The first roll-out of Yalla, a new urban e-mobility offering, provides dockless electric bikes and e-scooters throughout the Aljada megaproject in Sharjah.
The UAE Earth platform aims to help advance progress and support decision-making in five domains: economy, adaptation, reduction, transition and health.
ST Engineering subsidiary Urban Solutions will design and build the ITCP in addition to being responsible for system integration and overall project management.
The app, developed by three students from the University of Sharjah, will be trialled in a waste collection system by public-private partnership company Bee’ah.
Smart cities lies at the core of the incubator, which is looking for solutions in areas such as energy, water, agri, waste, mobility and smart technology.
The digital Emirati initiative is a single-window platform created to offer UAE citizens a directory of city services through the DubaiNow application.
The African-born fintech is raising $30m to expand operations and drive electrification to help cities in the region meet net zero targets, beginning in UAE.
The sustainable community in Abu Dhabi is working with Zero Carbon Ventures to deploy its graphene technologies to reduce the need for maintenance and energy consumption of key buildings.
It will be the largest inland railway freight terminal in the UAE and helps to fulfil the goal to provide an integrated transport system in line with the country’s sustainable economic development.
The Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute aims to scale-up technological solutions and will support UAE’s climate agenda in the run-up to the Cop28 climate change conference in Dubai in 2023.
The iconic museum in Dubai has installed 21 units in parking bays, with stations connected to the Shabik mobile app that gives users endless access to the electric vehicle charging network.
Real Estate company Paradise Hills is working with blockchain developer ThreeFold to add dedicated servers to around 170 homes that will provide edge computing and internet storage to run decentralised applications and services.
Influencing factors for BCG’s Cities of Choice ranking included quality of life, economic opportunities, social capital, interactions with authorities and speed of change.
Smart Dubai is among the entities to be brought under the umbrella which aims to set an example in developing best practices and systems to make life easier for inhabitants over the next five decades.
The Dubai Government Information Network is designed to become the information backbone between the emirate’s governmental organisations and the internet.
Smart cities can unlock considerable business potential for the United Arab Emirates but a new report warns governments and organisations of the IoT’s cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
UAE Pass provides an authorised digital ID through smartphones, eliminating the need to physically visit customer service centres and submit paper identification documents.
As well as being part of its smart services strategy, the availability of a broad range of e-services is helping the emirate to minimise the presence of citizens in public places during the Covid-19 outbreak.
The Dubai Registers initiative will collect, organise, link and store the latest and most accurate data to ensure it is useful to as many parties as possible.
The policy complements Smart Dubai’s blockchain strategy, which aims to enable the government to conduct 100 per cent of applicable transactions via blockchain by 2020.
Hosting the local data hub allows Dubai to lead the promotion of the initiative, encourage regional cities to participate and create an open data-sharing network.
Scale 360 aims to harness the potential of technology innovation and smart policy to fast-track the circular economy through nationally led challenges.
The university plans to introduce a new model of academia and research to the field of AI in the key areas of machine learning, computer vision and natural language processing.
A new report by Smart Dubai underlines the opportunities of technologies such as AI and IoT to transform city services and emphasises the importance of open networks.
The sustainability solutions specialist is using AI and smart building technology from Microsoft and Johnson Controls for its cutting-edge headquarters in the UAE.