Tech Mahindra, City of Los Angeles and USC Team Up to Launch L.A.’s First-Ever Smart City Energy Initiative

Community Action Platform for Engagement (“CAPE”) Pilot Premiers in
Los Angeles; Helps Community Groups Organize and Source Alternative
Energy Solutions

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Tech Mahindra Ltd., a specialist in digital transformation, consulting
and business reengineering, today announced that it has teamed up with
the City of Los Angeles and the University of Southern California
Viterbi School of Engineering and USC Marshall School of Business on a
new community-based digital initiative to help achieve the shared goal
of building smarter, more sustainable and energy-efficient cities.

The Community Action Platform for Engagement (“CAPE”), which will be
unveiled today at “Innovate
LA,” is the first digital platform in the U.S. that uses advanced
data analytics – including satellite imagery and government energy
consumption data – to help jump-start community-led energy projects with
the goal of generating significant cost savings for local citizens while
reducing CO2 emissions. South L.A. Watts and Bel Air – Beverly Crest
neighborhoods have been designated as pilot sites for this program.
CAPE, which is part of USC’s I3 Consortium, will eventually be expanded
to include areas such as housing, community health, public safety and
education. Tech Mahindra is a founding member of the I3 Consortium, an
open data aggregator designed for developers and data brokers that aims
to encourage and accelerate Internet of Things adoption.

The purpose of the new digital platform is to create a marketplace where
citizens, community action groups, local authorities and energy
suppliers can easily view and select from an array of alternative energy
options available in their designated area. Using data supplied by the
City of Los Angeles, platform users will be able to identify their
neighborhood on a satellite map and discover which alternative energy
solutions are available and the potential cost-savings they will receive
should they make a switch. Platform participants would then be able to
use online forums to recruit their neighbors to create user pools large
enough to attract proposals from alternative energy suppliers.

“Tech Mahindra is committed to developing innovative approaches to
developing more livable urban centers through informed and effective
community collaboration,” said Raman Abrol, SVP, Business Unit Head for
Americas Communications, Media, Entertainment. “We are thrilled to work
with the City of Los Angeles and USC to promote energy efficiency,
encourage citizen engagement and lay the groundwork to make our cities
smarter and more sustainable. We look forward to working with cities
across the country to implement more CAPE programs.”

CAPE represents only part of Mahindra Group’s commitment to global
sustainability. Anand Mahindra, Chairman of Mumbai-based Mahindra &
Mahindra, has agreed to co-chair California’s Global Climate Action
Summit with California Governor Jerry Brown in San Francisco in
September 2018.

Since August 2017, CAPE is already empowering community groups and
citizens of Milton Keynes, UK to become an energy efficient city and
reducing carbon emissions. CAPE Project has won the Smart Cities UK 2017
award under the Housing category – for projects that improve the
standard of living for homeowners and to support low cost living.

About Tech Mahindra

Tech Mahindra represents the connected world, offering innovative and
customer-centric information technology experiences, enabling
Enterprises, Associates and the Society to Rise™. We are a USD 4.6
billion company with 117,200+ professionals across 90 countries, helping
over 885 global customers including Fortune 500 companies. Our
convergent, digital, design experiences, innovation platforms and
reusable assets connect across a number of technologies to deliver
tangible business value and experiences to our stakeholders. Tech
Mahindra is amongst the Fab 50 companies in Asia (Forbes 2016 list).

We are part of the USD 19 billion Mahindra Group that employs more than
200,000 people in over 100 countries. The Group operates in the key
industries that drive economic growth, enjoying a leadership position in
tractors, utility vehicles, after-market, information technology and
vacation ownership.

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