Cisco is collaborating with Electronics City Industries Association (ELCIA) to develop Asia?s first end-to-end Internet of Things (IoT) Innovation Hub in Bengaluru. This engagement is aimed at establishing the foundation for a new ecosystem to help electronic system design & manufacturing (ESDM) companies and other companies of electronic city engaged in IoT product development. As per Cisco statement, ELCIA has been chosen for this ambitious project as it is the only brownfield ESDM cluster in the country, which has received an in-principal approval for a financial grant from the Indian government to spur innovation in product design and manufacturing.
As per the partnership, Cisco will help provide the network infrastructure and expertise for testing and production of electronic product prototypes for an IoT enabled smart city environment. Through the ?Living Lab?, ESDM start-ups and other electronic city companies can build solutions for city infrastructure management (CIM) including smart parking, smart CCTV surveillance, smart street lighting, smart water management/leak detection and community messaging. The project will utilise the Cisco Smart+Connected City Wi-Fi solution that will help enable community Wi-Fi services and allow access to public utility offerings. ELCIA will also deploy Cisco network equipment comprising of access points, routers, switches, and other required hardware and software applications that will be connected to the smart city?s fiber-optic backbone network.
The first phase of this smart city project will be rolled out in Electronics City and will serve as a replicable model for the rest of Bengaluru as well as other cities in India. Participating companies would gain access to boot strap funding for their ventures under Cisco?s IoT Innovation Fund, subject to commercial viability of their IoT product/application.
This project is being undertaken as part of the Cisco Smart+Connected Communities concept that places technology at the heart of economic development and better quality of life in modern cities. The focus is on using the network to deploy digitally enabled transportation, healthcare, education, utilities, energy grid and real estate in cities.
