Smart Elements

Wi-Fi services provides fast internet connectivity on the go to citizens of Pune. The objective of City Wi-Fi element is to provide: The city will experience fast internet connectivity at 199 Wi-Fi hotspots which includes some of the Gardens, Hospitals, Police Stations, Government offices, Bus-stops etc.

Emergency Call Box helps in improving the safety and security of citizens within the city where they can seek assistance from the Smart City Operations Center (Command & Control Center) by pressing a button near them. These systems will be deployed across 136 locations in the city.

Public Address System (voice) enables civic bodies to respond/ communicate effectively while dealing with emergencies.These systems will be deployed across 136 locations in the city.

Smart Environmental Sensors records the following parameters:
These sensors will be deployed across 50 locations in the city to measure the key environmental parameters.

The water level sensors (used for flood detection on streets) provides the ambient water levels to the citizens through display channels to warn them of possible flooding in a locality.

These sensors will be deployed across 30 locations in the city (in the vicinity of bridges and Nalas) to measure the city water levels and provide information on it.

Variable messaging displays provides useful information related to:
These system will be deployed across 161 locations across the city.

Key Objectives of Smart City Operations Center:

Pune Smart City Development Corporation Limited (PSCDCL), has implemented and operationalized the Smart Elements project with a primary purpose of building an ecosystem of city wide ‘Network of Smart Elements’ which comprises of Smart Devices, Smart Sub-Systems and Wi-Fi Network. At the heart of this project is the Smart City Command & Control Centre.

There are over a 1000+ IoT devices commissioned as part of this initiative all of which have been integrated with the Smart City Command & Control Centre. Furthermore, several pan city government applications have been integrated too including the CCTV surveillance camera network and others. More city-based applications are proposed to be integrated.

The list of smart elements includes, but not limited to, the following:

1. Environment Sensors
2. Flood Sensors
3. Wi-Fi Hotspots
4. Tracking of Pune municipal corporation’s vehicles
5. Tracking and Live status of Public transport vehicles
6. Emergency Call Boxes
7. Street Light Feeders

PSCDCL also encourages creation and development of local economy by providing citizens an option to build solutions on the data being captured from the smart elements and subsystems. To facilitate this, the data from various systems and devices are captured into a common platform which is used for command and control. The same data has also been exposed to the outside world for secured consumption on a staging instance. The live data from devices and systems along with one year of historic data is available in the staging instance and can be accessed through API’s created for specific type of data. The list of API’s and methods to access the same is provided in the attached document 

As a standard, data gathered from these smart elements is exposed as JSON content through Open APIs which can be accessed using HTTP/REST. The data is secured and can be accessed either as the time series data points for historical analysis or as the current snapshot for real time tracking. The access to staging instance data through APIs will be provided to all entities registered with PSCDCL.

The purpose of providing access to this data was to ensure citizen partnership in decision making, collaboration with city authorities and ultimately making Pune a better place to live.