FEATURE: SMART CITIES
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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
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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
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