DEWA Accelerates Digital Transformation with Microsoft HoloLens

17 October 2016

DEWA accelerating in its journey to achieve Digital Transformation with Microsoft HoloLens

In its efforts to achieve the Smart Dubai Initiative, launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to transform the Emirate into the smartest city in the world, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has announced that it is making use of Microsoft HoloLens; the world’s first self-contained holographic computer to enhance its operations, improve productivity, accelerate innovation and provide best quality of efficient services to its customers.

“In adherence with the directives of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to take the governmental services to the next level, we adopted the Microsoft HoloLens technology (3D Mixed Reality technology), which works as an independent computer with graphs and 3D display processors, and user movement sensors, which enables the employees to have a 3D vision. They can interact with the images displayed, the matter which embodies our efforts to support innovation, and contribute to achieving the goals of Dubai Plan 2021 ensuring that Dubai Govern