Cisco has tied up with ILFS Technologies (ITL) at the Cisco India Summit 2014 held at Bangalore, to jointly develop solutions for digital infrastructure and smart cities in the country, reports the Financial Express. The collaboration will focus on creating traffic management, public safety and e-governance solutions for urban cities, which will help citizens get info about traffic, parking, lighting and water etc. The partnership will combine Cisco’s Internet of Things solutions with ITL’s expertise in infrastructure development in India, to create unique IoT solutions. ITL is currently developing two global and five national land management projects and had previously rolled out the communication infrastructure for Gurgaon Rapid Metro. Cisco Smart City: In July this year, Cisco had signed a strategic agreement with Electronics City Industries Association (ELCIA) to set up an Internet of Things (IoT) Innovation Hub in Bangalore, as a part of its Cisco Smart+Connected Communities initiative. The company had claimed it would provide the network infrastructure and expertise for testing and production of electronic product prototypes for an “IoT-enabled smart city environment”. The company had then inaugurated a 2.6 million square foot Smart City in Bangalore as a campus-as-a-city for its employees, and to showcase pervasive network infrastructure, which easily connects devices like mobiles, sensors and information access points with a high level of security, in September this year. As a part of this initiative, the company had demonstrated how cities would evolve with context to education, healthcare, buildings, transport and parking and change the way communities…
