L&T to convert Nagpur into country’s first large-scale integrated Smart City

August 19, 2016

Heavy engineering and construction major Larsen & Toubro has been chosen by the Maharashtra government to convert Nagpur into the country’s first large-scale integrated Smart City. In the first phase, L&T’s Smart World & Communication business vertical, which is a part of L&T Construction, will cover laying of 1,200 km of optical fiber network backbone in the City of Oranges, creating 136 city wifi hot-spots at key locations, establishing 100 digital interactive kiosks and developing city surveillance systems with 3,800 IP-based cameras.

Further, as an avant-garde endeavor, the city has identified a strip of approximately 6 km (from Japanese Garden Square to Orange City Hospital Square) to be developed as a ‘Smart Strip’ with state-of-the-art systems powered by smart ICT interventions like smart transport, solid waste management, smart lighting, etc. This is to be leveraged in a phased manner to ultimately cover the entire city.

“After Jaipur, this is the most significant step in the country’s journey towards establishing smart cities and we are delighted to be participating in transforming Nagpur into one,” said S N Subrahmanyan, Deputy Managing Director and President, Larsen & Toubro. “As a master systems integrator, we will provide leading-edge technology solutions including high-end analytics, mobile surveillance and high-tech tools like drones,” he added. L&T’s Smart World business has executed the smart city project in Jaipur and is executing India’s largest city surveillance project comprising 6,000 cameras across 1,500+ locations in Mumbai. Projects are also underway in Delhi, Lucknow and Hyderabad, the company said.