5th Smart Cities 2019 India expo Kick Starts !

The 5th Smart Cities India expo 2019 was kick started on 22nd May, 2019 at the Pragati Maidan and was inaugurated by Shri Durga Shanker Mishra, Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, The expo includes Transport India, Solar India, Buildings India and Water India.

 
Organised by India Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO) and Exhibitions India Group, the event builds upon Government of India’s ‘Smart Cities Mission’ through a display of a vast array of products and solutions relevant to building smart cities in India, including: Solutions for home automation/IoT; building intelligence monitoring (BIM) of smart buildings; green building solutions; water/sanitation technologies; environment-related solutions for pollution monitoring; urban planning and smart IT & communications; security systems; smart transport; smart grid, clean energy & energy storage devices, etc.

 
Speaking during the special address at the inaugural ceremony, Shri Durga Shanker Mishra, Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, said, “Urbanisation is growing at a very fast pace across the world: Total global urban population in 1950 was 30% and today it is close to 58%, with projections of 68% in the times to come. This is an unprecedented growth, with the rate of urbanisation being the fastest in India. Our urban population was around 31% in the 2011 census, and is projected to grow beyond 40% by 2030 and 50% by 2050. This is the speed of urban transformation in the country. Today, urbanisation is at the forefront.In the last five years, the path we have taken for urban transformation, is not incremental, but transformational, especially in terms of cleanliness, employment and livelihood opportunities, and housing.”

The inaugural session also witnessed the release of a knowledge paper by the Knowledge Partner KPMG, titled “IoT in Smart Cities”. “The report highlights, in depth, the concept of Internet of Things (IoT), while exploring its growth enablers as well as the levers of its growth. It studies the business value of IoT, key applications and impact on smart cities” said, Sameer Jain, Partner, Government Advisory (Urban & Smart Cities), KPMG.