JANUARY 20174Imagine a city that has enough information about you such that it adapts to you in real time. The city's billboards change as you walk past, displaying advertisements based on your recent shopping patterns. Restaurants present menus tailored to your taste and health. Street lights brighten or dim depending on whether you are walking or driving. You receive traffic alerts on your phone that are tailored to your journey. And as soon as you book your flight for a trip, you start to receive alerts about the weather, traffic and even political updates of the city you are to visit.These are the kind of images that often come to mind when we think of smart cities. Rapid urbanization over the past two decades has led to the mushrooming of smart cities around the world. The sheer size and scale of these cities place huge pressure on infrastructure development, public services provision, and environmental sustainability. Coming to the rescue are startups that stand unique in providing cutting edge and unique technological solutions for the civic body. Undoubtedly, the smart city projects have opened up window of opportunities for start-up firms and innovators in the city. Experts believe startups are the only way that global cities are going to be able to adopt a new smart approach. Given they have much slower innovation cycles, it's harder for corporates to run the kinds of rapid iterative experiments done by their small counterparts. This sets onus on the startups that are said to have pivotal role to play in driving the sector forward.The smart city projects talk about usage of technology to upgrade civic life such as Internet of Things (IoT), cloud-based technology solutions, among others, wherein start-ups come up with unique solutions. Believing the same, we have listed `10 Best Startups in Smartcity Solution in our current edition. These startups promise to make cities in India smart with the help of their integrated approach to modernize infrastructure, and leverage technology to improve efficiency and capacity of city services.Do let us know your thoughts.Nandini MukherjeeManaging EditorFrom `Green Energy' to `Green Bills' EDITOR'S NOTE Vol 2 · Issue 8 - 3 · January 25, 2017 Publisher Alok Chaturvedi Managing Editor Nandini Mukherjee Editorial Team Amit Raja Naik Ananth. V Abhijith Shetty Pushpita Das Sales & Marketing Ashu Sethi Garima Anand Editorial Queries editor@startupcity.com To subscribe Visit www.startupcity.com/subscribe Cover price is Rs. 150 per issue.Printed and Published By Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of Siliconmedia Technologies Pvt Ltd and Printed at Precision Fototype Services at Sri Sabari Shopping Complex, 24 Residency Road Bangalore-560025 and Published At No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murigheshpalya, Bangalore-560017. Editor Alok ChaturvediCopyright © 2017 Siliconmedia Technologies Pvt Ltd, All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher.sales@startupcity.comGroup Art Director Ashok KumarCirculation Manager Magendran Perumal Visualiser ManjunathSr. Manager Sales & Marketing Amrit Singhsiliconindia
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