Huawei has opened its Southern Pacific OpenLab in Singapore to foster joint, customer and business-driven ICT innovation with industry and partners.
At the opening ceremony, Huawei unveiled its Safe City Solutions, a suite of public safety solutions that strengthens incident prevention capabilities and shortens emergency response time.
Huawei also inked MoUs with NCS and Tyco to co-create safe city solutions for smart nation projects, which aim to make Singapore a safer place and contribute to the growth of the city state’s emerging safety and security industry.
Standing at a total surface area of 650 square meters and the largest of Huawei OpenLabs, the Southern Pacific OpenLab is Huawei’s commitment to building an open and sustainable ICT ecosystem through collaboration with leading software and industry partners.
The lab is an open end-to-end one-stop ICT Infrastructure platform where partners can verify their solutions in actual network environment, leverage on training opportunities in research, marketing and solutions delivery, and use marketing funds to develop and incentivize channel partners.
Visitors to the facility will also be able to experience first-hand solutions for smart cities, public safety, ISP, education, banking, and transportation.
As part of Huawei’s commitment to innovation, the Southern Pacific OpenLab will be connected to a network of Huawei OpenLabs across the globe to facilitate the international exchange of ideas about new business models, market needs, and technical solutions.
“The establishment of Huawei’s Southern Pacific OpenLab will catalyse partnerships with leading enterprises, start-ups and research institutions for the development of digital enterprise solutions, with Singapore as a reference market,” said Meng Fai Tung, deputy director of the Singapore Economic Development Board.
“This will support Singapore’s Smart Nation vision and ensure our industries are at the forefront of the digital transformation wave,” said Meng. “Huawei will also play a key role in training and equipping our local workforce with new capabilities– to build a better connected world enabled by digital.”