Challenges of an aspiring Smart City
For a city that aims to be a Smart City, there is a huge barrier of entry. Defining the city’s business drivers, creating a sound business architecture, establishing the solution development strategy, formulating an accurate and refined IT solution, and selecting the most suitable Technology require a huge investment. In addition, currently available smart city solutions are divergent and monolithic. They are hard to customize. They force cities to pay for the features they need, and for the features, they don’t need. Cities end up making huge investments in Business Architecture, IT infrastructure, hardware, data centers, software customization, and maintenance, etc. Business Operations Management is virtually non-existent. City operators can’t track, control, and improve business operations by learning from operational data. And to top it all, Metrics for evaluating successful implementations are vague and hard to assess. Cities can’t get a clear picture of the ROI on their projects
Our Mission
We believe that City operators should be able to focus on their business drivers, leverage their data to get valuable insights that are promptly fed back into their business operations to enhance the operation and maximize the City’s ROI. City operators should also be able to operate their City Management platform while being shielded from the underlying technical details and complexity. Cities should pay only for the services they need, and for the duration in which they need those services. Eden Technologies provides a highly customizable Smart City Management platform based on sound Business Architecture designed by TOGAF-certified Smart City experts. City operators can choose which smart services they want to subscribe to. This platform is intelligent. It can analyze data patterns and learn from them so it enhances Operations. The platform control center relies on near-real-time data analytics to provide City Executives with Operations reports, and predictive models that support them in their decision-making process.
Our Team
Our founders have been working in the field of smart cities for decades.
Our directors have extensive experience in the IT industry across the MEA region.
We firmly believe that smart cities should be built around a citizen-centric paradigm, not a technology-centric paradigm. Sound Business Architecture practices must be followed while building a self-sustaining self-tuning smart city architecture
Yasser Elfouly
