Dubai Municipality develops its digital infrastructure

Dubai Municipality is working to upgrade digital infrastructure to enhance implementation of IoT solutions.

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Dubai Municipality continues to enhance its technical and digital capabilities, and to introduce further development of its technological infrastructure, in parallel with the expansion of adopting and employing smart applications and solutions, in order to achieve higher levels of quality of life, and to provide its best forms and experiences for everyone who lives on the emirate’s land or is visiting. And at various times, in addition to environmental sustainability, conservation of resources, and rationalization of consumption according to the highest international standards.

The Director General of Dubai Municipality, Eng. Dawood Al Hajri, said that the municipality’s employment of modern technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of things, big data, robotics and blockchain, will enable Dubai to achieve a leading position among cities. And comparing it with the world's leading smart cities, as we have proven the concept in several cases of using the Internet of Things, including smart monitoring of grease traps to accurately measure the levels of fats and oils, and send the data to the control center for alert on time, and its application achieves a return of investment of 116% with the development of the infrastructure. Technically for the city ».

Dubai Municipality is currently working on upgrading the digital infrastructure to enhance the application of IoT solutions at the level of the Emirate of Dubai, to create a flexible, multi-use, modular digital structure capable of communicating with all types of sensors, allowing data exchange with other devices in real time, and a high capacity for data processing. In parallel, to predict patterns and identify trends to take automatic actions, ensuring quick and effective communication with sensors and software measuring air quality standards to collect data instantly, use it in developing a cognitive prediction system, and make predictive analyzes more effective.

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