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After successful completion of two batches of Smart City E-
Courses, GTU Graduate School of Smart Cities Develop-
ment (GSSCD) has announced the third batch of certificate
online e-courses starting from August 2016.
1. Smart Cities Planning and Development
2. Project Management in Smart Cities
3. Application of Solar Energy in Smart Cities
4. Green Buildings in Smart Cities
Smart City e-courses are online distance learning certificate
courses. The participants can study being at their choice of
place i.e. home, office etc. The participants will need to spare
8-10 hours per week for each e-course.
Each course is of 18 weeks duration. Minimum qualification
required for enrolment in the certificate e-courses is graduate
in any discipline with minimum 50% from recognized uni-
versity.
GTU Smart City E-Newsletter Issue XIII Date : 06-08-2016
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GTU-GSSCD Updates
Last 10 days to register for Smart City Certificate E-Courses
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Indian Smart City Updates
India is One Step Closer to Safer Roads with the Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Bill 2016
Every year, approximately 1.25 million people die in road traffic
crashes. In 2015, India recorded 146,133 road traffic fatalities, which
means that we account for over 11 percent of the global numbers.
While India is home to roughly two percent of all motorized vehicles
globally, our roads are some of the most dangerous in the world. Ex-
perts agree that road safety needs a safe systems approach. A big de-
terrent to this in India, however, is the Motor Vehicles Act (MVA)
1998, which prioritises vehicles. This is soon going to change.
In August 2014, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) drafted a new Road Transport
and Safety Bill for public comment. Several revisions were made, but the bill still faced significant political
opposition. The bill was criticised as being too revolutionary, and too top-down. In November 2015, India
became a signatory to the Brasilia declaration and committed to reducing road fatalities by 50 percent by
2020.
To meet this commitment, MoRTH took a consultative approach by establishing a Group of Ministers to
look into the issue and get buy-in from state governments. This group decided that ...
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Centre Govt. to Announce Winner Cities Name by End of this Month
According to the published news, the government is ready to announce the winners of the second round
under the government’s flagship 100 smart cities mission by the end of this month. In this round, 27 cities
will be selected by the government.
A senior official of Ministry of Urban Development said that the teams which were constituted by the Cen-
tre to evaluate earlier received proposals are currently evaluating the plans submitted by the cities for the
second round. We are expecting the list to be ready after Independence Day ...
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Now Jammu & Srinagar Allow to Participate in All India City Challenge Competition
Finally, the Government of India has announced that Jammu and Srinagar in Jammu & Kashmir both cities
have been selected among 11 cities to participate in “All India City Challenge Competition”. The both cit-
ies were finalized among other cities and towns of Jammu & Kashmir on the basis of parameters set for the
smart city project.
According to the news, in a written reply to a clubbed unstarred question in Lok Sabha, the Union Minister
of State for Urban Development, Rao Inderjit Singh said that after finalization of 98 potential Smart Cities
selected on the basis of recommendations of states and UTs. After finalization 11 cities will be eligible to
participate in the All India City Challenge ...
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NetApp Company Singed MoU with Varanasi & Karnal Municipal Corporation
According to the published news, the NetApp company has signed the MoU with Karnal and Varanasi Mu-
nicipal Corporation for Smart City initiatives. NetApp is a storage and data management company.
The president-India & Saarc, NetApp Anil Velluri said that in these projects the storage, surveillance and
security infrastructure will be provided by the Company. He also said the part of the process will be to get
the specifications,design elements and architecture right.
The NetApp company has made a partnership with Cisco for smart city solutions and besides this, it will
open more partnerships with other technology vendors.
Velluri said that each vendor brings a different dimension to the table. The whole idea is to collaborate at
the core design and architecture...
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Centre Identified 60 Villages to Develop as ‘Smart Villages’ in India
In the challenge of transforming rural India, the Centre has select-
ed 60 villages in three districts of Rajgarh, Sehore, and Satna to
develop as ‘Smart Villages’ under the most ambitious smart cities
project. For the development of these smart villages, the NDA
government will provide funds for specific development. In this
smart villages development, each village will get Rs. 25 crore.
In the development of smart villages, the government will focus on climate change, smart energy, agricul-
ture, and water. Smart village development will come about in the state in coordination with Environment
Planning and Coordinating Agency (EPCO).
According to the sources, the proposal developed by coordinating with National Bank for Agriculture and
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DDA to turn Dwarka into smart sub-city
The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has set the ball rolling for its pilot ‘smart sub-city’ project in
Dwarka. The land development agency plans to come up with three smart sub-cities: Dwarka, Rohini and
Narela. The DDA has already identified vacant land for the project in Dwarka and is now looking for a
consultancy firm to prepare a model for an integrated township and advise the agency on how to implement
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One Year Later: Smart Cities In India Are Far From Reality
Back in 2015, When India’s Prime Minister Modi announced Smart City pro-
ject, the target was to create 100 smart cities. According to reports, these cit-
ies would have intelligent transit management system, smart street poles, e-
pathshalas and much more to simplify life of people and set an ideal for other
cities to follow. On 2nd July 2016, it was announced that 9 more cities will
be added into these cities.
