Why security has to be smart today
building a smart and safe city,” said Hazem Bazan, vice-president of channels and commercial sales at Huawei Enterprise Middle East.
“We are looking at launching solutions that are built on the pillars of technology such as artificial intelligence [AI], the cloud and the Internet of Things [IoT].”
Huawei was participating at Intersec to showcase its Safe Campus suite of solutions, which are aimed at enhancing public safety in the region. Safe Campus is an end-toend ICT solution that may be deployed in buildings, office spaces, stadiums, schools, hotels and many more scenarios to assist in incident prevention, emergency response, and evidence collection.
The Middle East homeland security market, which includes monitoring and surveillance systems, restricted entry systems, and perimeter security solutions, is expected to more than double in five years, growing from $9.6 billion in 2017 to $19.7 billion by 2022, according to recent data from Frost & Sullivan. Saudi Arabia continues to be the largest homeland security market, with 44.8 per cent of the total market, followed by the UAE with 16.6 per cent.
“There are several Dubai government entities that are adopting new technologies in their journey to make Dubai a smart city,” said Mansoor Bu Osaiba, CEO of Nedaa.
“These include autonomous vehicles, airborne taxis and delivery drones. All of these require a private network that caters to their applications and Nedaa is there to aid them with its LTE and 5G networks and coverage.”
Nedaa is participating at the exhibition to demonstrate its LTE and 5G use cases of private network capabilities that allow different organisations to deploy smart and safe applications and provide an overall better city experience. Nedaa is also demonstrating the use of LTE-connected drones to facilitate efficiency in rescuing operations
Data today is at risk and security is always a major concern Steve Jones, sales engineer, surveillance, Seagate
for first responders. Airbus, one of the featured partners of Nedaa, was also showcasing its capabilities to integrate with multivendor LTE in a safe and secure way, which allows the grouping of smartphones and Tetra radios under one cluster.
“We want to highlight the security aspect of IoT,” says Mustapha El Baba, deputy head of sales for the Mena region at Airbus Defence and Space. “Our concern is to have the flow of data in a very secure and encrypted way. We are using a very secure means of transporting the data.”
“With reference to smart cities and IoT, we see a massive explosion of data,” says Steve Jones, sales engineer, surveillance, at Seagate. “All this data needs to be safely and properly secured, and one of the ways that this needs to be done is through proper education. Data today is at risk and security is always a major concern,” he added.
— rohma@khaleejtimes.com