ISLAMABAD, Aug 27 (NNN-APP) – Chinese tech giant, Huawei, and Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province’s urban development project, Ravi Urban Development Authority (RUDA), signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), to develop the world’s largest riverfront smart city.
Under the MoU, both sides will join hands to revive the dying Ravi River into a safe and smart green city, with all the latest safe and smart city technologies. The memorandum reaffirms an existing one-year healthy relationship between both entities, Huawei Pakistan said yesterday.
Briefing about the project, it said, the parties will work together on key projects, known as smart forests and others under RUDA, which will act as a developer and Huawei will be the lead technology partner.
“The Parties will cooperate on smart forests development, across design and construction execution phases, by latest technologies such as IoT, cloud computing, big data, AI, data centre network, storage and servers, data centre facility, intelligent security surveillance system, solar energy, etc,” it said.
Earlier on Wednesday, Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan, inaugurated the country’s first smart forest, covering 1,214 hectares of land, to be developed by RUDA with technical assistance from Huawei.
Khan said, 10 million trees will be planted in the forest, adding, the growth of every plant would be monitored in collaboration with Huawei, that will install sensors inside the forest to alert if anyone cuts trees.
He also appreciated RUDA and Huawei’s support to build a new safe and smart river forest city, and said, he is looking forward to bringing the initiative all over the country.– NNN-APP
