Dubai, UAE: As a part of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA)’s Space-D programme, DEWA’s Research and Development (R&D) Centre has developed an in-house, versatile gateway that may join terrestrial sensors to satellites and floor networks. The gateway has numerous bodily, operational know-how (OT) connectivity and IoT edge protocol libraries to assist the most recent IoT communication community like LoRa, Wi-Fi & BLE. The machine is designed to swimsuit numerous industrial functions akin to utilities, infrastructure, asset-tracking, agriculture, sensible cities, fleet administration and others. The machine has an extended battery life to assist numerous LoRa protocols and LoRaWAN to speak straight with a number of satellites and terrestrial community, which contributes to a big discount in machine and operational prices. The machine complies with worldwide IoT machine safety requirements, together with OT safety. The machine was absolutely designed, fabricated and examined at DEWA’s R&D Centre and its enclosure was manufactured on the R&D’s labs utilizing 3D printing.

HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of DEWA, praised the efforts of researchers and Emirati abilities working on the Centre to learn from house and Fourth Industrial Revolution applied sciences, and to make use of superior instruments and the laboratories offered by DEWA to create the perfect options and applied sciences to assist the house sector within the UAE. This is along with creating specialised techniques for electrical energy and water era, transmission, and distribution in addition to enhancing the administration of the ability community and the water transmission and distribution community. This consolidates DEWA’s management and excellence as one of the crucial revolutionary utilities on this planet. 

“We support the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to promote the Emiratisation of space industries, and to empower our Emirati calibre to continue developing the space sector. Through DEWA’s Space-D programme, we aim for nanosatellite technology to complement terrestrial IoT communication networks and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of DEWA’s operations and support the digitisation of our electricity and water networks. This will increase the efficiency and effectiveness of our planning, operations, and preventive maintenance for our production, transmission, and distribution divisions, as well as our smart grids and electric vehicle charging stations. It also reduces costs, improves asset use, enables knowledge and experience transfer, and trains Emiratis at DEWA. The R&D Centre contributes to achieving national aspirations in the space sector. DEWA’s 3U nanosatellite DEWA-SAT1 and its second nanosatellite DEWA SAT-2, a 6U nanosatellite, were designed and developed at the Centre, making DEWA the world’s first utility to use nanosatellites to enhance the maintenance and planning of electricity and water networks,” added Al Tayer.

Waleed Bin Salman, Executive Vice President of Business Development and Excellence at DEWA, highlighted that DEWA leverages the Fourth Industrial Revolution applied sciences to supply worth from the info acquired from its IoT terminals through the satellite tv for pc constellation community. DEWA makes use of the digital IoT platform hosted by its knowledge centre operated by MORO hub, the spine of digital DEWA, to allow the terrestrial IoT communications of the developed gateways and to visualise the collected knowledge.

For extra data, please contact: 
Khuloud Al Ali / Ribal Dayekh                    
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority                     
Media@dewa.gov.ae / Ribal.Dayekh@dewa.gov.ae                

Afaf Abaza / Mohammed Meshal
Hattlan Media 
afaf@hattlan.com / mohammed@hattlan.com

For extra data, please go to DEWA’s web site www.dewa.gov.ae