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6.1.4 Data-driven smart sustainable city

Since 2016, Daegu has been testing and deploying various smart city services such as Smart Park
(Public Wi-Fi, Solar Bench, Smart Bin, Smart Lighting), AMI and Smart Energy (Smart Grid, Micro-
Grid) services in various city districts. The goal has been to verify the adequacy of these smart
sustainable city services and technologies.

After testing these services, if it is determined that the service can improve the quality of life of the
inhabitants it will be extended to the entire city of Daegu.

However, these smart city services/solutions were conducted in a silo, which meant that each service
platform was built and operated separately for each service and/or solution.

The problem with this silo method is that the service system structures and complexities that
exist, and the data collection, are operated by each individual sector/silo and are, therefore, not
interconnected.

To address the issue of interconnectivity, Daegu established the Suseong Alpha Test-bed Platform
in new city areas for integrated smart city services/solutions and verification. There are currently
thirteen services and/or infrastructure deployments in five areas under the Suseong Alpha Test-bed
Platform performing integrated collection, storage and management of data. Services include City
Management (underground facility management, communication infrastructure), Smart Energy
(electric vehicle charger), Smart Mobility (connected car driving road, pedestrian safety information,
illegal parking, unmanned parking system), Smart Safety (smart streetlight, living safety CCTV,
licence-plate recognition CCTV) and Smart Living (smart media wall, smart working, digital signage).

As more data from the various smart services/solutions are collected, Daegu City has begun to
review measures to solve urban problems using the collected data, and to actively promote data
utilization by inhabitants and the private sector. Daegu believes that the core value of a smart
sustainable city is the utilization of data. This utilization of data is essential for the transformation
to a data-driven smart sustainable city that can solve city and inhabitant issues.

Recognizing this necessity, in 2018, the national government selected Daegu as a data hub
demonstration city and is building a data hub together with SK Telecom.

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