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YES BANK becomes 1st Bank in India to Partner Puducherry Smart City to Tackle Urban Development Challenges, Bosch and Dell EMC Pledge Support
Posted on: 20/Jul/2018 2:40:44 PM
YES BANK, India’s fourth largest private sector bank, announced partnership with Puducherry Smart City to launch an industry-first ‘Collaboration-as-a –Service’ platform to address urban development challenges. As a part of its newly launched YES SCALE Smart City Accelerator, the Bank is inviting startups from around the world to collaborate with technology leaders like Bosch and Dell EMC and work on problem statements provided by respective smart cities. As a partner to the programme, PwC has also committed to leading strategic partnerships &advisory and implementation of innovative solutions in the smart cities.
Commenting on the development Mr. Rana Kapoor, MD & CEO, YES BANK said, “This is a significant step towards creating ‘Collaboration-as-a-service’ economy andre-looking at urbanization as an opportunity, not a problem. YES BANK’s cross industry collaboration through YES SCALE Smart Cityaccelerator will empower these cities with innovative solutions to seamlessly connectpeople, processes & devices and enable administrators to respond faster to citizen’s needs while also creating new revenue sources. The strategy is fully aligned with the national agenda of moving India from Fragile 5 to making India a USD 5 tn economic super power.”
YES BANK’s YES SCALE Smart City accelerator has created an ecosystem to help startups test, develop and deploy their solutions across the cities and further scale across the country-
Technology Infrastructure Support: Bosch and Dell EMC Digital Cities will provide testing, development and deployment infra support to help startups implement their solutions
Digital Infrastructure: Cloud Credits, Analytics tools support from AWS and Google Cloud
PoC Support: With more than 85% of India’s tech startups affected by non-paid PoCs, the program offers a support of INR 20 lakhs for PoC development during the program
Mentorship: 50+ Technology and scale up experts across the world
Funding Option: Affiliate startups can raise equity funding of upto USD 1 mn through fund partners Artha Ventures, CIIE, Anthill, Unitus Ventures
Global Exposure:Global platforms like UK India Innovation Fund, New Energy Nexus are also supporting the ecosystem
YES BANK’s partner Smart Cities have identified challenges unique to their administration to address through YES SCALE Smart City, like, city wide data collection & analytics using IoT, blockchain and AI, Development of Open Data toolkit, Smart Traffic & Parking Management using video analytics, IoT and sensors, Intelligent, Optimized Public Transit systems, Automated Grievance collection and Response management, Intelligent Waste Management solution including smart labels, tippers and waste maps, Metering & Monitoring water supply, Smart air pollution monitors and efficient converters, Sensors for automated assistance of physically impaired citizens and Centralized dashboards to map and monitor utilities etc.
YES BANK is also designing an Open loop `RuPay` branded Prepaid card with Puducherry Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC). The card is being launched as a Tourism Card by PTDC for all tourists who frequent the city. These cards will be issued through the Governrnment counters and can be used for cashless payments through POS terminals. This card has been launched inline with the Digital India initiative and with a view of promoting Digital Payments for tourists across Puducherry.
