FEATURE: SMART CITIES
After more than 40 years of fast growth,
it has become the third largest oil refinery
centre in the world. It can produce more
than 1.1 million barrels of oil every day,
and its yearly industrial production capacity
reaches 131 million tons.
Yanbu is also facing ever-increasing
pressure. For example, limited network
bandwidth cannot meet the requirements
of governments, enterprises, and residents,
affecting office efficiency and online
entertainment experiences.
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doing so, we desire to create industrial
clusters, enhance collaboration between
industries, expand business diversification,
improve investment environments, and
enhance competitiveness. operator Mobily delivered telecom
infrastructures and Huawei provided ICT
solutions, including smart city data centres,
GSM/3G/LTE, as well as related service and
operations support systems.
“The vision of building a Smart Yanbu
Industrial City is aligned with the ‘Vision
2030’ goal. It aims to improve the quality of
life through a smart city. The wired and wireless broadband
networks across the entire city were
quickly constructed, providing high-speed
network access services, and delivering
improved network experiences for
governments, industrial and residential
areas. These applications improve municipal
administration efficiency, enhance public
safety and create a better living environment.
Dr Alaa Nassif, Chief Executive Officer of
RCY, said, “Today’s global competition
is fierce. We hope to maintain the
competitiveness of the city through our
Smart City initiative. We have focused on
industrial growth over the past 40 years. “We have set a series of specific goals.
For example, all national transformation
projects that have been planned will be
on the right track; the annual smart city
revenue will exceed US$66 million; the
average incident response time will be
less than seven minutes; annual traffic
accidents will be fewer than 1,200; the
optical fibre coverage rate will be greater
than 59%; the free Wi-Fi coverage rate
in public places will be higher than 70%;
the public lighting costs will be reduced by
30%; the waste clearing efficiency will grow
by 30%; and the road maintenance costs
will be reduced by 20%”.
“Now, we will gradually shift to more
diversified sectors including entertainment,
tourism, and science and technology. In RCY provided public infrastructures such
as roads, buildings, power grids, water
services and city optical networks. Telecom
In line with ‘Vision 2030,’ the Royal
Commission for Yanbu (RCY) decided to take
the lead in addressing the Yanbu industrial
city challenges by constructing the Smart
Yanbu Industrial City.
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INTELLIGENTCIO
Huawei has provided a comprehensive
portfolio of network and IT solutions
(including wireless access points, routers,
switches, servers, storage, and 2G/3G/4G
base stations), devices such as surveillance
cameras, the eSight + Network Management
System (NMS) platform which uniformly
manages network-wide devices, and software
products provided by Huawei partners.
All these help ensure that the data collected
by front-end devices can be transmitted to the
back-end system in a secure, stable and real-
time manner for management and analysis.
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