INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Green Technology
IMTAC and SIGNIFY (Philips
Lighting) sign partnership for
empowering smart cities
/////////////////////////////
T
he latest smart lighting solutions in
Oman are having a positive impact
on the environment. Signify, formerly
known as Philips Lighting, is working together
with IMTAC, one of the largest system
integration technology companies in the GCC
and an IoT solution provider, to bring the
latest Smart City solutions to Oman.
Fareed Al Hinai, Vice
Chairman IMTAC
(left), and Goktug
Gur, President and
CEO Signify Middle
East, Turkey and
Pakistan (right), sign
agreement in Muscat
Goktug Gur, President and CEO of Signify
for Middle East, Turkey and Pakistan,
said: “The strategic partnership we are
developing with IMTAC will enable us to
bring our proven smart lighting solutions to
Oman, which will not only create significant
monetary and environmental savings
opportunities through optimisation of the
energy usage, but also will allow public and
private organisations to make informed
decisions on the deployment of their
resources and assets across the country,
and will enable them to drive the vision and
the agenda of the Sultanate of Oman .”
Fareed Al Hinai, Vice Chairman IMTAC, said:
“Launching IoT based Smart City solutions
is the key focus of IMTAC as it brings
substantial savings in energy, water and
operational costs while prioritising the citizen
services in Oman and the rest of the world.
“Our relationship with Signify is critical to our
smart city vision, as it addresses one of the
most significant elements of the smart city
infrastructure, which is smart lighting.”
An agreement between the two companies
was announced at an event on empowering
Smart Cities with connected lighting
technologies that took place at Kempinski
Hotel, Muscat, attended by high profile
public and private sector representatives.
As part of this agreement, IMTAC will
leverage over 125 years of Signify lighting
www.intelligentcio.com
experience and its newly launched smart
lighting IoT platform, Interact, combining
it with its own IoT based Smart City
software and integration capabilities to be
successfully deployed in the Sultanate of
Oman and India.
IMTAC LLC, through its Smart City
brand ‘empyreal’, is a leader in IoT
based solution in the areas of municipal
operations, building management, urban
and social infrastructure, healthcare,
water and waste water management and
manufacturing industries.
IMTAC leverages the m2m communication
backbone like LORA, Wi-Fi and GPRS to
ensure that the backend communication
need of the real-time Smart City applications
is always met.
With lighting accounting for over 22% of a
city’s total energy consumption, the need
for cost-effective and sustainable options
is crucial. Simply switching to LED lighting
can result in electricity savings of up to 50%
and by adding smart systems, the overall
energy savings can go up to 80%. Signify’s
connected lighting system, Interact, is smart
and versatile, making it possible to manage,
maintain, and monitor the entire system
simply and efficiently.
Signify is also pioneering with Light Fidelity
(LiFi), a technology in which high quality
LED lighting provides a broadband Internet
connection through light waves. As the
lighting company for the Internet of Things,
Signify is the first global lighting company to
offer LiFi-enabled luminaires from its existing
office lighting portfolio. n
INTELLIGENTCIO
81