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a city. These cover buildings, The Ministry of Housing and data sets in machine readable
energy, low carbon zones and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) and formats. This can be used for
tri-generation energy systems National Institute of Urban planning and policy making
(combining power, cooling Affairs (NIUA), along with the such as Aspirational District
and heating). Bureau of Indian Standards Programme. The Ministry of
(BIS) have developed 15 Smart Housing and Urban Affairs
Artificial Intelligence (AI) City Standards. These focus on (MoHUA) in February 2021
and Machine Learning (MI) is the use of new technological launched the National Urban
planned to be integrated with systems, such as GIS, sensors Digital Mission (NUDM),
GIS to enable recognition and and networks. The Unified which aims to push for the
labelling of objects, extraction Digital Infrastructure – ICT outcome-based digitalisation
of features, route optimisation, Reference Architecture of urban planning and
etc. Integration with Natural Standards (IS 18000:2020) is governance. The Data
Language Processing (NLP) a comprehensive document Acquisition and Exchange
enables users to interact with for digitalization of urban Programme enables data
GIS. practice. It defines the “Unified to be exchanged, analysed
Digital Infrastructure” as the and marketed on various
The use of technologies, sensors, data systems, IoT portal along with National
such as digital blockchain,
combinatorial and discrete systems and platforms. Smart Urban Learning Platform,
Smart Code, National Urban
Cities – GIS (IS 18008: 2020)
optimisation, algorithms, standards define key formats Governance Platform and
complexity theory, artificial for GIS platforms; and Unified National Urban Development
intelligence, big data, Data Exchange Standards Mission.
ubiquitous cloud and hash lay out the architecture for
algorithm enable planning instituting data exchanges or The breakthrough in digital
and integration of services marketplaces. technology and informatics
(Fig. 15) can revolutionise has multiplied space, energy
planing & designing in a The Niti Ayog has built and time. It is time that new
way which has till now been National Data Analytical forms of energy, services,
thought as impossible. Platform which provides construction and recycling

Fig. 15: Components of Artificial Intelligence
Source: Verma, Seema, Towards Data Science, Shashwat (2022) TERI, New Delhi

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