Over the years visual imagery around floods in India has undergone a drastic change. Even until a couple of decades back, when one said flood, pictures of submerged fields and marooned villages in states like Bihar and Assam sprung in mind. But now what we imagine are flooded streets of our cities, floating cars, submerged […]
Year 2014, a 21-year-old in Chennai received the gift of life, thanks to an ambulance being able to carry the heart for transplant covering a distance of 12kms in just 14 minutes from Chennai Government General Hospital to Fortis Malhar Hospitals in Adyar, a distance that otherwise takes more than 45mins to cover. This was […]
Suresh Kumar, VP – Deployments, IUDX recently participated in a panel discussion on “How IoT and 5G will make businesses, cities smarter” at the Mint Digital Innovation Summit 2021. Hear his thoughts on the use and challenges of these technologies, and how they will help usher in the new era.
A report* issued in 2019 suggests that public transport is the third most preferred mode of transport in urban India, next to walking and using a personal motorbike. The fourth most favoured method of transport is personal car. The report also highlights that the most important reasons for not using public transport were poor ‘quality […]
In our previous article we saw that common data APIs and common data models are the key tools to combat data silos. Together, these enable efficient data sharing, improved data interoperability and enable ease of application portability across platforms. We explained the role played by Data Descriptors, which are linked data objects present in the […]
Data silos present formidable roadblocks in the journey of our cities towards becoming data smart. Data silos are isolated islands of data which make it prohibitively difficult to exchange data for its use in other application areas. This prevents active participation of application developers and solution providers which is crucial to tackle the complex urban […]
Since decades, traffic signals have been used to regulate traffic in order to increase efficiency in vehicular movement and road safety. These conventional traffic lights have done the job required with aplomb. However, increase in population, an exponential increase in traffic and the randomness in the traffic density pattern throughout the day has rendered these […]
In response to the Expert Committee Report proposing a Non-Personal Data (NPD) Governance Framework, the National Law School, Bangalore, the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, jointly hosted a series of panel discussions on Non-Personal Data. These discussions involved leading experts and practitioners across different fields thinking about NPD. […]
Dr Inder Gopal, CEO, IUDX, shares his professional journey in an exclusive conversation with INDIAai’s Research & Content Lead, Jibu Elias. Hear him talk about what excites him the most about his work and how, in his current capacity, he aims to use data and technology to help bring a positive change in everyday lives […]
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) organised an online event on June 25, 2021 to commemorate 6 years of the three transformative Urban Missions vis. Smart Cities Mission (SCM), Atal Mission for Urban Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) and Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U), which were launched by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, […]