NEC to work with Royal Borough of Greenwich for smart city solutions

NEC Corporation has announced today that NEC Europe has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Royal Borough of Greenwich in London to collaborate on the use of big data analytics and visualisation to improve public and commercial services for local residents, as part of the newly-announced Greenwich Smart City Strategy. Digital Greenwich, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, promotes the development of the digital economy in the borough. This includes developing inn
October 23, 2015 Read time: 2 mins
1068 NEC Corporation has announced today that NEC Europe has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Royal Borough of Greenwich in London to collaborate on the use of big data analytics and visualisation to improve public and commercial services for local residents, as part of the newly-announced Greenwich Smart City Strategy.

Digital Greenwich, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, promotes the development of the digital economy in the borough. This includes developing innovative smart city technologies and approaches to support the economic, social and physical regeneration of the borough.

Smart city innovation will aim to help the borough to address the challenges of increasing population and visitors and higher demands for services, while balancing these requirements with financial and resource constraints.

As an example, the use of data analytics and visualisation can improve journey planning and alternatives to car use, leading to a reduction in traffic congestion and improving air quality for local residents and travellers.

A smart city solutions platform will also make the data open and available to local entrepreneurs and app developers, enabling them to create new services which are designed first and foremost with the needs of people of Greenwich in mind. This will spur the development of new skills and the growth of new digital businesses in the borough.

The scope of this MoU includes the implementation of the Cloud City Operations Centre, NEC’s cloud-based smart city management platform, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. This will enable Digital Greenwich to visualise and analyse real-time and historical data from the Internet of Things (IoT) sensors across the city for monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) relating to a wide range of public services.
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