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Integration of
Robotic (Sensors) with
Geospatial Technology in Smart City Applications

by Swaran Singh Jaggi

- At SSN ollege, Delhi University
- On 14th May 2020
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 Abstract
Sensors, robotics, camera, machine learning, encryption,
cloud computing, software and hardware are converging
in to an real-time application called SMART CITY System.
Hence smart city application is an integration of
technologies which provide
• Automatic
• Semi-automatic and
• Decision support (strategic analysis - long term)

Real time solution for SMART CITY

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 Topic Covered
1. Sensors
2. GIS & Geospatial Application
3. Existing example – Precision farming
4. Integration of sensors with GeoS applications
5. Smart Cities
6. Future integration ideas
7. Conclusion

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Sensors

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 What are sensors?
A sensor is a an electronic circuit which
evaluate an attribute and give the
resultant back in circuit

Electronic sensor circuits convert

light, temperature, sound, and
other signals into a form that can
be processed by electronic
circuits. 

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 What are sensors?
A sensor is a
• Device,
• Module, or
• Subsystem

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 Working?
whose purpose is to
• Detect events/changes in its environment
and
• Responds/send the information to other
electronics,
For example
• light or
• as complex as a computer

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 Working?

•Touch sensor (lift

button)
•Motion sensor
•Light sensor (dawn
to dusk)
•BIN Level sensor

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 IoT – Internet of Things

When we add sensors to something – we

grant that “thing” (object, vehicle,
machine, infrastructure or any thing) – the
ability to communicate about itself
through the network with the user or a
complex system

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Application of sensors (IoT) – giving
our world a digital nervous system?
IoT automates operations by automatically gathering
information about physical assets such as
• Devices,
• Machines,
• Equipment,
• Vehicles,
• Infrastructure,
• Facilities etc

Visibility into status and behaviors enables optimization of

control, processes, and resources. Sensors enable devices to
capture the physical reality of things through a wide range of
functions.
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Application of sensors (IoT) – giving
our world a digital nervous system?
Analysis and Visibility of status and behaviors
enables optimization of
• control,
• processes, and
• resources.

Hence, Sensors enable devices to capture the physical

reality of things through a wide range of functions.

Providing digital nervous system

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Application of sensors (IoT) – giving
our world a digital nervous system?
Cell phone has 8 and 11 sensors

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GeoS Applications

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 What is GeoST?

 System for storing and

retrieving geographic
information

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 Geospatial Technology definition
“GIS is a computer system capable of assembling,
storing, manipulating, and displaying geographically
referenced information, i.e. data identified according to
their locations.”

Science of Geographical feature is called GIS --- Swaran

Jaggi

A GIS is an organized collection of computer hardware,

software, geographic data, and personnel to efficiently
capture, store, update, manipulate, analyze, and
display all forms of geographically referenced
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 What is GeoST?
  An integration of five basic components

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Spatial analysis (application) in GIS
Slope and Aspect
Data analysis
Topological modeling
Geometric networks
Hydrological modeling
Cartographic modeling
Map overlay
Geostatistics
Address geocoding
Multi-criteria decision analysis
Data output and cartography

 
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Examples Applications

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 Precision Agriculture
Modeling and parameter collection using
drone for
1. Crop estimation - NDVI
2. Farm mapping including plants
3. Water
4. fertilizer
5. pesticides 

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 Precision Farming
1.  Standard color camera
2. Infrared camera
3. Thermal camera

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 Precision Farming
1.  Canopy size – leaf area index

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 Precision Farming
1.  By commbining visual and infrared image we
can calculate NDVI

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 Precision Farming
1.  Chlorosis – Yellowing of leaves

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 Precision Agriculture - Analysis
• No. of fruits on each tree
– Produce (optimise the production chain
downstream)
• Water/fertilizer required
• Pesticides needed

Benefits
• Water saving 25%
• Production increase 10%
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 Applications of robots/sensors?
• Agriculture
• Surveillance/Boarder security
• Medical
• Photography/film production
• Manufacturing/production
• Infrastructure inspection
• Survey and mapping
• Environment

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 Applications of robots/sensors in
smart cities
The immediate goal of sensors is to
• Collect data and
• Pass it to a central cloud management platform.

Actuators (control mechanism) allow devices to act

• Alter the lights,
• Restrict the flow of water to the pipe with
leakage, etc.
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Applications of robots/sensors in
smart cities

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 Integration?

H/w DSS
Robot/
Sensor Analysis
GPS
Apps Display

GeoS Application

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Smart Cities

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 Open up new vistas
for real life role of
Integrated Geospatial
Technology
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 Existing Situation
Decades of unplanned urbanization gave rise to:
• Transport perils,
• Sanitation hazards,
• Slums,
• Inadequate housing,
• Corruption,
• Rampant pollution and
• Rise of global epidemics like Ebola and Zika.

Together with vulnerabilities to extreme weather

patterns, the problems of urbanization have
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become global concerns.
 What is Smart City?

