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Future Proof Smart Cities with a

Common Service Layer: A Standards

Driven Approach

21st April 2017, C-DOT Campus, Mandi Road, New Delhi

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Agenda of the Workshop

Time Event Duration (minutes)

0900 - 0930 Registration 30

0930 - 1050 Inaugural

Inauguration of the Exhibition 10

Lamp lighting 10

Welcome address and Introduction to Workshop by Shri Vipin Tyagi, EDR C-DOT 10

Introduction to TSDSI by Shri Babu Narayanan, Vice Chairman, TSDSI 10

India – EU project in ICT collaboration by Mr Luis Jorge Romero, DG, ETSI 10

Address by Shri N. Sivasailam, Additional Secretary (T) 10

Address by Shri G K Upadhyay, Member (T) 10

India – EU Cooperation by H.E. Mr Cesare Onestini, Dy. Head of Delegation of the European Union to India

10

1050-1115 Tea / Coffee break 25

1115 - 1300 Session: Standards in Smart Cities Chair: Shri N S Kalsi, Add Chief Secretary, Govt. of Punjab

10

Introduction to oneM2M by Dr Omar Elloumi, Nokia, oneM2M TP Chair 20

Smart Cities in Korea by Mr SeungMyeong Jeong, Sr. Researcher, KETI, Korea 20

Need for Common Service Layer in Smart Cities by Shri Aurindam Bhattacharya, C- DOT

20

Update on Indian Smart Cities, Shri Bipin Pradeep Kumar 20

Q/A 15

1300 - 1400 Lunch 60

1400 - 1530 Cities Talk (case studies) Chair: Shri N Sivasailam, Additional Secretary, DoT Presentations ( 20 minutes each) by:

Smart City of Bordeaux, France by Mr Christophe Colinet

Surat Smart City, India by Shri M Nagarajan

Chandigarh Smart City (ITS), India by Shri Amit Talwar

Smart Cities of Italy by Mr Roberto Gavazzi, Telecom Italia

Q/A 10 min

90

1530 – 1550 Tea / Coffee break 30

1550 – 1715 Panel discussion: Smart Cities Frame work – Vital Elements Chair: Shri Vipin Tyagi, EDR, C-DOT

Connectivity and spectrum: Shri V. V. Singh, Adviser (Wireless)

Security: Shri G. Narendra Nath, DDG (Security)

Open Data: Ms Margot Dor

Infrastructure: Shri Neeraj Katariya

Network agnosticism: Shri T. V. Ramachandran

Policy/regulation: Shri Rajiv Sinha, DDG-NT

M2M Communication: Shri Sushil Kumar

85

1715 – 1750 Valedictory session

Welcome by Shri Vipin Tyagi, EDR CDOT 5

Address by Shri R. K. Misra, Member (S) 10

Special Address by Shri Manoj Sinha, Hon’ble MoC Launch of C-DOT Product

15

Vote of Thanks by Mr Luis Jorge Romero, DG, ETSI 5

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MANOJ SINHA

Manoj Sinha is a minister of communication (independent charge) and minister of state for

railways.He was a very talented student and is a civil engineer. He was a student of IIT-

BHU. He maintains a low-profile image, wears his trademark dhoti and long kurta. Sinha is a

three-time BJP MP in Lok Sabha. He represents Ghazipur in the Lower House. As the junior

minister for railways, Sinha handled key assignments including the task to connect several

cities in eastern Uttar Pradesh. In his last meeting in Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra

Modi effusively praised Sinha for his work and commitment as the railway minister.

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VIPIN TYAGI

BABU NARAYANAN

Vipin is an innovative and business leader from ICT Industry for

over 3 decades. He has developed global business through

companies in India, Japan, Australia, USA and Europe. He has

actively worked towards Research and Development of large

systems, Organizational Development and creation of high

performance teams. In October 2009, Vipin decided to promote

National level R&D and joined C-DOT as Director. He is now

serving the organisation as Executive Director.

He has worked on World’s first VoD System, India’s first

indigenous G-PON Development, C-DOT Exchanges and

Indigenous Message Switching System. He has been involved in

Development of over 35 Products in area of Enterprise and

Telecommunications Industry.

Mr Babu Narayanan K J, Vice Chairman TSDSI is working as

Chief Technologist, Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology

(CEWiT), a premier wireless R&D organization at Chennai, India.

An M.Tech from IIT – Kanpur, he has over 26 years of R&D experience in

telecommunications.

