Exciting with the world's first 'smart country'

Singapore has just revealed its plan to become the first "smart nation" (Smart Nation) in the world.

Accordingly, Singapore will equip sensors to support traffic congestion management, detect air pollution and even remind you not to throw garbage into the street.

The selected unit to conduct the Smart Nation ambitious plan test is Singapore's Jurong Lake district. The day plan aims to make Singapore the first "smart nation" (Smart Nation) in the world that has been revealed by the island's IDA Development Agency at the expanded CommunicAsia Trade Fair that takes place on the day ( June 17).

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The test will begin immediately in Jurong Lake District, a new urban center, about 40 minutes from the city center. Ground boxes connected to fiber optic lines will be deployed nationwide at streetlights or bus stops.

New boxes can be connected to sensors to detect air pollutants, heavy rain or traffic jams. A special idea is that the sensors can report the status of a trash can, combined with photographs that can detect people littering and reminding them to clean up.

However, it is said to be a smart country but this small country has an area equivalent to just one city in Vietnam, so it seems that this is just a smart city project that many other countries are aiming for.

Singapore has laid the foundation for Smart Nation's smart plan when fiber optic Internet has been installed to most households in this country, with super fast service speeds, up to 1Gb / s (similar to Google Fiber offers) at a cost of at least 50USD / month.

One of the main features announced will make many people interested in it is to live in modern cities. Singapore intends to use the deployment of sensor boxes to set up wifi hotspots for heterogeneous networks, allowing phones and tablets to seamlessly switch between data networks on mobile and Wifi.

Singapore also spends the spectrum to create a new Super Wi-Fi network that has better coverage but requires lower power consumption than today's standard WiFi. This network will be used to transmit data of Smart Nation project.