREL | Eon | 65fl | Site Prep
9.WORLI | Four Seasons Hotel - tower 2 | 355 m | 71 fl | PRO
10.WORLI | HBS Skylink | 300m x 2 | Site Prep
11.GAMDEVI | Hubtown Realms | 270m | 60 fl | APP
12MARINE LINES | India Tower | 720 m | 125 fl | On Hold
13.Indiabulls multiple towers UC
14.WADALA | Island City Center | 79 fl x 2 + more | Site Prep
15.DADAR | Kohinoor Square | 203m-52fl + Altissimo 117m-33fl | U/C
16. MAHALAXMI | Minerva | 304 m | 82 fl | U/C
17.LOWER PAREL | Namaste Tower - W Hotel | 301 m | 62 fl | UC
18.MUMBAI CENTRAL | Nathani Heights | 262m | 72 fl | U/C
19.WORLI | Oasis | 372m-85fl + Ritz Carlton-239m-53fl | U/C
20. WORLI | Omkar 1973 | 300+ m | 78 fl + 77fl + 63fl | U/C
21.LOWER PAREL | One Avighna Park | 266 m | 64 fl | U/C
22.DADAR | Richa Tower | 227m-62fl + 137m-42fl | APP
23.LOWER PAREL | The Park | 268m | 78fl x 4 + more | U/C
24.LOWER PAREL | Lodha Place | World One 442m-117fl + World Crest 223m-57fl + more | U/C
25.PAREL | Shreepati Gardens | 400m+ |110 fl x 2 | 68 fl x 2 | Proposed



BUILDINGS INFORMATION

Name__ Height____Floors___Status__City__Locatio
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1_Supernova Spira__300m__80__U/C___Noida__Sector 94 ( Supernova | Spira 300m-80fl +More)
2_Brys Buzz__300m__80_+App__Noida__Sector 150 (Brys Buzz | 292m | 81fl

3_Sikka Dream High__300m___80___App__Noida__Sector 143

4_North Eye__255m__66__U/C___Noida__Sector 74(North Eye 255m-66 fl )

5_Wave City Center ____~400m_____100_____uc___Noida____Sector 32

6_Yamunotri W Hotel__288m___63___Site Prep___Noida____Sector 44 (Yamunotri W Hotel | 288m| 63)

7 _The Tempean __ 50 _app _noida sector 15

8_ The Downtown Noida_______ ______app______noida

9_Delhi One_____190m_____42____U/C____Noida_____Sector 16B (Delhi One | Multiple towe 10_ | Unitech Golf & Country Club | Multiple towers - 20 to 45 fl ___uc __noida__Sec-96( Unitech Golf & Country Club | Multiple towers )

11_OH my god tower ___200m______43f____siteprep____noida__sec126

12_Wave One____140m____40____U/C_____Noida____Sector 18

13_NOIDA Sec-94 | BPTP Capital City | 45fl + 40fl + 27fl + 23fl | U/C

14_ Cypress Court___ | 36fl x 2 + 27fl x 3 ___Site Prep ___GREATER NOIDA

15_ Sun Court | _____100 m ______30f______uc____GREATER NOIDA |

16_ La premiere____-200m________45+_____app____noida

Modi-Obama meet: US to help India develop three smart cities - The Times of India

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Lessons for PM Narendra Modi's smart cities from Cisco's smart campus in Bangalore


At 61, Wim Elfrink recalls every image his father painstakingly drew up to recreate schools, airports, buildings that were razed to the ground in The Netherlands during the Second World War.

While the Elfrink Senior, based in Rotterdam, was a brick-and-mortar architect tasked with such reconstruction, his son styles himself as a 'digital architect'.

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As the Chief Globalisation Officer at Cisco, Elfrink prides himself on applying digital overlay to physical infrastructure. He's also the brain behind the 2.18 million square feet Cisco Smart Campus in Bengaluru that houses eight glass-and-concrete buildings showcasing a digitally connected and sustainable environment where 8,500-odd techies don't have an assigned workplace.

Though Elfrink is based out of Cisco's global HQ at San Jose, he's been a regular to the Bangalore campus since his India stint in 2007. In his words, the campus is a smart city in itself, even more advanced than the San Jose headquarters of Cisco Systems.

