Foxconn signs deal with Sonora to explore Smart Cities in the state

Taiwanese electronics shaper Foxconn and the authorities of Sonora announced connected Wednesday that they had signed a memorandum of knowing covering “Smart City cooperation.”

Young Liu, president and CEO of Foxconn, and Sonora Governor Alfonso Durazo signed the MOU.

If the woody ends up going through, Sonora would big the archetypal Smart City Foxconn has worked connected extracurricular of Taiwan. (Alfonso Durazo/X)

Foxconn, formally known arsenic the Hon Hai Technology Group, said successful a statement that the MOU “is a measurement toward supporting the Mexican authorities successful its extremity to research intelligent metropolis solutions.”

“… Foxconn volition enactment with the Sonora authorities authorities to beforehand smart city solutions, starting with transportation, nationalist information and ports,” the Taipei-based institution said.

Foxconn said it volition besides enactment with the Sonora authorities to “provide the state’s residents, businesses and section governments with a amended integer acquisition and governance.”

In its concern with Sonora, the institution said it volition leverage its acquisition successful “Smart City innovations” successful the Taiwanese larboard metropolis of Kaohsiung arsenic good arsenic its “unique Build-Operate-Localize concern model.”

During a sojourn to Taiwan successful January, Governor Durazo learned astir the “security and transport exemplary Foxconn applies successful the metropolis of Kaohsiung,” the Sonora authorities said successful a statement.

“… This statement with Foxconn doesn’t conscionable enactment america connected the way to proceed positioning the authorities astatine the forefront of research, innovation and technological improvement but volition besides lend to the operation of a prosperous and steadfast aboriginal for Mexican families,” Durazo said Wednesday.

A video detailing however Kaohsiung, a large larboard metropolis successful Taiwan that worked with Foxconn, uses automation, information collection, artificial quality and the Internet of Things to marque city’s infrastructure, information and exigency effect much businesslike and much responsive to in-the-moment conditions.

He said that Mexican academics, concern radical and students volition besides enactment successful the concern betwixt the authorities of Sonora and Foxconn.

The politician asserted that Sonora and Foxconn person a “win-win plan.”

On societal media, helium said that “Sonora is acceptable to physique the aboriginal of Mexico!”

According to the Foxconn statement, Liu said that “digitalization and AI-enabled municipality governance are important for cities to go intelligent and supply much astute services to businesses and the public.”

He said that “Foxconn is delighted to person this accidental to cooperate with the authorities of Sonora to grow its Smart City level to its archetypal determination extracurricular of Taiwan.”

“… Foxconn volition deploy the level truthful Sonora tin articulation the ranks of astute cities,” Liu said.

What is the Smart City platform? 

Foxconn said that Smart City “is 1 of 3 platforms, alongside Smart EV and Smart Manufacturing, that Foxconn is advancing arsenic an emerging level work company.”

“… The Smart City translation tin pb to data-driven decision-making and summation authorities efficiency. The sharing and connecting of aggregate services volition pb to astute proscription and astute tourism,” the institution said.

The inaugural could payment authorities superior Hermosillo arsenic good arsenic smaller cities successful Sonora specified arsenic Nogales, San Luís Rio Colorado and the larboard metropolis of Guaymas.

Foxconn volition besides collaborate connected Mexico’s task to physique its ain homegrown electrical vehicle, introduced present by President Claudia Sheinbaum past month. The vehicles volition beryllium built successful Sonora. (Moisés Pablo/Cuartoscuro)

Foxconn to collaborate connected Mexican EV project 

Durazo invited Foxconn to “explore imaginable collaborations” with Mexico connected the “Olinia” electrical conveyance project, which is backed by the national government. The EV volition beryllium produced successful Sonora, and is scheduled to debut astatine the commencement of the 2026 FIFA World Cup that Mexico volition co-host with the United States and Canada.

The Sonora authorities noted that the bluish authorities “has the astir important deposits of strategical minerals successful the country, which are indispensable for the manufacture of electrical cars and batteries.”

The authorities is aiming to go a lithium hub successful coming years.

Durazo said “Sonora is acceptable to beryllium the halfway of the electrical proscription gyration successful Mexico and astatine the forefront of the incorporation of the benefits of artificial quality successful the regular lives of Sonora residents.”

He said that 30 students from Sonora are presently studying courses related to electrical conveyance accumulation astatine Taiwanese universities. The politician besides noted they are receiving grooming straight from Foxconn.

“Thanks to 3 years of enactment done [the] Plan Sonora [renewable vigor initiative], contiguous we person this collaboration confederation with the largest exertion institution successful the satellite to measure the anticipation of processing an full new-generation concern ecosystem,” Durazo said.

Liu said that Foxconn is “honored to beryllium invited to enactment successful the Olinia project.”

“Going forward, with the enactment of Mexico’s wide argumentation conditions, we volition jointly research the anticipation of concern practice successful areas specified arsenic electrical vehicles, electrical buses and batteries,” helium said.

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