[대한뉴스=김남규 기자] The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (Minister Byun Chang-heum) begins the contest for the ’21 Smart Challenge Project’ on January 12, in which citizens, businesses, and local governments work together to discover and create innovative services to solve existing urban problems.
This year, the scale of the project has been greatly increased from 18 last year to 44 in order to fully spread and expand smart city services, and a new’Campus Challenge’ project will be introduced to discover new ideas based on the university’s R&D achievements.
The City Challenge is a project in which companies and local governments form a consortium to develop comprehensive solutions to solve problems across the city.
This year, four cities were selected to carry out a preliminary project (government cost of 1.5 billion won/location) to establish a master plan and a pilot project. ) Each.
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 gus with a population of less than 500,000, and a total of 4 locations will be selected and proceeded at a cost of 3 billion won (50% of 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 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 the university’s research projects (R&D) and intellectual property rights, and a community-connected type that tests services using various public information, up to KRW 1.5 billion 2 Apply over the years.
Separately, it plans to hold an idea contest for university students to propose solutions for smart city implementation, 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.
It will be distributed by doubling it from 10 locations last year to around 22 locations this year, and the scale of the project will also increase significantly from 600 million won per city to 2-4 billion won (50% of government expenses).
This year, through the Smart Challenge project, the effectiveness and excellence will be verified, and nine services will be selected and distributed, focusing on solutions related to transportation and safety that are closely related to people’s lives. It is promoted in a way that local governments can easily select and utilize solutions optimized for solving problems in each city.
The services provided this time include’Smart Crosswalk,’ which includes information on pedestrian safety and vehicle stop line compliance,’Smart Pole,’ which combines CCTV, Internet of Things (IoT) sensor, and WiFi in streetlights, and public and ‘Shared parking’ that can connect private parking lots,’demand-responsive buses’ that flexibly operate routes in real time according to traffic demand, and’self-driving drones’ that can be used for disaster/accident detection and delivery to island areas. It is representative.
This year’s Smart Challenge project contest will be announced on January 12th, and after a one to two month application period for each project, the solution diffusion project will be evaluated in the first stage (in writing), and the City, Town, Campus Challenge will be evaluated in the second stage (in writing). ), a total of 44 locations will be selected.
For more information on the competition, visit the Smart City General Portal (smartcity.go.kr).
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 realized in earnest.
Im-Rak Choi, City Policy Officer of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said, “We will focus on spreading smart city solutions nationwide so that the people can experience the effects of smart city evenly. In addition, we will find innovative services and commercialize them to create a smart city industry ecosystem. We will focus on strengthening it.”
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