Engaging with millennials

A walkabout in the Cessna Business Park where the 32-acre Cisco SEZ is the lone corporate surrounded by LG, InMobi and a few other companies outside its gates gives a sense of the expanse and an evolving digital architecture that caters to the demands of the Gen Y employees, who make up roughly 25 per cent of its population (Cisco India contributes to 60 per cent of Gen Y staff company-wide globally).

As the younger workforce prefers a seamless environment for day-to-day activities, it ties in quite naturally with the company's vision of work-live-play-learn. "In this campus and at Cisco offices globally, people have complete flexibility to work from wherever they are, on any device that they want, from any location," says VC Gopalratnam, Chief of Strategy, Planning & Operations, Cisco India.

Cisco employees can book a work station through the global network by scanning the QR code in their device. It then extends to a higher degree of personalization wherein the IT registration mode tosses up the employee's preferences—lighting, air-conditioning, TV channels, phone profile preferences, and even the blinds setup.

Simply put, you get to choose not only your workplace for the day but also your ambient light and temperature zone at the touch of a button. Employees can access their seat for the day much before entering the campus, be it next to friends at work or by the cool confines of a Zen-like garden. And when they are done for the day, the seat is up for grabs again, thereby increasing space utilization campus-wide, which today sits at 58 per cent.

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(In photo: Cisco Office, Bengaluru)
Seeing is believing

If that offers a peek into the future of work, President Engineering & India Site Leader Amit Phadnis is emphatic about a sea change in thinking within the group over the last seven years. "We no longer talk about how many products we develop from here but how much business leadership we have and how we interface with clients," he says.

That change in mindset has resulted in 'Engage', an annual interface with enterprise customers that Cisco hosts on its campus to showcase evolving technologies. "As an engineer, customers see what I've developed and tell me if they like it, what can be done better and then I go back to my lab to fix it," says Laxmi, Senior Technology Lead at Cisco credited with inventing quite a few technologies the company has deployed worldwide, including LISP or locator and identity separation protocol, which provides seamless mobility.

Of course, Cisco is high on tele-presence, an innovation the company has perfected over the years and high-definition screens abound in the campus that hook on to 600-odd Cisco offices worldwide, as well as with the location of clients and partners. Take the case of Anil who works in Gopalratnam's team.

A month back, he was working with a bank in Singapore and fixed their datacenter using tele-presence. "Otherwise, just for an hour's meeting, a couple of people from here would have gone to Singapore," he says.

Today, most company meetings are done that way. When Global Chairman & CEO John Chambers calls for a meeting with employees, everybody around the world is given a time slot, and they just log in from their devices. The Bangalore campus is perhaps the most connected in the Cisco ecosystem. People can pick any conference room, and adjust the lights, shutters or even control the AC.

Setting off alarm bells

There are only five Security and Facilities Operating Centres (SFOCs) in Cisco worldwide, and one of them is housed in the Bangalore campus. The task at hand is to monitor any security incident around the world and respond in real time.

"Since all the SFOCs are integrated on an IP platform, if something goes wrong in Bangalore, Shanghai can take over our operations seamlessly and we are equipped to monitor Cisco offices the world over," says Captain Poornapragna GA, Security Operations Manager at Cisco.

Cisco employees, who travel on work globally, are tracked on screens called 'video walls' the moment they book their flights and hotels through a common portal.

When bombs went off at the Ritz Carlton and Marriott in Jakarta in 2011, SFOC were informed that Tom Ingram, an Indian who is now in the US, was trapped along with a colleague on the 22nd floor of Marriott. "We were able to reach out to them and sent a team to evacuate them to safety," says Poornapragna.

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Digitizing the commute
Talking of security, the company's transport buses, used by 30 per cent of the staff, are fitted with GPS tied to the Transport Control Room. Apart from route information, even if the driver deviates from the prescribed route or over-speeds, an alert is generated. Moreover, all transport vehicles come equipped with RFID tag readers.

In other words, staff are supposed to swipe in on entry and swipe out on exit. If they do not get off at a registered place, which is the drop-off point, an alert again gets generated. For those who prefer to drive down to work, parking is made easy.

Though the campus has room for 2,200 cars, there are sensors on the ground that pick up whether a parking lot is occupied or empty. So the employee gets to choose his parking lot much in advance over his registered device and can park without any hassle. The idea is to manage parking efficiently.

