A few days ago at the 2024 Smart City & Summit Expo Global Press Conference, we had 5 key people on the stage and one of them was the Deputy Mayor of Kaohsiung, Charles Lin. Today, we visited Kaohsiung to have a session with him.
One of the things mentioned was his goal to make Kaohsiung “smart”. While that sounds like a gimmick, the citizens of Kaohsiung is already enjoying a lot of benefits like the integrated healthcare app.
The implementation is like Malaysia’s MySejahtera but in a much more advanced and polished manner. The example is as such – imagine that I got an X-ray today at one of the participating hospitals. My X-ray will be uploaded to the cloud, and if I visit another participating hospital, they have direct access to my X-ray and my past medical history too. It saves time and if the hospitals are specialized in certain fields, we can just visit those particular hospitals for advise.
Healthcare is important – but so is the economy. Kaohsiung has an app that guides us how to do plantation and farming. For example, when is the best time to harvest and to check the health of our plantations. There is a service that we can upload picture of the plants and ask experts about the status of our plantation.
There are smart 5G vehicles that are remotely controlled and can be used as a patrol car. It has real-time license plate recognition and can be used in a situation like – detecting if a car is illegally parked or not.
Kaohsiung already has a lot of smart city features that collect data and they are open to the citizens to use. I think in general, Kaohsiung is a people-centric city that is driven by technology and data.
One of the other goal that is highlighted this year’s Kaohsiung Smart City & Summit Expo is “net zero 2050” and Charles believe that infrastrcture is very important. Kaohsiung itself accounts for 20% of the total carbon emission of Taiwan because it is heavily industrialized. The city is now adopting green energy and reycled water and with the help of technology, aims to convert it into a high-tech city.
I think we can learn many things that we can learn from the technological implementations in Kaohsiung. As what Charles said, Kaohsiung is like a kitchen and he can cook there. If the recipe is a success, then other states and countries can learn from it.
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