[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 2nd that it has been finally selected for the ‘5G-based Digital Twin Public Leading’ contest project hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT.
This contest is the first nationwide pilot project targeting 17 cities and provinces, organized by the Ministry of Science and ICT to create a safe community environment and generate new business by demonstrating next-generation real-time safety management systems using 4th industrial technologies.
Digital twin is an advanced technology that uses new technologies such as 5G networks, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), and big data to create a virtual space that replicates the real environment. It is mainly used in fields such as aerospace, manufacturing, and energy to derive optimization solutions.
To meet the contest conditions of ‘3 regions, 25 buildings, at least 8 per region,’ Gwangju formed a consortium with Daegu City, the Korea Military Academy, and local companies, which are part of the Moonlight Alliance, to participate in the contest.
The project will invest a total of 7.05 billion KRW, including 4.75 billion KRW in national funds and 1.58 billion KRW in private investment, to build a demonstration system from this month until December, and operate the system from next year until 2023 to verify safety.
The project model proposed by Gwangju builds a real-time virtual environment inside and outside buildings identical to the actual ones using digital twin technology, predicting early signs of risks such as collapse, fire, earthquakes, or various safety accidents.
In addition, in case of an incident, it provides future-oriented safety management and disaster response management systems by delivering information such as the location of people inside the building, status of disaster prevention facilities, and optimal evacuation routes to managers, firefighters, and police personnel via mobile or apps.
Gwangju, as the lead institution of the consortium, oversees the entire project including forming the collaboration team, designing the digital twin-based safety management system, project implementation, and pilot projects for project expansion, as well as establishing a five-year master plan.
Among the total 25 demonstration buildings, Gwangju provides 9 aging multi-use facilities such as libraries, cultural and assembly facilities, hospitals, and government offices; Daegu provides 8 subway stations; and the Korea Military Academy provides 8 defense facilities.
Jung Min-gon, Director of the Citizen Safety Office of Gwangju City, said, “By securing the first nationwide demonstration project, we will be able to acquire core 4th industrial technologies applicable to the safety management of aging urban infrastructure.” He added, “We expect to expand opportunities for participation in related central government projects and securing national funds, which will also have effects on fostering related upstream and downstream industries in the region and helping local companies enter new markets.”
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