Corporation starts work on making Chennai a Smart City
Posted on: 16/Oct/2015 10:20:44 AM
The Corporation of Chennai has approached BSNL to check out if making Chennai city a Wi-Fi enabled one is feasible. Cities like Bengaluru, Mysore and Kochi are already wireless cities. The move comes in the wake of the Smart City Mission meeting held recently. BSNL has been offered 2 lakh lamp posts and high mast light poles for the purpose.
Speaking about this, a corporation official said, Wi-Fi services can be available free of cost for a few minutes each day and then an amount could be charged after it gets the time gets exhausted. BSNL has promised to look into the proposal.
Another initiative as part of the Smart City Mission is the plan to introduce smart streetlight management. This system will enable tracking online those streetlights that do not burn. They will try out this system first in two areas in the city. If this system works, power consumption can decrease by 20%. To test the system, the Corporation will provide separate underground ducts to the TNEB.
The Corporation is also beginning work on storm water drains in the Cooum and Adyar river areas. An official said, The idea is to collect excess rainwater from streets and channel it to natural reservoirs and promote rainwater harvesting... (We) will encourage commercial establishments to set up solar panels to tap the renewable energy. We have also installed the maximum energy saving LED lights in the country.
