DIAL Aerocity Smart Commercial District, Delhi
Concept master planning for a 230-acre smart commercial district at Delhi's IGIA, designed for 400,000 high-tech professionals.
Concept infrastructure master planning and preliminary design for AeroCity, a 230-acre (30 million sq ft) smart commercial district at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport, designed to accommodate 400,000 high-tech professionals as a connected, walkable district with resilient infrastructure and multi-modal transport connectivity. Smart infrastructure design spanned enterprise-grade IT backbone, comprehensive fibre and wireless coverage, an IoT ecosystem for building automation and sensor networks, and a real-time analytics platform, organised across five smart solution pillars: traffic and transport, communications, city management, security, and IT infrastructure.
AeroCity required concept-level infrastructure master planning for a 230-acre smart commercial district at Delhi's IGIA, designed to eventually house 400,000 high-tech professionals, meaning the technology and security architecture had to be specified at the preliminary design stage, before individual buildings or tenants were defined, while still supporting walkable public spaces and multi-modal transport connectivity.
Led as Technology and Security Lead on the conceptual master plan, specifying an enterprise-grade IT backbone, comprehensive fibre optic and wireless coverage, an IoT framework for smart building automation and sensor networks, and a real-time analytics platform for operational insight. Organised the design around five smart solution pillars: smart traffic and transport management, smart communications with redundant high-bandwidth systems, smart city management through an integrated operations centre, multi-layered smart security with video analytics and access control, and resilient IT infrastructure with redundant data centres and cybersecurity protocols.
Concept master plan and preliminary design delivered for AeroCity, sequencing the technology and security architecture ahead of individual building design, for a district built to eventually hold 400,000 professionals, specified before a single building existed.
Designing for 400,000 future workers before a single building exists means the IT backbone, fibre coverage, and analytics platform have to be specified as core infrastructure. Any growing business scaling its premises faces a smaller version of the same decision: wire in the connectivity and data capacity you will need at scale, before the walls go up, because retrofitting it later costs multiples more.
Kok, T. (2026). DIAL Aerocity Smart Commercial District, Delhi [Case study]. terencekok.com. https://terencekok.com/projects/dial-aerocity-smart-commercial-district/
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Four hundred thousand future workers, in buildings that don't exist yet, and an IT backbone that had to be sized without guessing. I pushed the fibre and wireless coverage numbers higher than the initial brief asked for, on the argument that retrofitting connectivity into a finished commercial district costs far more than overbuilding it now. Nobody has thanked me for that decision yet, because the buildings aren't up. That's fine. It's the right kind of invisible.
