The Integration Gap
Sensors from one vendor. Analytics from another. Command centre from a third. Data pipelines that do not talk to each other. Smart city ambition running on fragmented infrastructure with no single point of accountability.
Cloud Infrastructure Powering India’s Smart Cities
The ESDS Smart City Community Cloud is designed to support smart city Data Centre and disaster recovery requirements with secure, scalable, and real-time cloud capabilities.
Citizen Data Scattered. Systems Siloed.
Vendors Unaccountable. The SPV Carries the Risk.
The Sovereignty Risk
Citizen data: location, utility consumption, grievances, identity, processed on foreign-parented cloud infrastructure. DPDP obligations apply. One jurisdictional gap and the SPV is the Data Fiduciary answering to the Board.
The Accountability Gap
Four vendors. One incident. Nobody owns it. The SPV signed the contracts. The SPV answers the audit. The city’s citizens experience the failure.
ESDS sovereign cloud for smart cities has been deployed 14+ times. We know what breaks and we built against it.
What Changes When you move to ESDS
One Sovereign Platform. Eight Modules. Every Layer Owned.
Fragmented Vendors
One Sovereign Cloud Backbone
IoT to Citizen. Every Layer
DPDP Compliant. Audit Ready
Your City Serves Citizens. We Run the Infrastructure.
Eight Smart Modules One Sovereign Platform.
Every module runs on ESDS smart city infrastructure, built on Smart City Community Cloud with IoT data pipelines, auto-scaling and sovereign data residency. Eight smart city technologies. One sovereign platform. Deployable independently or as an integrated stack.
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Smart Metering
Real-time data ingestion, processing and analytics for distribution companies. Edge-to-cloud pipeline on sovereign infrastructure. Every reading. Every meter. Indian soil.
Smart Parking
Occupancy detection, mobile app booking, dynamic pricing and enforcement. Real-time availability for citizens. Revenue optimization for municipal bodies.
Smart Water Management
IoT-based water level monitoring, leak detection, quality analysis and distribution optimization. Reduce non-revenue water. Predictive maintenance for water infrastructure.
Smart Waste Management
Sensor-equipped bins, optimized collection routes, fill-level monitoring and citizen reporting. Environmental dashboards for municipal oversight.
Smart Lighting
Connected street lighting with dimming, fault detection and energy optimization. Central management dashboard. Energy savings of 30 to 60%. Foundation for smart pole ecosystem.
Smart Housing
Building management systems, energy monitoring, common area management and resident portals. Integrated with smart city command centre for unified urban governance.
Citizen Engagement Portal
Grievance redressal, service requests, information dissemination and feedback collection. Mobile and web portals connecting citizens to city governance. Real-time status tracking.
GIS and Command Centre
Geographic Information System for spatial planning, asset mapping and decision support. Integrated Command and Control Centre for unified city monitoring and operations management.
From Sensor to Citizen. Five Layers. One Sovereign Pipeline.
ESG at ESDS is not a reporting exercise. It is embedded in infrastructure design, people policies and corporate governance. Every data centre, every hiring decision, every board meeting reflects these three commitments.
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IoT Edge: Sensors, meters, cameras and actuators across the city.
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Data Ingestion Real-time collection, protocol translation and edge processing
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Cloud Platform eNlight auto-scaling compute, storage and networking
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Analytics and AI Pattern detection, predictive analytics, machine learning and real-time dashboards.
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Applications Citizen portals, command centres, mobile apps and governance platforms.
This is what IoT and smart cities infrastructure looks like when sovereignty is not an afterthought.
Sovereign Cloud Backbone.
Your SI Handles the
Rest.
ESDS provides the sovereign cloud infrastructure. Your system integrator handles implementation, integration and city-specific customization. Citizen data stays on ESDS sovereign infrastructure throughout, regardless of which SI is on the project.
14+ Cities. Not Pilot Projects.
Production Workloads Serving Millions.
Pune Smart City
SPV 7M+ residents. One sovereign platform. Smart parking, citizen portal, GIS and integrated command centre. PSCDC partnership. Multi-module smart city deployment serving India's ninth most populous city.
Nashik Smart City
ESDS home city. Built from the ground up. Smart water management, citizen services and governance platforms. From Satpur MIDC to the city’s digital backbone. Every module. Sovereign infrastructure.
Chennai Smart City
India’s fourth largest city. Sovereign cloud. Citizen engagement portals, smart governance applications and IoT data platforms. Metropolitan scale on sovereign infrastructure
AURIC (Aurangabad Industrial City)
Industrial Township India’s smart industrial township under DMIC. IT infrastructure and smart solutions for planned industrial development. Green manufacturing ecosystem on sovereign cloud
