Smart solutions and innovations covering various sectors at the hands of visitors

Expo opens the gates to the cities of the future

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The journey of "Connecting Minds and Creating the Future" continues at Expo 2020 Dubai, as participants in the international exhibition compete to showcase innovations and smart solutions that seek to make people's lives better.

SAP, the international information technology company, the official partner for digital technology services for Expo 2020 Dubai, presented models for smart cities of the future based on city management using Internet of Things technologies and smart sensors, allowing all city data and its variables to be linked instantly to a unified database. And analyze that data to predict in advance any problems based on the displayed indicators, allowing decision makers the ability to follow up on all city facilities via computer screens or smart phones around the clock.

“SAP” was launched through an innovation center that it officially opened, the day before yesterday, under the name “Innovation House”, in cooperation with the companies “Google Cloud” and “Deolet”, in the “Expo 2020 Dubai” partner building, across an area of ​​​​900 square meters, Innovative solutions to transform sports of all kinds into smart digital patterns, allowing monitoring of the performance of all players in various sports and their vital and health indicators and other data before and during matches, and allowing the ability to make decisions to manage matches, in addition to displaying an innovative smart game that allows visitors to Expo Dubai, from During the analysis of data and questions, identify the appropriate areas of work for each person according to his interests and abilities.

Zakaria Haltout, CEO of SAP, said, "The Innovation House offers smart innovative solutions in various sectors, the most prominent of which are systems dedicated to sports, and can be used, for example, in horse-racing sports, and for the first time in the region, it was tested in Vienna." .

He explained that these systems “allow the monitoring of all vital and health data for horses and the jockeys who drive them in the races through smart sensors, monitoring data of racetracks, climate and temperatures, and linking these data to databases through which decisions can be made to change the horses or individuals who drive them according to the desired goals and only The ability of horses to race in any climate or any track, through data analysis.”

Zakaria Haltout added to "Emirates Today", "Smart digital sports solutions can also be used in football, and have already been tested in Bayern Munich and the German national team, and allow monitoring all vital data and performance of players and making appropriate decisions to change any player according to his physical and mental readiness and ability. focus on.”

He pointed out that "the smart future cities model allows visitors to learn how to manage these cities by linking all their facilities and roads with smart sensors, and through Internet of Things technologies, all city data can be collected instantly in a unified database to predict any problems by analyzing data with artificial intelligence, and allowing Decision makers have immediate or prior interaction to deal with problems, such as traffic jams, climate changes and fluctuations, or severe storms and rain, pointing out that “those solutions pour into databases that can be viewed via computers and smart phone screens for decision makers and decision makers around the clock.”

A game that guides you to the appropriate work for your abilities

Zakaria Haltout, CEO of SAP, said, "The Innovation Center also presents visitors with a smart game that asks questions to users, and through these questions analyzes the data and interests of individuals, and guides them to the areas of work most appropriate for them, their abilities and interests."

• Zakaria Haltout: “The future cities model allows visitors to learn how to manage them by connecting all their facilities and roads with smart sensors.”

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