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The smart lighting and CCTV projects use solar and wind technology, thereby reducing Broken
Hill’s overall carbon footprint and improving its future environmental sustainability.
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) was the first city to join the leading-edge on many transformational
smart project implementations in the region.
One such project is the Smart Dubai Platform (SDP) which integrates data and functionality from
various traditionally siloed city systems, thereby connecting “diverse ecosystems ranging from the
simplest of sensors through to the most complex government entity systems” .
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Part of the Smart Dubai 2021 strategy, the platform consists of five layers:
• Infrastructure. • Application.
• Data orchestration. • Security, which encompasses all layers.
• Service enablement.
Figure 18 illustrates these layers and lists brief use-cases for each.
Figure 18: Simplified view of the architectural layers of the Smart Dubai Platform 54
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