Roman Shaikhutdinov takes part in opening of Cisco Innovation Centre

On October 7, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Global Head of Transformational Strategy Matthew Smith at Cisco Systems, Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Information and Communications Roman Shaikhutdinov, rector of Kazan Federal University Ilshat Gafurov, and Director of Higher School of Information Technologies and Information Systems Airat Khasyanov took part in the opening of the Cisco Innovation Centre at Higher School of Information Technologies and Information Systems of Kazan Federal University.

The Cisco centre at Kazan Federal University is the first project in Russia meant for realizing research projects for business and government, development of import-substituting technologies and services involving university staff, graduate students, students, representatives of the real sector of the economy of Tatarstan.

Within the framework of the event, a "smart bus" project, a new development of Kazan IT-specialists, was presented to Rustam Minnikhanov. A city bus is equipped with high speed internet access and video cameras to monitor the traffic. As a result, the bus cameras can independently record various traffic violations and send information to the traffic police servers.