Huawei opens new facility to foster regional IoT initiatives
The new facility aims to incubate the local digital ecosystem and accelerate IoT business development in the region.
According to Huawei, based on IoT Hosting Centre and ecosystem enablement, Huizhong and Hayat Communications are the first partners to obtain the Middle East IoT Hosting Centre’s 1st NB-IoT enabled certificate.
IoT Hosting Centre is Huawei’s new and innovative platform as a service solution that provides OceanConnect services such as open device connectivity, device management, and application enablement to customers across the Middle East region. It is designed to quickly develop IoT business in the Middle East region with reduced initial investment cost compared to CAPEX mode while providing a fast time to market by plug and play deployment.
In the Middle East, the IoT Hosting Centre comes along with the IoT Regional Experience Centre to speed up IoT ecosystem development locally. The Regional Experience Centre provides a pre-integration testing environment for application developers, device, and module and chip manufacturers. It will also allow Huawei and local partners to explore cutting edge developments including network solution verification, new application innovation, device integration, and product compliance certification. As of now, Huizhong and Hayat Communications have already completed the Middle East IoT Hosting Centre 1st NB-IoT enabled certification.