Cisco-ILFS to develop smart cities

New Delhi: Networking giant Cisco and ILFS Technologies (ITL), a technology solutions company of Infrastructure Leasing& Financial Services (IL&FS), have entered into an agreement to develop digital solutions for India’s infrastructure and smart cities.

Under the agreement, both the companies will develop Internet of Everything (IoE) based digital solutions to enable Digital India vision. The two companies will jointly go to market to pursue growing opportunities in the infrastructure sector and smart cities in India

Durga Prasad, CEO, ITL said, “In a digital India, there will be a transformation in the delivery of citizen services. Our collaboration with Cisco will bring the power of the Internet of Everything to greenfield and brownfield cities, communities and rural communities in India. Together we can enable digital solutions for the most essential citizen services such as healthcare and education.”

Dinesh Malkani, President, Sales, Cisco India and SAARC, said: “Today, only 1 per cent of all the things that surround us are connected to the network. In India every day an average of 275,000 devices will be connected to the network. Our vision of the Internet of Everything is that we will live in a world where everything—and everyone—can be connected to everything else.

"We have the opportunity to embrace the Internet of Everything and help enable a digital India. By enabling a digitized economy we hope to enable safer streets, smarter homes and healthier and better-educated citizens. The Internet of Everything will change how we work by delivering more information, better decisions and increased economic value.”

The Digital India program of the government is focused on the digital empowerment of citizens, where infrastructure would be offered as a utility to every citizen, governance and services would be on demand, and citizens would be digitally empowered. The Digital India program aims to enable broadband in villages, universal phone connectivity, public Internet access points, public Wi-Fi in schools and universities, digital inclusion, electronic delivery of governance and services, and job creation.