DOHA: An online road guide that will help motorists monitor about the traffic situation, another application that will check on the quality of air around the country and e-content software that will help readers manage the delivery of Arabic and English e-books, e-newspapers and e-magazines.
These are the new technologies that are 100 percent Qatar made under the "Smart Living Initiative" which were formally launched yesterday at La Cigale Hotel by Qatar University Wireless Innovation Centre (QUWIC).
"We don't deliver canned services because we make everything made in Qatar," said Abdulla Al Talib, Chairman of QUWIC Joint Management Committee, as he underscores that such new projects soon to be launched to the local market forms part of the national development initiative.
Using the locally developed "Labeeb" platform, local journalists during the First Annual Interactive Media and Partners Day, experienced the "feel" in learning better about the unique branded solutions which can be very useful in the everyday life in Doha with ease and comfort on the road, help manage a pollution-free healthy lifestyle and easy guide to e-content on reading materials.
"These are the three branded initiatives we introduce not only in words but something you can touch and feel and see for yourself," Al Talib pointed out.
Dr Adnan Abu Dayya, QUWIC Executive Director, said the three market-minded innovations were the result of their two years of hard work to come out with a proudly locally made solutions and services in strategic areas like intelligent transportation, environment monitoring and digital content management and delivery.
"We have done our home work. We made a unique formula that touches the essence of local content," Abu Dayya said.
Abu Dayya and other QUWIC executives took turns in explaining during the gathering on how the three innovations works by letting the journalists and partners browse online using iPads and iPhones the applications which they said could be available in the local market in a few months.
"Masarak" which means "your path, your way" in Arabic is geared to deliver intelligent traffic services such as traffic and congestion monitoring, vehicle tracking, trip planning, dispatching, and intelligent fleet management.
The Air Quality Monitoring solution named QAPPS intends to utilise a network of low cost mobile sensors and fixed stations to provide a ubiquitous air quality monitoring solution optimised for Qatar. QUWIC also launched its Kotobi initiative, a digital-content and management delivery framework which enables the delivery of Arabic and English electronic books, newspapers, and magazines to users' mobile handsets or tablets.
© The Peninsula 2011
