Kakinada: The Smart City Research Centre at IIIT Hyderabad and the Kakinada Institute of Engineering and Technology (KIET) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to support the Kakinada Smart City Mission.
The collaboration between IIIT Hyderabad and KIET aims to establish a Smart City Living Lab at the KIET campus and extend the same to Kakinada Smart City.
Under the Smart City Living Lab initiative, the KIET campus will be used as a testbed for deploying and validating real-world smart City technologies.
The partnership also supports the long-term vision of deploying smart technologies in Kakinada.
The collaboration identifies and executes urban projects with tangible outcomes, in alignment with the Lab’s mission.
It will facilitate knowledge sharing through workshops, expert-led sessions, and hands-on training and provide student internships and research-based learning opportunities.
The IIIT Hyderabad team showcased their ongoing work in areas like crowd monitoring, water supply distribution and quality monitoring, Digital Twin solutions for water network and a scalable City IoT operating platform.
