GIFT City commences first phase of its 'smart city' project.

While a smart city project by Microsoft in Surat is on its way, the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City) has already seen the first phase of its own smart city project up and running.

The project is being built with the help of a consortium led by TCS and a joint entity of CISCO and Korean telecom player KT Corp, along with Newgen ITeS Pvt. Ltd. and Newgen Holdings Pvt. Ltd. According to a official sources at GIFT City, the project will see remote management of all the utilities like water, electricity, and traffic data, among others from a single city command and control centre.

'The GIFT Smart City project is in way an actual implementation of what is being referred to these days as the 'Internet of Things' (IoT). Two City Command and Control Centre (C4) are being developed in the city which will have a mix of software and hardware platform. The centres will act a single central command and control places for managing utilities remotely,' said a person privy to the development stated.

The first phase of the project is functioning with one of the two centres already up and running while the second is under construction.

BS