-11.5.~11.7. The world's largest smart city international event held in Barcelona, Spain
- Operation of Busan Pavilion within the Korea Pavilion established by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport… ▲ Busan Smart City Lab establishment project ▲ Introduction of the city’s excellent smart city companies (3 companies)
- It is expected to be a venue for promoting Busan's excellent smart technology business, understanding trends in the smart city sector for participating companies in Busan, and providing opportunities to enter the global market.
□ Busan City (Mayor Park Hyung-joon) announced that it will actively promote Busan's smart city vision and smart city project implementation results by participating in the "5 Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC 7)" held in Barcelona, Spain for three days from today (the 3th) to the 2024th.
□ The Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) has been held in Barcelona since 2011 as the world's largest and most influential international event for urban innovation. It is very popular as it allows visitors to observe smart city technologies from various cities around the world and global companies at a glance.
□ This year, the exhibition scale is approximately 1.6 times larger than last year, with over 130 companies and cities from 1 countries exhibiting their smart city-related technologies, allowing a glimpse into the present and future of various smart cities under the theme of ‘Live Better.’
○ With over 600 leaders from global companies, governments, and organizations participating, it will be held as a total of 7 thematic academic conferences on ▲execution technology ▲energy and environment ▲mobility ▲governance and economy ▲life and inclusion ▲public infrastructure and architecture ▲marine economy.
□ During the event, the city will operate the Busan Pavilion within the ‘Integrated Korea Pavilion’ established by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport. Here, the city will introduce ▲Busan’s ‘Smart City Lab Creation Project’ and ▲Busan’s excellent smart city companies (3 companies).
○ 31 companies, including MOLIT, Busan City, Pohang City, Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH), Korea Water Resources Corporation (K-Water), Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, and excellent smart city companies, will participate in the Integrated Korea Pavilion.
○ The 'Smart City Lab Creation Project' to be introduced by the city is a project to create a virtual model (digital twin*) test bed** environment where services can be tested before distribution and commercialization by creating a mock city with an environment similar to an actual city.
○ The Smart City Lab establishment project is expected to increase the completeness of Busan Smart City by providing a foundation for the development of various new technologies and services and the promotion of research and development (R&D), thereby identifying problems likely to occur in reality in advance.
* Objects (things, spaces, environments, processes, procedures, etc.) that exist in reality are expressed as digital data models on a computer so that they can be replicated identically and react to each other in real time.
** Virtual Model Testing Center (Digital Twin Test Bed): An environment where various phenomena can be multi-analyzed and predicted in a virtual environment similar to reality to discover and respond to potential problems.
○ Along with this, the excellent smart city companies to be introduced are ▲Samwon FA Co., Ltd. ▲Core Movement Co., Ltd. ▲Gomirang Co., Ltd., and they plan to create a venue for business activities to enter the global market by exhibiting their self-developed technologies and products.
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▪Samwon FA Co., Ltd.: Eco-friendly solar-powered bus information guide 'ECOBIT' ▪Core Movement Co., Ltd.: AI smart healthcare bathtub system based on electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) ▪GOMIRANG Co., Ltd.: 'GOMIRANG', a single-person household integrated care solution using smartphones |
□ Park Dong-seok, Director of the City’s Advanced Industry Bureau, said, “Through this Smart City World Congress, I hope to not only widely publicize Busan’s excellent smart technologies and services, but also provide an opportunity for participating companies in Busan to understand trends in the smart city field, grow into global companies, and enter the global market.”