At CEWiT, Mr Babu has been involved in research, technology

development and standardization. He has been deeply involved

in the projects taken up by CEWiT including one of evaluation of

IMT-Advanced technologies in 2009-10. He was the coordinator

of Broadband Wireless Consortium of India (BWCI), a

collaborative technology platform created by academia and

industry for broadband wireless activities in India, from 2009 to

2014.

Mr Babu has been helping TSDSI right since its inception. The

Governing Council decided to appoint Mr Babu as Honorary

Executive Director (Standards), TSDSI in in its meeting on 17th

Aug 2016. Mr Babu is representing TSDSI in IMT – 2020

meetings of ITU-R and has contributed to the Working

Procedures document of TSDSI in the past.

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LUIS JORGE

ROMERO

N. SIVASAILAM

Luis Jorge Romero, Director General of the European

Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), has more than

20-years experience in the telecommunications sector. At ETSI

he initiated a global standardization partnership for Machine to

Machine communications, and has driven the implementation of

the ETSI Long Term Strategy, an ambitious plan to prepare the

institute for the future.

Previously he has held diverse Director positions in Spain,

Morocco and Mexico, predominantly with Telefonica. As Global

Director for International Roaming and Standards, and Director

of Innovation and Standards, he oversaw Telefonica's

participation in global standardization activities, and participated

directly in the work of the Next Generation Mobile Networksv

(NGMN) Alliance and in the GSM Association (GSMA).

Before joining ETSI in July 2011, he held the position of Director

General of Innosoft and was also a partner and board member of

Madrid-based Innology Ventures.

Shri N. Sivasailam is an officer of the 1985 batch of the Indian

Administrative Service allotted to Karnataka Cadre. He

graduated in Mechanical Engineering from University of Delhi.

His last assignment in cadre was at the Department of Public

Enterprises, Government of Karnataka where he served in the

position of Additional Chief Secretary. He has served in the

Departments of Health & Family Welfare and Forest, Ecology &

Environment Departments of the Govt. of Karnataka as Principal

Secretary.

He has served Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd, the

Karnataka State Beverages Corporation Limited and Rajiv

Gandhi Rural Housing Corporation Ltd. as Managing Director, in

earlier stints in the Cadre besides serving an assignment as

Secretary in the Rural Development & Panchayat Raj

Department of the State Government.

He has been a Member of National Award Winning Teams in

Panchayat Raj Administration and E-governance applications.

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Cesare Onestini

R.K. MISHRA

Cesare Onestini is the Deputy Head of the European Union

Delegation to India since August 2014. Cesare joined the

European Commission in 1995. As a European official, Cesare

has worked on a variety of policies including the promotion of

European cooperation in the areas of education and professional

training, the development of European transport networks and

the liberalization of gas and energy markets. More recently,

Cesare has worked for the European Union in the areas of

external relations, international trade, security and crisis

management. From 2008 to 2010, he worked at the EU

Delegation to the United Nations in New York, focusing on

cooperation between the European Union and the United

Nations on peace and security issues. In 2010 he returned to

Brussels for the setting up of the European External Action

Service (EEAS), the diplomatic service of the European Union.

In the EEAS, he took over the position of Head of the Corporate

Board's Secretariat. For the 2013-14 academic year, Cesare was

the European Union Visiting Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School

of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, focusing

his research and teaching on EUASEAN relations

Member (Services), Telecom Commission, Department of

Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications, Government

of India. Did Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) from prestigious

University of Allahabad. Successfully completed Bachelor of

Technology (B.Tech) and is a GOLD Medalist in Masters of

Technology (M.Tech) in the field of Electronics &

Telecommunications from the J.K. Institute, University of

Allahabad. Has done many short-term management and

technical courses from prestigious institutions such as Indian

Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad.

Has joined as Member (Services), Department of

Telecommunications on 4th October 2016. As a full time member

of the Telecom Commission, is responsible for formulating the

policy of Department of Telecommunications and implementation

of Government's policy in all matters concerning

telecommunication. Is also the cadre controlling authority for the

ITS cadre and has successfully completed the cadre review after

a long gap of 28 years. Is in charge of the Telecom Engineering

Centre (TEC) and Telecom Security and is therefore responsible

for the mandatory testing of telecom equipment and cyber

security policies of the country.

Besides, he has an avid interest in Yoga, Vastu, Astrology and

Study of scriptures.

