Japanese tech giant SoftBank announces smart city IoT partnership with Dublin
July 27, 2018
Japanese tech giant SoftBank will be working on some smart city IoT solutions in the Irish capital.
On Thursday, 26th July, members of the SoftBank team today attended an announcement at Dublin City Hall, detailing the company’s arrival to DCC’s smart city testbed, Smart Docklands.
Hidebumi Kitahara, vice-president of the global business strategy division at SoftBank, spoke at the launch: “The development of an innovative IoT platform is a key strategy for SoftBank and we are delighted to collaborate with Dublin, with its unique smart city testbed, supported by a cluster of technology companies and an open and collaborative approach from Dublin City Council.”
Kitahara hopes the partnership will lead to the deployment of technologies to make the lives of both citizens and companies more productive.
The partnership with Dublin is SoftBank’s first European IoT outreach project. It already provides a large amount of services to local authorities in Japan and hopes to address the particular needs of the Irish capital using its expertise.
SoftBank will be piloting its global IoT platform in Dublin city, aiming to build IoT solutions designed to scale that can be easily transferred to other cities.