INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Green Technology
EVOTEQ delivers greener HQ
for Sharjah City Municipality
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The implementation will
involve the use of EVOTEQ
and Johnson Controls’
Digital Vault platform
and reduce the carbon
footprint of the building.
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harjah City Municipality and EVOTEQ
have announced a partnership to
deploy an Artificial Intelligence (AI)
platform at the municipality’s headquarters,
turning it into a smart building. The move
aligns with the government’s agenda to
transform Sharjah into a Smart City.
The AI platform will provide state-of-the-
art connected services to achieve the most
innovative and efficient work environment
for the municipality, while reducing the
carbon footprint of the building and
improving operational efficiency.
Through the implementation of the AI
platform, robotics and digitalised services
by EVOTEQ, the Sharjah City Municipality
headquarters will feature new smart lobby,
parking and security functions that use facial
recognition to operate seamlessly.
future processes to predict the future state
of physical objects and understand potential
outcomes before they happen.
HE Thabit Salim Al Turaifi, Director
General of Sharjah City Municipality, said
that the evolution of the municipality’s
headquarters into a smart building is a
significant step towards accomplishing the
comprehensive Digital Transformation that
the municipality is aiming for by early next
year, in order to enhance its services and
emerge as sector leaders.
He pointed out that the Sharjah City
Municipality is constantly growing and is
working to fulfill the UAE Vision 2021 by
improving its technological capabilities to
facilitate Sharjah’s transition to a knowledge-
based and highly productive economy.
He added: “The Sharjah Municipality
continuously seeks to embrace Digital
Transformation and technological
development in line with the UAE’s visions
and trends in this sphere, and therefore
is eager to adapt AI and next generation
technologies in all its operations.”
Jihad Tayara, CEO of EVOTEQ, said: “The
series of services will take smart living to new
heights and digitally transform offices, and
how people work, to maximise productivity,
efficiency, convenience, business excellence
and sustainable practices. This marks
the start of a long and fruitful journey by
bringing and utilising state-of-the-art AI
based services to cater to the needs of
the public and private sector and improve
the work office and we look forward to
replicating the success that we achieve by
assisting other organisations in achieving
their strategic digital integration and
sustainability goals.”
The implementation will involve the use of
Johnson Controls’ Digital Vault platform
that allows building owners and facility
managers to achieve smart, AI-enabled
environments that will also improve
environmental performance through
increased energy savings. n
Human resources, procurement and finance
back office operations will be integrated and
the workspace will be made wholly paperless
and digital.
Equipped with ready-to-use analytics,
the AI platform will also allow Sharjah
City Municipality to extend the life of its
equipment and efficiently maintain a
comfortable environment for its occupants.
Customers and employees can also utilise
capabilities to eliminate the ‘what-ifs’ in
decision-making by simulating or testing
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INTELLIGENTCIO
Representatives from Johnson Controls,
SCM, and EVOTEQ
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