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CITIZENS
INITIATIVE FOR
SMART
PORTBLAIR: VOL- 1
Proposal For Smart Cities Challenge
(Phase 1/Stage 2); MOUD, Govt of India.
Through Andaman & Nicobar
Administration
9/28/2015
Anirban Choudhury; Email-
smartportblair@gmail.com

CITIZENS INITIATIVE FOR SMART PORTBLAIR: VOL- 1
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Contents
1) How it started?...................................................2
2) Vision.................................................................4
3) Objective – Leverage Smart City initiative
to make the City’s Economy “THIRD
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (TIR)”
compliant. ..........................................................5
4) Approach - Collaborative mechanisms and
smart technologies in promoting smart civic
engagement.......................................................8
5) Approach – Relevance of Master Planning
& preparation of Resilient City Master Plan
. .......................................................................11
6) Citizens – Resident & non-residents (we
are not just numbers). ...................................... 14
7) Why we need Urban Morphology Studies in
SMARTCITY Take-off Stage............................ 16
8) Values & Lifestyle Segmentation for better
understanding of residents............................... 18
9) Energy Smartness - Studies that connects
Urban Morphology with residents Values &
Lifestyle Segmentation.....................................20

1) How it started?
Islands of the Marigold Sun are inhabited by SMART
& AWARE citizens (resident as well as non
resident), desirous of practicing, promoting and living
a sustainable life.
For generations these people have lived in, worked
in & loved the city of PORT BLAIR and majority of
them migrated to different cities of the world and all
stages of life.
Today, we the citizens (resident as well as non
resident) are in a CATCH 22 situation.The whole
world is leveraging of the knowledge of past, present
and preparing for a RESILIANT TOMORROW.
Urban Global Societies are working towards a
RESILLIANT TOMORROW policy initiatives and
interlined projects of different hierarchy (Financial,
social & political) of multiple functional verticals.
Though the SMART CITY INITIATIVES and
complementing programs of Govt of India like
AMRUT talks about inclusion of people and
formulation of projects with extended participation of
citizens (resident as well as non resident), we don’t
know what is being proposed for us and by whom?
We also don’t know that the person or system
deciding on our behalf is competent enough to do it.
Therefore, we the citizens of Port Blair created a
CITIZENS INITIATIVE FOR SMART PORT BLAIR -
A & N ISLANDS1
on 23rd July, 2015.
SMARTCITIES CHALLENGE expect the competing
cities to develop a Bold Vision and Smart Proposals,
1
Ref - https://web.facebook.com/groups/SMARTPORTBLAIR/

formulates its own unique vision, mission and plan
for a “smart city.”
We believe that PORTBLAIR needs to have a
RESILIANT CITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN that reflect
the city’s local context, resources, and priorities of
citizens. It also includes a pan-city and area-based
proposal for immediate take-off.

2) Vision
PORT BLAIR SMART CITY VISION was posted in
the FACEBOOK GROUP on 15th
September, 2015
and as on 15th
September, this group has 480
members from various walks of life. There are
residents, non-residents, honourable MP, Retired
Chief Town Planner to participate and evolve.
Port Blair would become a resilient city (against
climate change effects); have a sustainable low
carbon economy, i.e. THIRD INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION COMPLIANT by year 2020. These
would be achieved through SMART URBAN
RETROFIT like but not limited to
a) Introduction of retrofit measures in city master
plans;
b) Restructure the economic infrastructure like
ports, docks and places of recreation/ tourism;
c) Work on it (restructuring of economic
infrastructure) with war footing using internal
accruals of the city and funds;
d) Energy Security, price stability and decentralised
availability;
e) New but sustainable economic activity;
f) Food Security, affordability and distribution.

3) Objective – Leverage Smart City initiative to
make the City’s Economy “THIRD INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION (TIR)” compliant.
Port Blair includes areas shown in the MASTER
PLAN FOR PORT BLAIR PLANNING AREA –
20282
.
We feel that there is a need to include within
Resilient Port Blair Master Plan added area like
ISLES OF HAVELOCK 3
(Refer MASTER PLAN FOR
HAVELOCK AND NEIL ISLANDS).
Today the Islands economy is not diversified and too
much dependent on Public Sector Contributions.
Very few youth of post independence generation
could get public sector jobs within the A & N Islands
and rest had to leave the Islands. There is negligible
or less vibrant private sector contribution to the State
Domestic Product.
SMART CITIES INITIATIVES including AMRUT and
DIGITAL INDIA is an opportunity for us to make our
economy THIRD INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (TIR)
COMPLIANT.
Jeremy Rifkin is the author of "The Third Industrial
Revolution, How Lateral Power is Transforming
Energy, the Economy, and the World4
".
Mr. Rifkin is an adviser to the European Union and
to heads of state around the world. EU started the
2
http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/Volume%20II-
%20Full.pdf
3
http://apwd.and.nic.in/LeftMenu/MasterPlanHavelock.htm
4
http://www.kpmg.com/Global/en/industry/Energy-Natural-
Resources/power-utilities/power-utilities-conference/Documents/third-
industrial-revolution-v3.pdf
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/people/chairman/speeches/w
mg_ptc_presentation.pdf

