Yongin City Tackles Urban Issues with 'Digital Twin' Technology

Utilizing Floating Population Analysis and 3D Spatial Information for Facility Management
Mayor Sang-il Lee: "We Will Create a Model Case for Advanced Administrative Services"

Yongin City in Gyeonggi Province is advancing administrative services using 'Digital Twin (DT)'. A 'Digital Twin' is a digital data model that replicates objects, spaces, environments, processes, and procedures existing in reality exactly and allows them to interact in real time.

On the 13th, Yongin City held a completion report meeting for the '2023 Digital Twin National Pilot Project' at the city hall convention hall, the city announced on the 14th. The meeting was an opportunity to share the results of the project "Realizing the Renaissance of People’s Path Yongin Administration through DT," which was promoted after the city was selected in July last year for the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's '3rd Digital Twin National Pilot Project' contest.

At the completion report meeting of the 'Digital Twin National Land Pilot Project' held on the 13th at the Yongin City Hall Convention Hall, Lee Sang-il, Mayor of Yongin, announced the policy for advancing the project. Provided by Yongin City

From December last year to the end of September this year, the city conducted the 'Yongin Administration Digital Twin' project for about 10 months, scientifically analyzing local issues to build an urban environment where citizens can live safely.

To this end, the city completed the construction of foundational data for an area of approximately 37.4㎢ around the Gyeongbu Expressway and Yeongdong Expressway in Giheung-gu and Suji-gu, including ▲multi-directional aerial photography and LiDAR shooting ▲3D building object creation ▲production of immersive real estate videos.

The constructed data was loaded onto the 'Digital Twin Platform.' The city completed a project in September that developed models to utilize floating population analysis and 3D spatial information of national and public land for facility management, as well as to diagnose the aging level of public facilities such as bridges and overpasses to determine repair and maintenance timing.

During this process, the city explained that it integrated three national and public land management systems, which had been dispersed across the Saeol administrative system, spatial information, and Gyeonggi Real Estate Portal, into this platform and enabled efficient management of unauthorized occupancy cases by utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Additionally, it added that the floating population analysis model allows for analyzing population movement status, gender, and age groups to establish efficient urban planning.

Meanwhile, the model built by the city received the highest grand prize among the seven local governments selected for the Digital Twin National Pilot Project at the '2024 Digital Twin Society Conference' held at KINTEX in Goyang on the 6th.

Mayor Lee Sang-il said, "We will share information for collaboration with related organizations in the region and research to further expand the applicability of the latest technologies such as Digital Twin," adding, "Based on the contents from the project report meeting, we will develop 'Digital Twin' administrative services to create a model case for local government administration."