Development of smart city platforms similar to Singapore is likely to offer urban areas an architecture that includes machine-to-machine communication, reducing crime and promoting urban security.
According to participants in the country seminars on Wednesday, the Global Investors Meet has created an opportunity for different partners to work on India initiatives including various layers of smart city platforms.
“Six layers of telecom infrastructure have been developed for smart cities. The expectation is most of the machines such as traffic signals and police stations will talk to each other electronically,” said a representative of a communication company in the presence of senior officials of Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department. The six layers of telecom infrastructure includes sensors at the first layer, access through the second layer, shared network in the third layer, cloud architecture in the fourth layer, machine-to- machine communication in the fifth layer and various applications in the sixth layer.
Following GIM, officials are planning to leverage the strengths and assets of telecom companies to enable smart city environments in cities such as Chennai.
Machine-to-machine and machine-to-machine-to-human communication technologies are expected to be the key requirements for effective smart city projects in the State. Over 50 per cent of the stolen cars are expected to be located in 72 hours using urban security systems proposed at GIM.
