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FEATURE: SMART CITIES
DUISBURG
WILL USE
HUAWEI’S 5G,
WI-FI AND WLAN
TECHNOLOGIES
AND IOT
PLATFORMS
TO ACHIEVE
REAL-TIME
SENSING OF CITY
COMPONENTS.
For cities themselves, partnering with local
R&D institutes on smart technologies is
increasingly important to keep up with
technological innovation. In the US, The
Metrolab Network coordinates 35 city
university innovation partnerships and
160 projects which is pairing university
researchers with city policymakers in 59
universities and 44 cities.
By 2028, the number of patients monitored
remotely will exceed the number of patients
monitored on-site in medical facilities.
However, healthcare is being integrated
into a wider ‘well-being’ environment of
healthy lifestyles, safety and preventive
attitudes, blurring the boundaries between
traditional healthcare and overall Smart
City liveability objectives.
While smart healthcare is increasingly
targeted at the ageing population –
those who are about to leave or already
have exited the active economy – smart
education is squarely, but not uniquely,
directed at younger demographics with the
aim of preparing them for their future role in
the economy.
From a Smart City perspective, this brings
smart education solidly into the realm
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of economic development. It also has
secondary, more indirect benefits related to
inclusion and reduction of poverty.
At the same time, ever faster enterprise
technology cycles increasingly require
continuous re-education, leading to new
paradigms of life-long learning, peer-to-peer
learning, real-time curricula, embedded and
micro learning, which is shifting education
from school to the enterprise.
It’s not just IoT which contributes to the
development of Smart Cities, Artificial
Intelligence also plays a key role. Huawei
aims to serve as a Smart City practitioner
and lead new Smart City construction using
AI. The company recently held a Smart
City Summit with the theme ‘Activate
Intelligence to Build Better Smart Cities’
and it discussed with industry experts
and Smart City practitioners how to build
new Smart Cities using AI. The summit
showcased Huawei’s innovative practices
in ‘AI and Smart City’ and how it made
Duisburg in Germany smarter and more
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