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Technovation 17

Safety & Disaster Management

City-wide video surveillance systems

Guwahati is a city that is prone to disasters due to flooding. City wide video surveillance systems are being installed to
ensure safety and security, to reduce crime rates, serve as an efficient disaster management tool, assist in efficient traffic
management, etc. This system was designed keeping in mind the existing infrastructure constraints.

Flood management system

Guwahati is nestled in the cradle of the Himalayas,
rain water collected from Meghalaya and fed into
the mighty Brahmaputra river. Heavy rains in the
surrounding hills causes flooding every year during
the monsoons bringing life to a standstill.
The flood management system in Guwahati will
monitor rainfall data in catchment areas, water levels
in major flood-prone areas and rivers such as the
Brahmaputra, will be monitored through sensors.
Rain gauges will be installed in various centres freeing up road space for smart features. This will enable
and information from the meteorological visual improvement, better signage for greater safety,
department will be collated to create a structured bicycle path to encourage pollution-free commute and
flood warning system. introduce thematic market spaces which is the essence of
small cities such as Raipur and Surat.
Early warning systems and alerts through various
platforms will be centrally collated at the Command Smart hawker zone
& Control Centre. The information will be provided as Bhopal smart city and Shimoga smart city have a legacy
alerts to the citizens through social media channels, of hawker encroachment that crowd and clutter the
SMS, radio, local cable networks etc. Call centres and pathways. Smart hawker zones will provide designated
disaster assistance desks will be available for citizen areas and thematic shopping experience housing the
assistance and managed by the dedicated disaster hawking units.
management teams.
As new cities are being added to the list, new ideas are
being devised based on the unique requirement in each
Smart roads of the cities. While smart features certainly take the
liveability index several notches higher, the fundamental
Raipur and Surat smart cities are planned to have clutter need of the hour is to take responsibility for our cities,
free roads with organised pedestrian walks and sign change our behaviour to help keep our cities not just
boards. A utility corridor is being created underground, smart but clean.