Smart Infrastructure

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, hosted a roundtable forum recently bringing together leading international and Turkish waste management companies, Turkish metropolitan municipalities and the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization to help Turkey’s cities become more sustainable and combat the challenges of rapid urbanization. Turkey’s population of 75 million produces 32 million tons of waste each year, but its landfills complying with EU standards have a total capacity of 400 million tons, and are expected to be full in 10 years. IFC’s roundtable brought together public and private sector...

Capgemini, one of the foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services announced today that it will work with the Siemens Building Technologies Division, to implement a cloud based services platform featuring asset management and analytics technology. The Siemens Building Technologies Division’s web-based Energy & Sustainability Navigator platform1 will continue to unlock the hidden potential of building data, provide transparency to support decision making processes that increase building operating efficiency, and drive cost savings for customers. Using this platform Siemens Building Technologies’ customers currently save 10.5 million tons of CO2 per...

Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Sunday, April 17 launched free Wi-Fi service at Bhubaneswar railway station here. After Mumbai Central in January, the Bhubaneswar station is the second in the country to have been covered under Google’s free Wi-Fi project this year.The minister said the high-speed internet service will benefit the passengers as they can surf the net while waiting for their trains. He said the ministry is committed to providing better internet facilities to the passengers at 100 busiest stations in the country by this year-end. Notably, Google and...

IBM and KONE, one of the global leaders in the elevator and escalator industry, today announced a multiyear agreement in which IBM will provide cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and services to drive innovation in smart buildings. Through the agreement, KONE will tap into the IBM Watson IoT Cloud Platform to connect, remotely monitor and optimize its management of millions of elevators, escalators, doors and turnstiles in buildings and cities worldwide. The system will analyze vast amounts of data from sensors embedded in equipment helping to identify and predict issues, minimize...

Mumbai civic body’s initiative of door-to-door collection of construction debris from private properties undertaking repair or renovation work, has yielded positive results as it has not only removed over 26 metric tonnes of debris, but also earned over over Rs 25 lakh in five months. Of the 9,700 metric tonnes of waste generated daily in Mumbai, around 2,700 metric tonnes comprises construction waste and silt.In August last year, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had started a service called ‘Debris and Call’, in which citizens were given a phone number to...