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Full-scale spread of smart challenges that innovatively solve urban problems

Starting from the 12th, a public offering project for smartization of existing cities started

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The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (Minister Byun Chang-heum) will start the ’21 Smart Challenge Project’ competition on the 12th, 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.

City-level comprehensive solution, City Challenge

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/location), and two of them were selected as the main project, and 20 billion won (50% of the government budget) for two years. ) 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.

Small and medium-sized city-specific solutions, Town Challenge

Town Challenge is a project that focuses on proposing and applying specialized solutions optimized for small and medium-sized cities.

For example, to reduce fine dust in Bucheon, air quality measurement and purification devices are installed in commuting roads and subway stations, floor signals in Seongdong-gu, Seoul, and smart crosswalks such as stop line violations are installed.

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 held at a scale 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.

University Idea Connection, Campus Challenge

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 where college students are offered 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.

Dissemination of excellent solutions, solution diffusion business

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.

Im-Rak Choi, director of urban policy at 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.” We will focus on strengthening it.”

Provided by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport