On the sidelines of the World Cities Summit 2022 in Singapore last week Benjamin Chiang, managing partner for ASEAN Government and Public Sector at Ernst & Young Advisory, shared with VIR’s Duc Hanh his knowledge on how to upgrade traditional cities into smarter ones.
Q: How optimistic can you be in evaluating the trends of building smarter cities during this turbulent time in the global economy?
Governments around the world are tapping into an arsenal of policy interventions and financing measures to support the transformation of sectors, especially energy and industry, improving energy efficiency, and tackling environmental pollution.
Three less-traveled paths where security integrators might break into smart city deployments
Security businesses are ready to sell augmented safety, mobility and security to practitioners. End users have already purchased all solutions, but in verticals different than security: Intelligent Transportation Systems, Mobile Internet of Things AKA Vehicle to Everything (V2X), and Safety in Urban Areas.
Obstacles like public misperception of privacy loss and human replacement prevent some solution providers from Singapore, Israel, and India offering Western security dealers with extraordinary technology at a fraction of total cost of ownership, but as one market leader in Edge AI put it, “the acceptance through education of benefits is inevitable.”
Smart parking systems will help address illegal on-street parking by helping motorists and enforcement agencies with intelligent, proactive solutions.
Illegal parking is a menace in big cities. Although it helps cash in millions of dollars in parking fines, most city administrations would instead opt for having no illegal parking instances rather than raking in the moolah, given a choice.
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BenSCL officials said they plan to complete all the projects by the end of the year
Five years after the announcement that Bengaluru was selected under the National Smart Cities Mission, the projects implemented by the Bengaluru Smart City Limited (BenSCL), a Special Purpose Vehicle to implement the projects under the mission, is finally taking shape.
BenSCL officials said they plan to complete all the projects by the end of the year. “The deadline to complete all the projects is July 2023. However, most of our projects are in the final stages and we look forward to completing them by the end of the year. Only a few works may take a little longer and spill over to the next year,” said Rajendra Cholan, Managing Director, BenSCL.
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- Hyundai Motor Group reveals HMG Smart City Vision, previewing a hexagonal urban concept with a large park in the center.
- The city concept features a function-centered underground layer, and human-centered surface layer.
- Hyundai envisions cities of the future to be powered by hydrogen, distributed through grid pipelines to buildings.
Automakers don't enter the field of urban planning very often, but when they do the results are either very incremental, or wildly utopian. Just think of all the midcentury GM Motorama concepts, which, to be fair, previewed things like autonomous driving.