2020 Renewable Energy Policy and Smart Cities
initiative was an outcome of these interactions.
Govt of India's SMART CITY INITIATIVE got
inspiration from EU's policy and its achievements.
EU Smart City initiative is different as our initiatives
have additional agenda like
a) Improve the quality and coverage of basic urban
services
b) Economic Development
c) Social empowerment through extended people’s
participation.
All these years we have been a spectator as our
CHALTA HAI attitude prevented us from
participating in policy customization as per our
needs & its development management. We have
been non constructive, blaming the unknowns for
our plight.
The FORUM5
is for fellow citizens (residents & non
residents) to communicate within and convey our
desires in a constructive manner to the Policy
makers and executors.
We understand Jeremy Rifkins futuristic views and
have worked on PORT BLAIR's SMART CITY
INITIATIVE. We believe that there is a need to
restructure our economy and make it Third Industrial
Revolution Compliant6
.
5
CITIZENS INITIATIVE FOR SMART PORT BLAIR -
A & N ISLANDS;https://web.facebook.com/groups/SMARTPORTBLA
IR/
6
EU 2020 Renewable Energy Policy) and EU Smart Cities initiatives
are an outcome of their desire to make EU Economy sustainable &
Third Industrial Revolution Compliant.

Jeremy Rifkin says fundamental economic change
occurs when new communication technologies
converge with new energy regimes, mainly,
renewable electricity.
In our case (i.e Port Blair), as a CITY WIDE
IMMEDIATE INITIATIVE, we need to
a) First make our FINITE MICROGRID smart using
a built to last Telecom infrastructure;
b) Introduce Renewable Energy,
c) Undertake Grid & Demand side stabilization/
management measures;
Also at the same time we need to finalize the CITY
MASTER PLAN by including measures to make the
city resilient; Redefine the economy so that local
value addition happens instead of low skill, low
margin commoditized economy;

4) Approach - Collaborative mechanisms and smart
technologies in promoting smart civic
engagement.
The first and foremost aspect of civic engagement is
to know the SCALE & TYPE of engagement..
At the cluster level consisting of around 500
Households, the civic engagement can start with
a) Sharing info or asking info related to day to day
activities using existing internet/ intranet groups,
whatsapp / Google groups,
b) Sharing information about upcoming events
within the cluster/ community / neighbourhood. It
can also include conventional posters put up in
notice boards.
c) Engagement in sharing of civic amenity and
running of the cluster facility management - for
example segregation of garbage at source,
checks to keep an eye on work of facility mgmt/
house keeping staff as well as compliance of
agreed upon garbage segregation at source
modalities.
At the community level engagement can start with
weekly meetings of the 5 to 6 cluster leadership that
are part of the community for
a) Exchange of working notes;
b) Engagement with civic body & utility officials for
collective bargaining and
c) Create a virtual vote bank while interacting with
political functionary @ ward level. A minute of
meeting signed and maintained with details of
engagement will keep the officials at the toes.

At the neighbourhood level, the citizens need to hire
urban planner ( pro bono if possible) and other
volunteer professionals to
a) Document the assets & utility of the
neighbourhood;
b) Check the quality of service levels of utility/
services/ infrastructure/ amenities and create a
quality of life shortfall matrix;
c) Prepare a remedial action plan in synergy with
city development plan.
Thereafter the neighbourhood community’s
leadership work as a common stakeholder and starts
interaction with political/ civic leadership.
I have perceived the above mentioned scale and
type of engagement using existing modes of
communication and technology for a neighbourhood
of 40000 persons in the take-off stage.
At the pre takeoff stage WE NEED TO
UNDERSTAND OUR RESIDENTS NOT IN TERMS
OF JUST DEMOGRAPHIC NUMBERS, we need to
undertake Urban Morphology Studies for a planned
future
I have been residing in Bangalore, India since 2005.
The city of Bangalore is slowly losing its scale,
character and ability to maintain a sense of
continuity of fundamental values and security to exist
in a good living environment.
Port Blair as a city has also failed to maintain
settlement character due to reduced harmony
between the built environment and the people,
necessary for a balanced community of the various
socio-economic groups. Co-operation within, lack of

