Duisburg to become a Smart City

Huawei and the DU-IT GmbH have signed a Framework Agreement on the “Rhine Cloud” brand and Smart City services, during the recently held CEBIT 2018. The agreement expands the cooperation of the two companies and strengthens their joint efforts to enable Duisburg to become a smart city.

Both Huawei and the DU-IT GmbH are part of the network “Smart City Duisburg”.

The announcement follows an MoU signed by the City of Duisburg and Huawei Enterprise Business Group in January 2018. MoU’s goal is to develop innovative ideas, solutions and make use of new technologies to enhance the quality of life in Duisburg through an ecosystem including local and international partners and municipal companies.
“Huawei integrates new ICT in unified platforms enabling IoT, communications, cloud data center and intelligent command center, to create the city’s nervous system. Our expertise as a leading technology provider coupled with DU-IT’s strength as a city ISP puts us in an ideal position to help the city’s business customers drive innovation and growth, bring safety and efficiency to citizens, and make the city more attractive to businesses and investors,” says Vincent Pang, president of Huawei West Europe Region.
Both partners agreed to make Duisburg an innovative and digitalised model city in Western Europe within a few years by implementing new information and communications technologies (ICT).