In South Korea, build 'intelligent' city

Already 7 years is the construction of "the city of the future" in South Korea. This is one of the largest and most prominent projects in the world in recent years. Songdo is being built on an artificial island, about 60 km from Seoul, and will be an intelligent city, which with the help of the Internet will be connected to each other and the people and objects.




Almost every inch of the space of the city, the streets, sidewalks, houses and communications connected to the network using Cisco's sensors. The sensors will transmit a continuous stream of data, the data on the state of the buildings, streets and traffic conditions, the temperature inside and outside, in the central power control unit needs. The vehicles will be equipped with RFID-tagged for a complete picture of traffic on the roads and traffic lights, and adjust the organization obezdov.Vo all offices and every house and street cabins will be installed screens so that people can make a video call.



In addition, homes in the Songdo project was developed in accordance with "green" technology and built the city will affect the environment in a very small degree. For example, the need for water to be Songdo 10 times smaller than a conventional base. This will help a unique irrigation system, including landscaping of buildings, stormwater storage and cleaning of secondary water. Garbage cans around, too, will be no houses in this town, as a unique system of centralized pneumatic collection.



However, according to the "smart" city of Songdo will make "smart systems" that are connected to the grid. Feedback will allow to know how much electricity is wasted in every office, home and apartment and that and manage it by making effective.



It is assumed that such technology will be introduced in the near future, and in Seoul, and will be used in the construction of new cities and other partially in the existing European cities. Songdo Construction should be completed in 2017. The city will be implemented the most advanced achievements of mankind in the field of architecture and landscape design.



According to the project in Songdo will accommodate 75,000 residents. Today, the streets deserted look today there live 2600 people. But it already has its own metro station, which is connected with Seoul, and completed the construction of a new bridge is 12 km long, which is linked to the airport, Songdo neighboring town.

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