Many innovative solutions for smart city development

Within the series of important events on occasion of 20th WTA anniversary, Binh Duong cooperated with WTA, Daejeon city (Korea) to host the 2018 Binh Duong Smart City Building’s Initiatives contest.

Candidates make a presentation on smart education.                                       

Many practical topics

The contest had 14 teams who had passed rigorous selection process out of over 100 solutions from all over the country and 26 solutions from 13 Korean universities. At the final round, 14 teams brought ideas in many areas of smart urban management, health care, culture-tourism, smart education, public services/e-government, energy and environment ... Vietnamese teams brought up many topics, such as smart waste management system for a smart city... Teams from Korea contest also had many practical topics, particularly the smart parking control system employing CCTV system and cloud computing.

At the contest, Lee Yeon Jae’s team from Korea chose "Smart City with AR Code" for presentation. The team proposed an infrastructure that would smartly change the entire community of Binh Duong Province, not just one area. The goal of this project was to change the overall social infrastructure.

Lee said: "When we studied Binh Duong province, we first noticed the increasing number of foreign workers and of Vietnamese people moving from other regions to Binh Duong. Binh Duong is a province with international industrialization, aiming to become a smart city. In order to do this, information sources must be digitized, heighten applicability to be able to link different infrastructures together. However, the problem is how to get access to these types of information and database. Therefore, we studied how to make it accessible to local and foreign people easily quickly and how to share information effectively".

According to Lee Yeon Jae, his team hoped to exchange, share and access database that could be provided by Binh Duong Province government in an easy, fast and effective way. It is made up of AR Code, through AR to share all information about public transportation, real estate. In addition, indigenous people and foreigners living in Binh Duong could easily access information sources through AR technology. This would be a factor that attracts foreign businesses and people from other areas. This will become a stepping-stone shaping a smarter, more urbanized city.

Team of Le Thi Kim Cuong from Thu Dau Mot University with "Green solution in high-rise urban areas linked to sustainable supply chain agriculture" aimed to build green agricultural space attached to urbanization; create a real-time agricultural space for experiential learning of students and children aged 5 to 6 who access agriculture right at their schools; provide clean and safe fresh food for Binh Duong residents; Technology transfer low cost to farmers in Binh Duong...

To be very useful for smart city building

Kang Byung Joo, Secretary General of WTA, said: "This year's competition is an opportunity for students from the two countries to interact with each other and offer creative solutions for building up a smart city in the future. The final gathered the best students. We will bestow special prizes upon the most elite initiatives with the highest applicability”.

According to Prof. Lee Ho-geun, Daeduk University (Korea) - Jury Member, Korean contestants got good ideas, needed good investors and authorities to realize their ideas. The Vietnamese contestants also had many good ideas and a certain experience.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Mai Hung Dung, Member of Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of Provincial People's Committee, said that final round of the 2018 Binh Duong Smart City Building’s Initiatives competition would eye exciting competitions, select young talents with excellent ideas, useful solutions to help Binh Duong province develop smarter, actually make changes for the common good of community. He also looked forward to next competitions that would gather faces from other cities in the WTA community, so that the younger generation has the opportunity to learn, exchange, set up mutual cooperation.

Reported by Phuong Le – Translated by Ngoc Huynh