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“ What matters is ‘ ease of use ’ and ‘ empowerment ’ of the users , which can reduce their workload and increase overall efficiency ”
— Sayaji Shinde , the Business Head of Smart City , Smart Infrastructure and Smart Water
The demand for the modernization of city infrastructure has never been higher . In this everchanging climate , AVEVA has been tasked with establishing smart solutions to modern problems in Asia ’ s cities and businesses by using integrated data technology to unify sectors of a business or city . Sayaji Shinde heads up the programme as the Business Head of Smart City , Smart Infrastructure and Smart Water .
“ Over the past few decades , industries have been investing heavily in digitalisation of operations , process and stakeholder engagements ,” he explains . “ Sectors like banking , telecommunication , manufacturing and retail have transformed their business using the latest technology and trends , to achieve higher operational efficacies reduce cost and improve profits .”
A recent digitalisation trend in infrastructure industry has been the implementation of solutions that deal with an individual department problem , independent from the bigger picture . Dubbed silo solutions , this methodology of tackling these operational inefficiencies on an individual department or operation basis can produce
OCTOBER 2019