Indus Towers showcases Innovative infrastructure; to invest Rs 100 crore in India

NEW DELHI: India’s largest telecom tower company Indus Towers is consistently working in line with its philosophy of ‘Putting India First’ while bringing best in class technology innovation with investment of Rs 100 crore for 500 new sites across India within a year.

With sustainability and environment at the core of all initiatives, coupled with the management’s approach of Design Thinking, the company is contributing to Digital India and Smart Cities dream by building new-age infrastructure.

With this focus of putting up a robust NextGen Digital services network, Indus Towers today announced their nationwide initiative of Aesthetic Sites. Catering to the need of building smart cities with beautiful city landscapes, the Aesthetic Sites are a unification of world class technology and innovation, location aesthetics and environmental considerations.

Sharing his thoughts, Bimal Dayal, CEO, Indus Towers, said, “With our focus on innovation that enables transformation and belief in Design Thinking approach, where we develop a solution basis customer needs, Aesthetic Sites roll out is a great testimony in this direction“.

He added, “While deploying world class technologies in telecom infrastructure domain, Indus Towers will continue to build digital highways and play a pivotal role in the government’s focus areas such as Smart Cities and Digital India. We have spent about Rs 25 crore on setting up the new 100 sites that have come up over the last one year in 10-11 cities including Mumbai and Delhi.

Innovation at Indus Towers

In line with Design Thinking approach and focus on innovation, seamless connectivity and sustainability, Indus Towers introduced many initiatives. To cite a few: the company converted over 55,000 sites

into green sites; to make diesel free sites, the company installed Free Cooling Units (FCU), Natural Cooling Units + Turbo, Micro Cooling Unit, Solar power FCU and Solar PV leading to energy savings. Optimization of energy consumption has not only brought down the cost of operations but has also created a positive impact on environment.

This goal of continuously transforming through technology innovation also reflects in how Indus Towers drives a connected workforce for operations and maintenance by equipping them with tablets and smartphones with GEO mapping (IMAPP).