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Cities must adopt smart technology for better quality of life

16 Dec 2016
Cities must adopt smart technology for better quality of life

Cities must adopt smart technology for better quality of life

NCS’s Arpan Banerjee spoke at TM Forum Live! Asia earlier this month about building the foundations of smart cities. We caught up with him after his presentation to ask about how cities can use technology to become smarter and safer.

Cities must adopt smart technology in order to meet the challenges they’re facing and provide better quality of life for citizens, says Arpan Banerjee, Director of Products, Smart & Safe City Centre of Excellence at NCS, a subsidiary of Singtel Group.
“More than 50 percent of the world’s population lives in cities, which is the first time in history this has happened,” he says. “Because of this rapid pace of urbanization, we see a lot of stress on public infrastructure – transportation systems, healthcare systems. We also need better educational facilities to manage the future of our children and last but definitely not least public safety elements – how do we make sure people are safe?”

Banerjee points to huge amounts of public physical infrastructure that is not connected to the internet but can be now that sensor technology is available to make it happen.

“Take public safety as an example,” he says. “One of the investments cities have done is installing video cameras in the street – cities like London and many others have huge installed base of cameras. But what we are also seeing is aging population and declining numbers of people joining the workforce. We may have more information today than we can humanly process so we need to make the technology smart.”

The answer lies in using analytics to process the information and flag the most relevant details for operators to take action on.
“Smart technology allows us to connect to infrastructure on the street, process the infrastructure, put analytics on top of it and then guide human beings on what to do.”

Watch the video interview with Banerjee to learn more about how NCS is working to take its technology global.



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