Hyderabad, Oct.18 (NSS): IIIT Hyderabad’s Smart City Living Lab wins “Best Education Institute Exhibit of the Year” at the India Mobile Congress Exhibition held at Pragati Maidan, Delhi.
The eighth edition of India Mobile Congress concluded today at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. The event featured global attendance, including international delegates from diverse sectors such as member states, standardization bodies, industries, academia, and start-ups. It also acts as an essential platform for enhancing the standardisation ecosystem across various telecom and ICT technologies.
Based on the invitation from DOT, the team led by Dr Aftab Hussain from IIIT Hyderabad participated in IMC 2024 this year. This year Smart City Living Lab showcased live demos of three key solutions addressing the present smart city problems.
They were: Wi-SUN ((Wireless Smart Ubiquitous/ Utility Network) based RF-Mesh Network; City IoT operating Platform(ctOP) and “We are delighted to receive this award, which reflects our efforts to transform the educational landscape through technology, kudos to the Smart City Living Lab team and faculty members for their essential role in making this success possible” said Anuradha Vattem, Chief Technology Architect at Smart City Living Lab-IIITH.
Wi-SUN ((Wireless Smart Ubiquitous/ Utility Network) based RF-Mesh Network: Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has recently included Wi-SUN as one of the wireless communication protocols for smart city applications. Wi-SUN provides secure, reliable, and low-power communication, enabling efficient management and control of large-scale IoT deployments.
At IIIT Hyderabad, India’s first large scale Wi-SUN network has been successfully deployed in collaboration with Silicon Labs, to control the streetlights on campus. This mesh network can be used as a backbone to connect any Wi-SUN based device/sensors within the range of one of the streetlights. At IMC 2024 a complete Wi-SUN network with a border router, two light controllers and a sensor node has been deployed and the functionality demonstrated with interconnectivity through oneM2M. This simple demonstration showcased the ease with which Wi-SUN can be adopted for various smart city applications.
Vaibhav Naware, key contributor for the deployment of Wi-SUN Network in the campus expressed his excitement about the award.
