IIIT-H gets first corporate founding partner for Smart City Living lab

‘Initiative will catalyse nation’s goal in enabling 100 smart cities in next 5 years’

International Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad (IIIT-H) has announced that Silicon Labs, a leading provider of silicon, software and solutions, is the first corporate founding partner for its new Smart City Living Lab. The lab’s mission is to provide a research and development ecosystem for next-generation technologies designed to improve safety, sustainability, energy efficiency, sanitation, and overall quality of life in densifying cities. It is part of the institute’s Smart City Research Center, supported by Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Smart Cities Mission, Telangana government, and European Business and Technology Centre. “This unique private, public and academia initiative will catalyse the nation’s goal in enabling 100 smart cities in the next five years,” said MeitY senior director Ajai Garg. Silicon Labs India’s VP Manish Kothari said: “Our mission is to make the world a better place leveraging the power of IoT, we are happy to share our expertise within the innovation ecosystem being created here”.