EXPO 2020 DUBAI
“ In District 2020 we have an infrastructure built for the future . 80 % of Expo ’ s built environment is smart and will be re-used for District 2020 . The majority of buildings are connected through our building management system and computerised facility management system . Everything from water to energy is controlled . Dubai Government has a plan for District 2020 to become a model for smart AI-driven cities of the future . And that ' s what we are planning for .”
Most digitally-connected Expo in history Expo 2020 has been heralded as being the most connected Expo in history as Alhashmi is proud to acknowledge . “ We are one of the most digitally connected sites on Earth right now . We have brought the best technologies from around the world into a single site .
“ We have a gigantic hidden infrastructure that we have built below the Expo site itself , including more than 500 kilometres of fibre cable , more than 2,500 main switches and over 9,000 WiFi routers . As the first commercial installation of 5G in the Middle East , we will be able to connect 300,000 people at the same time to high-speed WiFi with very low latency .”
More than 130 buildings and several hundred thousand sensors across the 4.38-square-kilometre site will be interconnected via a central Internet of Things ( IoT ) platform .
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