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The Qatar Mobility Innovations Centre (QMIC) at the Qatar Science and Technology Park has signed a memorandum of understanding with ESPRIT, a Tunisian school of engineering with multiple disciplines and different educational entities.
As per the MoU, ESPIRIT will adopt QMIC’s Labeeb IoT (Internet of Things) platform and provide the same as a service for its students and startups in support of IoT related academic courses and projects. Labeeb IoT, developed by QMIC, was initially launched in March 2016.
The platform together with an extensive set of development kits and enablers will play a significant role in enabling developers, startups and enterprises to develop and deploy new IoT services and applications that serve different vertical markets quickly and at a lower R&D cost.
As part of the agreement, ESPRIT will be using Labeeb IoT platform in its IoT related programs and work with QMIC on specific use cases that can lead to commercial solutions to the benefit of both parties.
Prof Tahar Ben Lakhdar, CEO of ESPRIT expressed confidence that the Labeeb IoT platform will help their students and instructors in mastering the IoT fundamentals and contribute in the improvement of this platform by adding innovative functionalities.
“This approach strengthens our motto ‘Alternative learning’,” he added.
Dr Adnan Abu-Dayya, executive director and CEO of QMIC said that as one of the leading pure-play IoT enterprises in the Arab Work, QMIC fully understands the complexity of and the opportunities associated with building IoT solutions and services.
“Hence, we are glad to deliver such expertise to university students and entrepreneurs in order to make it easier for them to take their ideas and projects to the market.”
The Labeeb IoT platform can facilitate the collection and storage of data from any object (or device), translate the data into actionable insights, and enable delivering a wide range of IoT services to various market segments like smart homes, healthcare, utilities, smart cities, and many other verticals.
In addition to the platform, the Labeeb IoT initiative provides different software development kits, an application development environment, and online and customised training to facilitate the development of IoT services and eventually create a community of developers and adopters of IoT services in the Mena region.
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