Dubai’s official government introduced the “Dubai Plan 2021” that aims to transform the city into a leading global smart city over the next few years.
Dubai’s government introduced a plan to make the city “smart” using innovative technology, digital tools and smart policies. The Dubai Plan 2021, worth approximately $7 billion to $8 billion, provides upgraded economic and social services for the citizens, transforms government services into data-based smart solutions and envisions the development of the city’s infrastructure. Dubai’s smart city strategy includes over 100 initiatives, including a plan to transform 1000 government services into smart services. The strategy aims to foster collaboration between public and private entities to achieve six main smart targets: smart life, smart transportation, smart society, smart economy, smart governance and smart environment. (more…)
On April 29th, 2016, Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull unveiled the “Commonwealth’s Smart Cities Plan” at the smart cities summit.
According to Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull, in order to succeed in the 21st Century economy, Australian cities must be transformed into smart cities. In the interest of kick-starting this smart cities initiative, Turnbull brought together government and private industry stakeholders to introduce the “Commonwealth’s Smart Cities Plan.” The plan’s objective is to incorporate and strengthen Wi-Fi-based smart services and technologies, work efficiently with open data and create a new smart infrastructure.
The Indian government launched the smart cities mission to create smart and sustainable cities across the country.
The government of India launchedthe Smart Cities Initiative, a mission that aims to transform 100 Indian cities into modern, citizen-friendly, tech-advanced locations. The Smart Cities mission will primarily focus on the citizen’s needs by offering them opportunities for economic growth in a tech-driven environment, while also prompting smart urban planning and implementing an advanced infrastructure in order to improve India’s standard of living.
Image source: http://bit.ly/1JHF3Eb (The Hindu)
The red dots on the map represent the first 20
smart cities shortlisted for the ‘Smart Cities Mission’
The project is divided into two phases in order to manage which cities come first or last in the smart city transformation process. The first phase includes cities such as Bhubaneswar, Pune, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Bhopal and the NDMC area of Delhi, while the second phase nominees will be announced in June 2016.A total of $15 billion has already been allotted by the Indian government for the realization of the project. Furthermore, the United States also plans to invest in the infrastructure of Indian smart cities to assist in improving smart services and deliver world class infrastructure across the nation.
One of the main goals of the initiative is to boost wireless connectivity and enable speedy broadband Internet. With this objective in mind, service providers are planning on investing in the Wi-Fi networks which will play a major role in providing smart city services in India. An Indian broadband and digital services provider, Reliance Jio, already plans to deploy Wi-Fi in over 50 cities in 2016.
Multi-national companies like Facebook and Google are already contributing to India’s smart city initiative. For instance, Facebook is working together with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) to deploy Wi-Fi in 100 areas in rural India, while Google has announced a partnership with the Indian railways to provide hotspots in 400 railway stations by 2016.
Find out more about India and its smart cities project. Video source: https://youtu.be/2xTuj3vOfkA(The Daily Conversation)
Tanaza Wi-Fi cloud management is now being used to deploy Smart Wi-Fi in public spaces. Download our smart cities case study and learn how Tanaza Authorized Partner, Tacira Technologies, is intergrating smart services by way of the Tanaza solution.
Singapore keeps on developing its smart city: M1 and Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) are now providing Wi-Fi to commuters on buses in Singapore.
M1 and Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), two companies working in the Singapore’s Telecom sector, have teamed up to provide free Wi-Fi to Singapore’s bus users. The project is part of the Heterogeneous Network Trial (HetNet Trial), a communication infrastructure that provides robust connectivity and expedites a more efficient utilization of network resources, by enabling seamless switching between different networks. According to Khoong Hock Yun, IDA assistant CEO, the “HetNet technological innovation is expected to bring about immediate and long-term benefits for citizens”. (more…)
In 2014, The government of Singapore launched one of the largest smart cities initiatives to make the entire country “smart”.
Smart Nationis Singapore’s smart cities initiative established in 2014. It was designed to give rise to a smart and connected nation in its entirety, by providing tech-enabled services, good governance, and sustainable environment. The main objective of a smart city is to offer effective solutions by collecting relevant data through sensors and smart cameras, to improve government services using technology, and to drive economic growth in the country.
In the Smart Nation project, people and businesses, together with the government, are entitled to access their online data and take part in Singapore’s innovation and technological development. Smart Nation is Singapore’s national effortto upgrade the quality of life of its citizens through smart solutions.
Sensor collected data is sent to an online platform known as Virtual Singapore, that gather data from a network of sensors, installed throughout the whole country. Khoong Hock Yun, IDA Singapore Chief Data Officer, explains in an interview at TelecomTV, that Wi-Fi is a fundamental technology to make Singapore a smart city. Though, Vivian Balakrishnan, Singapore’s foreign affairs minister and minister-in-charge of Smart Nation, is of a view that by deploying sensors all over the city, it is most likely to cause an infringement of the privacy of people. In response to Balakrishnan’s concern, the government officials declared that having Wi-Fi and sensor collected data will assist the government in providing a more effective, smarter and more innovative services to solve the city’s strategic problem and better serve citizens’ needs by using advanced technology. Furthermore, the Smart Nation initiative and its digital infrastructure will leverage on investments that create business opportunities for enterprises and promotes usage of analytical technologies in the cities.
Tanaza Wi-Fi cloud management is now being used to deploy Smart Wi-Fi in public spaces. Download our smart cities case study and learn how Tanaza Authorized Partner, Tacira Technologies, is intergrating smart services by way of the Tanaza solution.
Facebook, who recently announced its willingness to provide Wi-Fi connectivity to underdeveloped areas, now plans to compete with telecom companies by offering a cheaper and ultra-fast wireless network experience.
Facebook is no longer just a social network. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, has demonstrated he is eager to make headway in developing a more interconnected world. He contributes through different initiatives, like the creation of “Internet.org” in 2013. Zuckerberg’s latest project aims to develop the 5G network, thanks to WiGig technology, a wireless communication system that transmits data at 7Gbps in the 60GHz frequency.
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