JUSCO leverages IoT across an array of civic services | Express Computer
The IoT implementation will provide real time information about the civic services being delivered and will empower JUSCO to take preemptive action to avert any untoward incident. Ashish Mathur, Managing Director, Jamshedpur Utilities and Services Company (JUSCO), shares more details
Jamshedpur is India’s first planned industrial city. The genesis of the city was laid by Jamshedji Tata. During the times of establishing a greenfield integrated steel plant in Jamshedpur, Jamshedji Tata always spoke about a city and never a company township. The idea was to provide a productive environment for the citizens. As far as the daily necessities are concerned, the water is so pure that it is consumed directly from the tap; not only is the electricity available 24*7, the quality of electricity does not require a stabiliser, etc.
The IoT solution has been developed by Tata Communications by partnering with two companies- MOTWANE and KernelSphere Technologies. It’s based on the LoRaWAN technology. LoRaWAN is a low powered Wide Area Network (WAN), which is designed for transferring tiny amounts of data over long distances, but still maintaining the battery life, whereas the regularly used cellular systems are not equipped to maintain a good battery life and still transfer small data bits inexpensively.