We were at Kaohsiung last year for the 2024 Kaohsiung Smart City Summit & Expo and we’re back again for the 2025 Kaohsiung SCSE, and once again managed to sit down with Charles Lin, the Deputy Mayor of Kaohsiung to get an update on the new developments throughout the whole year.
For this year, there are over 150 exhibitors, 500 booths, and 220 professional forums featured, showcasing smart city solutions and attracting global paritipants.
Deputy Mayor of Kaohsiung, Charles Lin, is adamant to implement a city-level generative AI platform that incorporates the local language, culture, and behavior of the citizens – becoming a sovereign AI system. Since the model is catered towards the locals, it can be used to optimize city services to make it more efficient.
Smart healthcare is also an initiative that was taken by the Kaohsiung government a few years ago. We have talked about it last year where the medical reports from multiple competing healthcare providers are shared to provide an efficient workflow for the citizens. Now, there are AI-assisted medical image analysis and remote healthcare services to be implemented and eventually exported internationally.
Taiwan is also a country that is prone to natural disasters – such as typhoons and earthquakes. Digital twinning is a strategy that Taiwan implements to simulate how the weather changes and how it affects the country, and this has been proven to be effective already.
Also, the infrastructure needs to cater to these natural disasters by disseminating alerts as fast as possible and also to evacuate the citizens if needed. Rescue operations also need to be efficient, hence the implementation of EMIC 2.0 – also known as the Emergency Management Information Cloud.
It’s an umbrella term for the a bunch of systems working together to detect natural disasters and send alerts to the citizens. It includes heavy rainfall, typhoons, earthquakes, floods, and fire or any sort of rescue operation.
The system can see the number of reports within an area, and then zoom into that area and use the CCTVs to see what’s happening. Everything is interconnected via IoT and sends data back and forth the EMIC system.
Even water management is important. Taiwan spends a lot of water in agriculture and in its semiconductor fabs too – hence the water supply has be to balanced and shared between everyone. So, irrigation systems have been implemented to ensure water is used efficiently.
Since we’re on the topic of water usage and semiconductor fabs, TSMC is opening fabs in Kaohsiung too. By cooperating with TSMC and NVIDIA, the Kaohsiung government leverages its presence to accelerate its smart city transformation with AI. Since Kaohsiung is the testing ground for these smart city things, these solutions can also be exported to other cities.
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