HPE opens Customer Experience Centre for smart city services in India

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) India has launched an Intel-powered Customer Experience Center (CEC) in Gurugram to showcase and demonstrate IoT-based smart city services. The facility will feature offerings for smart city projects from HPE, and powered by Intel architecture. According to HPE, the Intel powered smart city CEC at Hewlett Packard Enterprise in India will enable customers to experience services, and system integrators to showcase local IoT implementation possibilities for industries such as healthcare, smart cities, and waste management.

India plans to establish 100 smart cities across the country. Some of the key smart city solutions that will be showcased and demonstrated at the CEC include an eHealth Center (eHC); Public Wi-Fi; City Surveillance; Solid Waste Management; as well as an Integrated Command and Control Center (ICCC).

The ICCC is based on the HPE Universal IoT Platform, which is common across all HPE smart services and provides agnostic support for smart ecosystems along with strategic partners. The ICCC is designed to enable governments or city administrations to remotely manage and control various IoT services via a single platform. These services include Smart water, Smart lighting, Smart traffic and transport, Smart parking, Smart building, Smart industry, and Smart farm.