Now that it has been more than one year since the smart city project was
started, it is a good time to take a look at what has been done, what needs to
be done and what are biggest challenges for the project. ...
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Odisha To Use Drones For Waste Management
In the wake of developing smart cities, Odisha is planning to in-
troduce drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for various
citizen centric services. To start with, the state government is
contemplating use of drones for effective management of solid
waste.
A team from IIT Kharagpur lead by professor Arvind Routray
recently had a discussion with the state government and offered a
presentation on using the low-flying airplanes in solving some of
the plaguing civic issues. ... Read More ...
Smart Cities Development - Global Updates
Smart cities must work with connected cars
By 2017 worldwide spending on connected vehicles will be $29,6-billion and government spending on in-
telligent transportation systems will be $16,5-billion, according to the International Data Corporation
(IDC).
A new IDC PlanScape, “Collaboration Between Automotive OEMs and City Leaders for Implementing
Connected Car and Smart City Solutions”, offers practical guidance to further explore how IT and non-IT
leaders in automotive manufacturing and state and local government can collaborate to provide new and
improved opportunities and services in urban environments.
Automotive OEMs face an urgency to evolve their product to compete with other transportation options
and smart city officials need to integrate with new technologies in automobiles for the future smart street...
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Are smart city transport systems vulnerable to hackers?
It wasn't so much the word, but its position that caused New Jersey
photojournalist Lori Nichols to turn her car around on a highway near
Atlantic City close to midnight to snap a photo.
The word was lit up in bulbs on a freestanding temporary sign - the
type that normally says "road work ahead" or "slow down".
The NJ.com reporter wrote a story about it the next day.
The sign stayed that way for several hours, she says. "When I had a
chance to call the local police department, Hamilton Township in At-
lantic County, it was around noon or 1pm, a person I spoke to did
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China Smart Cities to Prioritize Intelligent LED Streetlight
Smart industries and intelligent living were the main themes of the 2016 China (Chengdu) Smart Industry
International Expo that kicked off Wednesday, according to a MoneyDJ report.
Topics and products featured at the show included smart products, smart cities, smart manufacturing, and
information security. Other topics touched upon included smart security, and smart homes, which showed
China’s resolve to become a leading smart city.
Smart streetlights will become an important infrastructure and portal to smart cities, providing the founda-
tion for WiFi coverage, charging stations, monitoring all sorts of information including surveillance and
environmental indicators. Lamp posts can also be used for displays, and other fields can all be realized us-
ing smart streetlights. ...
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Smart Technologies Updates
Smart cities: 6 essential technologies
Smart cities are connected cities, and they work in conjunction with everything from IoT sensors to open
data collection and smart streetlights to provide better services and better communication. Smart cities are
no longer the wave of the future.
They are here now and growing quickly as the Internet of Things (IoT) expands and impacts municipal ser-
vices around the globe. The smart city industry is projected to be a $400 billion market by 2020, with 600
cities worldwide. These cities are expected to generate 60% of the world's GDP by 2025, according to
McKinsey research, as previously published in TechRepublic. ...
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5G key to unlocking digital future including virtual reality
The term “virtual reality” conjures up a wide variety of images, depending on
who you ask. Some think of a scene from Minority Report, or people wearing
“goggles” at gaming conventions. The less glamorous but just-as-exciting reali-
ty is that this technology has the potential to revolutionize everything from com-
plex medical procedures, to the way high-risk military and police training exer-
cises are conducted, to immersive education.
We’re on the cusp of mobilizing ground-breaking innovation that can make virtual reality a fixture in our
everyday lives moving forward. But before we can successfully create a world incorporating virtual reality,
we must first implement a missing puzzle piece. ...
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Securing connected transport by Christine Cavigioli, VP Automotive at Gemalto
The Internet of Things (IoT) is going to completely revolutionise transportation
in our cities, with intelligent buses, smart trains, high-tech tubes and connected
cars all set to transform urban commuting and moving around cities from a high
power, high emission task to an economically and environmentally friendly expe-
rience.
That, at least, is the tantalising promise from vehicle manufacturers, IoT travel app developers and trans-
portation technologists: and the end result of adding Internet Protocol connectivity to millions of vehicles,
roads, railways and urban metro systems. ...
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The Internet of Things: in detail
What is the Internet of Things?
The Internet of Things (IoT) offers endless opportunities for electronic devices to connect to each other.
How does IoT work?
How is it relevant to mobile?
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Prof. Rajnikant Patel, Honorary Director,
Graduate School of Smart Cities Development (GSSCD)
Gujarat Technological University ,
Nr. Vishwakarma Government Engineering College
Nr. Visat Three Roads, Visat - Gandhinagar Highway
Chandkheda , Ahmedabad - 382424 , India
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