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SMART CITY

The key objectives of all Smart City projects are increasing
the efficiency of all operational and administrative processes
in a city, strengthening its competitive position and, most
importantly, improving the quality of life for the city’s inhabitants.

or about ten years now, Kong, requirements are more
urban areas have been complex than anywhere else and
home to more than half that, by implication, solutions that
of the world’s population. work in Hong Kong will also work in
FAnd there is no end in sight any other city.
to the rural exodus. On the contrary:
Experts predict that 90 percent Connectivity is the
of future population growth will foundation of a Smart City
concentrate in cities. For megacities Last year, when Siemens was
in particular, this development is offered an opportunity to set
giving rise to “mega-challenges” - up a Smart City Digital Hub in
for instance in the areas of power cooperation with the Hong Kong
supply, air quality or mobility. The Science and Technology Parks options and a wide range of tools
good thing is that, at the same time, Corporation (HKSTP), the decision for developers, applications and
there are also “mega-opportunities”. was easy. Realization was just as services. At the same time, Weitze
Especially the fast-paced quick: Since December 2017, the sees himself as a new type of
digitalization trend keeps creating Hub now serves as an “open urban consultant: “Today our role is not
ever more novel options for tackling laboratory” where infrastructure simply to try and sell our product
urban problems. Today’s world is operators and start-ups can portfolio to the customer anymore.
more thoroughly connected than implement a digital portfolio of A good consultant works together
ever. Billions of smart devices and Smart-City applications. The research with the customer to identify any
gaps and weaknesses within the
machines are generating enormous and development efforts focus on current system and find out how
data volumes that result in the the areas of Data Analytics, Internet these can be eliminated - with the
progressive fusion of the real and of Things, Connectivity, Cyber
the virtual world. This is particularly Security, Embedded Computing, help of our technologies and our
true also for the future world of Smart Buildings, Smart Power and experience and also through the
targeted analysis of data that are
mobility (#MobilityUniverse), where Smart Mobility. available anyway.”
road and rail infrastructures are Infrastructure, management,
gradually merging to form a single transport, citizens--- everything and The perfect place to forge
holistic transport landscape. everyone is connected and the entire alliances: Already today,
One of the places where system is monitored and controlled the Hong Kong Science
Siemens’ pioneering engineers using smart applications,” says Park is home to 400 to
(#EngineersOfNext) have found Digital Solution Manager Daniel 600 companies.
excellent conditions for developing Weitze, who is responsible for know- The key objectives of all Smart City
and testing innovative systems how transfer between Siemens projects are the same: increasing
is Hong Kong. With 7.4 million headquarters in Munich and the the efficiency of all operational
inhabitants on a territory of about local office in Hong Kong. His work and administrative processes in a
1,100 square kilometers - i.e. revolves mainly about digitalization city, strengthening its competitive
6,500 people per km² - the special topics such as Software-as-a- position and, most importantly,
administrative region on China’s Service or MindSphere, Siemens’ improving the quality of life for the
south coast is among the five most cloud-based Internet-of-Things city’s inhabitants. The latter is by far
densely populated areas in the platform that provides data analysis the most important indicator for the
world. This means that in Hong functions, multiple connectivity success of an innovative solution.

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