Take into account the new changes imposed by "Corona"

Companies launch new smart city systems suitable for emergencies and crises

• Huawei has presented several smart city solutions during GITEX.

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GITEX Technology 2020, which recently concluded its activities in Dubai, witnessed intense competition between global technology companies, to launch new smart city systems that take into account the new changes imposed by the Corona pandemic.

Corporate officials told Emirates Today, on the sidelines of their participation in the exhibition, that these systems and solutions are not limited to the Corona period, but are suitable for dealing during emergencies and crises in various fields.

flexibility

In detail, Alaa Al-Shimi, Executive Director and Senior Vice President of the Commercial Projects Group in the Middle East at Huawei, said that the Corona pandemic demonstrated the need for new technical systems for smart cities that take into account the changes imposed by the pandemic.

He explained, for example, that "Huawei" has proposed solutions for smart cities, including systems that allow dealing with emergencies and crises with high flexibility and faster speeds, including centralized smart control systems, which allow facilitating road conditions and paths, opening traffic signals and converting them to green automatically before the passage of cars. Ambulance or civil defense and police, according to certain software systems, and in a way that speeds up the paths of those vehicles to deal with emergencies.

Artificial intelligence

Al-Shimi added that the new smart city systems include cameras supported by artificial intelligence techniques, to alert when customers are not wearing face masks, as well as to monitor any increase in the temperature of the dealers, and not to open the gates for those who do not adhere to wearing masks or have a high temperature, in addition to providing smart cameras. It can monitor and read patients' x-ray data to determine whether they have disease or not in institutions, even if they do not have visible symptoms.

He pointed out that the company, during its participation in "GITEX Technology Week 2020", which recently concluded its activities in Dubai, revealed vehicles of various sizes, smart and autonomous, equipped with Internet of things technologies of different sizes, that handle disinfection and sterilization operations, whether in regions or companies, without the need for a presence. For any human elements, and by using smart sensors.

Variables

For his part, Vice President of Sales in the Gulf Region at Software AG, Rami Ketchley, said that the company has recently launched systems for smart cities, supported by solutions that take into account the variables of the Corona pandemic, most notably systems powered by artificial intelligence and the Internet of things in companies and buildings in The various sectors allow monitoring of any violations of social distancing and safety requirements and warning about them, while determining the floor and location of the rooms that witness these violations.

He added that the proposed smart city systems also include a central digital platform for emergency management, which includes techniques for analyzing data, including monitoring all hospital data, and the current absorptive capacity in them, as well as determining occupancy rates and available capacities for treatment and drugs anywhere, and thus patients can be directed. Easily to the right place to receive treatment according to the situation and geographical location without any effort and quickly.

cooperation

Ketchley pointed out that the company revealed projects related to smart cities, provided in cooperation with student teams in universities in the country, including systems that can monitor any water and gas leakage, the ability to divert connection pipelines and alert the competent authorities until the malfunctions are fixed, while solving problems immediately. By diverting the paths and disrupting the pipes that suffer from leakage, indicating that the smart systems also include containers with artificial intelligence, which have the ability to sort waste and direct it to the right paths, and report to the competent authorities to receive the waste available in the containers.

Additives

In turn, the CEO of the Evotech Digital Systems Company, Jihad Tayara, said that there are significant changes and additions to the smart city systems that were launched at GITEX 2020, which shows the implications of Corona on the trends of technology companies in offering systems with additions commensurate with The new variables imposed by the pandemic.

And he indicated that the company presented, during the exhibition, new systems for smart cities, most of them commensurate with these variables, the most important of which are systems for smart mosques that allow monitoring of safe distances, and not allowing additional numbers that exceed the permissible number, as they were equipped with cameras that enable accurate and comprehensive measurements of temperature. Worshipers, and monitor any unhealthy variables.

Tayara added that the basic smart systems were focused on rationalizing energy management and ease of services, but after "Corona", the new additions became commensurate with the reality imposed by the pandemic.

He pointed out that the company unveiled non-contact systems for smart parking, which accomplish all its steps via mobile phones, in addition to "robots" designed to conduct sterilization operations in buildings and homes.

Smart Drug Records

The CEO of Evoteq for Digital Systems, Jihad Tayara, said that the company had launched a system for smart cities called “Smart Medicines Records,” which allows for the provision of smart records via a “barcode” that shows all drug data from its exit from the manufacturing lines until it reaches the places of distribution. In addition to providing a database and records showing the quantities of available drugs of each type, the location of their availability and validity, the drugs that were distributed from them, and who acquired them.

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