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Bahwan IT- key partner in Muscat Smart City Project
Bahwan IT is proud to be a key partner along with its partners Cisco, Oman Telecommunications, Tech Mahindra & Inferrix in implementing the Knowledge Oasis Muscat Smart City project. The launch ceremony was held at SAS Center for 4th Industrial Revolution, KOM4 in January under the patronage of His Excellency Eng. Azza Sulaiman Al Ismaili, Minister of Technology and Communications in the presence of a number of CEOs and officials.
The ceremony included a visual presentation on KOM smart city system, which highlighted the benefits of the project. The project utilizes Internet of Things (IoT) and various smart systems in the management of the Knowledge Oasis that contributes to providing easy and fast services for its employees, as well as controlling the resources available such as managing energy consumption, managing parking and organizing traffic. It also controls water resources, monitors the environment and the degree of air pollution, vehicle identification, crowded spaces analysis and provision of smart trash containers.
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The Smart City Pilot is a first of its kind in Oman and will be showcased to all Government Ministries, authorities and private sector to encourage them to adopt the concept and technology to convert their organizations into smart entities and reap benefits such as increase in productivity, efficiency, security & safety and decrease in operations cost.
Bahwan IT organises Workshop on Digital Forensics
Bahwan IT, in association with Credence Security, conducted a workshop on Digital Forensics in Muscat recently attended by customers from law enforcement agencies, defence and other important enterprises. Mr. Philip, Channel Manager of Credence Security welcomed the participants while Mr. Haitham Khatib conducted the technical demonstration of the solution.
Credence Security provides comprehensive digital forensics platform that includes computer forensics, mobile forensics and incident management platforms.
Bahwan IT was awarded the “best cyber security initiative vendor” for 2019 title by Starlnk, the trusted IT advisor from Dubai. Mr Anil Kumar, General Manager Bahwan IT and Mr. Ali Al Matani, Deputy General Manager, Bahwan IT and team received the award from Mr. PBK Rao, Country Manager, StarLink at a grand ceremony.
Bahwan IT organises Family Get together event
Bahwan IT organized its annual family get-together event in January with active participation by the staff and their family members in a cultural extravaganza.
The theme for this year event was “Cowboy” and it was delightful to see audience in cowboy attire. Added attraction this year was the enthusiastic participation from BIT’s partners as well. Like every year cultural line up included semi-classical to modern dance numbers from Indian and western movies, skits, social awareness parody and selfie contest. The event once again proved the Group’s motto “One Family, One Team” by bringing people together in a spirit of joyfulness.
Bahwan logistics Wins Another Bulk Movement Contract at Duqm Power Project
Bahwan logistics (BLL) has bagged the second Break-Bulk Movement contract from Alghanim International (ACTS), Kuwait, the EPC contractors to design, supply, construct, test and operate a 326 MW combined cycle and gas-fueled electricity generation plant at Duqm Power Project
During the last three months, over 250 containers and 10000 CBM of general cargo was moved into Duqm Power Project site by BLL as a part of the international freight contract with ACTS.
Recently Bahwan Logistics (BLL) was awarded another contract by Petrofac International, Sharjah, for transporting project cargo from UAE and other GCC countries to Duqm Refinery Project. Valued at USD 2 million, the contract involves a number of heavy cargo movements over a period of one year to be executed by BLL complying to high safety, performance and timeline standards.
Petrofac is one of the EPC Contractors at Duqm Project and BLL has been working with them for number of years.
