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Smart Cities Need Smart Parking

No private car should be registered until its owner can demonstrate proof of suitable parking-slot availability within his premises.

Smart Cities And Why Local Ads Will Be More Relevant And Powerful For SMEs?

Arun Raman

Opinion Columns

Welcome to the new era of Smart Cities and Smarter Citizens forcing us in the communication Industry to finally dump the inefficiencies of the past and start focussing on small Data and local media.

23.6 Lakh Houses Delivered So Far: Durga Shankar Mishra, Secretary, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs

Poulami Chakraborty

Economy Policy Infrastructure

Durga Shankar Mishra, Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in conversation with BW Businessworld’s Poulami Chakraborty talks about the progress of various initiatives of the ministry including the Smart Cities Mission, AMRUT, Swachh Bharat, Housing for All and other key schemes.

Smart City Is A Complex System Of Systems

V. Srinavas Rao

Opinion Columns

Smart city is the fusion of functional system like infrastructure system, bio-diversity system, governance system, citizen services system and many more.

From Smart To Future Smart

Manali

Economy Policy Infrastructure

Indian cities are different from what a city is defined as in the West. We have a distinct social fabric which has to be kept in mind while planning our smart cities

Western Digital's WD Purple Wins BW Businessworld Smart Cities Award for 'Smart Solution - Safety & Security'

BW Online Bureau

Economy

Western Digital's WD Purple Wins BW Businessworld Smart Cities Award for 'Smart Solution - Safety & Security'

'Technical Capacity Is The Biggest Challenge for Building Smart Cities'

Sarabjeet Kaur

More BW Events

An array of some brilliant people work in the Indian urban local bodies but the problem is that their horizon is limited

'India, Finland Can Cooperate In Smart City, Energy Sectors'

PTI

Companies & Markets Sector Reports Construction

The minister cited the example of its capital Helsinki and the public-private-partnership platform that has been instituted there -- Helsinki Metropolitan Smart & Clean Foundation -- to work on clean and smart solutions in order to reduce its dependence on fossil energy

How Safe Are Public Spaces For Women?

Anuradha Shukla

Economy India

Talking about women safety, situation in Delhi is still as vulnerable as it was 10 years back

Smart Cities: The Sad State Of Affairs

Anuradha Shukla

Economy Policy Infrastructure

As it turns out, 100 smart cities in five years may not happen. So far, of the first 20 cities, only seven to eight have reported decent progess

What Positive Change Technology Can Provide To PM's Smart City Plans

Syed S. Ahmed

Columns

How IoT can resolve this problem? Imagine smart bins and garbage containers placed strategically at street corners, which have the capabilities to compress the trash with in-built sensors. It can increase the load capacity almost three to four times to help municipal trucks make less number of ferries from pick up to disposal points

Modi Govt: India On The Path To Glory

Vanitha Narayanan

Columns

We need to look at skilling & reskilling to take advantage of the opportunities in a cognitive world

What Makes A City Smart?

Bhragu Haritas

Companies & Markets Sector Reports Construction

To provide for the aspirations and needs of the citizens, urban planners ideally aim at developing the entire urban eco-system, which is represented by the four pillars of comprehensive development-institutional, physical, social and economic infrastructure