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4.2 ASIA AND PACIFIC, MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA

4.2.1 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 41

Abu Dhabi is the capital city of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and has a leading role to play in
the digital transformation of the country.

The Abu Dhabi City Municipality invested in a five-year smart city initiative called the Zayed Smart
City project, which involves managing infrastructure through the use of emerging technologies.
Commencing in 2018, the pilot phase validated key use cases and the project’s viability to digitally
transform the economic, environmental and social aspects of life for Abu Dhabi’s citizens and
businesses.

Significant investment was made in IoT infrastructure and network technologies, including sensors,
actuators, and management systems to connect key components across the city. The project used
low-power WAN (LPWAN) technologies to capture sensor data from across the city and feed it into
an integrated system to monitor and manage the use-cases.

The ten use-cases included “air quality monitoring, asset tracking and logistics monitoring, structural
health monitoring, water metering, palm tree weevil detection, street lighting, smart parking, waste
management, water storage tank monitoring, and swimming pool monitoring” .
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Abu Dhabi’s implemented IoT solution is designed to ensure secure, quick and easy connectivity
to any ‘thing’. It can operate across the cloud, on-premises and at the edge.

The Zayed Smart City project is currently ongoing, with more information on its achievements
and lessons learned to likely become available in the next few years. While the pilot project was
implemented in Abu Dhabi’s ‘Corniche Area’, smart services resulting from the project will likely
expand through IoT and AI platforms to other parts of the city by 2022 .
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4.2.2 Auric City, Aurangabad, India
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Aurangabad is home to India’s first greenfield industrial smart city, Auric City. The mega-investment
project is part of the state of Maharashtra’s upcoming Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor. Within
close proximity to the Aurangabad International Airport, the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust’s dry port
and the container terminal at Jalna, Auric City is set to be a major exports and logistics hub in India.

Part of India’s 100 Smart Cities initiative, Auric City is deploying state-of-the-art IoT-enabled
technologies that use real-time data to make life in a city smarter, safer and more sustainable.

The start of the project has seen the deployment of an optical fibre cable network that covers 8.45
km to support the installation of closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, Wi-Fi access points and
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a centralized state-of-the-art command and control system (Smart City Platform) that will integrate

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