Barcelona, Spain, March 2 – Axiata Digital, a wholly owned subsidiary of leading Asian telecommunications group, Axiata Group Bhd, and Huawei, a leader in global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly promote Internet of Things (IoT) services across Asia.
Under the agreement, Huawei will provide its cutting edge IoT connectivity technologies and application verticals such as connected car, smart home, smart meters and others. Axiata Digital, in turn, will provide the cloud-based IoT application enablement platform that allows for services to be deployed rapidly and cost effectively.
The IoT collaboration between Axiata and Huawei is expected to benefit Axiata subscribers across 10 countries in the region, leveraged through its mobile businesses as well as portfolio of online services.
Through IoT, a wide range of connected products such as smart devices, automobiles, homes, and even cities can help to reduce wastage, improve efficiency such as energy consumption, ultimately improving a person’s way of life and work.
As part of its IoT collaboration effort, Axiata Digital and Huawei have at the start of this year, worked together to jointly launch the connected car service across several countries within the next few weeks.
“The key of Axiata Digital’s IoT strategy is to develop an open IoT ecosystem for various industries. Our vision is to enable independent IoT apps to be easily deployed on an Axiata IoT platform and provide innovative services quickly across our footprint,” shared Zoran Vasiljev, Chief Strategy Officer for Axiata Digital.
Mohd Khairil Abdullah, Chief Executive Officer of Axiata Digital added “IoT is a key pillar in our investment focus areas and I am pleased to announce this partnership with Huawei. We look forward to bringing IoT services to its full potential working together with our partners in all our markets.”
Commenting on the collaboration, Zhou Jianjun of Huawei said: “Huawei believes this partnership with Axiata Digital is the beginning of a new win-win collaboration that benefits all. Tapping onto Axiata’s vast customer base we are bringing IoT capabilities and solutions to Axiata subscribers, opening up a door of opportunities to potential IoT market for Axiata Digital, Huawei and industry partners.”
“Asian nations including Malaysia are increasingly embracing IoT as a key differentiator, setting them on the path to a sustainable and smart nation that will ultimately lead to a stronger economy and higher standard of living.” Mr. Zhou added.