Government of India’s announcement of
Smart Cities project in mission mode has generated a lot of interest. The
concept of smart cities is incomplete without intervention of communication and
Information Technology.
A network of wireless sensors, a reliable public communication
infrastructure and innovative applications working on big data and analytics
will help us realise smart cities. Innovative local solutions will have to be
found for local problems. Though this offers great opportunities to industry,
including, MSMEs and start-ups. But adoption of standards will ensure that
solution developers do not reinvent the wheel but devote their energies to the
actual building of product and on innovations. Further, the interoperability
will be another dividend of a standards based approach.
Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India (TSDSI), the
Indian telecom Standards Development Organisation (SDO) and European
Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), an established and highly
respected, 29 years old telecom SDO have joined hands to unroll a collaboration
project on ICT Standardisation in an endeavour of creating awareness about
telecom standards and promoting their wider adoption that
Recognising C-DOT’s R&D strengths, an India - European Union
project called ‘India-EU Cooperation on ICT-Related
Standardisation, Policy and Legislation’ is organising
a workshop on “Future proof
smart cities with a common service layer: a standards driven approach” at C-DOT campus at Mehrauli, New Delhi on
21st April 2017. Some of the global smart cities will be sharing
the standards driven approach they have adopted for building smart cities in
their countries.
The workshop aims to provide a platform where foreign and Indian
experts from IoT and M2M forums, academia, R&D, industry and senior
officials from Ministries of Communications, Urban Development and Electronics
and Information Technology and cities named in Indian Smart Cities project can
interact to share knowledge and experiences. It is also planned to enrich the
interaction by inviting City Councillors from Europe and Korea who have
actually implemented smart city projects in their respective cities.
C-DOT’s
offering:
C-DOT has developed CCSP(C-DOT Common Service Platform), the oneM2M
standards compliant common service platform which can be deployed on any
off-the-shelf generic server platforms or cloud infrastructure. The business
application providers can deploy their oneM2M compliant applications in either
co-located infrastructure or on any public or private cloud.
Using the CCSP platform from C-DOT, the smart cities can reap all
the benefits of using a standards compliant horizontal service layer and thus
be more efficient, economical and future proof.
Along with the CCSP C-DOT has also developed various oneM2M
indigenously designed hardware nodes like AND (Application Dedicated Node), ASN
(Application Service Node) and MN(Middle node).
To effectively showcase the strength of the platform, C-DOT has also
developed various applications like Smart Living, Smart Street Light, Carbon
Footprint Monitoring Application and Power Monitoring which are fully oneM2M
compliant.
C-DOT has also participated in two international interoperability
events where the CCSP and the ADN were tested for interoperability with many
other oneM2M compliant nodes from various international organisations like
Interdigital, Herit, Huawei, HPE, NTT, KETI, LAAS-CNRS etc. C-DOT also
participated in the conformance testing with ETSI.
Brief on P.D.O. (Public Data Office)
C-DOT PDO is ready to bring yet another revolution by taking
internet connectivity to every nook and corner of the country like it did in
the 1980s when PCOs changed the
Indian telecom scene in by taking telephones to rural India. C-DOT hopes that
PDOs would bring next telecom revolution by taking internet connectivity to the
masses. Like PCOs, the PDOs would enable small shop owners increase their
income by selling data vouchers. This will also encourage village-level
entrepreneurship and provide strong employment opportunities, especially in
rural and semi urban areas.
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