Smart City Development in Taiwan:Integrating Multiple Technological Solutions

to Improve the Value of LifeDr. Ming-ji Wu

Director General, IDB, MOEA, TAIWAN

I. Constructing Smart City in Taiwan

• Crimes, drugs and protest demonstrations have put public safety in jeopardy

• Insufficient food safety and regional sanitary

• Population explosion and high living density in urban areas have made a number of issues between social classes including public safety corrupts, energy shortage, and lack of education resources.

Issues Facing Todayin City Development

• Epidemic outbreak consumes medical resources• Traffic congestion

• High road maintenance costs

• Unstable power supply• Inefficient energy consumption

• Low salary• High unemployment rate

• Poor administration efficiency• High fiscal deficit

• Wider gap between rich and poor

• Industrial growth downturn

• Uneven education rights• low-income minority lacks of support

• More infrastructure are need to support basic needs

• Over 300 years, technologies have favored cities by solving their problems and driving city revolution

Technology as the Game Changerfor City Evolution

Game-changing tech.: Steam Engine, Electricity• Standardization, work

divisions and mass production of foods and groceries

• Better production efficiency and scale up

City 2.0:Industrial City

City 3.0Digital City

Game-changing tech.:IoT, Big Data, AI• Use of smart technologies

to match supply and demand by differentiation

• Make better value of life

Game-changing tech.:PC, Internet• Knowledge integrations• Experience sharing• Create value-added product• Improve life quality

City 1.0:Agricultural City

Game-changing tech.: Simple Machine• Adopt mechanical

advantage to multiply force• Improve the workload

performance

City 4.0Smart City

Allocating initial resources

Establishing sustainable city services

Encouraging industries to invest and construct

Public Funding Operation (PFO): combining the concept of Public Private Partnerships (PPP) and Private Finance Initiative (PFI)

Central Government

Vendor Local Government

• With expensive tech solutions, governments should use their resources more effectively for target industries amid financial distress

Taiwan's Experiencein Solving City Problems

ICT service penetration rate & Internet usage rate are over 80%

Hardware market share ranks World No. 1

Taiwan's ICT Strength Lays a Good Foundation for Smart City

II. Best Practices in Taiwan

Information security system

Check across multiple databases to trace the interpersonal connections and movements of suspects

Criminal Records

Vehicle Registration

Plate Images

Fingerprint Database

• Low police to population ratio will affect the city security. • Building a comprehensive surveillance system is essential.170,000 HD IP cameras deployed across Taiwan (108 camera per person in urban area)(Vendors: Vivotek, Dynacolor, Lilin)

(Vendors: ITRI and Chunghwa Telecom)

Discriminant analysis

Case 1Smart Surveillance System

Multi-functional Smart Lighting Solution(Vendor: Liteon)

EV Car-sharing Service(Provider: TARC)

Advanced Parking Guidance Syst.

(APGS)

Automatic Emergency

Braking (AEB)

PedestrianDetection

Smart Lighting •Street light control & modulation•Requests for repair•Energy consumption analysis

Mobile Internet •Wi-Fi hot spot•Small cell

Smart Charging•Drones•Solar panels

Emergency LocatorCharging Station•Electric vehicles/scooters•Personal mobile devices

Smart Security•IP CAM surveillance•Smart traffic guidance

Digital Signage•Weather, traffic•Commercials

• Energy-efficient facilities with multiple functions can reduce energy consumption in urban area and solve the problem of land acquisition

Wirelesscharging

Case 2Smart Lighting & EV Car-sharing (1/2)

• Out-of-the-box thinking is required to minimize the input of government resources but maximize the innovations from the vendors under stable operation

Case 2Smart Lighting & EV Car-sharing (2/2)

Smart Poles

SolutionsPartners

Test Trial Approval

Smart lighting control system help reducing the amount of electricity usage

Local Government

Street light installation

Service Level Agreement

provides guidance

Power Company

Power Supply

Public Utility

Expense

Electricity bills get reduced based on a better usage return ratio

Lease Services

• Due to birth rate decline, schools in rural areas cannot afford to recruit professional teachers. Small School Alliance Program is designed to integrate educational resources in a virtual way.

School A

School B

School C

Volunteers

Private Sectors

Information Integration Across Schools (Using UNESCO OpenEMIS)

Information about courses, teachers, and student academic records are integrated across schools and classes.

ClassFu: Evaluate classroom climate and classroom management

Teachers get to know emotions and behaviors of their students while keeping classroom climate in control

Cloud-based Course Exchange System

across schools and organizations

Case 3Miniature School Alliance Program

• The surge in traffic has significantly increased road maintenance costs. Hence, it is imperative to introduce a pay-as-you-go business model to improve traffic management efficiency

Toll CollectionDevices/eTags

Law Enforce-ment Module

Car DetectionDevice

Toll Collection/Antenna

Weather/Road/Traffic Information Information exchange

between other government agencies

eTag ETC

DataApplication

TrafficControl

Information Collection

System

Case 4. Electronic Toll Collection (ETC)

• The use of environment-friendly, small personal transportation vehicles is helpful in relieving urban traffic congestion, air pollution, and heat island effect.

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Phone ScooterPower

Subscription GostationOne Battery Swapping Network100 Km on 2 Batteries80 Sensors

in Operation24-hour Mobile

Connection

Case 5. Electric Scooters and Battery Swapping Network

Welcome!WCIT 2017 @ Taiwan

Sep 10-13, 2017