Adding to its project portfolio in the engineering and construction sector, Larsen & Toubro has recently received a Letter of Intent (LoI) appointing it as the implementation partner to convert Nagpur into the country's first large-scale integrated smart city. This is in line with the government's vision to use vanguard technology for creating smart solutions to improve quality of life of citizens. The scope of work in phase 1 for L&T's smart world communications business vertical, which is a part of L&T Construction, will cover laying of 1200 km of optical fibre network backbone, creating 136 City as Wi-Fi hotspots at key locations, establishing 100 digital interactive kiosks and developing city surveillance systems with 3,800 IP based cameras. Furthermore, the city has identified a strip of approximately 6 km (from Japanese Garden Square to Orange City Hospital Square) to be developed as a Smart Strip'with state-of-the-art systems, powered by smart ICT interventions like smart transport, solid waste management, smart lighting, which can be leveraged in a phased manner to ultimately cover the entire city, Deputy Managing Director and President, Larsen & Toubro, S N Subrahmanyan said.
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