Food for thought

On campus, efficiency flows even in the business of food. The five cafeterias can accommodate roughly 6,000 people. This is where the 'Connected Cafe' solution comes in handy providing information on where things lie.

While the main kiosk on the entrance to cafes is one way to look at things—menu, availability— anyone can do the same from their device. Giri Govindrajalu, Director IT, Cisco India swishes his iPad and goes to the Connected Cafe app where he pinpoints to a North Indian Thali with 1,259 kilo calories.

Apart from menu-driven information, employees get to know beforehand how long the queue is as the app is linked to real-time camera feeds. And if you're not happy with the grub, you're free to give feedback then and there on your device. And if all that food is not sitting easy on the stomach, there's always the 'At Life Connections Health Centre' for employees with three onsite doctors at any given point and a built-in pharmacy.

The mini-hospital is equipped with state-of-theart emergency services and can transport the employee to a large hospital in a standby ambulance after stabilization. The health centre relies largely on telehealth, providing virtual healthcare to all Cisco employees countrywide.

"Our employees need not step out in all the seven offices we have around the country. The doctor doesn't need to take your vitals physically as there will be a paramedic to take it and put it on cloud. Even the audio and video of the amplification of your heart rate is high definition and the doctor can take a call," says Suriya Shankar, TME & Network Consulting at Cisco India.

The health centre even monitors the health of kids of mothers on campus. A 5,000 square feet creche houses about 100 children of Cisco employees where mothers can watch over their wards through live feeds on their devices.

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(In photo: One of the many 'Box Offices' within the campus for employees to catch a fi lm or attend live conferences and interact through tele-presence.)

Microcosm of a smart city

The campus ecosystem resembles a smart city and is in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's big idea of digitising India by setting up 100 smart cities. "It is the perfect time for us to bring in everything that we've got from a technology standpoint that caters to what smart cities need and put it all into one centre," says Dinesh Malkani, President, Cisco India and SAARC.

A testimony to that are five LEED-Platinum certified buildings on campus. The top certification by the US Green Building Council has been awarded to about 150 buildings countrywide and Cisco scores with seven of them in India.

So sustainability does tie up with everything one gets to see on campus as each activity is looked upon by the administration as a business case and cracked open with precision. Fuelling the campus sprawl is 50 MW of power with a 70 MW back-up as 85 per cent of the power consumption is taken up by the various labs packed to the hem by cables, routers and switches.

The company also generates 1 MW of power through solar energy (Karnataka generates 9 MW of solar power) panels placed strategically on the building terraces. But interestingly, with increased use of network, Cisco has now gone in for power trading. "We have signed up for 13 MW of power from the exchange and on average are able to save Rs 6-8 lakh per day based on our bidding," says Prasad HR, Director-Workplace Resources, Cisco India.

The entire superstructure gets linked to an integrated dashboard with pointers on energy usage, transportation, space utilization et al. making life a lot easier for people like Prasad and enabling them to make quick decisions. "The idea really is to think of our campus like a city over a common IP network, which we leverage for everything," says Gopalratnam.

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Again, catering to the younger workforce, the campus is liberally sprinkled with gymnasiums, gaming zones, thematic floors and breakout areas, also known as collaborative spaces. "The whole idea is how much you can informally collaborate with people whom you need not work with on a day-to-day basis," says Amit Phadnis.

At any given corner, millennials can be seen converging on issues over coffee or a cricket match being telecast. Clearly, the 'cool' frat is more solution-driven than its predecessors, who were problemcentric and the Cisco Bangalore campus is striving hard to carve out such cool spaces. As Wim Elfrink puts it: "You commute not to compute, you commute to collaborate."

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Source : Lessons for PM Narendra Modi's smart cities from Cisco's smart campus in Bangalore - Page 3 - Economic Times
 
I don't agree with London, high on population, the tube network sucks,it gets very hot and the air conditioning is also not good.There are a lot of pigeons which cause diseases.Navigation in London is difficult,as cabs are costly, London is very big,areas like Brixton have a high crime rate.East London is very underrated than western London. Moreover London Is very costly u need a lot of quids.
These are my personal views. No offence though.
 
