Currently, most Smart city deployments are seen as ‘City planning gone digital using some sensors(IoT)’. While this approach may sound logical – it has many issues since deployment of sensors is expensive. It leads to siloed applications with only incremental gains. Tech companies have been championing this approach and at best, it leads to specific applications which we label as ‘smart’ because they have some sensing capabilities. These applications include smart parking, smart street lighting etc. But such applications do not talk to each other – and so remain niche. City planners love them because they can point to some ROI. Everyone is happy – but there are only incremental gains in specific applications. Read More
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