A significant part of a smart city’s budget is taken up by security costs. Dr Ryad Soobhany, Associate Professor in the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University Dubai, looks at the security risks of smart cities. According to analysis from Frost & Sullivan, technology spending related to...
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia looks toward the Saudi Vision 2030 as a means of weaning away from the Oil Economy that has long since defined the Kingdom, and instead repositioning it as a tourism haven. Part of this is the inclusion of a number...
Solid State Drives are the future of data management and usage - already widespread in the majority of computing, Hanwha Visions innovates on the marketplace by bringing the SolidEDGE camera with an embedded server and solid state drive base. One of the revolutionary features of the...
In the future, in a city such as the Line, crimes will be thwarted and recorded much easier through interconnected surveillance, transport and smart technology networks. In this potential theoretical scenario, an individual makes his way from a meeting with another, drops off a suspicious object,...
Almost every player – from banks to financial institutions, to even real estate – is focused on the concept of transformation and shifting corporate processes toward the direction of a technological revolution. Some developers and solution providers are focused on creating VR experiences to enhance the...
In 2023, the artificial is taking centre stage, with advancements in artificial intelligence through breakthrough platforms such as ChatGTP. ChatGPT is the next generation of chatbot, generating eloquent answers to complex questions and delivering informed essay-worthy responses in the process. More recently Google announced the launch...
To build a secure and sustainable society, it is vital that we accelerate the move towards smarter cities, says Martin Yates, CTO, Injazat. The urgency to move towards smart cities has been fuelled by the rapid urbanisation we have witnessed across the globe in the recent...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced the launch of its new Emirates and Africa organisation, bringing together the United Arab Emirates (UAE) business with the Africa businesses. The new organisation will be led by Ahmad Alkhallafi, who will oversee HPE’s Operations within United Arab Emirates and the...
Dubai Tourist Police have prepared security plans ahead of tourists arriving in Hatta. Hatta has become a a top tourist destination in Dubai, and Dubai Tourist Police have stepped up action in order to prepare for their arrival including a new security plan, awareness programs and improved...
Dubai Police have trained hundreds of private security guards to deal with traffic accidents and traffic flow. Several training workshops ensured that the guards are qualified in dealing with minor traffic accidents, in a bid to save time and effort for motorists and emergency services. In...
Walter Candelu, VP Middle East & Africa, RealNetworks and SPA Secretary General, believes the prevalence of security cameras has created some challenges – both ethical and technical. Since their introduction in our cities throughout the '70s and '80s, cameras have been deployed primarily for crime prevention...
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Dubai has created a pioneering and unique graduate degree program focusing on smart cities and supporting urban communities. The institute is training students to combine innovation and creativity with social, technological and human factors, to develop a holistic model for...
Security company Axis Communications has opened its Axis Experience Center in Dubai to showcase its latest innovations and security solutions. As the first experience center in the Middle East & Africa (MEA) region, the center has been designed to offer visitors a more in-depth look at...
Video surveillance vendor TRASSIR celebrates 20 years of operation whilst outlining its global plans for development within the GCC region. The GCC region comprises of United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait and Bahrain. Recently, TRASSIR smart city and urban solutions have gained a lot...
Attendees at the SecurMiddleEast Symposium were witness to a driving keynote speech from Eng. Arif Al Janahi who presented and discussed the requirements, challenges and technologies involved to develop Dubai as a smart city. In his speech, Janahi explained: "Everybody knows what a safe city is,...
Attendees at the SecurMiddleEast Symposium in Dubai, listened to smart city industry leaders share their thoughts and insights on smart city technologies, innovations and challenges for Dubai's future as a smart and safe city. Those in discussion at the event, sponsored by ISS and Intel, included Christen...
At the SecurMiddleEast Symposium in Dubai, Global GM for Intel Sameer Sharma revealed how technologists focused on smart cities can sometimes overpromise and undeliver. He said: "I think if you look at any sort of technology based transition, we go through this sort of graph of...
Argus Systems has announced that it will be participating in the World Police Summit in Dubai in March. The World Police Summit is the leading global meeting place for policing and law enforcement, and is being hosted by Dubai Police. The event is being held at...
Saudi Arabia is intended to form a smart city complete with extreme technology including an artificial moon, robot dinosaurs, flying cars, human gene editing and glow-in-the-dark sand among many other things. The plans have been shared via some private documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, as...
The smart cities market is set to see huge growth in 2022 as machine learning and nanotechnology advances. A recent report from Fortune Business Insights identified a growing need for an intellectually connected city with advanced communication technologies. It's this need that is driving forward nanotechnology...
US cybersecurity company Resecurity has confirmed its further expansion into the Middle East by creating a dedicated R&D centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The new centre is expected to accelerate AI-driven cybersecurity services delivery across the Middle East and Saudi Arabia by working with local talent...
Tata Communications and Zain KSA have entered into a strategic agreement to boost digital transformation and the development of smart cities in Saudi Arabia. The collaboration between the two companies will see them combine efforts to deliver solutions and platforms to roll out smart street lighting,...
AI video analytics provider, Irisity is continuing its expansion plans with the opening of a new sales office in the United Arab Emirates. The office will be based in Abu-Dhabi and will be headed up by newly appointed Marc Saunders. Saunders will be Sales Director for...
Security and IT professionals in the Middle East are increasingly looking to secure critical application data using encryption and HSMs. This and other findings are highlighted in the Entrust 2021 Middle East Encryption Trends study, the sixteenth annual multinational survey by the Ponemon Institute. The study...
One of IDIS's most popular cameras, the award-winning 12MP IR Super Fisheye camera is now NDAA compliant and available to systems integrators and end users around the globe. The camera is a popular choice for schools, retail, healthcare, and logistics centers where it is significantly reducing...
Security Middle East Magazine is proud to present a series of exclusive Middle East events – SecurMiddleEast – themed around the best practices and innovation in enterprise security solutions. We will be hosting a trio of limited capacity events in Dubai, Doha and Riyadh. Starting on...
KPMG is looking for Saudi Arabia’s top tech innovators who are poised and prepared to become tech titans with the launch of Saudi edition of the “KPMG Private Enterprise Tech Innovator Competition”, with the tagline – Tech Innovators of Today; Titans of Tomorrow. Following the success...
As video users globally pay closer attention to the manufacturing origins and standards-compliance of their systems, IDIS is highlighting the value of its fully licensed network cameras and recorders that feature H.265 video compression. IDIS was among the first manufacturers to deliver the benefits of H.265...
A French security tech start-up founded in 2018, has set sights on the GCC for its next phase of growth and established an office in Dubai, UAE. Obvious Technologies' advanced software suite ‘OODA’ leverages 3D Data Visualization and digital twin technologies and includes an open platform...
Timothy Compston maps the road ahead for rapidly deployable tower solutions Fuelled by a sea change in communications, power, and surveillance technologies, rapidly deployable CCTV towers are now high on the agenda for commercial and governmental users across the globe, including the Middle East, as an...