IBM announced a partnership with Lodha Group to build
REAL ESTATE/LIFESTYLE
Palava,
India’s Next Big Planned City, Builds Smarter City Foundation with IBM
IBM’s
Integrated Command Center to monitor end-to-end operations of the city
Focus
on Public Safety, Intelligent Operations, and Participative Governance
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a partnership
with Lodha Group to build and manage smart city infrastructure for Palava, which
will set the benchmark for 21st century urban living in India. Envisioned as a
city of opportunity and spanning over 4,000 acres,
Palava will incorporate IBM’s smarter cities technology using advanced, data
driven systems to integrate information from all city operations into a single
system to improve efficiency and deliver an enhanced quality of life for
residents.
“Palava
was born out of a vision to create a city of opportunity, one that would not
just offer an unparalleled quality of life to its citizens but also become an
ecosystem – nurturing business, creating jobs and delivering growth. To achieve
this, we are planning decades ahead, and embedding smart elements in the city’s
design and infrastructure. This will help ensure safety, efficiency and
governance with participation from citizens, and in parallel provides the
foundations for businesses with future-ready infrastructure; a vibrant
community; a pool of educated and talented professionals, alongside top-rung
education, sports and cultural facilities,” said Shaishav Dharia, Development Director – Palava, Lodha Group. “The
smart city initiative is key to achieving the level of efficiency and
participation to make this vision a reality and we are pleased to partner with
IBM, the global leader in smarter cities, to build this first-of-a-kind city in
India
Strategically
located at the junction of Navi Mumbai and Dombivali, Palava, is envisioned to
become the largest ever private, completely planned development in urban India,
and one of the top 50 places to live in the world by 2020.
To enable Palava’s Smarter City development,
IBM will provide a foundation to integrate multiple city agencies and provide a
unified view into all city functions, helping all departments collaborate,
share insights and information to improve the experience for its citizens. By enabling participative government and
insight driven actions, city officials will be able better allocate resources
and provide a more resident centric approach to city management.IBM Intelligent
Operations serves as the backbone of city infrastructure and centralizes key
city functions through real time monitoring and advanced analytics. Providing
a 360 degree view of the key functions for managing the city, will enable city
officials to better allocate resources, adopt preventative maintenance measures
and proactively manage issues that could affect quality of life.
“Recent projections show India ’s urban population soaring from 340
million in 2008 to 590 million in 2030, which may lead to tremendous strain on
urban resources in India Asia
As a part of this strategic engagement, IBM Global
Business Services developed the vision and detailed roadmap for Palava’s
smarter city imperatives. IBM is also creating the business architecture and
operating procedures, implementing the technology platform and solutions, and
will eventually manage the technology. The project also consists of the following:
Participative
Governance: IBM
is building a service platform for citizens to interact with city
administration and manage various services offered by the city. Using mobile
and social technology, the service platform will enable citizens to communicate
with city officials, access amenities and services, report on issues and
receive feedback from city officials. This will enable city officials to better
handle citizen concerns, more rapidly gather feedback via social media and more
effectively manage city resources to fulfill various needs of the citizens.
Intelligent
Operations:
IBM is enabling Palava to go beyond “smart instrumentation” and be a truly
interconnected and intelligent city by integrating different service areas such
as energy, water, transportation, public safety and smart cards with a central
command and control center. The central command and control center will monitor
the health of key city systems and take coordinated action to handle any
disruptions or emergency situations in the city. This will also enable the use
of Big Data Analytics enabling the city to predict and prevent issues that
could affect quality of life, ranging from traffic congestion to emergencies.
Public
Safety:
IBM is using expertise from numerous client engagements to define and set up
technology enabled procedures to effectively handle different types of
situations that could affect the city. This further accentuates Lodha’s vision
of public safety as one of the primary focus areas for Palava. IBM will support
a central hub to monitor and enable coordination among Palava city and agencies
involved in public safety and emergency management. Centralized city operations
will allow for real-time monitoring of incidents and enable public safety
personnel to take quick coordinated actions.
About
IBM India:
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About
IBM Smarter Cities:
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About Lodha Group:
For
more information on Lodha Group and its projects, please visit our website – www.LodhaGroup.com
For
more information on Palava, please visit: www.palava.in
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media queries on the Lodha Group, please reach out to corp.comm@lodhagroup.com
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