Ezine Archive
January- March 2019
January- March 2019 Issue
Month: March 2019
Smart Cities
Bin it Right: Cities adopt smart solutions to streamline their waste management processes
One of the prerequisites for building a smart city is effective monitoring and management of solid waste. Unfortunately, most Indian […]
Technology Focus
Smart City Planning: Introducing intelligent features to improve Pune’s civic infrastructure
Pune city has been undergoing rapid urbanisation. This has placed an additional burden on the existing civic infrastructure, resulting in […]
Smart Cities
Urban Solutions: ICT interventions come to Nagpur’s aid
In August 2016, Nagpur was selected to be developed as a smart city under Round II of the Smart Cities […]
Smart Cities
Smart Illumination: Programming street lights to become dynamic, responsive and interactive
One of the key components of a smart city is intelligent and connected lighting. In a smart illumination system, light […]
Technology Focus
More Bandwidth: Role of public Wi-Fi in smart governance
Smart governance is one of the key features of smart cities and all smart governance activities take place with the […]
Water
Water
Water
Cleaning Up: Gurugram municipality rolls out a mobile app to address civic issues
The corporate city of Gurugram is grappling with waste and sanitation issues. The Swachh Sarvekshan 2018 survey, which ranked Gurugram […]
Water
The Future of Waste: EDMC proposes plasma gasification to generate water and green energy from refuse
The East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) has come up with an innovative plan to generate water and green energy from […]
Water
Smart App: Patna Municipal Corporation launches mobile solution to register civic grievances
Supporting the government’s efforts to promote digitalisation, the Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) has launched the “City of Patna” mobile application […]
Power
Ease of Getting Electricity: India’s performance in the World Bank’s “Ease of Doing Business Report 2019”
The World Bank’s “Ease of Doing Business” initiative ranks countries on 10 parameters. “Getting Electricity” is one of these. India’s […]
Power
Decoding Grid Complexities: Technology solutions to streamline transmission planning and operations
The Indian power transmission grid is one of the largest operational synchronous grids in the world, with 85,000 MW of […]
Power
Digital Priorities: A roadmap for technological transformation
As the power sector in India seeks to address several existing and emergent issues of electricity quality, reliability, access and […]
Utility Focus
Tech Savvy: BYPL takes IT initiatives to improve its metering, billing and collection efficiency
Metering is one of the major focus areas for the distribution segment as improvements in metering can eventually lead to […]
Technology Focus
Data Management: Increasing use of MDMS to improve utility operations
With growing technological advancements, consumer meters have become a storehouse of relevant information, allowing utilities to enhance operational efficiency. Meter […]
Technology Focus
Advantage IoT: Enabling discom efficiency and automation
High transmission and distribution losses in the power sector have put discoms in a vulnerable financial position. The power sector […]
Technology Focus
New Meter Deployments: Utility experience and challenges
The role of metering in India has evolved significantly over the years. Besides helping utilities in energy accounting and revenue […]
Utility Focus
Digital Utility: CESC uses data analytics for efficient network planning
In the past couple of years, data analytics has emerged as one of the key focus areas of discoms. It […]
Power
In the Fast Lane: Government issues guidelines for EV charging stations
One of the most pressing concerns for India’s e-mobility plans has been the lack of easy availability of public charging […]