7.1 Gbots for managing city ecosystems
For cities, Galaxy offers a unifed approach to managing
infrastructure and services to maximize effciencies and
deliver a range of benefts including reduction in traffc
congestion, faster emergency response and reduced
carbon footprint. In smaller communities, with residential,
commercial and educational units in close proximity,
Gbots can provide an integration platform for managing
the entire spectrum of activities in a small town, village,
suburb or township.
Traffc management
Traffc management is a headache in many cities. Gbots
offer the potential to connect traffc management systems
online for more effcient management of traffc fow and
patterns throughout the day. Galaxy and Gbots can
help in the management and operation of traffc lights
and can enable intelligent data sharing between traffc
points to handle the volumes of traffc more effciently.
Should an accident occur, Galaxy can automatically
alter traffc signals to allow regular fow of traffc without
much congestion. This is not restricted to the road
transportation system, but can be applied to air and
water traffc as well, making it applicable whatever the
geographical characteristics of the city.
Emergency and Security Services
Gbots can allow the security and emergency services to
be more fexible, have faster reaction times, and operate
more effciently. Galaxy supports more effective resource
management, and ensures that equipment deployment
is focused in the most appropriate locations. Gbots
improve reliability by integrating telematics data from the
vehicle feet with alarm management, ensuring that all the
relevant emergency services have accurate data during a
crisis. Often the various security and emergency services
use different communication networks, which causes
problems. Gbots provide a platform to provide seamless
data transfer across diverse communications plaforms.
By making use of Gbots intuitive response to any security
breach or emergency, the relevant authorities can monitor
the safety and security level of their city or region and take
effective action.
Airport Management
Airports are a vital part of a city’s transportation
infrastructure and ICT is central to their operation, as they
use a variety of intelligent sub-systems to manage safety
and transit of passengers and goods. These independent
systems can be integrated by Gbots which provide a
management-level interface to the fre safety, access
control, cargo handling, integrated aircraft stand system,
and all the other systems essential to the smooth running
of the airport. Its unifed architecture means that risk
information is accessible at one central point, reducing the
time associated with gathering and interpreting data from
individual systems and thus reducing response times. This
architecture provides the fexibility to add new procedures
through the central system and provides a cost-effective
transition path to a unifed digital infrastructure.
Building Management
Gbots can be integrated with any building management
system, responding to events, observing the environment,
collecting and collating data. This ability can be used for
energy optimization, cost reduction, maintenance and
asset management in any part of the world. Gbots can
be used to reduce the carbon footprint of buildings and
can work with the utility companies’ systems in real time
to provide demand response management and reduce
energy loads at peak times. This helps building owners
reduce their energy costs even further, as well as helping
utility companies reduce their need to build new capacity.
7.2 Gbots have a role in many vertical
sectors
Gbots fexibility and versatility in allowing disparate ICT
and control systems to work together can play a valuable
role in many industries and sectors.
Education
ICT has already brought big changes in the way education
is delivered. Gbots take this a step further and can enable
continuous data sharing between teachers and students
through the school or college network. This helps to tailor
teaching practices to give students a better understanding
of a subject. These new teaching practices can also
be shared with other schools and teachers through the
Internet, disseminating best practice throughout the
educational community.
Entertainment and leisure centers and
sports stadiums
Gbots can aid the management of entertainment and
leisure centers both from the point of view of the building
systems management but also by managing traffc
fow, ticketing and sale of refreshments. Gbots can
optimize energy use, diagnose and repair faulty building
systems and ensure predictive maintenance to prevent
failures, thereby enhancing the comfort of visitors to
the entertainment center and making maintenance and
operation trouble-free for the service providers. Gbots can
also be used for traffc management on the site and can
even assist the audience at an individual level by allowing
them to place orders for refreshments from their seats or
monitor their vehicles in the parking lot.
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