Kanpur Smart City ropes in IIT-K professors to ensure better power supply

KANPUR: An initiative to ensure uninterrupted and better power supply to Kanpur residents and to save electricity, Smart City Corporation, Kanpur started a new project of Power Supply SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) on Friday.
Senior administrative officials, including divisional commissioner Raj Shekhar visited the back-up control centre of power supply SCADA project at IIT-Kanpur where a new command and control room is being established.
Explaining about its features, the divisional commissioner said, “Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) is a control system architecture consisting of computer, network data communication and graphical user interface (GIS) for high level process supervisory management. It is a special project launched by Smart City which will help Kanpur city to ensure uninterrupted supply of electricity to its citizens.”
The project will help in substantial reduction in power consumption, making it an effective and efficient operation, besides providing better maintenance to the power supply system. The project also helps in data collection, analysis and system improvement, officials added.
“The total budget of the project is about Rs 64 crore. Around Rs 44 crore is funded by Smart City, and Rs 20 crore is funded by Kanpur Electricity Supply Company (KESCO). The project implementation agency is KESCO,” said the commissioner.
The developer is the GE company which will implement the project in 18 months and will also maintain the system for 5 years after the completion of the project. IIT-Kanpur is the main advisor for the power SCADA project implementation. "The agency has been asked to complete the work by October 2022,” he added.
About 20% of the physical progress has been completed so far. The commissioner has also directed the nodal officers of Smart City, KESCO, IIT-Kanpur team and officials of the construction agency to sit together on a weekly basis and expedite the progress.
Anil Dhingra, managing director, KESCO, Shivsharanappa, Kanpur Municipal Corporation commissioner, Manish Gupta, executive engineer, KESCO, Vipin Kumar, assistant engineer, Ankush Sharma, professor, IIT-Kanpur, Shaukat Chakraborty, professor, IIT Kanpur, Shivkumar, IIT -Kanpur and Riju Mittal, project director GE, were present on the occasion.