Smart Governance

An earthquake in Kaohsiung, Meinong district caused the collapse of the Tainan Wei-Kung building. It caused flooding because of the water pipe rupture and made the rescue become difficult. Typhoon Meranti brought heavy rains to the southern Taiwan, resulting in part of the mountain road collapsed and it leaded to inability of sending the rescue team to the affected area timely. When a disaster happens, the communication channels of the disaster area are often damaged; the joint routes are blocked, and wireless communication facilities are failure.

In order to accelerate the development of smart city and upgrade the competitiveness of IoT industry, Taipei City Government especially planned and implemented “Taipei IoT Experimental Platform” to transform the city to become an experimental field so that the innovative applications of ICT industry will be practiced. It can accelerate maturation and development of Taiwan IoT technologies and products as well as enable citizens to enjoy good outcomes from intelligent services.

The innovative technology changes the way security operation centers function by utilizing smart sensors on the ground, in the air, and everywhere in-between to augment the video survelliance and management system, fixed and integrated assets, providing for enhanced situational awareness with real-time information and centralized intelligence.

Smart Enabler Mobile creates a digital bridge between a Smart Community's governing body and its citizens. The platfrom  accomplish this by aggregating websites, workflows, portals, and online services on their cloud and integrating them into a single mobile application for the citizens of a Smart Community.

Hexagon Smart M.App is a simple to use platform any organization or freelance developer can use to build lightweight and dynamic applications targeted to solve a specific problem. It combines content, business workflows, and geoprocessing into a single application to produce powerful visualizations. The primary focus of a Hexagon Smart M.App is to present users with analytical views of what was, what is, what can be, and what will be.

The concept of sharing economy and its applications have been spread internationally since long time ago. Combined with the green economy, two emerging forms of economic models create multiplier effect for a city’s development of smart applications. Taipei Smart City Project Management Office successfully matched the domestic innovative company, Wemo, and Taipei City Government to introduce U-Motor rental service.  It helps to reduce the holdings of private vehicles, encourages the use of green vehicles.

When it comes to education management and services provided by local municipalities, the digital age ushers in countless opportunities for improvement. The efficiency and transparency of education services greatly impact the overall quality of education administered to the city's children – and the right technology can make a world of difference.

The Smart+Connected Digital Platform is now Cisco Kinetic for Cities. It’s a new name but the same platform that delivers a set of tools and guidelines for creating a smart city framework.
Since it has an unified view a single pane of glass lets you view and manage data from the lighting, parking, traffic, waste management, and Wi-Fi deployments around your city.
Aggregates sensor data. Collect and integrate data from multiple sensors and sensor types. With that data, city operators can construct working digital models of their communities.

Qlue was established in 2014 in Jakarta, working side by side with Jakarta Government in implementing the first Smart City concept in Indonesia. Qlue is a social media app which allows users to report problems directly to the city government and businesses, as well as sharing informations to the neighbors around them in order to help creating Smart City. Reports from citizens will be dispatched in real time to the related officials.

The city of Pontevedra created a car-free city model. The central idea of ​​the model is the number of cars needed for the proper functioning of the city is much lower than we think, but the efficient and dynamic operation of urban transport must be ensured by meeting complex needs. Traditional urban models mostly focus on motor vehicles, while pedestrians are almost completely ignored.