Improving Urban Liveability using Geospatial Technologies for Citizen Services

Overview

The Smart Cities Mission aims at driving financial development and improving citizen satisfaction through exhaustive work on the friendly, monetary, physical, and institutional strengths of the city. The attention is on manageable and comprehensive advancement by the formation of replicable models. The vision is that each smart city will make an Area Based Development strategy to restore a current area through retrofitting or redevelopment or foster a particular area. The Pan-city plan will use smart technological solutions for creating a citywide framework to improve the foundation and administration and make sure that it is accessible to all residents.

Vision:To encourage urban communities that give better infrastructure, clean surroundings, and economical livelihood and provide satisfaction to their residents through 'smart solutions’.

Objectives

y To increase the liveability index of the city by using geospatial & remote sensing technologies with visualization techniques. y To improve citizen services including the adequacy of water supply, proper sanitation, and solid waste management, assured supply of electricity, efficient urban mobility, public transport, affordable housing, robust information technology connectivity, transparent and good governance, safety, and security of citizens, modernized health and education infrastructure. y To establish better governance and improved life quality of the citizens as well as an improved financial flow for the administrative department.

Stakeholders Involved

Smart Cities Mission authorities, municipal corporations, urban local bodies, urban planners, department officials, project management consultants, master system integrators, and citizens.

Solution and Implementation Plan

Æ Requirement Gathering & Analysis

Æ Data Model Creation

Æ Methodology for Base Map Creation, Data Creation & Migration

Æ Deployment of COTS-based GIS Platform

Æ Creation of a Centralized Database & Publishing of all OGC Services

Æ Customization & Deployment of Web GIS Application

Æ Enablement of all REST APIs for Integration with other Applications

Æ Testing of Developed Solution

Æ Deployment of the developed solution at the client location

Æ User Acceptance Testing

Æ Training & Operations Management Use of Geospatial Technologies

Enterprise Solutions: OGC Services & REST API, WMS, WMTS, WFS, REST API for network Analysis, Geo Coding, Decision Support System etc.

GIS- Geo Processing: Network Analysis, Spatial Overlay Analysis, Thematic Mapping, Spatial Database Management, Geotagging

Image Processing at Server Side: Image Correction & Enhancements, Classification, Indices, Terrain Analysis, Change Detection, Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) Key Outputs

A city-wide Base map was created, which contains all the information about the city including POI data, land use land cover types, city utility networks etc., largely generated using classification and thematic mapping. Usage of these attributes is compulsory for GIS-based analysis if advanced location-based queries are to be performed. This led to the creation of the Data Model.

All these outputs need to be shared and visualized by the stakeholders and not everyone will have access to dedicated spatial software. This led to another key output which is a GIS-enabled Web Portal providing user-based access to all the outputs with the majority of spatial functionalities.

Some of the major Geo-enabled web applications developed thus and helping administration in improved governance and city services include: