Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 11 | Page 50

FEATURE: SMART CITIES ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ACCORDING TO CISCO, TOTAL NUMBER OF CONNECTED DEVICES ARE EXPECTED TO EXCEED 50 BILLION BY 2020, WHICH IS ANTICIPATED TO LEAD TO HIGHER ADOPTION OF IOT DEVICES IN SMART CITIES. transportation, healthcare and energy industries. Moreover, Huawei has accumulated extensive industry experience and local implementation capabilities in more than 160 cities of over 40 countries. Huawei is committed to working with customers in the long term and takes a future-oriented approach to drive enterprise Digital Transformation through the power of the platform. So far, 211 of the Fortune Global 500 companies (including 48 Fortune Global 100 companies) have selected Huawei as their Digital Transformation partner. Working to expand its European IoT leadership in Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Alarm Security is Telit, a global enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), and the company has announced a strategic partnership with the AddSecure Group. The partnership provides customers across Europe with IoT solutions for Smart Cities, smart grids, alarm security and other mission-critical applications. It is the latest example of Telit’s rapidly growing relationships with industry, network, technology and integration partners across Europe and the rest of the world. attractive by leveraging cloud computing and IoT technologies. Cloud computing and the IoT make Duisburg smarter and more attractive Duisburg aims to benefit from the opportunities provided by digitalisation, using new IT technologies to improve urban life experiences, promote economic growth and attract more residents, enterprises and investors. The city chose to cooperate with Huawei due to the company’s technical innovation capabilities in cloud computing, Big Data, IoT and AI, as well as Huawei’s experience and strength in helping cities determine future development directions. At the cloud computing infrastructure layer, the Rhine Cloud supported by Huawei’s technologies 50 INTELLIGENTCIO provides a basic platform for Duisburg’s cloud strategy. It also promotes the technical innovation and implementation of eGovernment, transportation, IoT and unified communications, and completes the construction of Smart Duisburg 1.0 based on a smart foundation. At the IoT layer, Duisburg will use Huawei’s 5G, Wi-Fi and WLAN technologies and IoT platforms to achieve real-time sensing of city components. A Smart City ‘nervous system’ network will be built to advance transportation, logistics and industrial manufacturing, enabling smart living, autonomous driving and Smart City operations. This will help realise the Smart Duisburg 2.0 vision based on smart experiences. Huawei’s Smart City solutions have been used in the government, education, AddSecure has committed to using a variety of Telit solutions in existing and future projects. These will include Telit modules supporting the latest Low Category LTE/ LPWA technologies, in addition to 2G and 3G, giving AddSecure and its customers maximum flexibility for choosing the technology and service provider that best matches their unique requirements. “AddSecure is rapidly growing both organically and by acquisition as a leading supplier of secure critical communications in Europe,” said Stefan Albertson, AddSecure CEO. “Our partnership with Telit ensures that we have access to the industry’s broadest, deepest portfolio of IoT solutions, which will be key for growing our market share over the long term.” “Our strategic relationship with AddSecure is the latest example of how Telit is the go-to partner for companies worldwide that want to provide their customers with reliable, high-performance IoT solutions,” said Carlos Perez, Telit President of Sales. “AddSecure will enhance our partner ecosystem by giving enterprises, governments and other end- users even more options for mission-critical IoT solutions.” n www.intelligentcio.com