Schneider Electric starts work on country's first integrated smart city

The project is coming up in Chhattisgarh's Naya Raipur

Schneider Electric India, a global specialist in energy management and automation, has started work on developing the country’s first greenfield integrated smart city in Naya Raipur, the upcoming capital of Chhattisgarh.

The company, in partnership with IL&FS, has bagged the contract from Naya Raipur Development Authority (NRDA) for the project. Schneider Electric will be responsible for executing the integrated command and control centre and its overall integration covering transportation, surveillance, citizen applications, smart grid solution, water and building management.

“The survey and designing works have started even as the project gets off,” Prakash Chandraker, Managing Director and Vice