Rolta Wins Smart City and 3D Mapping Projects Worth About US $15M in the Middle East

(PRNewswire) — Rolta announced today that it has been awarded Smart City and 3D Mapping with City Modelling projects in the Middle East, for a combined value around$15 million USD.

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This recognizes Rolta's unique ability to combine its domain expertise with productized Smart City solutions that fundamentally change how agencies and governments fulfill their missions. This is a natural evolution and extension of Rolta's pioneering 3D Mapping, which lays a foundation for sophisticated Smart City applications. Rolta's innovative Smart City solutions consolidate numerous agency centric systems, while 3D mapping offers visually rich means of collaboration and communication of spatial data.

These wins follow on the heels of numerous other success stories in the region and globally, often garnering recognition and awards from prestigious customers and leading Industry bodies. Rolta's growing portfolio of IP led Smart City solutions serve diverse needs, including Asset Management, Economic Development, Safety & Security, National Spatial Data Infrastructure, Governance, Urban Planning, Environment, Transportation and many more. With a strong footing in the Middle East, Rolta continues to reinforce its commitment to serve the needs of the region's progressive clientele.

Commenting on the occasion, Mr. K. K. Singh, Chairman and Managing Director, stated "Through our deep expertise with hundreds of Smart Cities client engagements, Rolta is helping cities around the world transform how they deliver services and engage with citizens leveraging innovative technologies such as Big Data, Analytics, GIS, 3D Mapping, Mobility and Social Media."

About Rolta :

Rolta is a leading provider of innovative IT solutions for many vertical segments, including Federal and State Governments, Defense, Homeland Security, Utilities, Oil & Gas, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail, and Healthcare. By uniquely combining its expertise in the IT, Engineering and Geospatial domains, Rolta develops exceptional solutions for these segments. The Company leverages its industry-specific know-how, rich repository of field-proven intellectual property that spans photogrammetry, image processing, geospatial applications, Business Intelligence, Big Data analytics, Cloud computing, and Software Defined Infrastructure for providing sophisticated enterprise-level integrated solutions. Rolta is a multinational organization headquartered in India. The Company operates from 40 locations worldwide through its subsidiaries, and has executed projects in over 45 countries. Rolta is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange in India. The Company's GDRs are listed on the Main Board of London Stock Exchange. The Company's 'Senior Notes' are listed on Singapore Stock Exchange.

For more information, visit - http://www.rolta.com or contact:

Hiranya Ashar
Joint Managing Director-International Operations & Group CFO
Email Contact
Telephone: +91 (22) 2926 6666

Reida Elwannas
President, GIS/Mapping - EMEA
Email Contact
Telephone: +971 (4) 391 5212

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CloudCities released - A 3D YouTube For Your Smart City

“CloudCities puts your city at your fingertips, making complex decisions easier, smarter and a lot more magical. It’s an ever-growing family of innovative cloud apps that lets you design, monitor and manage your city right from your web browser. CloudCities evolves to become an integral part of your work, adapting to your processes and supporting you in making your city a better place.” says Antje Kunze, CEO of SmarterBetterCities.

CloudCities is an intuitive 3D city service with features for community engagement, easy city data sharing and analytics. Think of it as a YouTube for your 3D city models. Stakeholders can easily explore new city developments and observe existing places they live, work and visit. Dashboards provide detailed information about space allocation, energy consumption and costs. Stakeholders can contribute valuable feedback instantly, start discussions and suggest new proposals even during public hearings or from home. All they need to do is access CloudCities using a regular web browser on tablets, smartphones or regular desktop computers. No additional software installation is required. CloudCities’ content can be completely self-operated and published directly by the planning/development authorities or private contractors. Users can upload their planning content (geospatial and building information) and even link live sensor data from smart devices. Design scenarios can be shared for public engagement and as-built content can be easily utilized for typical tasks in facility management or for real estate brokerage. To sign up please visit https://cloudciti.es.

SmarterBetterCities is a fast growing 3D web startup with eight full time positions based in Zurich, Switzerland and Redlands, California next to the Esri headquarters, the leading provider of GIS software in the world. SmarterBetterCities participates in the Esri Startup Program and develops its products on Esri’s ArcGIS technology. SmarterBetterCities has a high-profile customer base using CloudCities on a daily basis. Prominent customers include the State of Oregon, Harvard University, City of Zurich, AECOM, Sika, Foster+Partners, among others. SmarterBetterCities continuous to actively extend its technology to serve new market segments, such as real estate and facility planning.

Over the last two-and-a-half years, SmarterBetterCities received more than $2.25 million in seed funding and from commercial activities for the development of CloudCities. CloudCities has been previously available as a beta product since December 2014. So far it has generated over 12’000 views and attracted more than 200 publishers that create and manage 3D cities on a daily basis.



More information:

SmarterBetterCities:

http://www.smarterbettercities.ch

https://cloudciti.es



Esri Startup Program:

https://developers.arcgis.com/en/startups/

http://www.esri.com/

Contact:

Antje Kunze, CEO
SmarterBetterCities
301 9th Street, Redlands, CA 92374
Technoparkstrasse 1, 8005 Zürich
Email Contact
http://www.smarterbettercities.ch

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