The Smart City concept is a tech savvy

way to address issues of unplanned
urbanization. 

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 Smart City- Definition
A Smart City is based on

•Knowledge and innovation,

•Functioning 24 x7 in a cloud environment,
•For best citizen services and
•Sustainable practices.

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 Comprehensive definition
A comprehensive definition would be

“A data-driven urban environment aimed at

sustainability, transparency and efficiency,

driven by an ICT enabled model rendering a visual

framework, and a seamless use of disruptive
technologies in various application scenarios, served
by an intelligent community framework”.

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How GIS is central to Smart Cities
The geospatial
structure in a Smart
City ecosystem, can
serve any or all of the
above functions. E g.
Hamburg implements
GIS in a smart energy-
efficient housing
initiative,
while Stockholm focuse
s on smart e-services.

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 Smart City

Smart City GIS is thus an integrated cross-sectoral platform to

•Collect,
•Manage,
•Compile,
•Analyze and
•Visualize spatio-temporal information

for sustainable urban planning, development and

management.

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 GIS in Smart Cities
In addition to the components of GIS, the Smart City
GIS framework has to be ‘always-on’ and connected
for a seamless flow of information.

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 Stakeholders

•Government,
•Private players and
•Community / citizen  

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 Government

Government (local) as the policy maker, planner, facilitator,

service provider, infrastructure provider, centralized repository
of information (web portals, digitized municipal records) or
primary participant in public-private partnerships
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 Private players

Private Players as infrastructure and service

enablers – builders, contractors, data providers, service
providers, analysts or participant in public-private
partnerships
•  

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 Community

Community / citizen body as the user of public assets and

services, as active participant in open governance, and a vital
link in the ‘connected communities’ set-up that sets apart a
smart city.
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How GIS Is Used in the Planning and
Development of Smart Cities

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 GIS is deployed at every stage of planning and
development of a Smart City. The underlying
•  framework is served by ICT (Information and
Communications Technologies), while the focus
is on the ‘spatial’ or GIS. The common platform
operates through all stages of the life cycle –
from modeling, planning, building to managing
– across the full spectrum of functionalities.

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GIS DEPLOYMENT THROUGH THE SMART CITY LIFE CYCLE

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 Spatial planning
Spatial planning – with one or more thrust areas of
deployment. For instance, an existing city may focus on smart
solid waste management using big data and GIS (Sweden, San
Francisco), while a new city may be developed wholly as a
‘green’ tourist hub (Lavasa, India).

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 Spatial planning
GIS-ICT – underlying scalable framework, with seamless flow
of data / information; connecting departments and
stakeholders

Collecting – digitization of geodata, spatial databases,

sourcing data critical to ‘smart’ city management

Processing – data management in real time, maintenance of

open data protocols, integrating service oriented architecture
(SOA) with a data service architecture that leaves no place for
data silos

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 Spatial planning
Communicating – a two-way flow of information between
participants, stakeholders and citizens; real time alerts and
action in a distributed computing environment.

Analysis – crunching of structured (digitized) and

unstructured (social, surveys) big data for analysis in real
time.

Data-driven decision making – the ‘always connected’

ecosystem, makes possible real time managements and
decision making

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HOW GIS UNLOCKS THE VALUE OF A DIGITIZED URBAN
ECOSYSTEM

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SOFTWARE PLATFORMS, APPLICATIONS AND
TECHNOLOGIES IN USE
Software / Platform – ESRI City Engine, ArcGIS Water
Utility solutions, GIS Cloud and more

Tools –ESRI-India’s smart planning tools, SAP software

platform, Hexagon Geospatial, SuperGeo  Geospatial
Corporation, and others

Technologies – Remote Sensing, LIDAR, GPR, BIM,

UAV/sUAS, smart sensors, beacons, augmented reality
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 AREAS OF DEPLOYMENT
 Land use planning, comprehensive waste
management, climate resilience of city and
community, smart transportation grid, smart utilities
metering and grid, smart open data governance,
smarter community services, slum management,
energy efficient buildings, smart energy grid /
renewable energy framework, smart water
(Tauranga), asset management, e-services, planning
and analysis in 3D (Auckland), citizen services.

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Future Ideas

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 Ideas
1. Crop estimation using drone
2. Orchard mapping including plant count
3. Pollution eating robots
4. Weather mobile/fix station
5. Drilling mouse
6. Survey bicycle using GPS sensor for street
survey and POI captures
7. Criminal vehicle tracking using magnetic GPS
8. Location based pollution sensors - Integration of
gases (pollution) sensors with GPS
9. moisture detector GATE
 Conclusion
1. Integration of sensors with GeoS
application makes it online/real time
GeoS-application
2. Integration of sensors makes GeoS
application more smart and update it, in
real time

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 Thanks

Swaran Singh Jaggi, Email ID:swaran.jaggi@gmail.com

Contact: 9899336955 GATE