The Smart City Association (Chairman Dong-seon Park) announced on the 30th that it will select 'K-Smart City Excellent Technologies' to promote Korea's latest smart city technologies and to help domestic smart city companies advance overseas.
'K-Smart City' technology is rapidly spreading to various fields due to the influence of domestic communication infrastructure, intelligent new technologies, and government regulatory improvement activities. Representative examples include technologies with high citizen awareness, such as 'smart bus stops' that are comfortable even during heat waves or extreme heat, and 'smart crosswalks' that reduce pedestrian safety accidents.
In particular, new technologies for responding to emerging urban problems, such as the 'people counting system' for managing crowds and the 'underpass entry blocking facility' to prepare for river flooding, are also attracting attention overseas. In addition, new technologies and services that improve the quality of life, such as the 'outdoor robot delivery' that visits the front door of an apartment and the 'AI call center' that automatically asks about the well-being of the elderly living alone, are also being introduced recently.
The Smart City Association sees the core of K-Smart City as the 'connection and integration' of city data. This is because linked and integrated city data can more effectively utilize the city's existing human resources and infrastructure, such as recommending routes for water trucks and garbage trucks, managing traffic smoothly and minimizing waiting at traffic lights, prioritizing emergency vehicles with signal control, and optimizing the inspection cycle of various facilities.
The Smart City Association, with support from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, began researching smart city technologies in May. Experts from each field will review the excellence and innovation of the technology to select the best technology.
The Smart City Association plans to actively support our companies' overseas expansion at smart city expos held overseas, such as the SCEWC in Spain, SCSE in Taiwan, and TSCE in Thailand, focusing on the technologies selected this time.
Hwang Gyu-hyeon, executive director of the Smart Association, said, “The selection of K-Smart City excellent technology is an opportunity to promote the excellence of Korea’s smart city technology overseas and expand exports,” adding, “We will create conditions to supply Korea’s excellent smart city technology to advanced and developing countries.”