fraternity & tolerance has reduced self-help process
within community. The city is in need of a framework
within which there will be an opportunity for
incremental physical development, within existing
legal, economical and organizational framework.
PORT BLAIR is participating in the SMART CITY
CHALLENGE BASED INITIATIVE of Government of
India, we also need to take up SMART RETROFIT
INITIATIVES that is going to mature and integrate
with the URBAN SYSTEM of PORT BLAIR.
In the IMMEDIATE FUTURE, running concurrently
with preparation of Strategy Plans, there would be a
need to undertake Urban Morphology Studies
through extended participation of citizens, using IoT /
IoE apps, analytics including game theory.

5) Approach – Relevance of Master Planning &
preparation of Resilient City Master Plan .
Master Planning Approach has been wrongly
interpreted by vested interests in developed as well
as developing countries as RIGID BLUE PRINT
having a DEVELOPMENT CONTROL RULE,
instead of a DEVELOPMENT GUIDE/ MANUAL for
development management.
Master Planning Approach is still relevant as its
going to provide a resilient city rigidity of stone and
flexibility of a tree at the same time.
A resilient City master plan follows a systemic
approach, it’s a transparent system, has evolved
over time and has the ability to evolve in the future.
A resilient city has Inventory of neighbourhood
assets, liability, population and their interactive
connections, that is benchmarked and the indicators
are monitored
The DEVELOPMENT CONTROL RULES (Read
DEVELOPMENT GUIDANCE / GUIDELINES for
resilient city) promotes
a) Compact Densification;
b) Scaling;
c) Fine Grain Diversity...
The Resilient City Master Plan allows Functional
Flexibility - It means cities, urban forms can easily
adapt (with limited investment needs) to a
redistribution of urban functions.
A resilient urban form must have flexibility to get a
third dimension without disturbing the availability and
hierarchy of facilities, amenities and quality of life.
For example Community re-densification initiatives
not limited to policy like Transferable Development

Rights (TDR), issued in addition to normal Floor
Area Ratio, increases the Community Global FAR,
protects cultural or historical heritage, increasing the
number of inhabitants, reducing per capita cost of
utility distribution and increased access to utility.
The Expected Outcome of a Resilient City Master
Plan is
a) Highly Connected Network –
Implies full spectrum of streets of various
lengths, width and spans adapted to different
speeds and to different flows.
When some connections are cut, others are
created to compensate for the cuts and maintain
the urban system in operation.
Social networks as well as street networks show
characteristics such as a high level of clustering.
These are complex evolved street patterns with
node and its intersection with another street as a
link.
b) Synergy -
High density and mixed use is key strategic
assets of urban areas that help to use energy
more efficiently through synergy approaches
resting upon energy systems integration and
compact energy-efficient housing.
Another type of synergy is though
neighbourhood development initiatives like
(i) solid waste to energy projects;
(ii) effluent treatment plant treated water used
for flushing the surface water drainage
system and street cleaning during dry
months;

(iii) using the treated effluent, rich in nutrients for
hydroponics food, grown in rooftop green
houses.
The power factor of a micro-grid catering to the
need of a dense and diversified development
tends to be at unity, leading to its optimal use
and capacity enhancement.
Cascading and recycling energy flows according
to their quality (electricity, mechanical, thermal)
improves the stability and the resilience to
unexpected events of flood, drought, storm, peak
load, etc.
c) Greening, Water Recycling & Urban Rural
Integration -
Water recycling and grey water use, improving
runoff management and developing
new/alternative water sources; storage facilities
and autonomously powered water management
and treatment infrastructure.
City’s green infrastructure reduces GHG
emissions, as they are carbon sink.
Green’s also enhance pedestrian and cycling
environment, regulating energy consumption,
enabling environmentally sustainable nutrient
recycling and local food production.
Greens of different hierarchy spatially distributed
throughout the urban environs, improves
resilience through flood mitigation, erosion
control, and maintaining water availability.
If we are interested in a RESILIENT CITY &
FUTURE PROOF CITY, Master Planning Approach
is still relevant.

