The center will train specialists who are going to build smart houses, cities and regions. A memorandum of organizing the center at the premises of the university has been undersigned by NSU and one of the biggest IT-companies in the world - IBM Eastern Europe/Asia. The project will start working in 2016. Moreover, with the new academic year it is supposed to start training specialists of Smart Technologies under the master and postgraduate programs.
IBM for its part is planning to help with training those teachers who are going to teach disciplines of the Smart Technologies area. There will be also close collaboration with innovating companies of Techno park in Akademgorodok.
Smart Technologies is the generalized name for technologies directed to build modern control systems for automation of buildings, micro districts, districts, cities, regions, universities, scientific and other organizations.
This co-operative project of NSU and IBM is directed to train specialists of Smart Technologies, carry out research projects and put into practice the automated management information systems. Besides, the project will help to develop systems of decision-making approval at the premises of open standards, open-source software and IBM technologies.
- The goal of this center is to provide an environment for specialists to communicate and develop their competence in the Smart Technologies area. There will be possible to accumulate leading researches and their approaches, to develop and keep up to date this problematics. All of this will allow to train specialists for innovating companies capable of developing new smart technologies. Ultimately, it is these people who will build smart cities of the future, the existence of which is impossible without so called the Internet of Things, - explained Ruslan Permyakov, the center's director.
Within the frame of the memorandum, NSU and IBM have planned the co-operative work on a broad-scale IBM's project called "The Internet of Things". It is supposed not only to provide more profound training of how to use IBM Bluemox platform, but also to organize a hack day in the first half of 2016.
