Smart cities will run on smart, digital infrastructure

The foundation of Smart Cities will be built on open, scalable, futuristic, and converged infrastructure, which will be complemented first by data solutions and then, applications. And Dell’s core offerings are in the compute, storage, server, datacentre and end devices space. If we look at these facilitators and Dell’s core capabilities, we are leaders in most of the pivotal Infrastructure pieces. As we all know, data forms a core part of smart cities and the conversation is generally around 3 important aspects—Data collection, Data Storage and Data Consumption. Dell’s leadership in IoT Gateways, Storage and end devices is essential complete the cycle here.

Dell is well-equipped to create a digital blueprint of a smart city, and have a network of partners to provide the application support. Our partners bring along applications like garbage tracking, video analytics, surveillance, smart utilities, intelligent traffic management, and so on. With this large network, we are well placed to partner with the government in this journey. We work with customers in 3 ways: As their digital architects to help them create digitally enabled smart cities, providing core foundation technologies, and bringing an ecosystem together.

In India, Dell India has been involved with the e-Kranti project in launched by the Gujarat State Cooperative Credit Societies Federation, with the objective to facilitate the delivery of all government services electronically to citizens. Under this context, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Gujarat State Cooperative Credit Societies Federation and Dell’s channel partner—Earth Syscom and Project Central Partner— Jintech Solutions for the execution of this project.