Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2020 Nominee

Zayed smart city project


Description

The Abu Dhabi City Municipality, developed a number of key objectives, notably the implementation of projects aimed at establishing modern infrastructure for the city including bridges, drainage systems, road networks, modern means of transportation, consolidation of comprehensive development projects.
In line with the policies of the government which aim at making Abu Dhabi a modern capital city, it is The Abu Dhabi City Municipality’s priority to create an ideal living environment for city residents, with unmatched quality of life and modern amenities.
zayed smart city project started on a small are in abu dhabi wit implementation 10 IOT use : water quality , air quality ,parking availability ,SOS functionality ,palm trees desese detection , ....
After zayed smart city Pilot project in 2018 ,ADM team came out of 4 initiatives in in collaboration with health , safety and inspections :City Infrastructure ,Enterprise Collaboration,Services Enhancement and Urban Planning . this lead to start a new use case related to public health of the city .
One of the major roles of Abu Dhabi municipality is (city inspections).one part of this function is to inspect the water tanks of the citizen buildings in the city, making sure that these tanks are following the standards of water quality already defined by health department in the municipality. This results a serious inspection challenge on the municipality, since the number of buildings that surveyed and inspected on a regular biases are 130,000 buildings, this number raise many challenges such as (human resource needed, quality of inspection process, and the cost of the inspection process).An IoT platform can solve this challenge by providing IoT enabled water quality sensors in each building water tank that will monitor (on daily basis) the water storage tanks in – 130,000 buildings in the city of Abu Dhabi. The sensors will use 4G/5G technology to send data to a cloud communing platform that stores and visualizes the harnessed data.



Project website

https://enterprise.verasyscontrols.com


Action lines related to this project
  • AL C2. Information and communication infrastructure
  • AL C6. Enabling environment 2020
  • AL C7. E-health
  • AL C7. E-environment
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 2: Zero hunger
  • Goal 3: Good health and well-being
  • Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

Coverage
  • United Arab Emirates

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2018

End date

Not set


Replicability

the platform created in away where you can connect any IOt uses case from any location to serve the city


WSIS values promotion

Enhanced public health Healthier citizens Better perception of Municipality Less citizen illness


Entity name

Abu Dhabi Municipality (ADM)

Entity country—type

United Arab Emirates Government

Entity website

https://www.dpm.gov.ae/adm