In a year's time, the business district of Bandra-Kurla Complex will probably become India's first mini Smart City.
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has floated bids for Request For Proposal to design, develop, implement, operate and maintain the Smart BKC project.
"We expect the project to be up and running by mid-2016," said Sanjay Sethi, additional metropolitan commissioner, MMRDA.
There will be many vendors who will be implementing the project and it will be co-ordinated for system integration by the company that wins the work.
Under this project, there will be WiFi hotspots, smart parking, smart street lights, video analytics and surveillance and citizen mobile application. The overall project estimate is Rs9.41 crore.
Since there are plans of the state government to cover various junctions and strategic locations of Mumbai with CCTV cameras, some modification has been done to integrate it with the state's project.
Similarly, the cost of the street lighting system too will be borne by a national institute that is into energy efficiency. LED lights will be put up which will be synchronised with almanac. In all, there are 841 street lights in Bandra-Kurla Complex.
