Busan Eco Delta Smart City will achieve its status both as an international waterfront city and a national pilot project by improving the water quality of the two waterways crossing the area, Pyeonggang Stream and Macdo River, to Class Ⅱ or better.
Busan Eco Delta Smart City includes the river delta and waterfront environment, with Pyeonggang Stream and Macdo River flowing through the city.
The eco-filtering system aims to improve the water quality of these two waterways, with plans to later turn the area into a water cycling park. The Smart Water Management (SWM) technology will use the entire water supply process to obtain real-time quality information and to build the pollution management system.
Source : Busan Eco Delta Smart City Master Plan(K-water, 2019)
Source : Busan Smart Eco Delta City Plan(K-water, 2018)
In Busan Eco Delta Smart City, precipitation radars are connected to a data platform. This will allow emergency resilience in the smart city. Given the increasing flood risk due to climate change, the early detection system based on the water management platform will forecast 6-hour lead time to flooding.
A Natech (natural hazard triggering technological disasters) refers to an event in which natural disasters and social/technological accidents are occurring at the same time or in a row. Natech events can cause a lockdown and tremendous damage to people, assets, and infrastructure, which require cross-agency collaborative responses. Korea sustains an average of 15 casualties and KRW 3,500 billion worth of property damage due to torrential downpours, typhoons, and heavy snowfall annually (Annual Disaster Statistical Review 2019, Korea).
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Busan Eco Delta Smart City aims to reduce the time for earthquake early warning to 20 seconds or less by building an early warning system for tsunami and earthquake using sensors installed on submarine communications cables and by advancing the earthquake monitoring equipment. Linked to the integrated platform, the warning system will allow prompt response and rescue by providing information, including evacuation routes and real-time damage statistics.
Urban disaster management is complete management of disasters including earthquakes, from minimizing damage to emergency response and recovery, with priorities on life, health, and safety of citizens.
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Replacement and addition of earthquake monitoring equipment (Korea Meteorological Administration, 2018)
Busan Eco Delta Smart City will implement the mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) based on a new generation intelligent traffic system (C-ITS) along with traffic calming technology to lower the road accident rate to under 46%.
Busan Eco Delta Smart City will establish traffic safety culture to reduce traffic accidents with systematic implementation of a pedestrian-first traffic system, safe road environment for disadvantaged users, better motorist awareness and responsibility, and increasing safer vehicles and traffic infrastructure.
Source : Korea Transportation Safety Authority (www.savethelife.kr)
Source : Korea Forest Service (www.forest.go.kr)
Busan Eco Delta Smart City will utilize MaaS (Mobility as a service) based on digital-twin technology to provide an ability to complete 100% early response to fire within 5 minutes. The alert system aims to minimize the time for emergency service vehicles to pass through traffic by providing the optimum route based on the real-time road situation.
The importance of early response to fire incidents is growing as the 5-minute arrival of fire trucks is becoming more challenging (decreased from 61% in 2014 to 58.5% in 2016) due to the increasing traffic volume and complicated road conditions.
Source : Busan Eco Delta Smart City Master Plan(K-water, 2019)
Source : The Dong-a Ilbo (www.donga.com)
Busan Eco Delta Smart City plans to reduce the rate of five major crimes in the city by at least 25%, by implementing smart streetlight, intelligent CCTVs, monitoring/tracking criminals, emergency dispatch support, body guarding service, etc.
Many municipal agencies are building a 24-hour emergency response system in which the police, fire department, metal welfare center, psychiatric hospitals, and expert consortium collaborate to deal with violent crimes.
Source : Busan Smart Eco Delta City Plan(K-water, 2019)
Busan Eco Delta Smart City features a network of waterways and green lands that span about 55 km. This Blue-Green network is the center of walk-friendly city building, enabling daily walks that can increase the average life expectancy of the residents by 4.5 years
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Low-density residential areas with height restriction near waterways to create an skyline with low-rise buildings
Life around waterways, green sidewalks connecting green areas, and continuous pedestrian networks
Life around waterways, green sidewalks connecting green areas, and continuous pedestrian networks
Source : Busan Eco Delta Smart City Master Plan(K-water, 2019)
The Smart Healthcare platform will improve the health welfare that citizens receive, aiming to increase their healthy life expectancy by 3 years.
The notion of healthcare has moved from treating illness to a life of prolonged health. Healthcare is now the base of our living. Municipal governments in Korea have also adopted the new trend, investing in building clusters with healthcare facilities with the goal of powering local growth.
Source : Busan Smart Eco Delta City Plan(K-water, 2019)
Parks in Busan Eco Delta Smart City will serve as a multi-purpose space for 4IR experience, convergence with nature, and disaster management while serving the functions conventional parks offer. The city will provide 76.16 ㎡ of park space per person to create an extended space for its citizens to enjoy nature.
As urbanization focuses on the functionality and efficiency, the importance of accessible green areas inside cities is growing. Parks and green lands help with preserving and improving natural environments, preventing pollutions and disasters, improving quality of life, and creating a better urban landscape.
Source : Busan Eco Delta Smart City Master Plan(K-water, 2019)
Busan Eco Delta Smart City will feature the main waterway streets and cultureactivity streets that connect the people, nature, and technology. For the first time in Korea, smart technology will be applied to implement a 40-meter wide, 500-meter long plaza/street. The space will be linked with the AR platform to deliver various cultural activities, arts, and future contents to be experienced and enjoyed.
During the era of economy when growth and development were the keywords, communities and nations came before individuals and citizens. The era of culture refers to a total paradigm that applies to politics, economy, technology, arts, and life. The production and consumption of culture is important for the city’s competitiveness and sustainability.
Source : Busan Eco Delta Smart City Master Plan(K-water, 2019)
By partnering with the 3rd party education providers, Busan Eco Delta Smart City will provide free education through highly immersive technology and expand robot teaching to enable fully ICT-based smart learning.
Lifelong learning is necessary in that sense, and the use of advanced ICT applications will provide more varied learning experiences.
Smart Education is one of the 10 innovations Busan Eco Delta Smart City set out to achieve, with plans to develop a smart learning platform for P2P learning and to implement an immersive learning system utilizing robot/AR/VR technologies.
Source : Maeil Business Newspaper (www.mk.co.kr)
Source : Official Blog of the Ministry of Education (if-blog.tistory.com)
Busan Eco Delta Smart City will provide more intimate social care with expansive supply of AI-based bot services to assist in many aspects of life, from personal care to accessibility, home learning, automated stores, fitness trainer, and more. Bot services will help with the gradual reduction of time spent on housekeeping by up to 1%.
Busan Eco Delta Smart City will implement a bot sharing program to provide the public with easy access to a variety of bots. There will be a dedicated bot platform within the city operation platform to offer convenience in daily lives.
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Busan Eco Delta Smart City is going to implement a community system for LWP (Learn Work Play) by LWP community centers in apartment blocks to integrate living, learning, and working. Expansion of infrastructure that allows remote working (AR/VR, 5G, etc.) will help with creating smart city environment and reducing weekly working hours to under 40.
The bill for the amendment to Labor Standards Act for 52-hour maximum weekly working hours has passed and come into force in Korea since August 2018. The amended law is expected to bring higher productivity, more jobs, and less industrial accidents/disasters.
Source : Busan Eco Delta Smart City Master Plan(K-water, 2019)