IMTAC and SIGNIFY (Philips Lighting) sign partnership for
empowering smart cities in Oman
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ignify, formerly
known as Philips
Lighting, has signed
an agreement
with IMTAC, one
of the largest
system integration
technology
companies in the GCC
and an IoT solution
provider, to form
a strategic partnership to bring the latest
Smart City solutions to Oman.
Goktug Gur, President and CEO of Signify
for the Middle East, Turkey and Pakistan,
said: “The strategic partnership we are
developing with IMTAC will enable us to
bring our proven Smart Lighting solutions
Fareed Al Hinai,
Vice Chairman
IMTAC (left),
and Goktug Gur,
President and CEO
Signify Middle
East, Turkey and
Pakistan (right),
sign the agreement
in Muscat
to Oman, which will not only create significant monetary and
environmental savings opportunities through optimisation of the
energy usage, but also will allow public and private organisations to
make informed decisions on the deployment of their resources and
assets across the country, and will enable them to drive the vision
and the agenda of the Sultanate of Oman.”
Fareed Al Hinai, Vice Chairman IMTAC, said: “Launching IoT-based
Smart City solutions is the key focus of IMTAC as it brings substantial
savings in energy, water and operational costs while prioritising the
citizen services in Oman and the rest of the world. Our relationship
with Signify is critical to our Smart City Vision, as it addresses one of
the most significant elements of the Smart City Infrastructure, which
is Smart Lighting.”
As part of this agreement, IMTAC will leverage over 125 years of
Signify lighting experience and its newly launched Smart Lighting
IOT platform, Interact, combining it with its own IoT-based Smart City
software and integration capabilities to be successfully deployed in
the Sultanate of Oman and India.
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ServiceNow further simplifies work with
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