Mindteck Unveils Smart Parking Solutions at Smart City Workshop

Business Wire India
Mindteck (India) Limited (BSE: MINDTECK), a global technology company, was among 20 technology companies invited to make presentations on Smart City related ICT solutions at the Smart Solutions for Service Delivery in Cities workshop held in Chennai on 8th October.  The event was jointly organized by the government of Tamil Nadu and Nasscom, and was sponsored by Tamil Nadu Urban Finance and Infrastructure Development Corporation.  Attendees included senior Tamil Nadu Government designates from shortlisted smart cities, including principal secretaries, municipal commissioners, officials of urban local bodies, and senior government officials.

Dr. K V Krishnan, VP Delivery, Mindteck, presented an overview of the company’s smart city engagements and also shared a demo on its Smart Parking Solution—a robust, reliable and cost-effective end-to-end solution for Car Parking Occupancy Detection and Management. The solution, which uses field-mounted Wi-Fi IP-based cameras for both outdoor and indoor parking, was well-received by infrastructure consultants, private companies and other major government agencies.

“We are honored to have been part of this select group of participants, commented Yusuf Lanewala, Mindteck Chairman and Managing Director.  He added, “We have executed best-in-class smart city solutions worldwide and are well-prepared to address the needs for successful implementation of smart cities—ranging from traffic management and energy efficiency to

e-governance and intelligent lighting”.

Other notable smart city work from Mindteck include:

• Implementation of statewide ERP-based E-Nagarpalika, a citizen-friendly local body that serves as a one-stop-shop for all e-governance solutions.
• Collaboration with University of California (Berkeley), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and the National University of Singapore (NUS), in Singapore to build a world-class research model for building efficiency through an engagement with SinBerBEST, (Singapore-Berkeley Building Efficiency and Sustainability in the Tropics). Click here to read more.
• An Intelligent Lighting Solution for a UK-based utility company that has announced record reductions in energy consumption and CO2 emissions. Mindteck developed the complete hardware and software for the system. Fifteen months into the project, energy consumption has been cut by 2.5 million kWh. Prior to installation of energy efficient lanterns, the street lighting was consuming around 50m kWh of energy a year. This will be successfully reduced to 34m kWh this year.

About Mindteck (India) Limited

Mindteck, a global technology company, provides Product Engineering solutions and Information Technology services to top-tier Fortune 100 companies, start-ups, leading universities and government entities worldwide. Its depth of knowledge and niche expertise in embedded systems and enterprise applications is complemented by dedicated Centers of Excellence in wireless design and storage testing. Mindteck has offices in the US, UK, Singapore, Malaysia, Netherlands, Germany, Bahrain and India, and four development centers: one each in the US and Singapore, and two in India (Kolkata and Bangalore). The company is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE 517344) and is among a select group of global companies appraised at Maturity Level 5, Version 1.3 of the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). It is also a Founding Member of ‘The Atlas online’ – an interactive tool that provides visualizations of growth opportunities for over one hundred countries worldwide – for the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University.

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