Globally, cities must keep pace with rapid urbanization
Nearly 80% of the world’s GDP is generated in cities. Naturally, rapid urbanization and continuous investments by businesses and governments have been driving a massive population influx. Today, the cities are home to nearly 57% of the world’s population- and projected to go up to nearly 70% by 2050.
The speed and the scale of urbanization, however, must be met by governments and authorities. Denizens are increasingly expecting their cities to be safe, habitable, sustainable and convenient. As of 2021, nearly one billion urban poor live in informal settlements, to be closer to opportunities. The cities account for nearly 70% of the world’s energy consumption as well greenhouse gas emissions. Challenges such as overburdened public infrastructure, increasing pollution, traffic congestions, and rising crime can dent a city’s plans to continue to attract investment by businesses and retention of talent.
Source: World Bank
Smart cities hold the answer
Emerging technologies such as 5G, AI, cybersecurity and Edge can help in building smart cities of the future to enable improved quality of life, better connectivity, and reduced crime – attracting businesses and nurturing talent. For example, the technology companies in London raised more than $10.5 Bn. in 2020, higher than any other European city.
Some of the technologies being implemented by smart cities worldwide can result in:
Reducing fatalities
by up to 10%
Accelerating emergency
responses by 35%
Removing greenhouse
gas emission by
nearly 15%
Lowering commute
times by 20%
Lowering disease burden
by up to 15%
Intelligent Secure Edge for Smart Cities
The Intelligent Secure Edge (ISE) for Smart Cities, built by HCLTech IoT WoRKSTM using Intel technologies, is a collaborative platform that brings together citizens, communities and authorities as a virtual network, powered by Artificial Intelligence, Edge, Wi-Fi 6, 5G and other next-gen technologies – to drive proactive responses powered by real-time insights.
Acquire data
Acquire data
- Detects incidents and other situations of interest
- Communities notify authorities of potential emergencies
- Collects data from city sensors and systems
Contextualize and alert
Contextualize and alert
- AI on Edge contextualizes and generates alerts
- Data from denizens is leveraged to contextualize sensor data into prioritized alerts
- Remotely initiates AI at Near Edge for live incident tracking
- Citizens assist first responders with contextualized alerts
Communicate and respond
Communicate and respond
- Information is integrated into control room ops
- Dispatched responders receive augmented data stream
- AI-led incident prioritization minimizes response times
Analyze and generate insights
Analyze and generate insights
- Historical data ensures evidence for later investigation
- ISE AI/ML platform generates deeper insights
- Drives operational efficiencies for better quality of life
How ISE can drive value for smart cities
Smart collaboration and inclusion
Improved safety through ubiquitous “Smart Sensing” technology-led collaboration with communities, business, and authorities
Crime detection and prevention
Proactively alert authorities of criminal activity by analyzing audio and visual stimuli such as weapons, gunshots, disturbances, and traffic
Optimizing smart city budgets
Optimize existing budgets for smart city initiatives with innovative commercial models by monetizing use cases such as public Wi-Fi and traffic insights
Intelligent decision-making
AI-led real-time actionable insights to eliminate inefficiencies in traffic and environment management, and better decision making
Improved quality of life
Enhance public well-being by reducing traffic congestion, improving air quality, and conserving natural resources
Explore multiple use cases
Traffic management and response system
Safety in educational campuses
Governments and legislative facilities
Events, conferences and stadiums
Correctional facilities
Smart parking at large venues
City lights operations & maintenance
Transportation hub
Customs and border protection
Water quality and flood control
We work with several OEMs and technology innovators to provide end-to-end solutions in emerging areas such as:
Smart EV
charging
Smart
lighting
Smart
irrigation
Smart waste
management
Smart signage/
Smart digital
marketing
Smart fleet
management
Network and
connectivity
solutions
Why HCLTech
Transforming business with connected solutions
Success Stories
Cloud enabled remote vehicle diagnostic case study
Smart parking station connectivity case study
Explore our points of view around IoT-led transformation
Resources
Globalization 4.0: Building a Hyper-connected World through IoT
Proof of concept is old news; Let’s talk proof of value in IoT
Smart and Integrated Enterprises: The New World Order
Digital thread for manufacturing
IoT Maturity: Deriving Real Business Outcomes From IoT
Intel® Smart Edge enabled with LTE / 5G / Wi-Fi 6 to process data real-time and initiate actions. Provides high-speed connectivity without additional infrastructure needs and costs – enabling the city to monetize the public Wi-Fi services.
Power of Vision-processing at the Far Edge using advanced AI/ML techniques. Real-time data analysis is performed by the AI engine on the video and sound data streams – delivering contextual insights to improve public health and safety.
HCLTech powered pre-integrated, performance-tuned, configurable solution of hardware and software elements, and Wi-Fi 6, enable large scale rapid deployment at a fraction of the cost. The solution leverages DECoDe – a device ecosystem management solution by HCLTech IoT WoRKSTM, to monitor and manage devices and sensors remotely, along with AIOps to deploy end-to-end managed services
Intel® Smart Edge enabled with LTE / 5G / Wi-Fi 6 to process data real-time and initiate actions. Provides high-speed connectivity without additional infrastructure needs and costs – enabling the city to monetize the public Wi-Fi services.
Power of Vision-processing at the Far Edge using advanced AI/ML techniques. Real-time data analysis is performed by the AI engine on the video and sound data streams – delivering contextual insights to improve public health and safety.
HCLTech powered pre-integrated, performance-tuned, configurable solution of hardware and software elements, and Wi-Fi 6, enable large scale rapid deployment at a fraction of the cost. The solution leverages DECoDe – a device ecosystem management solution by HCLTech IoT WoRKSTM, to monitor and manage devices and sensors remotely, along with AIOps to deploy end-to-end managed services