AVEVA
FUELLING SMART CITY SOLUTIONS Participating with strategic partner, Schneider Electric, AVEVA will demonstrate its Unified Operations Center for Smart Cities at the Middle East’s biggest technology exhibition.
“It converges OT and IT technology
world will have 43 megacities, each
where the operator can effectively
with more than 10 million inhabitants.
monitor and control entire city
Converting existing infrastructure
operations through a ‘City in a Box’
to smart infrastructure is the key to
approach as we like to call it.”
improving cities. With unified data
AVEVA’s Unified Operations
and analytics, smart city operators are
Center for Smart Cities and
empowered with better information,
Schneider Electric’s IoT-enabled
which means they can make more
sustainability platform –
informed decision to optimise
EcoStruxure Resource Advisor offer
operations for the new environment
smart city operators a powerful
in which they are operating.
solution. The EcoStruxure Resource
I
It is estimated that by 2030, the
into a single pane-of-glass solution,
AVEVA’s vast portfolio of smart
Advisor is a best-in-class, AI-
city software solutions span facilities
assisted, cloud-based solution for
management, utilities, transportation,
managing cross-enterprise energy
and data centres. Taking an integrated
and sustainability data, which
approach, AVEVA’s solutions enable
shows how operators can track data
disparate functions to collect, analyse,
across more than 400 categories to
and then act on unified and holistic
have near real-time access to their
intelligence – supported by the help
resource performance.
of real-time data – to enable civic
EcoStruxure is powered by
leaders to make better decisions and
ndustrial software leader
Microsoft Azure enabling integration
AVEVA, together with its
and interoperability to turn data
strategic partner Schneider
into meaningful insights. The data
solution, Unified Operations Center is
Electric, will demonstrate its
improve living standards. Due to the scalability of the
is paired with Schneider’s unique
ideally suited for not just megacities
AVEVA Unified Operations Center
approach to energy and sustainability
but also smaller municipalities
for Smart Cities, which seamlessly
consulting, bringing together
looking to take an integrated system
integrates systems, sites, people
technology and expertise, resulting in
of systems approach to monitoring
and assets for cities of the future, at
a “mind-plus-machine” approach to
and controlling their city operations.
GITEX Technology Week.
climate action.
The company works with megacities
Dr Tariq Aslam, Head of MEA,
“AVEVA, Schneider Electric and
such as London, as well as smaller
AVEVA, says, “Our Unified Operations
Microsoft are accelerating the
municipalities with populations of
Center is the command-and-control
delivery of smart city innovation
50,000 or fewer, that are looking
solution for infrastructure and smart
across regions. Our unique
to leverage technology to improve
city operators based on an integrative
combination of capabilities helps
sustainability and resilience.
‘System of Systems’ approach. It can
municipalities capitalise on the
be used to collate information from
power of technology to become more
Unified Operations Center solution
various data sources to anticipate and
agile, resilient, and sustainable. We
on Schneider Electric’s stand H5-
resolve problems even before they
plan to demonstrate smart cities in
B40. Senior representatives from the
are presented, coordinate various
action on our Unified Operations
company will be at GITEX Technology
resources and processes for seamless
Center with our strategic partners,
Week 2021 to meet with customers
operation, and generally make more
Schneider Electric and Microsoft on
and partners and share their global
strategic decisions.
their stands,” Dr Aslam adds.
success stories with them.
AVEVA will be holding demos of its
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