6) Citizens – Resident & non-residents (we are not
just numbers).
WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND OUR RESIDENTS
NOT IN TERMS OF JUST DEMOGRAPHIC
NUMBERS. We need to undertake Urban
Morphology Studies for a planned future. The city of
Port Blair is slowly losing its scale, character and
ability to maintain a sense of continuity of
fundamental values and security to exist in a good
living environment.
The city has failed to maintain settlement character
due to reduced harmony between the built
environment and the people, necessary for a
balanced community of the various socio-economic
groups.
Co-operation within, lack of fraternity & tolerance
has reduced self-help process within community.
The city is in need of a framework within which there
will be an opportunity for incremental physical
development, within existing legal, economical and
organizational framework.
We are in the TAKEOFF STAGE of SMART CITY
CHALLENGE BASED INITIATIVE of Government of
India that is going to mature and integrate with the
EXISTING URBAN SYSTEM.
In the IMMEDIATE FUTURE, running concurrently
with preparation of Strategy Plans, there would be a
need to undertake Urban Morphology Studies
through extended participation of citizens, using IoT /
IoE apps, analytics including game theory.
The objective of URBAN MORPHOLOGY STUDIES
should include study the urban pattern (fractals),
density and factors that help in the formation and

sustenance of multiple community based
neighbourhood of 30000 populations. The outcome
of the study will be identification of homogeneous
multiple community neighbourhoods within the
urbanized areas of the city. For each
neighbourhood, there will be Value and Lifestyle
based segmentation [2] (VALS) of the population.
Based on the VALS, inadequacy of the social -
economic - cultural infrastructure of the
neighbourhood would help to quantify quality of life.
Neighbourhoods strategies to improve quality of life
(includes effect of population growth within a
particular VALS and scenario of migration from one
VALS to another due to change in aspiration) needs
to be prepared to also comply with social -economic
- cultural infrastructure norms of National Building
Code 2005.

7) Why we need Urban Morphology Studies in
SMARTCITY Take-off Stage
URBAN MORPHOLOGY is the study of the form of
human settlements and the process of their
formation and transformation. The study seeks to
understand the spatial structure and character of a
metropolitan area, city, town or village by examining
the patterns of its component parts and the process
of its development.
This can involve the analysis of physical structures
at different scales as well as patterns of movement,
land use, ownership or control and occupation.
Typically, analysis of physical form focuses on street
pattern, plot pattern and building pattern, sometimes
referred to collectively as urban grain. Analysis of
specific settlements is undertaken using
cartographic sources and the process of
development evolves from comparison of historic
maps.
Special attention is given to how the physical form of
a city changes over time and to how different cities
compare to each other. Another significant part of
this subfield deals with the study of the social forms
which are expressed in the physical layout of a city,
and, conversely, how physical form produces or
reproduces various social forms.
Urban morphology is the study of urban tissue, or
fabric, as a means of discerning the environmental
level normally associated with urban design. Tissue
comprises coherent neighbourhood morphology

(open spaces, building) and functions (human
activity).
Neighbourhoods exhibit recognizable patterns in the
ordering of buildings, spaces and functions
(themes), within which variation reinforced an
organizing set of principles.
This approach challenges the common perception of
unplanned environments as chaotic or vaguely
organic through understanding the structures and
processes embedded in urbanization. Complexity
science has provided further explanations showing
how urban structures emerge from
the uncoordinated action of multiple individuals in
highly regular ways. Amongst other things this is
associated with permanent energy and material
flows to maintain these structures.

8) Values & Lifestyle Segmentation for better
understanding of residents.
Segmentation models based on Demographics,
Geo-demographics, SEC data & Benefits and usage
are inadequate in their description & analysis of a
person since they generate only isolated fragments.
Values And Lifestyles segmentation based on
lifestyle characteristics and values provide a rich
view of the market and a more lifelike portrait of the
consumer.
Value refers to a single belief that transcends any
particular object, in contrast to an attitude, which
refers to beliefs regarding a specific object or
situation. Values are more stable and occupy a more
central position in a person's cognitive system, are
determinants of attitudes, behaviour and provide a
stable and inner oriented understanding of
consumers. Values within a system refer to a wide
array of individual beliefs, hopes, desires,
aspirations, prejudices etc. Values provide
potentially powerful explanations of human
behaviour as they serve as standards or criteria of
conduct; they tend to be limited in number & are
remarkably consistent over time.
The value construct is used to segment the
population into homogenous groups of individuals
who share a common value system.
Lifestyle is a distinctive mode of living, deals with
everyday behaviour oriented facets of people as well
as their feelings, attitudes, interests & opinions. It

embodies the patterns that develop and emerge
from the dynamics of living in a society.
Value and Lifestyle segmentation unlike traditional
segmentation begins with people instead of products
and classifies them into different types, each
characterized by a unique style of living - it then
determines how marketing factors fit into their lives.
This perspective provides a three-dimensional view
of the target consumer.

