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Kanpur Smart City Project Leveraged to Track COVID 19 Parameters

Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital
transformation, consulting and business
reengineering services and solutions,
has leveraged its smart city project in
Kanpur to assist the City administration
with tracking of COVID 19 parameters.
In addition to the other tools deployed,
Kanpur Smart City Ltd (KSCL) has further
established an artificial intelligence tool
for administration work to be carried out
during the ongoing nationwide lockdown.
KSCL has secured the assistance of Tech
Mahindra to set up a COVID-19 control
room to manage tracking of coronavirus
patients, lockdown violations, supply of
essential items and health supplies, among convey to us over phone. We are providing in other smart city projects in hand. Tech
others. "As the COVID-19 outbreak disrupts e-pass through a WhatsApp number and Mahindra has smart city projects across
the socio-economic order of the country, manually as well," Tripathi said. He said India – apart from Kanpur, others are in
city administrations and the private sector 12 hotspots have been identified in Kanpur progress in Gandhinagar Gujrat, Pimpri
are collaborating to maximise their efforts that are being controlled by 10 police Chinchawad and Nasik in Maharashtra.
towards fighting the pandemic,” said stations and being monitored through The basic functions of the projects:
KSCL CEO and Municipal Commissioner CCTVs installed at various places in the 1. Deployment of smart traffic systems
Akshay Tripathi. He added that with the city. We are facilitating home delivery which uses the latest radar based
help of Tech Mahindra, the COVID-19 of essentials. "UP is like a 10th largest traffic control system to automatically
War Room Contact Centre was made live country in the world in terms of population. adjust traffic counter based on
in record time and is equipped with real- Kanpur is the oldest city where we have number of vehicles at given point in
time and historical reporting. "Remote deployed smart city solutions. In an old time. This also helps us in creating
training sessions have also been provided city like Kanpur, challenges are much more green corridor in situation like
to on-ground resources to minimise magnified. We were able to set up systems medical emergency for ambulance
downtime." He said police, municipal for the control room in 24 hours," Tech movements or VIP movements.
and health departments are linked to the Mahindra Corporate Affairs and Business Also traffic system can detect red
control room. "We have given a toll-free Head (Asia-Pacific) Sujit Baksi said. Tech light violation or speed violation and
number. Officers are working round the Mahindra is also providing geo-fencing issue fines automatically to the traffic
clock at integrated command and control solutions to restrict COVID-19 patients. offenders. The intelligent cameras
centres to handle grievances that people The company is taking similar measures installed at traffic junctions can read
number plate and their details are
fetched on the basis of registration
number to send challans at their
address
2. Intelligent CCTV cameras with artificial
intelligence which are capable of
detecting litter lying on roads or graffiti
detection, crowd management.
3. Deployment of environmental sensors
across the city to monitor various gases
SO2, NO2, CO, humidity, temperature and
particulate matter PM2.5, PM10. These
details are shared with environmental
dept for them to take appropriate
actions on areas where pollutions are
high.

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