Business Desk :
Grameenphone (GP) and different local chapters of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) jointly held a session titled “The Role of IoT (Internet of Things) in a Smart City Connected Community”. The program was held at GP House recently.
Keynote speaker of the session Dr. Saifur Rahman, Professor at Virginia Tech USA, described different phases of Smart City connectivity and how such technology can conserve electricity and other resources.
The interactive session was attended by GP employees, several local entrepreneurs, and a large number of invited students and faculty members from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), North South University, Independent University of Bangladesh (IUB) , and a few other universities.
Dr. Shaikh Anowarul Fattah, Professor in the Dept. of EEE of BUET, highly appreciated this initiative from GP and expressed strong hopes to accelerate similar progressive collaborations between industry and academic arena, in accordance with GP’s continuous commitment of empowering societies.
Dr. Saifur Rahman is the first ever Asian to get elected as the President of the IEEE Power and Energy Society, according to a press release.
