Dubai is heading towards the title of “world’s smartest city”
On March 16th it was reported that the ruler of Dubai, who is also vice president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates confirmed the second order of 2016 concerning the establishment of Dubai database, and the appointment of its management, to support Dubai’s strategy to become the world’s smartest city until 2017.
The purpose of the new body is to improve the capabilities of Dubai advertising and production of data, as well as contributing to the creation of data bases for the benefit of the public and private sector in Dubai and overseas, coordination between government agencies and to ensure the application of the law. Meanwhile on April 10th it was published that there is an initiative to make the Hamad International Airport (HIA) to a “smart airport” and the phase of reviewing the program has began. This will allow passengers to “more control and independence during their trip”, where each step in the process will be in the form of self-service, such as home printing of baggage tags (HPBT) and baggage sending as well as boarding passes printing.
Currently there are 63 active electronic gates (e-gates) by the border controls for citizens and permanent residents, based in part on biometric authentication, alongside the use of smart technologies that exist in very some of airports around the world, for streamlining the process of security check by accelerating processes and reducing passenger discomfort. This is alongside various programs to deepen the streamlining of various processes for making automatic passenger experience even easier.
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