Hyderabad to become global smart city: Minister - The Hindu

Smart cities should be able to offer smarter citizen services and Telangana State government has taken up the task of making Hyderabad a global smart city, the IT Minister, K.Tarakarama Rao said here on Wednesday.

Speaking at XI Metropolis World Congress plenary session, he said special focus was needed to solve issues faced by the city and intelligence gained from large volumes of macro-data and analysis could help revolutionise urban planning and functioning of the city.

Mr.Rao said Telangana, with 39 per cent population living in urban areas, was a very urban State and has many challenges and opportunities and the government has a big agenda and lofty goals. “We have unique problems and challenges. There is no panacea. We made a fresh beginning and we are confident of solving the problems,” he asserted.

Proper data was needed to understand the needs of people and to design welfare schemes that suit them, he said while referring to the recently carried intensive household survey. Data generated from the exercise would be utilised for allocation of required funds in coming budget session of the Assembly and to remove inefficiencies in the governance.

Mr.Rao said the data would be useful for better revenue administration, urban poor inclusion, emergency response and disaster management and also citizen-civic engagement.

In his address, Barcelona Mayor, Xavier Trias said the cities of Hyderabad and Barcelona could collaborate in many fields and respond to major challenges. Barcelona with a population of 3.2 million was a city of culture and innovation with top level economic and industrial drivers, he said, according to a press release.
 
That was a good read bro,especially your 2nd post,thanks for posting. :)

This is namaste tower bud not a smart city,though it looks beautiful but its being constructed at snail's speed.
Thats the situation for whole infra sector. But now with reforms in line and construction sector getting its raise in FDI percentage, things are only forecasted positively. Expect all pending projects to finish before next elections.
 
This is great for india, I think in general south asian cities are getting better smart and sustainable better planned. I was hoping that bangladesh builds quite few smart cities, like they could build the smart cities on the river banks of the three might rivers that make bangladesh and call the cities by their name, for example Meghna city, by the meghna river, Jamuna city, by the jamuna river, or padma city by the padma river. There's is hope for Bangladesh though, singapre is looking to invest into Purbachal new town, a suburb of dhaka and make it an entirely sustainable, smart and green city that can sustain itself, they also plan to build a city near purbachal with it's own power station. So there is hope.
 
Thats the situation for whole infra sector. But now with reforms in line and construction sector getting its raise in FDI percentage, things are only forecasted positively. Expect all pending projects to finish before next elections.
Agreed,with the recent reforms and a decision on home loans that came few months ago could be breather for those builders but still Mumbai is an exception,there is need of internal reforms aswell, like increase in FSI,an avg of 3 for a land starved city like mumbai is nothing but stupid. They need to ease up rules for approvals of projects and many stuffs,many projects like bindi bazar & Dharavi slum redevelopment project are all stuck either because of political or legal reasons.
 
Hyderabad to become global smart city: Minister - The Hindu

Smart cities should be able to offer smarter citizen services and Telangana State government has taken up the task of making Hyderabad a global smart city, the IT Minister, K.Tarakarama Rao said here on Wednesday.

Speaking at XI Metropolis World Congress plenary session, he said special focus was needed to solve issues faced by the city and intelligence gained from large volumes of macro-data and analysis could help revolutionise urban planning and functioning of the city.

Mr.Rao said Telangana, with 39 per cent population living in urban areas, was a very urban State and has many challenges and opportunities and the government has a big agenda and lofty goals. “We have unique problems and challenges. There is no panacea. We made a fresh beginning and we are confident of solving the problems,” he asserted.

Proper data was needed to understand the needs of people and to design welfare schemes that suit them, he said while referring to the recently carried intensive household survey. Data generated from the exercise would be utilised for allocation of required funds in coming budget session of the Assembly and to remove inefficiencies in the governance.

Mr.Rao said the data would be useful for better revenue administration, urban poor inclusion, emergency response and disaster management and also citizen-civic engagement.

In his address, Barcelona Mayor, Xavier Trias said the cities of Hyderabad and Barcelona could collaborate in many fields and respond to major challenges. Barcelona with a population of 3.2 million was a city of culture and innovation with top level economic and industrial drivers, he said, according to a press release.
thats gonna take alot of effort....Hyderabad is dirty as hell...hope they do it fast!
 
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