SMART CITY

INTRODUCTION
A city well performing in a forward-looking way in economy, people, governance,
mobility, environment, and living, built on the smart combination of endowments
and activities of self-decisive independent and aware citizens.
- Giffinger et all, 2007

A city that monitors and integrates conditions of all of its critical infrastructures
including roads, bridges, tunnels, rail, sea-ports, subways, airways, water, power,
even major buildings, can better optimize its resources, plan its preventive
maintenance activities, and monitor security aspects while maximizing services to its
citizens
- R Hall, 2000
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
 U R B AN I S AT I O N I N S M AR T C I TY
KOREA DEVELOPMENT

• The concentration of population in the Seoul • Korea Telecom had proposed Smart City
Metropolitan area brought the need for concept to the Korean government as a new
developing phase1 and phase 2 new towns. model of city development through
government-private collaboration.
U -CI TY: KO R EAN B R AND NAM E O F S M AR T C I TY

• U-CITY IS A CITY THAT..

1) applies ubiquitous technologies to city infrastructures, such as roads, bridges or schools.
2) turns these infrastructures into ubiquitous city infrastructures.
3) can provide ubiquitous city services, like administration, transport, healthcare and welfare services
anytime, anywhere.
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C O N S T R U C TI O N L AW S TAK E H O L D E R S I N
• Ubiquitous City Construction Law was enacted in
2008 to form the legal basis of U-City plan, S M AR T
construction and managements. 04 U-City
Construction Law CI TYDEVELOPMENT
• “U-City is a city where ubiquitous city services are
provided through ubiquitous city infrastructure
using ubiquitous city technologies.” – Ubiquitous
City Construction Law
• “U-City service is a service that collects and
provides data about public administration,
transport, welfare, environment, and anti-
calamities or integrates such data through
ubiquitous city infrastructure.” – Ubiquitous City
Construction Law
• “U-City infrastructure include basic social
infrastructure based on the “Law on Planning
and Usage of Land”, broadband
telecommunication network, BcN, integrated
urban operation centre, and/or ubiquitous sensor
network.” – Enforcement Ordinance on the
Ubiquitous City Construction
KOREA’S SMART CI TY I MPLEMENTATION
S M AR T C I TY : S E O U L

• Capital of South Korea, country’s largest metropolis; Population of over 10 million

• Best known as one of the most techsavvy cities in the world, retaining No.1 ranking in UN
eGovernment Survey since 2003
• ‘Smart Seoul 2015’ - a peopleoriented & human-centric project led by the Seoul’s Metropolitan
Government aims to utilize the huge potential of Smart technologies for urban development
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STRATEGY AND TASKS

Basic Strategic Plan for Informatization of Seoul Metropolitan City

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• Embedding fibre-optic cable along Seoul’s
subway tunnels to connect city’s main public
buildings, its affiliated offices and Municipalities.
• Providing citizens with free Wi-Fi service and full
access to public web sites u-Seoul Net is divided
into three communications sub-networks: a WiFi
network used to serve
• Administrative functions;
• CCTV network enabling the exchange of video
data generated by Seoul’s 30,000 CCTV
installations; and
• u-service network, connecting websites of all
public offices under Seoul Metropolitan
Government, allowing citizens to bypass internet
service-provider networks, and instead access Seoul
Net for free information on city services
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• Installation of free Wi-Fi network accessible in parks, squares & other
public places Case: Smart Seoul Smart Seoul Infrastructure Free
public Wi-Fi
• PPP mechanism to ensure high speed Internet
• Private investment for Wi-Fi on subways, trains Smart Devices for All
and buses.
• No. of Koreans using smart devices exceeded 25 million (50% of
Korea’s population; 78% of Seoul’s)
• Second-hand smart devices donations incentivized
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KEY HIGHLIGHTS
• Seoul’s Smart Metering
Project aims to reduce city’s
total energy use by 10 per
cent
• In 2012, Seoul piloted a
program installing smart
meters in 1,000 households
• Smart meters provide home,
office and factory owners
with real-time reports of their
electricity, water and gas
consumption

SMART METERING PROJECT

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SEOUL SAFETY SERVICE
• Utilizing state-of-the-art Location Based Services & CCTV
technologies to notify authorities & family members of
emergencies, when a registered mobile holder leaves a
designated safe zone or pushes its emergency button
• Emergency alert is sent to guardians, police, fire departments
and CCTV Control Centres.
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MOBILE SEOUL
• Mobile Seoul (m.Seoul) makes use of Mobile Web technology & mobile applications to provide
citizens with 62 unique services over 11 types of mobile device
• m.Seoul apps support location-based services pinpointing nearby public offices, restrooms, hospitals,
supermarkets or bus stations.
• Other serv ices include live real-estate listings, daily job-search updates, notifications of free cultural
ev ents, live surveys, exchange of city information over social networks; alert of emergency situations
brought on by heavy rain, snow, typhoons or fires
• Launched in 2007, m.Seoul’s user-base continues to expand; and by 2011, Mobile Seoul was being
accessed by an average of five million people each month.
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NFC-BASED MOBILE PAYMENT & VIRTUAL STORE
• The NFC (near field communication)-based Mobile Payment system is a product of public-private
collaboration, and is a service accessible to anyone with a smart device or mobile card.
• People making a purchase at a store select credit card payment or mobile-card payment, and pay
for their purchase simply by touching their smart phones to a specialized reader capturing
information essential to the transaction.
• Mobile Payment services are currently available in over 22,000 stores including super markets,
convenience stores, gas stations, coffee shops and department stores
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BUS OPERATING SYSTEM

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3-DIMENSIONAL SPATIAL INFORMATION
• “Geographical Information”, which allows users to view streets as if standing upon them;
• “Tour with a Theme Information”, highlights tourist attractions, offering its users a virtual tour of Seoul;
and
• “Urban Planning”, an application allowing city planners to simulate infrastructure development or
renovation
• 3D spatial information is very useful in monitoring the environment, preventing disasters and
constructing disaster-resilient infrastructure.
• For example, flood simulations developed in 2012 aid in predicting which areas will be worst affected
by floods, thereby enabling development of pre-emptive floodresponse mechanisms
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