WCIT 2016 Dr. Ming Ji Wu

1. Smart City Development in Taiwan:
Integrating Multiple Technological Solutions
to Improve the Value of Life
Dr. Ming-ji Wu
Director General, IDB, MOEA, TAIWAN

2. I. Constructing Smart City in Taiwan

3. • 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 Today
in 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

4. • Over 300 years, technologies have favored cities by solving their problems and driving city
revolution
Technology as the Game Changer
for 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 3.0
Digital 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 4.0
Smart City

5. 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 Experience
in Solving City Problems

6. 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

7. II. Best Practices in Taiwan

8. 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 1
Smart Surveillance System

9. Multi-functional Smart Lighting Solution
(Vendor: Liteon)
EV Car-sharing Service
(Provider: TARC)
Advanced Parking
Guidance Syst.
(APGS)
Automatic
Emergency
Braking (AEB)
Pedestrian
Detection
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 Locator
Charging 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
Wireless
charging
Case 2
Smart Lighting & EV Car-sharing (1/2)

10. • 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 2
Smart Lighting & EV Car-sharing (2/2)
Smart Poles
Solutions
Partners
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

11. • 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 3
Miniature School Alliance Program

12. • 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 Collection
Devices/eTags
Law Enforce-
ment Module
Car Detection
Device
Toll Collection/
Antenna
Weather/Road/
Traffic Information Information exchange
between other
government agencies
eTag ETC
Data
Application
Traffic
Control
Information
Collection
System
Case 4.
Electronic Toll Collection (ETC)

13. • The use of environment-friendly, small personal transportation vehicles is helpful in
relieving urban traffic congestion, air pollution, and heat island effect.
+ + +
Phone Scooter
Power
Subscription
Gostation
One Battery
Swapping Network100 Km on 2 Batteries
80 Sensors
in Operation
24-hour Mobile
Connection
Case 5. Electric Scooters
and Battery Swapping Network

14. Welcome!
WCIT 2017 @ Taiwan
Sep 10-13, 2017