المملكة: Smart mosques in the Kingdom .. Employment of technology for management and servants service

Smart mosques in the Kingdom were built in the latest style, taking into account all technical and engineering aspects of the modern architectural style, and equipping them with brushes and preparing them with all services, so that worshipers perform their worship with all humiliation and reassurance, and equip them according to the latest specifications in modern technology for lighting, audio, air conditioning and applying gray water, and according to high standards using the finest and finest materials adopted by the Ministry of Islamic Affairs in a construction code Mosques.

The latest digital operating systems

The opening of these mosques comes due to the great care and attention that the rational government attaches to the homes of God and Muslims in all fields.
The smart mosque system employs the latest digital systems in raising the level of performance in monitoring mosques, and following the regulatory processes quickly and more accurately.
In the smart mosque project, the mosque is fully automated by installing a smart control and control system for the mosque components of lighting, air conditioning, pumps and water tanks. “
The project includes monitoring and reading water consumption and electricity consumption in a manner, controlling the operation and extinguishing of these components in order to reduce energy consumption, and access to the optimal consumption of the mosque.

Monitor violations and issue alerts

This contributed to providing more than 50% of consumption and the ease of controlling all components of the floors from one place, through a touch screen, with simple and easy -to -handy graphics, and the ability to monitor any overcoming or defect in the mosque and report it automatically
By issuing alerts, the possibility of obtaining statistical reports of operating and consumption rates, and the ability to monitor and link the status of mosques through a mobile application that connects wirelessly to the mosque network, and it will be the nucleus of Saudi mosques.
Facilitate sending notes
The project also works to create a smart and advanced platform that allows worshipers and congregation to send their notes or views, and the ability to attach a video, image or audio clip of the communication quickly and flexible through their smart devices, through a cryptical data panel using the fast response code (QR) It is considered one of the latest data for rapid data.

Smart Mosque project

On April 9, 2023 AD, the Minister of Islamic Affairs, Call and Guidance, Sheikh Abdullatif Al Sheikh, inaugurated the Smart Mosque project, as part of efforts to keep pace with technology in its services, and that was at the “Haya Al -Assaf” mosque in the Al -Awali neighborhood in Makkah, which is the first experimental mosque in the Kingdom, which is the first based on technology in all its devices, from lighting, air conditioning and everything that serves the mosque from its facilities with a modern technology And smart.
The first phase of the executing project included control of lighting, air conditioning and fans, as well as in opening and closing doors and surveillance cameras as well as automating water and electricity meters, in addition to automatic control that works centrally by the Escada system, so the system before the date of prayer opens the doors automatically, operating air conditioners and fans during the mosque’s heat sensing, and opening water valves for the illumination, and at the end of the prayer time at a specific time The doors are automatically closed.

Ramadan services

The branch of the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Call and Guidance in Makkah Al -Mukarramah Region, on March 13, 2024 AD, also, technical systems to benefit from them in the service of mosques during the holy month of Ramadan in an effort to the Ministry to facilitate mosques management and improve the experience of worshipers by providing advanced audio systems to establish prayers in a clear voice and high quality, and provide mosques with digital screens and presentations to display religious and guiding information to visitors And pilgrims, such as: times of prayer, dhikr and instructions, and providing thousands of religious and awareness books, in a number of languages ​​and allowing the copies of publications by reading the barcode via mobile devices; In order to facilitate pilgrims and visitors
These services come within the framework of the efforts made by the Ministry to advance the level of services provided to the beneficiaries, and to enhance the leading digital and technical status of the Kingdom according to the targets of the Kingdom’s 2030 vision.