Next-Gen TECHNOLOGY for SMART CITIES

Raj Darji

- Founder & CEO, Aarav Solutions

As technology continues to pervade every field, including urban growth, it will be a critical component in facilitating planned urbanisation. In recent years, the GoI has pushed a number of initiatives aimed at accelerating the growth of smart cities in India. However, the ever-growing urban population is having a significant impact on the environment and quality of human life. The growing demand for housing, transportation, energy, employment and basic services such as education and healthcare, poses challenges in meeting the needs of the urban populations. Integrated strategies to manage urban development that ensure universal access to infrastructure and social services will become critical in this context. It is hard for the government bodies to manage and maintain the demands of such huge populations. Technology companies have come up with innovative solutions to reduce the pressure on the government bodies during these times of crisis. To help tackle these problems Aarav solutions has come up with Adptx™ Utilities, an integrated software-hardware service.

Aarav Solutions, a global product engineering and  IT service provider founded by Raj Darji, helps businesses reduce stress on manual labour and bring efficient processes in place. Aarav Solutions has catered to a vast number of clients worldwide. Their business model focuses on two different aspects, IT consulting services and Product services. The company has developed a line of products called Adptx™ with next-generation and emerging technologies to bring innovative solutions to their clients. The different products in this portfolio are Adptx™, Adptx™ Cloud, Adptx™ Comm (Communications), Adptx™ Utilities, and Adptx™ Suite. Adptx™ Utilities is aimed at helping make cities smarter to foster a better quality of life through sustainable economic growth.

Adptx Utilities

Aarav Solutions is on a mission to help the GoI in their project to transform 100 Indian cities to smart cities with the help of its Adptx™ Utilities integrated service. With this solution, the company wants to help government bodies to improve the well-being of citizens, expand housing opportunities, boost infrastructure and draw better plans for smarter cities. Adptx™ Utilities can help city governments to harness next-gen technologies and create developmental strategies that are sure to deliver desired outcomes for managing the rapidly growing urban population in a sustainable and efficient manner. It provides services like smart transportation, smart waste management, smart metering systems, and real time insights & transparency across facilities.

Smart Transportation: The biggest problem faced by cities is the unmanaged transportation systems or the lack of it. Adptx™ Utilities is a transport-agnostic solution that can handle all kinds of public transportation, including buses, trains, taxis, ferries, and other forms of public transportation. It brings multiple platforms on board to handle congestion and traffic overload and deliver a secure and seamless smart transportation mechanism.

Smart Waste Management: Waste management becomes a herculean task when it comes to mega-cities. For example, Mumbai alone generates 7500 tons of waste every day. Adptx™ Utilities with its Intelligent waste management system with fill-level sensors embedded inside waste bins for automatic messaging for bin status when it is full and ready for pick-up.

Smart Metering Systems: It comes with flexible rating and charging (subscriber and billing management). It is an end-to-end solution for water, electric and gas utilities. Smart meters are smart grid solutions for smart cities. It is quick and the integrated product roll out with accurate metering, flexible rating & charging plans and integrated smart meters for the next generation smart cities, offers an integrated software-hardware service called AMR (automatic meter reading) module for gas, water, and electricity consumption.

Real Time Insights & Transparency across Facilities: The solution breaks down information databases and seamlessly aggregates data from a range of hardware and software sources to deliver valuable, contextual and actionable insights. Adptx™ Utilities also provides benefits like percentage-based discount which is easier to manage. Field force management (via app) which will help field sales users to make customer acquisition. Features like e-checks and collection management for walk-in customers. For additional security, it provides the utility platform end-to-end cloud hosting. Customer analytics based on the types of tickets generated helps the operator ensure smooth operations.

How is Adptx Utilities helping in the transformation?

Smart cities are not just about integrating hi-end technologies but also helping the stakeholders in the cities create sustainable governance with vision and better leadership, enable well-informed citizens to actively participate in the city's development, use resources efficiently and digitize every aspect of life. Aarav Solutions plans to move digital India towards sustainable growth with its Adptx™ Utilities software by deploying a technology that is capable of driving innovation and cultural change, while keeping citizens at the epicenter of the transformation.

Adptx™ Utilities allows transforming consulting and business blueprints by creating co-existing ecosystem of IT, people and processes. Aarav Solutions also plans to create a cultural transformation by bringing transparency, productivity and accountability within organizations for efficient operations. So far the implementation has invoked 70% improvement in speed of information availability of stakeholders, 60% improvement in resource allocation and 40% increase in urban development planning. Adptx™ full-service stack for utility management allows for asset operations, meter operations, billing operations, customer experiences and waste management.

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