Citizens Participate Directly in Improving Residential Complex Innovation Technologies
[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] The first resident has moved into the Busan ‘Smart City’. Move-in began on the 16th and will continue until mid-January next year.
Busan City announced on the 27th that the first citizen has moved into the future-oriented residential complex applying innovative technologies in the Smart City national pilot city.
Smart Village operates in a way that residents directly seek solutions to problems together through experiencing innovative services in their daily lives. It is the first step toward a future-oriented smart city model where citizens lead the city’s services themselves.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Busan City, and Korea Water Resources Corporation held a move-in celebration on the 24th at Smart Village in Myeongji-dong, Gangseo-gu, Busan, and shared the Smart Village operation plan.
In January 2018, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport designated the Busan Eco Delta City area as a Smart City national pilot city, and currently, Korea Water Resources Corporation and Busan Urban Corporation under Busan City are conducting site construction.
Smart Village consists of 56 detached houses within the Busan national pilot city, designed as a space where citizens can directly experience various smart services.
The selection of Smart Village residents was conducted through a public contest held for 34 days from November 11 to December 14 last year, with 2,982 households applying and 54 households finally selected.
Once move-in is completed on January 15 next year, residents will only bear maintenance costs for five years and participate in living lab programs to experience and improve the innovative technologies applied within the complex.
They plan to regularly share experiences and improvements of innovative services in five areas?healthcare, robotics, smart farming, water/environment, and daily life/safety?with companies to develop more user-friendly services.
The 40 or so services applied in Busan Smart Village are key technologies to be expanded and applied to future smart cities. Representative services are as follows.
The smart water purification plant secures supply efficiency and water quality stability by producing and supplying water immediately from a nearby distributed purification plant using multiple water sources, rather than from a distant purification plant.
Smart energy implements a carbon-neutral residential complex by applying various renewable energy sources such as solar power, solar heat, geothermal, hydrothermal, fuel cells, and zero-energy building technologies.
The urban management platform manages the entire complex’s electricity and common facilities and links with the smart home platform for each household, enabling remote control of smart home devices and energy usage monitoring.
Additionally, near Smart Village, the ‘Urban Tech House’ operates, housing 19 startups, industry-academic research institutions, and others.
Through this, companies residing in Urban Tech House will participate in Smart Village’s living lab program to demonstrate and improve their innovative technologies and utilize them to discover business models.
Kim Bok-hwan, Director of Urban Policy at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, said, “Smart Village is a miniature version of the national pilot city packed with various innovative technologies and the first starting point to prepare future cities together with citizens.”
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