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N S KALSI

DR. OMAR ELLOUMI

Shri Nirmaljeet Singh Kalsi IAS (Punjab 1984) is presently

posted as Additional Chief Secretary, Development,

Government of Punjab.

Dr. Nirmaljeet Singh Kalsi holds a Bachelor of Engineering

degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Roorkee, now

IIT Roorkee, Master of Technology in Computer Technology

from IIT Delhi and obtained his Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

from Department of Management and Social Sciences, Thapar

University, Patiala. Before joining IAS in 1984 (Punjab cadre), he

served in Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers (IRSEE)

(1982-84) and National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC)

(1981-82)

Dr. Omar Elloumi is Head of M2M and Smart Grid standards

within Alcatel-Lucent CTO. He is also the chair of oneM2M

Technical Plenary after having led the oneM2M Architecture

group delivering the first release of specifications. Omar joined

Alcatel-Lucent in 1999 and held several positions including

research, strategy and system architecture. He holds a Ph.D.

degree in computer science and served on the ATM Forum and

IPSphere Forum Board of Directors. Omar Elloumi is co-editor of

books on M2M communications and Internet of Things published

in 2012. He is also involved in program committees of several

international conferences on M2M and IoT.

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SeungMyeong

JEONG

Christophe COLINET

Senior Researcher

IoT Platform Research Center KETI (Korea Electronics Technology Institute)

Qualification - oneM2M Architecture Working Group Vice-chairman

Work History - 2016.06 ~ Current: KETI, oneM2M standardization, KR-EU joint research projects for IoT platform, Busan smart city pilot project - 2011.07 ~ 2016.05: LG Electronics, OMA and oneM2M

standardization

Christophe COLINET joined the City of Bordeaux in 2005 as

head of operational maintenance for infrastructure City's servers

before creating, in 2008, a new R&D service dedicated to

innovative technical solutions adapted to the context of the City's

information system, and then in 2012 to take over the digital

territory management.

Since January 2016, teams in charge of digital activities within

the City of Bordeaux and the Bordeaux Urban Community

merged into a single branch in charge of digital for Bordeaux

metropole.

Christophe became the Smart City project manager for this new

directorate, coordinating European projects and more specifically

“Sharing Cities”, a 2015 H2020 SCC1 lighthouse project, for the

metropolis.

He is the EG4U secretary (EG4U: The European non-

governmental organisation (NGO) of Information and

Communication Technology (ICT) Users). This NGO, dedicated

to energy management & waste monitoring, has been created

early December, 2015, by ICT(Information & communications

technologies) users, members of ETSI Industry Specification

Group (ISG) called Operational energy Efficiency for Users

(OEU), based in Sophia Antipolis (France)

Since the 9th June 2016, he chairs an ETSI ATTM SDMC

(Sustainable Digital Multiservice for Cities) working group

dedicated to provide technical specifications for the industry in

accordance with city’s needs.

Before arriving in the city of Bordeaux, Christophe spent five

years as an entrepreneur in an IT company of 5 people, then

another five years as technical director of the Novenci Western

society, SSII of 150 people located in the south of France and

specialized in technical infrastructures integration for SMEs. He

began his career as an engineer at Hewlett Packard presales.

He has an engineering degree issued by the E.S.E.O (Upper

Electronics School from West) in Angers (France).

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Aurindam

Bhattacharya

NEERAJ KATARIYA

An Electronics and Communication Engineer of 1987 batch, has

had vast experience in various fields of Computing and

Communications. Worked in ECIL with the Mainframe unit and

also handled the design, testing and deployment aspects of

Strategic Communication Systems for the Defense Sector

specifically Air Force and Army. Thereafter joined C-DOT in

1993 and has handled the computing needs of the Organisation.

Also acted as the solution architect for various projects of C-DOT

like Intelligent Networks, Data Clearing House, OSS and more

recently the critical project having extreme national importance-

CMS (Centralised Monitoring System). Has been instrumental in

bringing out the IPv6 Road map document version 1 and 2 as a

core team member with the NT Cell of DoT and also handling

the role of one of the IPv6 consultants empanelled by DoT. In

the area of M2M Communication coordinating the activities of

Development of the standards compliant Common Services

M2M platform in C-DOT. Has been a key member of the group in

DoT formulating the policy document on M2M Communication.

Also contributed in writing the Technical Reports on Gateway

and Architecture and M2M numbering plan while holding the

position of chairman of Gateway and Architecture Working

Group of TEC. Has been an advocate of standardisation in the

M2M and IOT domain and in this direction have been

participating and contributing actively in the OneM2M-The

international standardisation Body on M2M.

