Insights Success The 30 Most Valuable Tech Companies Insights success November2016

Gaia Smart Cities:
A Smart City Innovation
Gaia Smart Cities thinks
through the Smart Cities
concept from many different
aspects, which are beyond technology,
thus producing game-changing ideas
for the clients. The firm furnishes IoT
enabled monitoring and tracking
services. Key products in this category
include Gaia Poll-enabling real-time
feedback collection from
geographically dispersed locations,
which has been adopted by multiple
cities to collect citizen feedback about
the cleanliness of Public and
Community toilets; Gaia Insightenabling
Industrial Automation, which
has been adopted by manufacturing,
dairy and supply chain industry.
Additionally, Gaia is pioneering a new
integrated Network of Networks - the
Gaia Grid. A virtualisation platform
operating over 2G, 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi and
proprietary networks and will be the
creation of an IoT Management
Platform on the cloud. Gaia
accomplishes complete solution for
managing water with highly sensitive
sensor system to read water meters and
transmit the data wirelessly on a sensor
network that it builds in partnership
with certain telcos.
Gaia also works closely with the
Ministry of Urban Development
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(MoUD) on Swachh Bharat Mission.
As an integral part of the National
Project Management Unit (PMU) of
SBM, Gaia facilitated the design and
development of pilot solutions for
monitoring & evaluation, training &
development, communication
engagement, and capacity building of
states and Urban Local Bodies (ULBs).
It is now revamping the ICT solutions,
and building tools to enhance the
mission portal for managing the
mission more effectively. The firm
works with certain cities to help create
their IEC strategy, and with some
private townships to architect smart
solutions.
Versatility is the Main Trait of Sumit
Dr. Sumit D Chowdhury, CEO &
Founder of Gaia Smart Cities is an
entrepreneur, business leader and an
international thought-leader on
telecom, electronics and information
systems and solutions for Smart Cities.
He considers success as a team work
and Bipin Kumar, Co-Founder,
Mayuri Naik, Neetika Chhabra,
Aakash Iyer and a team of 20
members’ attribution is equally
counted. Sumit is a B.Tech from IIT
Kanpur and MS and Ph.D. in Urban
Planning and management from
Carnegie Mellon University. Sumit
served as the Project Director for the
Swachh Bharat Mission (PMU),
Ministry of Urban Development, Govt.
of India. He was the President of the
Enterprise Business and CIO of
Reliance Jio. Prior to that, he was a
Vice President with IBM as Head of
Consulting for Telecom, Utilities and
Entertainment industries. He was also
the CIO of Reliance Communications,
Partner of KPMG and Managing
Director and CEO of Bearing Point in
Australia.
Mentioned roles have given him the
opportunity to be recognized as one of
the Top CIOs of the world. Sumit has
been recently appointed as the
Chairman of the Smart Cities Expert
Forum of the Indo-American Chamber
of Commerce for the year 2015-2016.
He is also Professor of Smart Cities at
the Carnegie Mellon University. He is
an invited International expert on
Smart Cities at TM Forum and the
Brussels Sustainable Development by
TERI and active industry speaker and
authority on technology and
management issues.
Sumit has been mentoring, angel
funding, and incubating several startup
companies in diverse areas in India.
His passion for technology and acute
interest in urban solutions designs
brings him to the intersection of using
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