Sunday 6 September 2015

Chinese smart cities MOU signed with UK Tech Company following UKTI Trade Mission

Bikal and Color Cube Technology of Kunming sign a MoU to exchange services, hardware and research for development of cross country smart cities technologies

London, UK. 12th August 2015. A UKTI (United Kingdom Trade & Investment) trade mission to Smart Cities Expo Shanghai in September has led to the confirmation of a memorandum of understanding between two technology companies in UK and China. Bikal, which provides Smart Cities video management software, big data analytics and technology from academic research, is in the UK.

Color Cube Technology is an IT infrastructure company that works with leading Chinese construction companies which are building Smart Communities across China.

Bikal has been partnering with Chinese companies for three years. Their combined market scale offers opportunities for buyers in the UK to benefit from bulk manufacturing is already available to Chinese buyers.




Bikal participated in the trade mission and exhibited at the Shanghai expo and was part of the panel session alongside Digital China, Huawei and BT. Following the Expo UKTI China office had requests from Chinese companies to talk to Bikal about projects for Smart Communities developments within cities that consisting of 90,000 to 120,000 people. Color Cube Technology invited Bikal to Kunming in April for an initial consultative onsite opinion with a formal invite to an open day with 300 companies on the 30th & 31st July. “Having met with Bikal at the “Tech is GREAT” UKTI events we knew that they were engaging with China as a whole and would be part of the business environment and not just send people from their office in the UK, “we want to develop long-term strategic cooperation relationship with other companies in the future in terms of developing high tech smart community” commented Mr. Jiang CEO of Color Tube Technology.

The MoU is intended as a partnership and not a buyer and supply agreement. “Our plan is to work collaboratively with our Chinese counterparts,” stated Raj Sandhu, CEO of Bikal. “This MoU combines strengths for any smart cities project. We have access and understanding of academic research when implementing smart technologies,” he added. In addition, this work will be supported by Bikal’s office in Beijing which is managed by Tracy Yang. “Color Cube Technology has access to the wide range of hardware that would be deployed in a project. I will be able to provide Chinese companies the opportunity to sell into the UK and Europe,” said Tracy Yang.

Bikal is part of UK Smart cities and will be inviting Chinese city delegations to come to view projects and to gain knowledge from different processes. For instance, projects can be new (complete regeneration projects such as Old Oak & Park Royal, London), retrofit (Milton Keynes) and merging of historic parts of a city and new buildings (Glasgow). This type of diverse application will be similar to locations in China and Bikal will provide academic support for the ability to research technology and processes within China before any RFP (request for proposal is created). Bikal and Color Cube Technology realise that this is a long term, two-way, knowledge & tech transfer relationship which will form models for smart cities across the world.

About Bikal:
A UK company that provides software and devices to capture video, audio and big data. Thereby creating efficient processes, increase public safety and provide preventative healthcare. This goal is achieed by liaising with end users and using HPC and algorithms to process the data. We work through our network of global offices and partners to create localized solutions for local communities.

About Color Cube Technology:
Yunnan Color Cube Technology Co., Ltd. is a technology company committed to build the first real all-optical network smart community in China. Relying on self-building T3+ large micro-module data centre, all optical high-speed network: Color Cube firstly created telephone, television and Internet merging in one network, smart cloud system, big data analysis system and the smart card system. Color Cube also established three smart life formats including smart life, smart office and smart shopping. Thus, the Cube brings about the greatest degree of convenience, happiness and benefits to community residents.

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