The Taipei City Government has been working with private sector partners to promote smart city policies for many years. This year, she joined six local partners to participate in the IoT forum in Europe. Through the virtual exhibition, twinning discussions and showcasing smart city policies, the city government was able to promote the Smart Taipei brand to attendees. The city government and its partners participated in discussions and exchanges with other delegates in areas such as smart service applications and real proof of concept (PoC) cases.

On topics such as AIoT in school campus management systems, real-time sensing systems as a smart security solution for school campuses, the deployment of an information integration platform roads for the management of road hazards and road assets, the use of WiFi signal for smart detection and management of the elderly ‘, local partners in Taipei held exciting demonstrations of smart solutions, which attracted over 4,557 industry personnel.

Director Lee Chen-yu of Taipei Smart City Project Management Office presented the concept of Smart Taipei and related mechanisms, as well as some of the successful PoC projects. The combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches has helped Taipei City Government improve municipal services by applying advanced mobile information technology. It has also won several international awards by the city government, including 4th place among the world’s smart cities in the 2021 smart cities index released by IMD.

The Smart City Taiwan project uses all types of smart technologies (such as IoT, Big Data and AI) to effectively integrate local, industrial and civil needs. Support from central government accelerates collaboration and integration between cities and municipalities and enables local and industrial innovation. The spread of smart apps in cities and towns builds a vision where people, businesses and governments exist in harmony and drive local innovation.

Smart technologies are applied to solve the problems of local government and civilians, stimulate cross-domain sector collaboration and achieve local and industrial innovation. Collaboration and integration between “cities” and “towns” will create livable communities, facilitating business and fostering innovation for civilians, businesses and government.

The Smart City Taiwan project uses policies to help innovative applications, technological research and development, and development of integrated hardware / software solutions, connects the governance needs of local governments with empirical verification of public and private domains, and integrates national solutions and collaborates with foreign partners to seize business opportunities.

“Smart government” is proposed as the lead body to be promoted along with seven other main projects, including smart security, smart building, smart transportation, smart education, smart health, smart environment and economy. intelligent, forming the Smart City 1 + 7 domain. .

By combining top-down politics and buttoned-up creative proposition, it is expected that Taipei City can create co-prosperous ecosystems for government, citizens and industries, thus creating a blueprint for future planning from a smart city to Taipei.

As OpenGov Asia reported, in the push for smart city programs around the world, the Taipei City Government’s rebranded digital pass allows for a quick vaccination appointment and, shortly, could incorporate digital proof of the COVID-19 vaccination status, adding to the city’s lineup of diverse and intelligent COVID-19 containment measures.

Known as the “Taipei Card” until last year, TaipeiPASS was designed as a one-stop solution for 80% of municipal services, from paying taxes and parking tickets to paying utility bills, to access to library resources and a citizen hotline. In addition, citizens can vote remotely, file a complaint, report a violation and take advantage of exclusive discounts for meals and purchases in stores.

Taipei Information Technology Department commissioner said that in addition to registration, a model for analyzing the data of citizens’ flows in places of business will be adopted in the service to prevent transmission of the COVID-19. As for those less familiar with smart devices, the city allows them to check in with a registered Taipei EasyCard.