Huawei, a major global ICT solutions provider, shared its global expertise in public safety to regional government audiences at its Safe City Summit 2016, in Riyadh on Monday.

The event touched on many safety and security aspects addressed by regional governments while highlighting solutions that empower civil and security departments to deal with safety challenges arising from rapidly expanding cities and populations.

Huawei covered a wide range of public safety threats drawing from its extensive global experience where its solutions are critical to the public safety and protection of over 400 million people in more than 100 cities across 30 countries.

Huawei demonstrated its leadership in safety prevention and response across four key areas, which include social security and unrest, accident disaster, public health and natural

disaster.

“Governments across the Middle East and in the Kingdom are voicing demands for improved public safety and are looking into various technology-driven initiatives that enable them to not only respond to an emergency situation efficiently, but also have threat prevention capability before an incident takes place,” said Mohammad Allataifeh, director of public safety and safe city at Huawei Middle East.

“Huawei’s global experience and broad ICT portfolio enables governments to elevate their capacity to perceive public threats and empowers them with access to sophisticated tools for command, control, communications and data computing,” he added.

Huawei showcased its portfolio of public safety solutions. It demonstrated advanced technologies at the exhibition like high definition video surveillance, broadband trunking, multimedia dispatching and intelligent analytics.

Huawei has partnered with global security specialists to provide a portfolio of end-to-end public safety solutions.

Under the umbrella of its public safety technology portfolio, Huawei offers its safe city solution with offerings.

Huawei has deployed Safe City solutions across the globe in countries, including the UK, the Netherlands, Russia, Turkey, Kenya, Egypt and China.