Al Mamzar Beach Park goes smart
Rescue system using drones, benches to charge phones and bands to track kids
Tech savy visitors can now have more fun while visiting Al Mamzar Beach Park which has now been turned into first ‘smart’ park in the city.
Apart from the smart gates using the Roads and Transport Authority’s Nol cards to avoid queuing up for tickets, the park now has an exclusive mobile app to facilitate its visitors.
Some of the new innovative facilities include smart benches to recharge phones without using any wire, trees and benches to provide free Wi-Fi and smart bands for children to track them in the park to name a few.
It also offers a smart rescue system using drones that dispatches lifebuoy rings to rescue swimmers from drowning.
Dubai Municipality yesterday revealed the smart transformation of Al Mamzar Park using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other innovative technologies.
Dubai’s Al Mamzar Beach Park has gone smart with a host of first-of-its-kind facilities along with renovated beaches and additional barbecue areas that will make visitors love the popular park more than ever before.
Dubai Municipality yesterday revealed the smart transformation of Al Mamzar Park using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other innovative technologies just ahead of cool weather when thousands of residents set off to enjoy their weekends and leisure time at the popular beach park.
Apart from the smart gates using the Roads and Transport Authority’s Nol cards to avoid queuing up for tickets, the park now has an exclusive mobile app.
Dawood Abdul Rahman Abdullah Al Hajiri, Director General of Dubai Municipality, unveiled the app ‘Al Mamzar Park’ that provides all the details about the park and facilitates booking service for its refurbished chalets, popular among picnickers, and other facilities.
Park visitors can use the app to take a virtual tour of the facilities, and book their favourite chalet, grill area, event spaces, and sports areas before heading out there. There is also a new virtual learning centre in the park. It provides an immersive virtual reality experience of planting vegetables and fruit trees for children. To ensure visitors breathe even cleaner air, the amphitheatre area has been painted with Smart Paint that reduces air pollution by absorbing carbon dioxide. There is more in store for those who love the same old leisure trip sans technological disruption.
More barbecue areas
A renovated barbecue area with 15 additional grills to cater to larger number of visitors and an enhanced beach experience in each of the five beach areas has also been announced.
The beaches named Sadaf, Nouras, Flamingo, Danah, and Murjan Beach are now equipped with additional showers, umbrellas and canteens.
The park is now friendlier for people of determination with more car parking and special
paths to ease their access to the beach.
Al Hajiri said the municipality will extend the smart facilities to all other major parks in Dubai in phases without the entry fee.
“We want residents to visit our parks more frequently and benefit from the facilities.” increasing