9) Energy Smartness - Studies that connects Urban
Morphology with residents Values & Lifestyle
Segmentation
Port Blair / South Andaman Electricity Command
area of A & N Islands, the power system consists of
multiple DG Sets and a 5 MWp Solar PV Power
Plant, feeding into a finite Micro Grid.
These DG Sets are of various size, make and
vintage. They are unable to talk to each other or get
remotely monitored from a control room due to non
functional telecom network, even CDMA/GSM also
doesn't work (i.e. DG Set incharge or JE is unable to
communicate with Control room at Chatham over
either mobile or land line when SCADA doesn't
work).
Thus to keep the line charged and prevent micro grid
tripping, many a times they have to keep the DG on
in idling mode. This is evident from very low Plant
Load Factor of most of the DG Sets.
It has been also observed that when they tried to
integrate the existing 5 MWp Grid linked Solar PV
Plant (more reliable RE Source in terms of energy
dispatch ability), where there is a patch of cloud over
the plant, the production dips consequently tripping
the Micro Grid.
The 5 MWp SPV plant can have up to 18% Capacity
Utilization Factor (CUF7
), the actual CUF is less than
7
PVSYST Simulation for a valley site near Tushnabad, South
Andaman.

12%. The Grid stability problem can be resolved only
when we have a
a) fibre optic Broad band network along the
Microgrid;
b) energy storage system to store surplus from
SPV and DG ( so that it can be run at optimum
PLF);
energy storage system to assist grid conditioning
and also at customer end/ neighbourhood (to take
care of demand side mismatch of power)
The development strategy needs to be prepared
based on ENERGY MASTER PLAN prepared by
most competent people in the world rather than L1
Contractor/Consultant.
Energy Smartness is the road to SMARTCITY. To
achieve energy smartness, a neighbourhood Energy
Master Plan is to be prepared.
A group of neighbourhoods become part of a
SMART MICROGRID.
The SMART MICROGRID would be function of
energy sources (potential, current and forecasts),
that is either at neighbourhood (decentralized)
and or imported from outside the neighbourhood.
There will be demand assessment, study of
demand side stakeholders and or consumers
behaviour. If possible, there will be Value and
Lifestyle Segmentation (VALS) of consumers for
a particular demand attribute.

Other than VALS, the study to achieve
ENERGYSMARTNESS will analyze demand site
stake-holders response to the operational
requirements of distribution system and vice
versa.
The outcome of the study will be development of
demand side energy management system; micro
grid operation and interface protocol; tools and IOT
applications.
I have come across very few good quality Energy
Master Plan using complex but easy to use tools for
cities. This may the area of study being new, limited
exposure within a short span of time.
KomMod is a simulation tool of Fraunhofer ISE
Germany, used to develop sustainable urban energy
scenarios, needed for an Energy Master Plan of a
neighborhood and region.
The results of KomMod simulations are
a) Possible energy system design and optimal mix
of renewable energy resource;
b) system capacity requirements and location of
generation;
c) Storage needs within grid and import / export
capability of system and Costs & greenhouse
emissions.

KomMod simulations spring electricity and heat

Author Information:
Anirban Choudhury is VP
Infrastructure at VIC
(www.vittalinnovationcity.com).
He was brought up in Port Blair
(Junglighat) and studied in
Kendriya Vidyalaya 1 Port Blair
from 1
st
Std to 12
th
Std (1988).
Both his parents served in the A
& N Administration.
He is a Civil Engineer & Town
Planner with passion for
integration of renewable energy
systems into real estate & urban
development projects.
He has conceived, gone through design development &
execution of large townships (gross area >3000 Ha) and
urban/ industrial infrastructure projects like layouts, IT SEZ,
Mechatronic warehouse based logistics hub, Industrial
Estates/ Eco Industrial Parks.
Vittal Innovation City is an Eco-Industrial Park promoting
industrial cluster formation. VIC is 80 Km north of Bangalore
International Airport, in Ananthapur District, Andhra Pradesh.
VIC is going to provide energy security, price stability and
ensure its availability by bundling with power from dedicated
Solar Parks. Work on infrastructure and utility will start from
Q4, 2015
Contact Details
MOBILE: M +91 9740478032
smartportblair@gmail.com, smarturbanretrofit@gmail.com
http://in.linkedin.com/pub/anirban-choudhury/11/b63/143
https://web.facebook.com/groups/SMARTPORTBLAIR/

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