QMIC focuses on challenges for sport events at Doha expo

Qatar Mobility Innovations Centre (QMIC) participated in the Securing Sport Doha 2013 exhibition and seminar, held at Katara. QMIC participated as a conference partner and exhibitor, as well as hosted a workshop on ‘smart mobility for sports security.’ Securing Sport Doha 2013 brought together the most influential decision-makers, practitioners and experts to share their best practices. This year, the seminar focused on sport security, safety and integrity. The lectures and workshops offered unique perspectives and contemporary solutions about issues involving sport security. Dr Adnan Abu-Dayya, executive director, QMIC, said: “Participating in Securing Sport 2013, gave us an opportunity to showcase our solutions for creating more secure and safe sporting events. We were also given the chance to meet with global organisations and stay up to date with international standards in securing sport. It was a perfect platform to showcase the role of QMIC’s intelligent platform Masarak in supporting the important sports industry after its official launch in February 2013.” In the workshop on ‘smart mobility for sports security’, QMIC focused on two challenges that every sport event faced - the issues of the transportation management and the safety of VIPs, sports teams, and spectators. As an integrated suite of intelligent transportation, logistics, and road safety applications, Masarak provides vital mobility services for traffic and crowd management that are necessary for the success of sport events. QMIC used the workshop to shed some light on the services and applications of Masarak for traffic and crowd management, road safety, and VIP fleet and public transport management. QMIC also gave a glimpse of futuristic mobile and connected vehicles’ technologies and their role in improving sports events security and safety. Masarak is a comprehensive open intelligent platform and an integrated suite of intelligent transport, logistics management, and road safety services and applications fully developed in Qatar and optimised for serving the needs of different sectors in Qatar and the region. Masarak is one of QMIC’s smart living services built on top of QMIC’s Labeeb M2M platform. Securing Sport 2013 created a networking opportunity for researchers, sports organisers and decision makers to discuss the imperative strategies regarding the future of sports security. This has helped QMIC to get closer to one of its vital goals of growing the digital sports industry in Qatar, by offering locally-built solutions tailored for this region’s weather, population and logistics.