NEW DELHI: Gaia Smart Cities, the Smart Cities start-up by former Reliance Jio president Sumit Chowdhury, Monday entered into an agreement with Stream Technologies to roll-out smart city networks across India.

As per the agreement reached, Stream’s ‘IoT-X’ Connectivity Management Platform, will support cellular, low-power WAN and other connectivity technologies, enabling subscription management, monitoring and monetisation of IoT connectivity networks.

IoT-X platform will provide an interface for the networks that Gaia Smart Cities plans to deploy, to which connected devices can be attached. Gaia's would commence deployment of networks initially in three major cities, including Delhi.

“India is indeed a very promising market and Gaia will bring in the best technologies as the segment unfolds. Partnering with Stream Technologies will now take the value proposition in the ecosystem a notch higher and will accelerate the solution development,” said Sumit Chowdhury, Founder & CEO of Gaia Smart Cities, said in a joint statement.

Together both companies aim at the emerging segment of Smart Cities and its technology requirements that would unfold in the coming months. The alliance will bring in world class proven solutions and technologies to help cities achieve their goals.

“India is an exciting and substantial opportunity for a company like ours. The state-of-art and the latest LPWAN technologies such as LoRa and SigFox will open up some immense opportunities for this market. We are delighted to be engaging with Gaia in participating in this market,” said Negel Chadwick, Chief Executive Officer of Stream Technologies, said in a joint statement.

The alliance would also involve setting up of a Centre of Excellence to showcase products and technologies from Advantech and live applications that Gaia deploys in the Indian market and has domain expertise. These solutions include Smart Buildings, Smart Transport and Fleet Management, Smart Power & Energy, Water Treatment, Agriculture, Environment, Industrial Automation, Smart Parking, Smart Retail and Smart Hospitals.