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Sharjah City Municipality and
EVOTEQ introduce new smart
parking solution
Sharjah City Municipality and EVOTEQ,
a leading Digital Transformation catalyst
in the Middle East, have announced
their collaboration for a new Artificial
Intelligence solution that will significantly
enhance the Emirate’s parking
management system.
This initiative is a result of a collaboration
between the Sharjah City Municipality
(SCM) and EVOTEQ. The partnership
stems from the Municipality’s alignment
with the vision and directives of the
Emirate and aims to reaffirm SCM’s
work in the Digital Transformation space
offering services and competing on an
international level.
The initiative will employ Artificial
Intelligence to provide parking spots that
could be booked through mobile phones.
As part of their agreement, both entities
will be exploring smart transport platform
solutions for driver behaviour, traffic
congestion and parking.
Utilising Artificial Intelligence and smart
applications, ‘Sharjah Smart Parking’ will
allow citizens and residents to identify
and reserve spaces in censored parking
lots through their phones. Parking spaces
will be classified with special categories
such as VIP spaces.
The project will also be introducing
‘Priority Parking’ for urgent parking for
the first time ever in Sharjah. Payment for
‘Priority Parking’ will be set to encourage
drivers to use these spaces responsibly
and only in relevant cases.
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His Excellency Thabit Salim Al Turaifi,
Director General of Sharjah Municipality,
stressed the Municipality’s keenness
to enhance its offerings and services
according to the highest standards
through Digital Transformation. He
confirmed that this will help provide easy
and efficient services.
The Municipality continues to support
the directives of Sharjah, through
focusing on Digital Transformation
and making it a core pillar of its
operations. The collaboration between
the Municipality and EVOTEQ ensures
that the SCM provides smart offerings
and continues to launch technologically
advanced services to reaffirm its
position as an entity that keeps abreast
of technological advancements and
Digital Transformation.
The project will initially kick off as
a three-month pilot programme to
measure success and ease of usage
before being widely rolled out across
parking lots in Sharjah.
“EVOTEQ is honoured to partner
with Sharjah City Municipality to
provide its leading expertise in Digital
Transformation and new ICT technology,”
said Jihad Tayara, CEO of EVOTEQ. “As
a trusted partner, we are developing
solutions that will establish Sharjah as a
leading digital economy and Smart City.
“At the same time, we will be
improving the quality and efficiency of
systems to benefit the everyday lives of
residents. A major part of that will be
how we are reimagining the future of
Sharjah’s transport management and
catalysing new technologies to
facilitate improvement.” n
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