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FEATURE: INTERNET OF THINGS
IoT and 5G to
transform key
sectors such
as oil and gas
Huawei has enjoyed incredible
growth in the infrastructure
and smart devices markets
in the last year. Intelligent
CIO spoke to Alaa Elshimy,
Managing Director, Enterprise
Business Group, Middle
East, about the company’s
performance in the region and
the potential of Industrial IoT in
combination with AI and 5G.
H
uawei, a leading global provider of ICT infrastructure and
smart devices, has seen its enterprise business division
continue to grow rapidly in the Middle East. During the first
three quarters of this year, Huawei’s global revenues increased
by 24.4% year-on-year. By the end of Q3 2019, more than 700 cities, 228
Fortune Global 500 companies and 58 Fortune Global 100 companies had
selected Huawei as their partner for Digital Transformation.
More specifically, Huawei’s Enterprise Networking division provides
organisations with solutions tailored specifically to scenarios such
as campus, data centre, WAN, branch interconnection and network
security, helping them stride towards a fully connected, intelligent world.
In an exclusive interview, Intelligent CIO spoke to Alaa Elshimy,
Managing Director, Enterprise Business Group, Middle East, about the
company’s performance and its approach to the region, and more
specifically the potential of IoT in industries such as oil and gas.
Could you give us some more examples about how
AI and IoT will benefit the oil and gas industries?
AI can do things that we cannot do as humans. For instance, if you
need to monitor a flare at an oil refinery, sending someone to do this in
tough weather conditions, or even in normal conditions, is very risky, very
expensive and time consuming.
Instead, if you use a drone with an intensive camera that is trained
to monitor the colour and smell of the flare then this is saving a lot of
money and giving a lot of benefits to the organisation.
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