Omantel partners with Huawei to roll out smart city solutions

(MENAFN- Muscat Daily) Muscat- Omantel is ushering a new era with Huawei on the sidelines of Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain to drive its smart city strategy forward in Oman, with the first integrated tourism complex, Al Mouj Muscat, as a lighthouse example of a premium lifestyle destination.

The launch of this smart city initiative is in line with the 'Omantel 3.0' strategy, which aims to revolutionise smart living and working digital services, by enhancing the security and improving business efficiencies as well as revamping end user experiences across the many facets of the community. The strategy reinforces Omantel's position as the digital partner of choice for the public and private sectors, enabling digital societies to flourish and grow across all industries and corners of Oman.

As part of a complete smart services roadmap, the opening phase commences with state-of-the-art security solutions. This includes fully-fledged advanced analytics and integrated camera capabilities connected via a unified control system and a smart software platform with complex algorithms to enable a wide range of threat and pattern triggers and detection alerts, such as license plates and facial features. Future phases include smart energy and utility management along with community portal informatics and smart parking to list a few services.

In a press release, Talal al Mamari, Omantel CEO said, 'We are delighted to partner with Huawei Enterprise to roll our smart solutions in Al Mouj Muscat, Oman's lifestyle destination. Omantel is committed to delivering a more enriching lifestyle for the public through smart solutions, and we will continue to partner with like-minded entities to further this vision in new locations across the sultanate. With Omantel ICT, we are focused on enhancing digital experiences by deploying state-of-the-art Big Data analytics platforms, Internet-of-Things enabled solutions and pervasive software and hardware IT platforms to provide the best value for our customers and the public.'

Leo Hong, Huawei Oman CEO said, 'Technology is revolutionising the way we live and operate – whether at the workplace or at home. We are excited to partner with the leading telecom operator in the sultanate to provide smart technology and solutions that will simplify life and offer people a greater amount of safety and security. Our strategic alliance with Omantel will help communities in the sultanate develop into efficient urban living spaces with all the modern amenities and conveniences, powered by cutting-edge smart solutions.'

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