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IoT would bring a city alive with connected sensors and devices generating real-time feeds

- —AGENDRA KUMAR President, Esri India

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Esri is working with government­s, organizati­ons in India as well as globally in helping them set up an enterprise GIS technology platform which is now the backbone for customers to strategize their decision making, planning, execution and management. We have a complete platform ArcGIS with comprehens­ive suite of tool which helps city address different aspects of end-to-end city life cycle. There are best practices, references, solution templates, frameworks and experienti­al learning that could be leveraged for rapid deployment. Esri’s supporting technologi­es that utilize Geodesign principles would be pivotal www.dqindia.com in building smart cities.

In India, most of the mega projects such as like PMGSY, Highway developmen­t, R-APDRP, and Municipal Corporatio­ns, Forest department­s, Utilities and Transport department­s are already using ArcGIS extensivel­y. GIS ready data is a very essential component in an overall GIS implementa­tion. Almost all the mapping agencies in India such as Survey of India, Town and Country Planning Organizati­ons, Registrati­on General of India, Forest Survey of India and remote sensing centres also use Esri’s ArcGIS for data creation and analysis. This GIS ready data can be the basis for smart city planning.

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