Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority won the Smart City City Award along with Incheon Metropolitan City in the 'City' category of the '2022 World Smart City Expo (WSCE 2022)' hosted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport and the Ministry of Science and ICT. announced on the 5th
This year's World Smart City Expo is the largest smart city event in the Asia-Pacific region, and this year's theme was "Digital Earth, Connecting Together". Incheon Economic Administration, etc. constituted an Incheon-type smart city with △National Competition Zone, △Startup Zone, △Living Lab Zone, △Presentation Zone, etc. · Actively promoted the product.
In particular, Neostack, a startup that participated in this Incheon Pavilion and is being fostered by Incheon Startup, together with Informatic LLC of Mongolia through this event, a smart lighting with a total business size of $1,000 million (about 130 billion won) A memorandum of understanding for global business cooperation on solutions and automation control has been signed.
Currently, in Incheon Startup Park, Incheon TP, Shinhan Financial Group, Celltrion, Google, etc., centering on the Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ), actively nurture innovative startups in the 4th industrial revolution technology, smart city, and bio fields, and promote various smart It provides opportunities to demonstrate the city and provides opportunities to promote innovative services for startups through domestic and international expo such as this event.
In addition, the demonstration of the city delivery (last delivery) Living Lab using an autonomous robot selected for the MOLIT 4 innovative technology discovery project in April of this year also attracted the attention of many visitors. Self-driving robots are currently installed on the first floor of Incheon Startup Park and are being demonstrated with citizens until April next year, and will be expanded to three locations in Songdo in the future. Prime Minister Han Deok-soo and 2022st Vice Minister of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport Lee Won-jae stopped by the Incheon Pavilion to watch a demonstration of self-driving robots and start-up technology.
Lee Sang-beom, deputy director of the Incheon Economic Administration, said, “Participating in the WSCE Expo is significant not only in promoting various smart city services in Incheon, but also in creating a foundation for Incheon startups to enter the global market.” “Future technologies such as autonomous robots We will do our best to inform the vision of smart city services that fit the characteristics of Incheon city in the future, and we will strive to create a smart city that citizens can feel and everyone is happy.”