Gangdong-gu (Mayor Lee Jung-hun) is drawing attention by making accomplishments, including saving residents’ lives and reducing greenhouse gas emission through building a smart city to prepare for the fourth industrial revolution.

Gangdong-gu is carrying out a variety of businesses to solve urban issues corresponding to the accelerating social and physical environmental changes of the city and to actually improve the quality of life of residents.

In particular, the “emergency alert for the elderly who live alone,” a system to protect the health and safety of the elderly who live along using IoT, attracted much attention as it saved a resident’s life.

The emergency alert prevents safety accidents of the elderly by installing IoT sensors in the elderly’s house to read movements, indoor temperatures, the intensity of illumination, humidity, and more and having a life manager monitor the real-time data transmitted to his or her smartphone.

Last year, a life manager was informed from an emergency alert that a senior citizen living in Myeongil-dong was not showing any movement for eight hours and visited the house to find out the citizen had fallen to the floor in the bathroom. The manager called 119 and succeeded to save a life, which became the talk of the town.

The solar panels installed on the main and second building of the Gangdong-gu Office are playing a magnificent role in saving electricity and reducing GHG emissions. The electricity that has been saved over the last year is estimated at approximately KRW 20 million. Last year, the value of the solar panels as a public design was acknowledged as they were awarded the grand prize at the Seoul Solar Design Contest.

Gangdong-gu is also pursuing the “town for women’s happiness and wellbeing” project to protect female residents who are exposed to dangers in the late night using smart devices. Particularly, the smart benches installed at Amsa Children’s Park and Seongnae Hani Park offer a smartphone fixed-mobile charging service and light up dark places at night using the energy absorbed from sunlight during the day. The photovoltaic LED signs with road name address on them, installed in the Amsa-dong area, play the role of subsidiary lighting on night streets. As they enable pedestrians to be informed of their location immediately when an emergency situation occurs, they also have a high anticrime effect.

Additionally, Gangdong-gu is running a variety of projects, including sleeping child checks on the buses of daycare centers, safety alerts for the severely handicapped, mobile healthcare, a parking enforcement system using a smart app, and so forth.

For proactive response to the rapidly changing society, a policy advisory committee, a consultative body based on collaboration between the public, private, industrial, and academic sectors, is planned to be operated.

Furthermore, starting in July, Gangdong-gu is expected to launch “research for the establishment of a master plan and mid- and long-term road map for a smart city” to refurbish areas to be under the urban renewal, including Seongnae 2-dong and Go-deok Biz Valley, the largest development project of the district, into a smart city.

Gangdong-gu Mayor Lee Jung-hun remarked, “We will establish a smart city tailored for Gangdong-gu through pioneering and proactive administration preparing for the future, including the fourth industrial revolution.”

To find out more, contact the Electronics & Information Division of Gangdong-gu Office at ☎+82-2-3425-8743.

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  Solar panels installed on the Gangdong-gu Office building to reduce GHG emissions and save on public utility charges

  

  Photovoltaic smart benches that offer an emergency bell and smartphone fixed-mobile charge service (at Amsa Children’s Park)