Building Sustainable Cities:
Smart+ConnectedCommunities
Prakash Kumar
Director, IBSG , Cisco
March 4th, 2011
A World in Transition
Source: Connecting Cities: Achieving Sustainability Through Innovation Nicola Villa and Wolfgang Wagener, Cisco IBSG
50% of world population urban by 2008, 60% by 2030
500M people urbanised in the next five years
Big cities getting bigger; 100 new cities with one million residents by 2025
Trillions of dollars in stimulus packages worldwide for infrastructure
Source: Forrester Research
2001 20062002 2003 2004 2005 2008 2009 20102007
300 million connected devices
Industrialisation of the Internet
The Internet Of Things
14 billion connected devices
Everything is connected - cars, buildings, hospitals, schools, government…
A Smart+Connected Community
Helps transform
City management
Economic developmentCitizen quality
of life
Running on networked information
MONITOR
MANAGE
REDUCE
Make Every Connection aGreen Connection
MobileNetworks
EnterpriseNetworks
Service ProviderNetworks
SensorNetworks
Home Networks
Small BusinessNetworks
BroadbandTechnology
Electricity Use in Offices
Appliances in Homes
Traffic Flows in Cities
Green Networks: How a small part of the problem can be a big part of the solution
Smart+Connected Communities Tracks
Cisco Globalisation Center East - A model for Smart+Connected Communities
Smart+Connected
Transportation
Smart+Connected
Real Estate
Smart+Connected
Safety and SecuritySmart+Connected
Utilities
Smart+ConnectedLearning
Smart+ConnectedGovernment
Smart+ConnectedHealth
Smart+ConnectedSports and Entertainment
The Panelists• Brijesh Kumar, Former Chairman & CEO, Greater NOIDA Authority will speak
on “eGovernance initiatives in Greater NOIDA- the implementable & non implementable initiatives”.
• Prof Dinesh Mohan, Volvo Chair Professor, Transport Research and Injury Prevention Programme, IIT Delhi will speak on “Urban transport and climate change: moving from tailpipes to people’s concerns”
• Jay B Kshirsagar, Chief Planner, Town & Country Planning Organisation, Ministry of Urban Development, GOI, will speak on “City Sustainability issues”
• Sanjeev Chopra, Joint Secretary & Mission Director NHM & NMMI, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India will speak on “Smart Cities Need Good Food…What can ICT do?”
• Sanjiv Mittal, CEO, National Institute for Smart Government
• Subrata Das, Industry Director, Public Sector, SAP India
• Dr Siddharth Agarwal, Director, Urban Health Resource Centre, Delhi will speak on “Significance of healthcare & other infrastructures in urban slums in a bid to make cities sustainable”
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