The Prime Minister’s vision to set up 100 smart cities to promote smart solutions for efficient use of available resources has created a race among cities to be on that list.
If Gwalior’s dream of becoming a smart city comes true, it would not be long before most of the services including water supply, electricity, traffic and other emergency services are monitored from a single control room.
According to sources, planning has began to set up a multi control room in the heritage hall belonging to the Animal Health Centre at Moti Mahal.
In the first phase 20 services that have impact on the general public will be chosen and brought under one control so that better and faster services can be provided.
Twenty operators sitting in front of the big screen in the command center will keep track of the various activities and inform the concerned officials about any issues that need attention so that speedy action can be taken to rectify the matter.
Systems related to natural calamities like earthquake, flood, fire and other matters like traffic jams, criminal activities, accidents etc will be developed in the software. It is expected to assist the officials of the various departments to coordinate and bring about effective and faster solution to various problems.
In the first phase systems related to Wi-Fi hotspot, command and control centre, traffic surveillance and analysis through ITS, quality of air and street lights will be developed. The initial cost of the project will be around 8 to 10 crores.
The money will be spent on construction of the command centre, maintenance of the building and for the amalgamation of the hardware and the CCTV cameras.
Mahip Tejaswi, the CEO of the smart city programme said that work on this is moving at a fast pace. She further said that in future all services and activities in the city will be based on sensor and internet.