Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Urban Regeneration Smart Technology Support Project Contest, Goseong-gun Final Selection
[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Saeyan] The 'Gyeongnam-type Digital New Deal' is gaining momentum as an urban regeneration project prepared by Gyeongsangnam-do.
The Songhak-ri Muhak Village urban regeneration New Deal project site in Goseong-gun was finally selected in the '2021 Living-Close Urban Regeneration Smart Technology Support Project' implemented by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.
The 'Living-Close Urban Regeneration Smart Technology Support Project' is a project aimed at solving regional problems by applying smart technology to urban regeneration.
For the Muhak Village urban regeneration, a total of 830 million KRW, including 500 million KRW in national funds, provincial funds, and county funds, will be invested by the first half of next year.
It is expected to contribute to improving the residential environment, including the safety and health of residents in the area, which has many vacant and abandoned houses and a high elderly population.
In particular, through the monitoring project for elderly living alone, motion-detecting LED lights and motion sensors will be installed in households of elderly living alone to enable response measures such as dispatching assistance.
Additionally, practical resident-experience urban regeneration smart technology support projects such as crime prevention safe alleys, smart fire monitoring, and resident experience yards will be promoted.
In Gyeongnam, two places, Mugye-dong in Gimhae City and Namhae-eup in Namhae-gun, were selected last year in the pilot project of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's 'Living-Close Urban Regeneration Smart Technology Support Project.'
Smart streetlights, smart crosswalks, smart shelters, and non-face-to-face care services are being promoted to improve nighttime crime prevention conditions in low-rise residential areas, prevent traffic accidents, and care for socially vulnerable groups.
The province plans to analyze the effects of the project and expand it throughout the province.
In addition, in the 'Urban Regeneration New Deal Project,' Samandong in Gimhae City was selected in 2019 and Seongbuk-dong in Jinju City last year, introducing smart technology for residential convenience and striving to restore living conditions.
The province, marking the fifth year of the 'Urban Regeneration New Deal Project' started in 2017, is building an online urban regeneration policy customer base called the 'Digital Urban Regeneration Participation and Sharing Platform.'
In the first half of this year, a model will be designed to easily share urban regeneration space utilization and event information via smartphone apps and PC web, and from the second half, the 'Digital Urban Regeneration Participation and Sharing Platform' will be developed in earnest.
Heo Dongsik, Director of the Urban Transportation Bureau of Gyeongsangnam-do, said, "We will create a new success model by introducing smart technology in the process of solving urban problems," and added, "We will accelerate the Digital New Deal by linking innovative improvements in residents' living environments with the creation of a new industrial environment."
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