SMART CITY

Smart Cities are cutting-edge future cities that provide safe and comfortable life to citizens with effective urban management by processing various city information collected through intelligent infrastructure.

Background

Urban problems such as lack of resources, infrastructure and energy, traffic congestion, etc. caused by urbanization are increasing rapidly everywhere around the world. UN foresees that the proportion of population in urban areas is to reach 66% in 2050 compared to 29% in 1950. Abrupt urbanization was closely associated to change and development in the society as a whole, but it can also be related to urban problems such as pollution, income polarization, infrastructure shortage and increase in crime rates.

The development of cutting-edge ICT came to the spotlight as the key to solve such urban problems. The use of technology such as IoT, Cloud, Big Data, mobile, etc. is already being largely used in the society and industry in general in areas such as construction, traffic, energy, environment, etc. More and more developed countries such as the USA and European countries are trying to apply cutting-edge ICT in urban spaces to solve problems caused by quick urbanization and for economic revitalization in emerging countries in Asia.

The 4th Industrial Revolution is the social-environmental change maximized by the connectivity and automation of things into AI at the end of the development of cutting-edge ICT. Demand from future industries is expected to be created in urban spaces with accumulated innovative ideas and data gathered through such developments. Futurologists expect the role of factories from the 20th century to be replaced by cities in the 21st century, and future urban policies to be applied through industrial policies. Smart Cities are emerging as the response to the 4th Industrial Revolution with the "City Platform".

Technology

Future smart cities are being created by combining various innovative technologies and infrastructures. Incheon Smart City Corporation is developing applied technology to enable the creation of ideas and new services to solve urban problems, and doing its best to integrate it in urban spaces.

Application

Smart city technology can be classified into common technology, cutting-edge leading technology and future innovative technology while considering the citizen-centric and innovation effects. It also considers the city type and technology maturity and can be applied flexibly. Incheon Smart City Corporation designs and presents optimal smart city models to solve urban problems and increase urban value.