Neeraj has over 15 years of experience in managing large Digital

transformational engagements in multiple domains across

government and private multinational clients in India and Global.

In his current role, he manages delivery of various Smart City

projects and telecom sector intiatives for PwC. Recently he also

led roll out of the largest Fiber network project for India.

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ROBERTO GAVAZZI

MARGOT DOR

After completing his Electronical engineering studies at

Politecnico in Turin, Roberto worked for three years in the

aerospatial area where he spent one year in Toulouse designing

and developing SW for manned shuttles and satellites. Since

then, Roberto has spent more than 20 years in Telecom Italia

Laboratories focusing first on Network Management and then on

Telco Services. During his career Roberto was responsible for

the "Service Management" functional unit, for cluster of projects

called Programs (Program Manager) and for Client

Management. In this last period Roberto is managing Projects on

Smart City, Smart Grids and Internet of Things services. Roberto

is working with many Italian and European cities on innovative

Smart City projects. Currently Roberto is also the Project

Manager for the development, deployment and operation of a

Telecom Italia IoT and smart city environment and platform

called Open Air Lab in Torino.

ETSI is a leading ICT standards organization whose mission is

to enable the emergence of global open standards for telecoms,

broadcast and IT. The 700+ member companies design the work

programme with their input and participation to technical

committees. ETSI is located in Sophia Antipolis, France.

After holding various positions in the IT and banking industry,

Margot Dor joined ETSI to launch a market intelligence unit.

Since mid-10, she is working as Director for Partnerships &

European Affairs.

Margot was born and raised in Marseille (France). She

graduated in Political Science and International Public Law and

holds a Post-graduate Degree in strategic marketing.

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T. V.

RAMACHANDRAN

RAJIV SINHA

T.V.Ramachandran, widely known in the telecoms industry as

'TV', has played a key role in Mobile Telecommunications in

India since it was first introduced in 1994. He was the 1st CEO of

one of the earliest cellular ventures in India - Sterling Cellular Ltd

(Essar Cellphone), Delhi from '94 to '97 - and led the

establishment and successful launch of the largest Indian

cellular network of that time. Sterling Cellular was incidentally the

original predecessor of what is today Vodafone Delhi.

TVR was the first Chairman of the India Interest Group of GSM

MoU Association from 1995 to 1998 and has been closely

involved with GSM activities all through the years.

Since Jan 2015, TVR has set up his own Consultancy firm and

advises several firms as well as industry bodies. Also currently,

he is Chairman of the Telecoms Committee of the European

Business Group, Is President of the Broadband India Forum, the

only Indian body exclusively focussed on growth of Broadband,

Member of the Global Advisory Body of the Panel of the

Institution of Engg & Technology, London, on Internet of Things.

Presently working as Deputy Director General ,Networks &

Technologies, Department of Telecommunications, Government

of India since July 2015 primarily having responsibility for

framing policies and guidelines for the new emerging

technologies like M2M, Cloud computing, IPV4 to IPV6 transition

etc. He is also looking into the policy issues related to Net

Neutrality.

Prior to this he was Deputy Director General (TERM) in DoT HQ,

responsible for the enforcement and monitoring of DoT

guidelines related to EMF radiation, Roll-out obligations, Mobile

number portability, subscriber verification etc by all Telecom

Service Providers.

He is an officer of Indian Telecommunication Service (ITS) of the

Department of Telecommunications, Government of India and

has joined the service in the year 1989. He has over 28 years of

experience in various administrative & technical matters related

to the field of telecommunications with specialization in

Transmission technologies. He has played important role in

network planning, project implementation and operations of

various telecom networks namely GSM networks, Transmission

systems and IT systems.

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SUSHIL KUMAR

AMIT TALWAR

Mr. Sushil Kumar did his Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics

and Communications in 1987 and Master of Technology in

Computer Science in 1988 from University of Roorkee (presently

known as Indian Institutes of Technology Roorkee). He is from

1987 batch of Indian Telecommunication services and joined

Department of Telecommunications in February 1989.

He has worked in planning, project implementation & operations

of fixed, mobile and optical fibre networks and switches, and

also as the head of a number of business units in DoT / BSNL

for around 22 years.

Since July 2013, he is working as Deputy Director General in

M2M (Machine to Machine) Communication / IoT (Internet of

Things) domain in Telecommunication Engineering Centre. He

chairs National working Group (NWG) -20 to coordinate with

ITU-T SG-20. He has participated in the Study Group (SG)-20

meetings of International Telecom Union (ITU) on IoT and its

applications in Smart cities, held in Singapore and Geneva. He is

also the member in concerned groups in TSDSI and BIS. He has

also participated in more than 25 National conferences as a

speaker.

B.E. Electronics from Thapar Institue of Engineering &

Technology, Patiala. M.Sc. Social Policy & Development from

London School of Economies & Political Science (September

2009-September, 2010)

He joined Punjab Civil Services initially in year October, 1999;

rejoined in year June, 2004. Presently on deputation with

Chandigarh Administration and posted as Additional Secretary

Transport-cum-Director Transport.

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BIPIN PRADEEP

KUMAR

M NAGARAJAN

Bipin is an established management and strategy professional

and till recently was at Reliance Jio where he oversaw new

areas in the Enterprise Ecosystem, before which he was

responsible for all Products and Platforms in Jio interfacing with

the core Telecom network. He has also filed 3 patents in mobile

web technologies.

Bipin is the Chair of the Smart City Group for the TEC, DOT,

Ministry of Communication and IT and is a core member of the

National Working Group on International Telecommunication

Union (ITU)'s SG on Smart Sustainable Communities. He is also

an invited expert at TSDSI where until recently he led the group

on Smart Cities.

Academically, Bipin has a dual MBA from Georgetown

University's School of Foreign Service & School of Business and

ESADE Business School and a MSc from University of Wales.

Bipin is a marathon runner and world traveller.

Nagarajan is an IAS Officer with keen interest in technology in

development. He is deputy municipal commissioner of Surat and

also CEO of Surat Smart City.

As a District Development Officer in Sabarkantha District of

Gujarat he was working on various issues related to education

and health. He has made major interventions in health,

education and rural development. He believes that technology

can be a game changer in rural development. He has created

India's first 100% WiFi tribal taluka. He created India's first

Digital Village at Akodara in association with ICICI Bank. His

projects have won major awards that include SKOCH Award of

Excellence, CSI Nihilent Award, Manthan Award, Financial

Inclusion Payment Systems award. He has been chosen as

District Collector Digital Champion 2014 by Digital

Empowerment Foundation. He has extensive experience of

working various government department including Indian

Railways, Indian Audit and Accounts Department and Reserve

Bank of India.

He has a Masters in Public Policy and Masters in Economics. A

bureaucrat by profession he believes that technology is a great

enabler of social change. He has been awarded by Election

Commission of India for Innovative use of Technology in

Elections in the recent Gujarat 2012 elections.

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G. NARENDRA

NATH

G.K. UPADHYAY

G.Narendra Nath, is working as Deputy Director General

(Security), Department of Telecommunications, Government of

India since 2nd July 2014 with overall responsibilities for the

policy formulation and implementation and matters pertaining to

Telecom network security of India. Prior to this he was Deputy

Director General (Security Audit) for a year responsible for the

finalization of the processes and procedures for the conduction

of Security Audit of the networks of Telecom Service Providers.

He has over 27 years of telecom including 17 years of senior

management experience in the areas of Telecom network

planning, installation, operation and maintenance, Marketing &

Business Development and Training.

He holds a Masters in Technology from Indian Institute of

Technology, Delhi with specialization in VLSI design. He is

trained as a Lead Auditor for ISO 9001:2008. He is a member of

the National Working Group for ITU-T SG-17 on Security.

He is Member (Technology), Department of Telecommunications

(DoT), Government of India, since September 2016. He joined

DoT in 1980 as an ITS officer (DoT). He has worked in past as

Chief General Manager for Haryana and Maharashtra Circle. He

joined as Advisor Technology DoT in August 2016. He did is

BTech from IIT Roorkee.

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V.V.Singh, Wireless Adviser to the Government of India. He did Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Electronic and Communications Engineering from University of Roorkee during 1980. He did Master of Engineering (ME) in Solid State Electronics from University of Roorkee during 1982. He Joined Wireless Planning and Coordination (WPC) Wing as a Group A officer in 1982 and in July, 2016, he became Wireless Adviser to the Government of India. Some of the Important positions held by him during his tenure are Director, Wireless Monitoring Organisation and Vice Chairman of ITU-R Study Group-1 for two study cycles.

V.V.SINGH