SINGAPORE - From the monitoring of city traffic conditions, security, energy efficiency to predicting lift breakdowns, mayors and city officials are finally able to do so through one integrated solutions platform.

Surbana Jurong said on Monday that it has come up with a platform dubbed "Smart City in a Box", which gels various smart city solutions together. This open platform allows customisable applications (Apps) to be loaded on a dashboard for city officials to monitor cities, collate and analyse data, and in so doing, deploy solutions to specific problems in a timely manner.

For a start, there are 14 Apps available under the first batch of solutions, with another 13 Apps currently under trial.

By year-end, Surbana Jurong will be upgrading the servers in all 16 town councils here managed by the group to this cloud-based platform, before rolling this out to cities in Africa and China, group CEO Wong Heang Fine told the media.

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Of the 14 Apps available, about half have already been implemented or tested in existing developments. For instance, the "smart toilet" system that detects if a toilet requires cleaning has been used in Changi Airport, drowning-detection cameras have been tested in one public swimming pool, and smart home solutions have been tested in some newer condominiums. The water quality management App has been tested in reservoirs here.

Other Apps that can now be implemented at a township level include the installation of sensors in homes to detect the well-being of elderly persons and their movements, and predictive lift maintenance, which enables the analysis of data received from sensors installed in lifts to predict breakdowns.

Surbana Jurong has been working with partners to co-develop solutions. They include international players such as DNV GL as well as local firms like ZWECC, a video analytic solutions firm, and a Temasek unit Aetos Holdings.

Said Aetos Holdings vice-president for business development Robin Littau: "By engaging our services through 'Smart City in a Box', one can mitigate fire risks effectively with our innovative early warning Smoke & Fire Detection Camera; conduct covert intelligence gathering with our Social Media Monitoring solution, or even safely immobilise a potentially dangerous vehicle with our Vehicle GPS Tracking System."

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