SINGAPORE /PRNewswire/
-- What do you envision when you think of Smart Cities? While
flying cars, holographic communication screens, or even
teleportation seem far-fetched, the hyper-connectedness of today's
world and the Internet of Things (IoT) is making Smart City living
a reality. Huawei, leading ICT solutions provider, sees the
following four areas of opportunities where technology and
innovation play a key role in the building of smarter cities:
City planning and management with
sustainability
With Asia
Pacific accounting for nearly half of global greenhouse
gas emissions[1], one of the key areas that the United Nations
Environment Programme focuses on is the role of technology in
adapting to climate change whilst tackling the issue. Environmental
and economic reasons are key push factors pointing to why
non-renewable fuel sources are becoming less viable as options for
powering everyday lives – particularly in the area of
transportation. Almost all the energy sourced to power our modes of
transportation is non-renewable. Environmental and climate woes
aside, security of energy supply is another area of concern as
cities develop, driving the shift to smarter transportation
alternatives.
As
part of building a Smart City, Huawei sees Smart Transportation
categorized into the following: Better utilization of existing
infrastructure, vehicle reduction and changing the mix of vehicles.
Huawei innovates solutions such as smart sensors that are capable
of constantly measuring and optimizing vehicle resources to lower
current vehicle carbon emissions leading to lower carbon emissions
and extending vehicle lifespan and smart traffic diversion which
reduce wear and tear of roads. Reducing the number of vehicles on
our roads involves encouraging commuters onto smarter public
transport. Finally, the introduction of electric cars and bio-fuel
vehicles leverage sustainable energy resources, making active
transport modes safer and more accessible.
"Huawei has globally committed to strengthening our energy
management and smarter city initiatives. In the transportation
sector, Huawei has worked closely with both public and private
sector partners in developing innovative solutions that address
environmental and climate change issues. Achieving sustainable
change in this space isn't trivial but Huawei's diverse portfolio
of technology and business solutions are well positioned to help
realize greener, smarter transport options," said Barry Lerner PE,
Regional Chief Information Officer, Huawei Solutions Marketing
Southern Pacific Region.
Enabling communications for knowledge transfer and
efficiency for businesses
Knowledge and skills transfer is a priority for most businesses,
and often encouraged by governments around the world,
including Singapore.
Businesses need to be equipped with infrastructures and
applications to support knowledge and information transfer – this
is where technology and innovation play an important role in
enabling education in particular. For students, whether the young
or working professionals furthering their studies,
hyper-connectedness driven by high mobile penetration has changed
how education is being consumed. In the past, the majority of
students would most likely enter University after High School and
attend the campus in person. Now, many students are mature in
age, others attend lectures remotely and still others access online
content which the university has made available. Huawei sees
digital technology as a key driver of change providing the
education sector the competitive edge. To help create a more
connected world, Huawei provides a range of solutions that speak to
content access (with E-Course), to enabling students with physical
and virtual classroom presences (with E-Class) and ease in
management of resources and lecture materials (with
E-Management).
"Asia is
constantly growing, with increasingly diverse cultures,
and Singapore is
in a unique position to be the MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses)
provider of Asia.
Huawei believes that Singapore can
also utilize digital technology to bring education to Smart End
Devices within a MOOC, taking advantage of new innovative IoT
devices such as wearable devices, smart glasses, smart tablets, and
more, to take knowledge consumption to the next level," added
Lerner PE.
Smarter Home Living to enable consumers' digital
life
Consumers' lives are becoming increasingly digitized bringing
future families the opportunity to realizing the concept of
automated smart homes that protects, educates, entertains while
ensuring the use of utilities are environmentally friendly. As part
of Huawei's work in building a better connected world, they have
developed a range of products which seek to address key components
of a holistic Smart Home and families' digital life that enables
connectivity with high-speed fiber optic broadband to support HD
TVs, and a tool to manage multiple devices with the Smart Home
Controller.
"Huawei is at the forefront of the provision of innovative
solutions which enable families to improve their digital life. As
part of our work in building a better connected world we have
developed a range of products which seek to address key components
of an holistic Smart Home and family digital life," said Lerner
PE.
"As
part of enhancing each family's digital life, there is a move to
automate the smart home and Huawei is heavily involved in this
process as well. We understand that no one vendor has all the
solutions so Huawei is taking an open and collaborative approach to
enable an IOT ecosystem which will provide the greatest benefit for
consumers of this technology," continued Lerner PE.
For
more insights and demonstrations on how smart innovations and
technology can build a Smart City, please meet Barry Lerner PE,
Regional Chief Information Officer, Huawei Solutions Marketing
Southern Pacific Region atCommunicAsia2015 this
June.
[1] United Nations
Environment Program: http://www.unep.org/roap/Activities/ClimateChange/tabid/6834/Default.aspx
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efficiency through a better connected world, acting as a
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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
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