Jaipur to set up innovation lab for smart city solutions

JAIPUR: Jaipur will soon boast of its own state set up innovation lab and has already identified some startups that it intends to work with, as part of its broader smart city ambitions, a government official said, report ET .

Set up by the Jaipur Development Authority (JDA), the innovation lab will focus on smart city solutions in collaboration with tech players and startups and will be operational before the New Year sets in, Shikhar Agrawal, joint development commissioner of JDA, told ET. The space and tech infrastructure for the innovation lab will be provided by the JDA, which will invite startups and other firms to come and collaborate for locally relevant solutions. “Innovation labs will be a tremendous platform for startups who can come and build their solutions here without any CAPEX investment.

It could be a mobile app for garbage management or an IoT solutions for surveillance. If we find the solution relevant and scalable, we shall adopt it,” Agrawal said.

(The reporters were in Jaipur at the invitation of Cisco)