GWANGJU < invest Korea

According to Yonhap News,

(GWANGJU=Yonhap News) Gwangju City announced on October 11 that the development project for air quality monitoring and prediction platform technology of smart city infrastructure which is a project participated by a consortium of Gwangju and Qualcomm Institute of the United States, Green Information System and Chosun University was selected as a new International Collaborative Technology Development Business, organized by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.

Qualcomm Institute is a information and communications technology institute established by the state government of California and holds advanced research technologies of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data analysis, smart energy, healthcare, Internet of Things (IoT), fourth industrial revolution and ICT.

The International Collaborative Technology Development Business is to secure strategies and advanced technologies of Korean industry by carrying out joint research and development with other countries.

The Gwangju consortium plans to spend KRW 2 billion from this year until 2021 to develop and produce IoT sensor integrated smart device, develop application for short-term trend prediction and visualization through big data of air quality, and establish and demonstrate smart city infrastructure pilot site of developed prototype and analytics platform.

Gwangju City will sign an MOU with Qualcomm Institute on smart city joint R&D promotion and hosting Qualcomm Institute Korean Office in Gwangju on November 1.

Qualcomm Institute will work closely to make Gwangju a global model of smart cities by using key technologies of the fourth industrial revolution.

"Gwangju's environmental issues including fine dust can be solved by using IoT and big data analytics technologies of overseas institutes and now we secured markets to export developed technologies to Asia and the Middle East," said Lee Byeong-hoon, the deputy mayor of culture and economy. "We will try to attract overseas research institutes to Gwangju to create the foundation for the future technologies and establishment Gwangju-style smart city, and will provide support to create decent jobs."

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** This article was translated from Korean.

Source: Yonhap News (October 11, 2018)