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Huawei unveiled its Safe City Solution Experience Center
Cairo, Egypt - Together with its industry partners, Huawei unveiled its Safe City Solution Experience Center. Under the theme "Leading New ICT, Making Cities Safer", the experience center showcases leading new Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), including the Internet of Things (IoT), Mobile Broadband, Video and Big Data, which are reshaping traditional urban safety management.
On 15th of March, Huawei will hold the Safe City Summit in CeBIT, Hannover, Germany. Keynotes will be presented from Huawei global partners Hexagon, customers from Singapore Police Force and experts from Public Safety industry, sharing insights and successful practices in building safe cities. During 14 to 18 of March, Huawei Exhibition Center will also demonstrate the latest cutting-edge safe city solutions.
Rapid urbanization has made public safety a top priority of city governance. Governments worldwide recognize that urban safety plays a vital role in protecting people's lives and property, and is the cornerstone of economic growth in modern cities. To make cities smarter and safer, they are adopting innovative information and communications technologies (ICT) designed to prevent and react to evolving threats.
Leading New ICT Drives Safe City smarter
Safety risks can be effectively addressed by leading new ICT, particularly Wireless Broadband, Cloud Computing, and Big Data. At Huawei, we believe Safe City solutions will be driven by the following five trends.
Internet of Things (IoT): Video surveillance systems are essential to enable Safe Cities by providing live and recorded videos at key locations. Safety agencies can analyze the videos to predict potential risks, and take appropriate measures to prevent incidents before they occur. When an incident happens, safety agencies can access and watch recorded videos to find valuable insights for handling the incident quickly and safely via technologies of IoT.
Video Cloud Storage: According to IMS Research, more than 56 million cameras were shipped in 2014 alone, generating over 1,600 PB videos on a daily basis. Government agencies are facing significant challenges in managing and using this immense amount of data.
One effective solution is video cloud architecture, which uses cloud storage technologies to enable large-scale video networking and sharing.
Wireless Broadband Trunking: Effective cross-agency resource scheduling and unified command are critical for prompt and accurate emergency response.
Today, narrowband digital trunking is evolving to broadband multimedia trunking with a focus on 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE). LTE broadband trunking can achieve real-time video transmission. Its latency and security also comply with professional standards and adapt to industry-specific scenarios. When a public safety incident occurs, a broadband trunking system allows first responders to receive videos from, send on-site videos back to, and join a video conference with the command center, drastically improving emergency response accuracy and efficiency.
Converged Command Center: A command center functions as the central system that coordinates police, fire, and medical departments for unified actions. Huawei believes that a future-ready command center must integrate diverse systems to achieve service interoperability and information sharing.
Big Data Analytics: Big Data technology opens up new possibilities for efficient data searches, analysis, storage, and usage. The technology helps police officers analyze behaviors, movements, and social relationships of suspects, and identify their biological features. By doing so, police officers can make effective decisions in scheduling police forces and rapidly responding to emergencies
Industry Cooperation to Build Open and Win-Win Safe City Ecosystem
Huawei is committed to working with leading industry partners to build an open, win-win Safe City ecosystem. As a one-stop ICT infrastructure provider, Huawei partnered with Hexagon, a global leader in Safe City application software with a leading global market share of Intergraph and CAD systems, to provide users with a comprehensive Safe City Solution.
The Safe City ecosystem is being driven by Huawei and a wide range of partners, including consulting firms (BGS and Accenture), system integrators (Safaricom, Tyco, and NCS), and software vendors (Hexagon, Milestone, SAP, iOmniscient, Promad, and AgentVi). In line with its strategy guideline of Business-Driven ICT Infrastructure (BDII), Huawei is dedicated to promoting industry collaboration and integration by providing comprehensive, open, and compatible ICT platforms. To date, Huawei Safe City Solutions have served more than 400 million people in over 400 Million population across100 cities of 30 countries in Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific regions.
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About Huawei
Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Our aim is to enrich life and improve efficiency through a better connected world, acting as a responsible corporate citizen, innovative enabler for the information society, and collaborative contributor to the industry. Driven by customer-centric innovation and open partnerships, Huawei has established an end-to-end ICT solutions portfolio that gives customers competitive advantages in telecom and enterprise networks, devices and cloud computing. Huawei's 170,000 employees worldwide are committed to creating maximum value for telecom operators, enterprises and consumers. Our innovative ICT solutions, products and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world's population. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.
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Mahmoud Sawan
Public Relations Manager
Northern Africa Region
mahmoud.sawan@huawei.com
Hala Aranda
Senior Manager
Public Relations & Government Affairs Department
Huawei technologies Egypt
hala.aranda@huawei.com
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