Selected for a total of 44 this year… Discovering and distributing 155.5 billion smart solutions
[충청신문=세종] Reporter Lim Gyu-mo = The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on the 10th that it will start the ’21 Smart Challenge Project’ competition on the 12th, in which citizens, businesses, and local governments work together to find and create innovative services to solve existing city problems.
This year’s business scale has increased significantly from 18 last year to 44. The’Campus Challenge’ project is newly introduced to discover new ideas based on the university’s R&D achievements.
The City Challenge is a project in which businesses and municipalities form a consortium to develop comprehensive solutions to solve problems across the city.
This year, four cities were selected to establish a master plan and a pilot project (1.5 billion won in national expenditure), and two of them were selected as main projects, and 20 billion won (50% national expenditure) for two years. do.
Local governments running the City Challenge project are planning to establish a’Smart City Plan’ that implements various smart services such as transportation, environment, and energy in urban spaces to promote smartization across the city.
Town Challenge is a project that focuses on proposing and applying specialized solutions optimized for small and medium-sized cities. The competition target is limited to cities, counties, and wards with a population of less than 500,000. Districts in special and metropolitan cities can apply for a population of over 500,000. A total of 4 locations will be selected and proceed with a scale of 3 billion won (50% of the government expenses) per year.
It plans to focus on discovering new services in the area through a designation contest in the areas of transportation, environment, and crime prevention that are of high interest in the region.
Starting this year, the’Campus Challenge’ will be introduced, in which companies and local governments experiment with and commercialize smart services in the region, centering on universities.
A total of 8 universities were selected in two fields: a research subject-linked type that utilizes university’s research projects (R&D) and intellectual property rights, and a community-connected type that tests services using various public information. Support throughout.
Separately, an idea contest to receive proposals for solutions for smart city implementation from university students will be held to select 7 teams and support 100 million won per team. For best practices, it plans to provide business start-up support such as management consulting and commercialization funding.
This year, the’Smart Solution Spreading Business’ will be greatly expanded so that the citizens can experience smart city services by distributing smart solutions with proven effectiveness nationwide.
From last year’s 10 locations, this year’s distribution will be doubled to around 22 locations. The scale of the project is also expected to increase significantly from 600 million won to 2-4 billion won (50% of national expenditure) per city.
This year, through the Smart Challenge project, we will verify effectiveness and excellence, and select and distribute nine services focusing on transportation and safety-related solutions that are close to people’s lives. It is promoted in a way that local governments can easily select and utilize a solution optimized for solving the problems of each city.
The services to be distributed this year are smart crosswalks that include pedestrian safety and vehicle stop line compliance guidance, smart poles that combine CCTV, Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and WiFi in streetlights, and public and private parking lots. Representative examples include shared parking that can be operated, demand-responsive buses that flexibly operate routes in real time according to traffic demand, and autonomous navigation drones that can be used for disaster and accident detection and delivery to island areas.
The smart challenge business competition will be announced on the 12th. A total of 44 sites will be selected through the 1st stage evaluation (in writing) for the solution diffusion project, and the 2nd stage evaluation (in writing ⟶ announcement) for the City/Town/Campus Challenge after a 1~2 month application period for each project. Other details can be found on the Smart City General Portal (smartcity.go.kr).
Im-Rak Choi, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Tourism City Policy Officer said, “We will focus on spreading smart city solutions nationwide so that people can experience the effects of smart city evenly.” I will focus on strengthening it.”
Meanwhile, for the city and town challenge preliminary project areas selected last year, 6 main business areas (City 3 and Town 3) will be decided through competition in February, and the results of each project will be fully realized. In the Chungcheong area, Seosan City will compete with Wonju, Gwangyang, and Changwon for the town challenge preliminary project and compete for this project. For the city project, Gangneung, Gimhae, Busan, Jeju, Changwon, Suwon, and Gwangju compete.
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