South Korea Seoul Smart city with big data to solve people's little troubles

Intelligent City is the core power to promote the development of information and communication industry. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) predicted in its report in February this year that smart cities will be a model for urban development over the next 10 years, while South Korea's Seoul is one of the most representative cities. In the "Wisdom Seoul 2015" plan, the Seoul city government this paper puts forward the slogan of "Using large data to solve the small annoyance of citizens", and makes great efforts to construct the infrastructure needed for intelligent city, to promote the progress and development of information technology and public service industry, and to build a creative and intelligent city based on people-oriented and reliance.

Big data is the new bright spot of intelligent city development

Mr. Kim is a new employee of Jiangnan District Company in Seoul City, almost every day to work overtime until 11 o'clock in the evening, can only taxi home, the salary is not high he is always tight. Mr. King thought, wasn't there a night bus? It would be nice if we had a line to drive to our neighborhood.

Mr. King's troubles will soon be removed. Recently, the Seoul government and KT Communications company signed a cooperation agreement on large data. As an important part of Intelligent city construction, Seoul City has put forward the slogan of "Using large data to solve the small annoyance of citizens" and will bring new municipal services to the public through the analysis and use of large data.

In the process of building an intelligent city, it is possible to make policy making more scientific and effective by analyzing large data in the fields of transportation, welfare and economy. For example, through the analysis of late-night road traffic data, the government can develop a more reasonable night bus route map.

Nowadays, the application of smartphone software and the widespread use of social media produce massive data information, and various systems in public utilities also store a large amount of administrative information, how to use these large data to make its due value become a hot topic.

In fact, big data is only part of the ambitious smart city plan of Seoul City. Seoul City 2011 proposed "Wisdom Seoul 2015" program, the goal is to 2015 become the world's most convenient use of intelligent technology City, the establishment of communication with the public intelligent administrative services, built to adapt to future life infrastructure and become a creative intelligent economic city.

The "Smart Seoul 2015" program points out that public data has become an important national asset with social and economic value, and Seoul will strive to build "Seoul Open Data Plaza" to promote the advancement and development of information technology and public service industries. The Public Information network platform was officially opened last April at present, there are 33 databases and 880 datasets to provide users with the top ten types of public data information, including childcare services, public transport routes, bus arrival time, parking spaces, regional weather forecasts and restaurant recommendations, covering all aspects of life, and with charts , data, maps and network links.

Public information can produce great economic value

Seoul the city government to build the infrastructure needed for smart cities. The Seoul City Network system, known as U-seoul, is made up of three parts of the public free wireless network, which connects the government and the district governments, and the monitoring probe network. An example of this system is the U-seoul Security service that protects primary and secondary school students from abuse. Through mobile terminals, parents can easily grasp the location of children. If the primary and secondary school students in the road to be violated, through the monitoring of the button under the probe alarm, the police will be based on the location of the first probe.

Seoul City plans to further open up useful data to citizens and businesses based on the utilization of open application interfaces and the reuse of data. The Seoul city predicts that the economic value of these public information will reach 1.2 trillion won (1 dollars, about 1119.6 won), helping the private sector to create diversified business models and values.

In order to adapt to the development of mobile Internet, the Seoul city government has also developed a series of smartphone applications, which is represented by "intelligent Seoul Map", which can be used to inquire disabled facilities, free wireless network hotspots in Seoul, health food and beverage shops, libraries, toilet locations and administrative information, can also report to the government illegal parking or road breakage problem.

Korea Hong Yi University teacher Li Jinge told our correspondent, she often used the municipal application is "Seoul bus", when the weather is bad, she will go through the station number to check the bus arrival time, so you can save the distress of the bus. In fact, many bus stations in the city of Seoul have installed electronic bulletin boards showing the arrival of buses and whether they are accessible to disabled vehicles, which are released by the Seoul Traffic Information Center.

Smart city will be a paradigm for future urban development

The city of Seoul is promoting a payment system based on NFC (short-range wireless communication technology). Seoul now has about 7 million NFC-enabled smartphones that can be used by about 22,000 businesses, including supermarkets, convenience stores, gas stations, cafes and department stores.

A large supermarket in Seoul also has a "smart virtual shop" in the subway. On the display board in the subway, each product has its own only two-dimensional code, the customer only need to use the smartphone scan to buy the corresponding two-dimensional code, and the mobile phone online payment, the product will be sent to the customer's doorstep, to avoid shopping in the crowded large supermarkets pain.

Seoul City to promote the construction of intelligent city has also been internationally recognized. Seoul city topped the list for 5 consecutive years in an electronic government review of the world's largest cities, published by the Institute of Electronic Government at the University of Rochester in the United States. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) launched the smart city Seoul Special in its publication "Technology Trends Report" in February this year, predicting that in the next 10 years, smart cities will be the paradigm for future urban development, and the most representative city is Seoul.

Seoul City Information Planning Group leader Park to our correspondent said, Seoul City will further expand public data in the future, through the municipal government official website and mobile phone applications to provide the public with high-quality information Services, the establishment of large-scale data analysis infrastructure, to speed up the construction of intelligent city to satisfy the public.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)