Ericsson Joins Sterlite for Smart Cities Project in India
Ericsson, one of the leading telecom equipment manufacturers around the world, has entered into a partnership with Sterlite Technologies to collaborate and create smart cities in India that can be sustained over a longer period of time. As per the contract reached, both will come up with a development plan and use services and solutions that are necessary in order to bring about a society that is based on knowledge and also completely functional.
Together, the companies will design, integrate, employ, and take care of solutions in a wide array of areas such as communications, smart grid solutions, public safety, and intelligent transport. Indian Government is looking to establish 100 smart cities before 2022 and initiatives such as these are supposed to play a major role in realizing that aim. The technological solutions this collaboration is likely to create will help the government amend existing infrastructural operations since they will be able to share real-time information with all systems and agencies.
Anand Agarwal, CEO of Sterlite Technologies, has said that his organization is collaborating closely with the national administration of India to launch initiatives for sustainable and smart cities and also get these programmes up and running. It is also aiding the Digital India programme of Indian Government and the association with Ericsson is supposed to help in executing the same.
The following solutions are included in this programme:
- Communications – fibre deployment and Wi-fi networks
- Intelligent transport – fleet management and traffic management
- Public safety – emergency response and video-based situational awareness solutions
- Smart grid solutions – smart metering and smart grid communications
