Kalyan-Dombivali Municipal Corporation (KDMC) Smart City Project
Kalyan-Dombivali Municipal Corporation (KDMC) Smart City Project
Highlights
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Services & Industry
- Services: Smart Cities Solution
- Industry: Government Sanctioned Project
Challenge
- The client wanted to streamline and centralize security management effectively with limited staff through integration of a smart city solution.
- Increase visibility across the extended enterprise and minimize the time from detection of threats to protection.
Scope
- Enable real-time monitoring of the various facets of the management of Kalyan-Dombivli City – Security, Traffic, and City Utilities.
- Provide the capability to respond in a unified manner to situations on the ground (both day-to-day and emergencies) by creating a common operational picture for the relevant stakeholder.
- Provide and manage touchpoints from all concerned stakeholders during the lifecycle of various incidents.
- Define and manage the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for various operational aspects of the City Management.
- Provide the capability to analyze the continuous improvement of city operations.
- Make Kalyan-Dombivli a better place to live in by increasing the safety, the liveability of the people in the city and effectively providing the delivery of a few urban services.
- Improve the situational awareness of the city administrators and residents.
- Provide administrators, citizens, tourists, and businesses with real-time and actionable information to aid their daily decision-making.
Highlights
- 301 CCTV locations across Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation
- 829 Fixed and Pan-Till-Zoom (PTZ) Cameras to be installed
- 36 Dashboard Cameras
- 50 Vehicle-mounted Cameras
- 45 Body-worn Cameras
- 3 Drones
- Integration and setup of the Command and Control Centre for the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation and Police Department for round the clock monitoring.
Constraints
- The entire project was implemented following COVID-19 restrictions; this brought up some unique challenges like restricted material & manpower movement, unavailability of labour, added safety mechanisms like frequent temperature checks and masks to be worn by team members.
- Local Interference from anti-social elements disrupting deployment, civil works, and permissions for selected locations.
- Multiple rounds of surveys due to unavailability of key stakeholders.
- Short Notice implementation of a covid war room for monitoring city-wide lockdown regulations.
Technology Enablers
- Cameras
- Video Management System
- AI-Based Video Analytics System
- Body-worn Cameras
- Dashboard Cameras
- Drones
- Vehicle-mounted Cameras
Benefits
- Surveillance with Video Enabled Analytics provides effective monitoring of the city with limited operators ensuring the safety of the citizens.
- Dashboard cameras, vehicle-mounted cameras for police vehicles, and Body Worn Cameras will help police and corporation get a real-time view of critical situations.
- Drones to provide surveillance coverage for locations with unavailability of CCTV cameras.
- Drones help top officials to survey and monitor various projects’ progress.