Al-Jouf Municipality Launches Sadeem Smart Systems

February 27, 2020 Sadeem News

Sadeem device installed on a lighting pole in Sakaka City

Al-Jouf Municipality, in cooperation with Sadeem International Company, has launched the wireless sensing systems project on December 17, 2019. This project aims to develop and improve Al-Jouf Region, starting with Sakaka city, to achieve the highest environmental standards and raise the quality of life for citizens. Therefore, Al-Jouf Municipality has installed Sadeem devices for the direct sensing of floods and rains, and traffic monitoring, in order to ensure the safety of citizens and respond to crises and disasters in a more efficient and effective manner. This project covers five sites experiencing water pooling, particularly in rainy seasons.

In line with the Saudi Vision 2030 and the National Transformation Program, Sadeem and Al-Jouf Municipality seek to contribute to raising the standard of living and safety, achieving the smart management of Al-Jouf Municipality’s facilities, ensuring the sustainability of the resources, and achieving excellence in government’s performance.

Sadeem is a wireless sensing systems company emerging from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. It started in 2010 as a research group and is now the world’s leading company in monitoring floods and traffic in urban areas through the use of a wireless sensing technology that includes several patents within the field of sensing systems. Moreover, other systems have been developed to sense the environmental conditions and to monitor air quality. Such systems operate with solar energy and artificial intelligence software, communicate with each other and transfer data through wireless networks in order to reach users who can display such data on the geographic information system provided by Sadeem, in addition to mobile applications and LED screens for easy useful visualization.

The real-time sensor data can also be displayed on the visualization platform provided by Sadeem to its customers to enable them to view daily information and real-time indicators. Reports on floods and traffic can be extracted from the visualizer as well.

Sadeem device installed on a lighting pole in Sakaka

A screenshot from Sadeem’s visualization platform provided to Al-Jouf Municipality, displaying Sadeem devices on the map

Eng. Atef bin Muhammad Al-Shar’an explained that this project covers critical sites experiencing water pooling, particularly in rainy seasons. Such project seeks to contribute to raising the standard of living and safety, achieving the smart management of Al-Jouf Municipality’s facilities and controlling all its departments in the real time, ensuring the sustainability of the vital resources, achieving excellence in municipal performance in line with the Saudi Vision 2030 and in light of the directives of His Royal Highness, Governor of Al-Jouf Region, and his Deputy, and following up the directives of His Excellency the Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Dr. Majid bin Abdullah Al-Qasabi,” the Mayor of Al-Jouf Region.

A screenshot from Sadeem’s visualization platform showcasing temperature and average water level rise during the past 24 hours
A screenshot from the Sadeem’s visualization platform showing the speed of traffic flow, the traffic map and the vehicle count during the past 24 hours

“We had the honor of dealing with Al-Jouf Municipality and its affiliates, and I was pleased by their permanent and ongoing interest and eagerness to move forward to provide the best for the sake of improving the level of services in Al-Jouf Region. Al-Jouf Municipality has taken the lead in using such technology, which will contribute to reducing the damages associated with floods and natural disasters and that will enable the municipality and its affiliates to take necessary measures for controlling and managing risks efficiently. In addition, we are cooperating with the Al-Jouf Municipality to provide other innovative solutions from Sadeem to obtain data necessary for supporting the Municipality’s digital transformation program. In Sadeem, we are seeking to provide smart systems to all concerned parties and sectors to benefit from such systems in improving the quality of services, raising efficiency and achieving excellence in performance,” said Dr. Ahmed Dahwah, Co-founder and Director of Sadeem International expressing his opinion.

Sadeem is looking forward to completing the upcoming phases of Al-Jouf Municipality project and has the honor of serving the Municipality and its affiliates. It also seeks to expand its services to all the regions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in order to achieve smarter and more sustainable urban cities.

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