SBGH Takes Effective Preventive Measures to Combat Covid 19

No doubt, the Corona Virus has sent shockwaves across the globe with every country taking massive steps to prevent the spread of the virus.

SBGH immediately swung into action by taking all precautionary measures to control the spread of the virus at its headquarters and branches.

A good number of employees have been asked to work from home while the rest have been asked to follow appropriate protective steps while at the office. HR and Administration department has issued letters to those employees who are required to work from office. Hand sanitizers have been placed at strategic points while thermal screening of individuals to check body temperature, movement restriction of cars, visitors and tenants into and within the headquarters have also been implemented. Regular media campaigns through visual communication are being sent to employees on various precautions that they should take.

Smart Solutions for Smart Cities

The Smart City solutions not only makes the life of residents much smarter and safer, they also enable efficient and intelligent allocation and use of public resources by service providers thereby channeling revenue by monetization of various services deliveries.

By Mr. Vinod Kumar V.C. Assistant. Manager – Data Capture & Security Solutions, Bahwan IT LLC

Government authorities such as municipalities, corporations that manage cities are looking at ways to make the residents’ life easier, safer and smarter. Thanks to innovative technologies and the much-talked about Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, Smart Cities are not far from reality. Smart city solutions is one of the fastest developing areas that cover our day-to-day life, i.e. Smart Energy, Smart Parking, Smart Street Light, Solar Plant, Waste Management, and Environment Monitoring, Public safety and Security etc. They use a combination of the internet of things (IoT) devices, software solutions, user interfaces (UI) and communication networks. Through a network of connected devices such as vehicles, sensors or home appliances, data is collected and delivered by the IoT sensors and devices. The data is analyzed and best solutions are arrived thus improving both public and private sector efficiency, enabling economic benefits and improving citizen’s lives. The citizen-centric approach with the focus on customer experience can easily be extended to cover a host of services both at the city and business or consumer Level.

Key smart solutions

Asset tracking solutions to track and monitor data from your city’s critical assets across location, movement, temperature, voltage and vibration using special sensors. Helping to reduce asset loss, increase asset utilization and prevent misuse.

Smart metering solutions for automated metering to track expanding utility consumption. By connecting smart meters or retrofitting smart modules to existing manual meters, automated meter readings, consumption pattern monitoring and demand-supply management ensuring service level improvements and improved efficiency.

Environmental monitoring solutions for full visibility and control of environmental conditions for essential facilities and assets in cities enabling maintenance of optimal parameters. When parameters cross preset thresholds, the solution provide insights for corrective actions, helping city administration reduce downtime and cut maintenance costs.

Smart lighting solutions enable two-way communication between street lights and the City Command Centre, providing unified control of widely distributed street lights and adjust luminosity on demand. Administrators can define and automate the behavior of street lights based on insights – optimizing energy consumption and enabling predictive maintenance.

Smart Parking solutions aims to help individually match drivers to parking spots, improve parking space utilization, reduce management costs. This alleviates traffic congestion and indirectly helps in reducing fuel consumption and carbon foot print.

Smart Building solutions collects and analyzes a variety of data both inside and outside a building. This solution makes use of comprehensive processing capabilities such as sensing, inference, judgment and decision-making to ensure a greener, safer, and more efficient environment.

Smart Waste Management gives smart notifications on garbage bin waste status about to fill. A message to collect the garbage from the particular area will be sent to the utility company who will transmit the same to garbage collectors by web application through SMS. This system maintains dry waste and wet waste management separately. This also helps to reduce the overflow of the garbage bin and thus keeping the environment clean.

Public safety - The use of unified security system, connected data, various analysis and intelligence approach between public and private organizations in real time helps make cities safer.

Smart solutions 4 Smart Lighting 4 Smart Parking 4 Smart Energy and Water Flow 4 Environment and Air Quality Monitoring 4 Vehicle recognition 4 Crowd Analytics 4 Smart Waste Bins

Advantages 4 Reduce Energy consumption 4 Increased equipment life span 4 Reduce carbon footprint 4 Increase productivity 4 Improving living condition 4 Improved security awareness 4 Predictive Analysis 4 Pro-active fault detection

Down the Memory Lane…. During the course of Suhail Bahwan Group’s 50 years’ history, we have come across several events/occasions and landmarks many of which have been photographed and preserved for posterity.