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Huawei takes lead on Middle
East’s public safety innovation
through OpenLab
industry-oriented solutions,
empowering innovation
capabilities, rapid response-
to-market demand and
achieving industrial chain
value aggregation.
This will have a positive
effect on the development
of public safety solutions
from both Zenith and
iOmniscient, who
require both speed of
implementation, and wider
network support to achieve
their goals.
T
op public safety solution providers
have endorsed Huawei’s Dubai-
based OpenLab facility, as
the company continues to drive the
region’s safety innovation through key
technologies and partnerships. Huawei
has sparked important collaborations
with both Zenith and iOmniscient to
create and rollout multiple public safety
and Smart City initiatives, built on IoT,
Cloud and Big Data.
iOmniscient, a leader in video analytics
for Smart Cities, penned a deal with
Huawei that will see them serve
the entire Middle East, while Zenith
partnered to make use of OpenLab,
driving the region’s digital and cyber
security innovations.
“Both partnerships seek to turn Dubai
into one of the safest cities in the world.
Since the inception of OpenLab, we
have sought to collaborate with the
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region’s best innovators in the space of
public safety, to ensure we remain at
the cutting edge of technology for our
markets’ citizens, and provide platforms
for others to build upon,” said Lin
Xijiang, Huawei Solutions Middle East
Development Centre Director.
“What OpenLab does is create
ecosystems that help local solutions
develop and thrive, test and verify
hardware and software in a secure
and professional environment, and
bring international innovations to
local markets. These partnerships will
help OpenLab aggregate the world’s
best resources to meet local digital
transformation needs,” Xijiang added.
OpenLab Dubai is focused on building
capabilities to easily apply technical
solutions in the modern network
environment. This means developing
competitive, commercially viable and
Zenith has been
collaborating with
Huawei in a similar area,
developing its ANPR –
Automatic Number Plate
Recognition technology,
and Lightbar solution.
These solutions can be
used to enhance the safety and security,
business operations and marketing
capabilities of an organisation. A critical
element in the next step towards
creating safer cities, the technology
can easily identify and track vehicles
automatically, with instant correlation
and cross-referencing of licence plates.
iOmniscient understood the challenges
faced by the customer when it
came to building video surveillance
technologies that can live in the
cloud. iOmnsicient’s patented Smart
Compression technology reduces
bandwidth requirements by 90%,
without sacrificing critical aspects.
This means Huawei can provide next-
generation solutions for customers
with weak network bandwidth. These
next-generation solutions based on the
most advanced Artificial Intelligence
systems have been put together to meet
the specific needs of customers in 30
different industries. n
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