Smart city concept to be developed for Russian city

Skolkovo foundation has held a tender for the development of a smart city concept which has been won by a consortium of Russia-based Cognitive Technologies IT company, Ernst & Young consulting company from the UK and Japan-based Panasonic. Skolkovo, near Moscow, is also known as the Russian Silicon Valley, and the contract is worth US$3.06 million.
April 3, 2012 Read time: 1 min
Skolkovo foundation has held a tender for the development of a smart city concept which has been won by a consortium of Russia-based Cognitive Technologies IT company, Ernst & Young consulting company from the UK and Japan-based 598 Panasonic. Skolkovo, near Moscow, is also known as the Russian Silicon Valley, and the contract is worth US$3.06 million.

The companies are to design the management system including Smart House, Modern School, Electric Transport, Innovative Road, Store of the Future and other projects. They will present the plan of how it can be realised,  technical specifications project, and a 3D model of the town. The innovation centre is supposed to utilise power saving technologies, and public utilities and transport flows are to be centrally managed. The centre of the smart city will cover 400 ha with 1.6 million sq metres of premises, with construction scheduled to be completed by 2017.
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