Recent report looked at the impact of influential technologies for smart cities in the region
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The Digital Transformation in Asia-Pacific, 2019-2024 – AI, IoT, and 5G (AIoT5G) Will Be the Most Influential Technologies for Smart Cities report has identified market opportunities for deployment and operations of key technologies within the Asia-Pacific region.
According to the report, mobile edge computing will be key for private wireless implementation. Technologies like, AI, IoT, and 5G (AIoT5G) will be the most influential technologies for smart cities.
The report also gound:
• Key 5G applications for business will be IoT connectivity, SMB/corporate mobility, and fixed wireless.
• IoT technology will need to adapt to support the dynamic between public and private wireless networks.
• IoT systems will become increasingly more cognitive rather than relying solely upon autonomic event-response logic.
“The biggest markets China, Korea, and Japan often get the most attention, it is important to also consider the fast growing ASEAN region including Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Vietnam,” the report states.
“In fact, many lessons learned in leading Asia-Pacific countries will be applied to the ASEAN region.”
For example, stated the report, H3C Technologies planned to offer a “comprehensive digital transformation platform” within Thailand that includes core cloud and edge computing, big data, interconnectivity, information security, IoT, AI, and 5G solutions.
Those technologies will provide the intelligence, communications, connectivity, and bandwidth necessary for highly functional and sustainable smart cities market solutions.
“The combination of these technologies poised to produce solutions that will dramatically transform all aspects of ICT and virtually all industry verticals undergoing transformed through AI integration with enterprise, industrial, and consumer product and service ecosystems,” the report states.
“The convergence of these technologies will attract innovation that will create further advancements in various industry verticals and other technologies such as robotics and virtual reality.”
According to the report these technologies are destined to become an integral component of business operations including supply chains, sales, and marketing processes, product and service delivery and support models.
“There will be a positive feedback loop created and sustained by leveraging the interdependent capabilities of AI, IoT, and 5G (e.g. a term coined as AIoT5G). For example, AI will work in conjunction with IoT to substantially improve smart city supply chains.”
Smart cities represent a huge market for Asia-Pacific digital transformation through a combination of solutions deployed urban environments that are poised to transform the administration and support of living and working environments.
ICT are transforming at a rapid rate, driven by urbanization, industrialization of emerging economies, and the specific needs of various smart city initiatives.
Smart city development is emerging as a focal point for growth drivers in several key ICT areas including 5G, AI, IoT, and the convergence of AI and IoT known as the Artificial Intelligence of Things or simply AIoT.
Sustainable smart city technology deployments depend upon careful planning and execution as well as monitoring and adjustments as necessary, the report states.
“For example, feature/functionality must be blended to work efficiently across many different industry verticals as smart city address the needs of disparate market segments with multiple overlapping and sometimes mutually exclusive requirements.”
