Dr. Ashraf Mansour, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the German University in Cairo, inaugurated the activities of the first international conference for the design and construction of smart cities on the university campus in bilateral cooperation with the University of East Carolina in the United States of America
The event was attended by Major General Mohamed Said Al-Asar, Minister of Military Production, and Engineer Hussein Masoud, Minister the former aviation, Engineer Abdel Fattah Mansour, Vice-President of the University Board of Trustees, Professors Dr. Yasser Jamal Hijazi, President of the University, Ibrahim Al-Damiri, Member of the University’s Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Conference, and Mustafa Baraka, Director of the Civil Engineering Program in the university.
In addition to, Ahmed El-Sayed El-Mahdy, Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology and Engineering, Amr Talaat, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology for Student Affairs, and Amin Kamal, representative of the University of East Carolina, with the participation of the deans and professors of colleges at the German University, experts and researchers in the fields of civil engineering, project management, construction, urban planning and architecture.
The opening ceremony started with the republican anthems of the two states Egypt and Germany, followed by a welcome speech by Dr. Mansour, in which he indicated the importance of holding this conference, which will discuss issues related to designing and building components of smart cities and the challenges they face through sessions. It will also host lectures and workshops that will allow Exchanging experiences and providing concepts and visions to establish these cities, especially that Egypt is currently a successful model in developing infrastructure.
Today, infrastructure is a lifeline that helps economy to grow and encourages foreign investment and sustainable development in the Middle East region and African countries.
The discussion will take into account the necessity of technological integration and implementation of smart solutions in urban expansion initiatives, which is called "fourth generation cities" that depend in their establishment on smart city technologies and ensure the sustainability of urban design.
Smart city technologies also confront unplanned growth and provide opportunities for housing and investment, noting that the government is currently constructing 20 fourth generation cities on a total area of 242400 hectares.
It is expected to accommodate 30 million people in addition to providing millions of job opportunities by 2050, in addition to the Banan Park located in Aswan Governorate which is one of the largest solar installations in the world.
Dr. Mansour stressed in his speech that smart cities always need qualified workers that can develop, implement and maintain these technologies, which is the role of the German University in Cairo.
The university is the largest educational project crossing the borders of Germany, its academic programs focus on research and education and enable its students and graduates to lead such a change. The university graduates have taken many local and international career opportunities to lead research and production teams in major technology companies in the world such as Apple - Intel - Amazon - Dell EMC - to develop tomorrow's technology.
Its pioneering curriculum adopts the latest technology, as it obtained accreditation for the being the number one ranked program for media engineering and technology around the world since its inception in 2002, in addition to the establishment of modern IoT laboratories and the introduction of the first academic course for Internet of Things IOT in 2012 in Egypt.
The university also has the Energy City Solar, which is the largest center of excellence in research and training and the most versatile in the world for renewable energy solutions and hybrid systems as it depends on the integration of many energy sources, namely the sun, wind, storage, diesel and network in one integrated system that can supply the university with full energy.
It should be noted that the conference will run for for 3 days and includes, in its first edition 8, lectures by keynote speakers centered on smart cities and three-dimensional reconstruction of the past, present and future, land improvement as a sustainable tool in the field of civil engineering, machine learning methods for smart sensing and independence and controlling smart cities.
Furthermore, it will stage 9 working sessions on concrete and steel design and structure analysis - roads and railways - smart infrastructure and sustainable materials - green buildings and environmental management - building information modeling (BIM is the process of generating and managing building data during its life cycle - construction management - internet of things (IOT) smart city systems.
It will also hold 4 workshops, the first of them begins an introductory workshop on building information modeling, and the rest of the workshops revolve around challenges in project management with multiple stakeholders, intersections of smart roads for independent and connected vehicles, LoRa technology which means (Long Range).
LoRa technology is a low-power, long-range wireless chipset used in many Internet of Things networks around the world. The workshops and research presented aim to provide the basics for solving challenges such as energy management, natural resource reduction, pollution control, infrastructure efficiency, and disaster prevention .
Contributed by Ibrahim Shawarby.
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