Smart Cities Mission was one of the most prominent announcements of the government. Urban planners are increasingly fond of using the word “smarter” for their urban areas. In the quest to make our cities both safer and smarter, we are layering one new technology on top of another. Technological innovations are being used to make cities safer. City-wide Wi-Fi, use of sensors, video analytics, automated access are starting to show up in Indian cities too. These technologies converge to bring in torrents of data to cloud for meaningful analytics that funnels back to our city planners in understanding their city planning better…