Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority launches smart innovations at Gitex Technology Week

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Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority launches smart innovations at Gitex Technology Week. RTA tells GNTV its plans and technology-led projects for a more efficient road system at Gitex Technology Week. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00The 34th edition of GITEX Technology Week signed off at the Dubai International Convention

00:16and Exhibition Center after showcasing products from around 3,700 companies from 61 countries.

00:22The exhibitions at the five-day event were featured under four knowledge themes, smart,

00:27cloud, big data, and mobility.

00:30Government-related agencies once again occupy the entire Sheikh Zayed Hall this year, featuring

00:35different innovations and initiatives that underline the government's vision to transform

00:40Dubai into a smart city.

00:42The Roads and Transport Authority was among the government entities that launched new

00:46services at the event, including a smart road app, an updated smart parking app, and the

00:51use of drones to provide better services.

00:54We have two new things in the NOL card.

00:57One of it we are trying to see if there is a, we are putting a sticker, NOL card.

01:05This is like the similar NOL card, but basically it's a sticker.

01:09You can stick it on your phone or in any other thing, and you can use this to access the

01:17public transport or to pay NOL with it.

01:20The second thing, we have done a crowdsourcing competition using basically the social media

01:30to announce that we wanted people from the public in Dubai to help us and to come up

01:36with pictures that we can put it on NOL cards and make it a specialized NOL card with special

01:43designs.

01:44Over a thousand competitors entered the competition, and out of this thousand, we've selected

01:5113 pictures, 13 designs to be used.

01:55We are going to be using drones in three different areas.

02:01One is to basically have an overview from above of the current ongoing projects, so

02:07it will help us in decision making with regards to projects.

02:10The second thing is we are going to be using the drones for maintenance, where we can fly

02:16these drones to check the bridges and certain areas that is very difficult to reach.

02:22And the third thing, we are going to be using these drones for basically to, for if there

02:29is any crisis or emergencies that we need to have these drones get us pictures.

02:35I would like to introduce our new parking inspectors in the future, in the near future

02:41actually.

02:42Okay.

02:43And I'm here with Abdel Salam, one of our key inspectors, supervisors for inspectors.

02:51And what we're demonstrating here, Abdel Wahab has two things.

02:55First of all, we are replacing the big, bulky, handheld devices to normal smartphones, so

03:04he can now easily carry a small device, and this device is connected through the network,

03:11so it will give him information, all the details that he requires as he's doing the inspections

03:17for the parking.

03:18Also, he's wearing, as you can see, the Google Glass, where with the Google Glass in the

03:24near future, when Google Glass will be available, he can basically take a picture of a plate

03:30number, and then automatically the handheld will tell him if this car has already been

03:36paid, or this parking has been paid for it or not.

03:39In addition to that, what we are introducing in the parking, we are introducing, if you

03:45look down here, we are introducing basically the parking sensors.

03:52By the end of this year, we will be announcing that within the parking application that we

03:59have already launched, we'll add a new service to it, and this service will help you to know

04:05if there are parkings available or not.

04:08Here, we have an initiative for promoting Dubai brand, and this is an optional thing

04:17where the customers can decide if they want to have the new Dubai logo brand on their

04:26plate numbers.

04:27They can have it as an option, but at a certain fee.

04:31We are adding to Wichita the augmented reality capabilities, where a customer, if he's using

04:38Wichita and he wants to know which direction or where are the things around him, and especially

04:45where are the bus stop or the metro station and this, the augmented reality, as he turns

04:51on his camera through the app, he will see the street and everything that he's on, and

04:58then it will show him where is basically the location of the station or the bus stop.

05:05Other government entities that exhibited technology-led innovations include Dubai Police and Dubai

05:09Airports.

05:10Ayrish Idenbalieza for Gulf News.

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